“Kubrickian” Teeters Between Cosmic Drama and Spacey Oddity Factory Theater’s overlong production has its moments, but it struggles to pull us into its sci-fi scenario.

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 ...

The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has reinvented classic musicals and produced Chicago premieres and new works for fifty years—but they’re not out of surprises. “Our favorite shows,” says Peter ...

Robert Falls may have stepped down as artistic director at the Goodman Theatre three years ago, but suddenly he’s everywhere on the Chicago theater scene. He directed a critically acclaimed production ...

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 ...

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 ...

During Peter Andersen’s time as producing artistic director of Oak Park Festival Theatre, the company has seen tremendous growth in audience and artist engagement. Says Andersen, “Audiences have been ...

Stay gold: Ponyboy Curtis and the greasers face up against the rival Socs in this Tony-winning musical, “adapted from S.E. Hinton’s seminal novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film.” ...

Chicago audiences will be the first to experience “Purpose” by award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at the Steppenwolf Theatre this month. Glenn Davis, co-artistic director of Steppenwolf, ...

Growing up in the 1960s and seventies, the Titanic disaster was an iconic event that had occurred some fifty years before. Thus, it was still possible to have a personal connection to a survivor’s ...

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 ...

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 ...