“Sound of Music” Revival Asks: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nazis? Broadway In Chicago's revival, by three-time Tony Award-winning director Jack O’Brien, is chillingly on time.

Don’t be surprised if you recognize Charin Alvarez, as her extensive career in Chicago theater and film continues to grow. Alvarez has been acting in Chicago since 1996, and it would be simpler to ...

For centuries, lighting designers have been integral to bringing stories to life on stage, playing a noble role as an artist who avoids the spotlight to illuminate others. You know good lighting ...

The founder of Making a Difference Dancing (the M.A.D.D. part of the name) continues to do just that. His twenty-three-year-old organization, founded to disrupt the “school-to-prison pipeline,” has ...

Sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton was named Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second-ever resident artist in 2023 and has been adding gems to the company’s wide-ranging repertoire since. Two of ...

The eighth edition of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival features more than a dozen productions—many of them world premieres—across more than eleven venues, with work ranging “from ...

This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it’s the company’s seventieth season and also its thirtieth year since it relocated from New York to the Third Coast. With its two-story ...

Take this with a grain of salt, because I don’t see every show at The Second City, but the new mainstage revue, “Don’t Quit Your Daydream,” is one of the most consistently funny shows—maybe the ...

Chicago stages have been described as petri dishes for talent development, with the city seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or ...

Now in its thirty-first season, Writers Theatre continues its tradition of staging both new works and new interpretations of the classics. Artistic director Braden Abraham says that the Glencoe ...

Red Clay Dance Company’s return to the Dance Center includes a restaging of “Written on the Flesh” by artistic director Vershawn Sanders-Ward and a world premiere by the great Bebe Miller.

The all-female company specializing in West African styles makes their evening-length debut with seasonally apropos masquerade dances and a piece that draws connections between a dance from Ivory ...