“Endgame” is dark, brooding and at times repulsive, which paradoxically has the negative effect of making one appreciate a ...

For those in Chicago’s dance, performance art, puppetry, experimental and cross-disciplinary performance worlds—pretty much ...

Tim Meadows is bringing his magic to the stage of The Den Theatre on May 30-31 for three shows that put him in front of his ...

Why American Players Theatre has managed to survive for forty-six seasons in the Wisconsin woods while fancier, more ...

June brings many premieres, including the U.S. debut of Christopher Wheeldon's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" at Joffrey.

In answering its mission to bring little- or too seldom-heard Italian opera masterworks to Chicago stages, the Opera Festival ...

The show's title nods to the sixty-four squares on a chessboard, a fitting symbol for a presentation built around this ...

The Antiquities” is a play of big ideas about the meaning of life. It reminds us that even if humans are just a blip on the ...

A leader in contemporary dance, the company’s forty-seventh season will feature a tribute to famed choreographer Bob Fosse, an original work from Hubbard Street resident artist Aszure Barton, and the ...

The rough outline of the Capek plot remains, although the story is both simplified and sped up, giving the play the ...

Through “Gender Play,” we also meet Wilhelm’s take on Helena of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Throughout the ...

When audience members enter the Trap Door Theatre for Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” they see a nearly naked man, sitting on a chair with his face to the wall. They learn that the man is the scientist ...