Theater | Review: ‘A Little Night Music’ at Theo Ubique has Sondheim’s summer songs in the right place By Chris Jones June 7, 2024 at 1:48 p.m. This musical is operetta-like in its structure and transfixing in its musical pleasures, not the...
Theater | Review: ‘Six’ is back in Chicago, still the first-class show its fans want By Chris Jones June 6, 2024 at 2:18 p.m. These royal divas sing out as the six wives of Henry VIII — the Broadway...
Theater | Review: ‘Home’ on Broadway is the moving, understated story of a man searching for his past By Chris Jones June 5, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. Playwright Samm-Art Williams wrote "Home" in 1979, and this Roundabout Theatre production makes that time...
Theater | Review: Word nerds, puzzle fans, this is your show — ‘The Enigmatist’ now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater By Chris Jones June 4, 2024 at 1:17 p.m. Magician and puzzle creator David Kwong has penned a 90-minute show very much rooted in...
Entertainment | ‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson By Rick Kogan June 4, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. This new jazz poetry opera comes to Chicago's Hamilton Park District, remembering a towering musical...
Theater | Review: ‘Stokely’ at Court Theatre is an unfinished story of a uncompromising radical By Chris Jones June 3, 2024 at 2:29 p.m. Nambi E. Kelley's play is about the activist Stokely Carmichael, who played a major role...
Theater | Review: In ‘The Prodigal Daughter’ at Raven Theatre, a rich family drama unfolds in a South Side apartment By Chris Jones May 31, 2024 at 4:59 p.m. Joshua Allen's "The Grand Boulevard Trilogy" has taken some three years to unspool at the...
Theater | Chicago Shakespeare Theater parts ways with longtime artistic staffer By Chris Jones June 4, 2024 at 3:43 p.m. Rick Boynton was a creative producer who aided the development of new musicals, including such...
Theater | Review: ‘Native Son’ at Lifeline Theatre is a perfect window into the novel, set on the South Side By Emily McClanathan May 29, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. As a bookworm who used to live in Rogers Park, I’m a longtime fan of...
Theater | Dance for summer 2024: In the hot months, free festivals are just the tip of the iceberg By Lauren Warnecke May 23, 2024 at 5:15 a.m. Indoors or out, when it comes to dance — there’s something for everyone this summer...