Category: Theater

With the song stylings of Céline Dion, this is an off-Broadway musical that sends up the 1997 movie “Titanic.”

There is a lot of piano playing in the piece, now in Skokie for a month-long run. But the story is more about the price paid by professional musicians.

This warm-centered show has a strong lead performance from Rachel Guth as it tells the story of a high school senior facing down choices.

With elements of magical realism, the play examines the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, ancestral connections that span generations, and tensions between familial obligations and individual destiny.

For more than three decades, hoofers-in-training have convened in downtown Chicago for Rhythm World, organized by the Chicago Human Rhythm Project.

Just try keeping up with Cole Escola’s chaotic version of the White House, circa 1860s.

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The co-lyricist and music producer of the show about the famous boxer and civil rights leader is the Grammy Award-winning musician Q-Tip.

The otherwise impressive set puts us too far from the action in the kitchen in this first Chicago-area production of Katori Hall’s dramedy.