Raven Theatre’s production may take an overly literal approach at times, but it does not hold back.
Review: ‘A Lie of the Mind’ is a Chicago-style treatment of Sam Shepard’s most difficult play
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Review: Redtwist Theatre’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ adaptation is gutsy, action-packed Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy is infamous for its gory cycle of revenge that culminates in a macabre meat pie.
Goodman Theatre’s big 100th season: David Byrne, an ‘Office’ star and the return of Robert Falls
The theater has announced its hugely ambitious 2025-26 season, which will also include a pre-Broadway premiere starring Megan Mullally and a musical by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
Review: ‘Waitress’ at the Paramount Theatre is a charming show with songs you’ll remember
Since 2016, the Sara Bareilles songs like “She Used to Be Mine” and “When He Sees Me” have become staples of cabarets, auditions and YouTube videos.
Joffrey Ballet’s 2025-26 season celebrates 70 years as ‘mavericks of dance,’ plus Chicago premieres of ‘Carmen’ and ‘Eugene Onegin’
The season also marks 30 years since the New York company relocated to Chicago, and a decade with Christopher Wheeldon’s “The Nutcracker.”
B-Series hip hop festival opens at a Dance Center fighting for survival
This year’s theme is “B-yond Borders,” aimed at showcasing kinship between hip hop and social dance forms abroad.
Review: ‘Cygnus’ at Gift Theatre is a ‘Succession’ writer’s powerful evocation of trauma and recovery
The excellent Angela Morris stars as a traumatized young woman who believes she has a guardian angel, wings and all.
Review: In ‘One Party Consent’ at First Floor Theater, student and adviser face off
Playwright Omer Abbas Salem’s latest world premiere debates questions of trust in a university’s fine arts program.
Review: ‘Clue’ at the CIBC Theatre hasn’t much of one
Clue, or Cluedo in the country of its birth, is one of the best board games of all time. Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock and Professor Plum have been brandishing their candlesticks, lead piping and other lethal weapons since the late 1940s. That’s when a British chap named Anthony Ernest Pratt rightly figured there would be […]
Review: Hubbard Street Dance is back on familiar ground for its winter series
The revival of Ohad Naharin’s “Black Milk” after more than 20 years isn’t a step backward. Rather, artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell projects confidence in the 47-year-old institution, as if to say, “Yeah, we still do that, too.”