Theater

Review: ‘She Who Dared’ lovingly fact-checks civil rights history

June 7, 2025 at 11:58 a.m.

Chicago Opera Theater’s world-premiere about the 1950s Montgomery bus boycotts tells the real story, usually...

June 7, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

This latest collaboration between Charles and Chuck Smith concerns an aging white vaudevillian and an...

June 7, 2025 at 11:36 a.m.

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's creation is now at the Lyric Opera House, with a few scary...

June 6, 2025 at 2:56 p.m.

Elizabeth McGovern, best known for playing Lady Cora in “Downton Abbey," stars in the show...

June 5, 2025 at 2:46 p.m.

Jean Claudio has created a very potent, funny and moving solo show about an inventor...

June 4, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

The actor and comedian Frank Ferrante, who has played Groucho for years on stage, is...

June 3, 2025 at 1:59 p.m.

Playwright Dianne Nora imagines a training session for these security doubles, played here by John...

June 3, 2025 at 1:41 p.m.

This new adaptation of the 1898 H.G. Wells novel has many of the hallmarks of...

June 4, 2025 at 8:41 a.m.

Tony Award voters are casting their ballots. Let's look at who should be ascending to...

June 2, 2025 at 3:37 p.m.

The sense of tribute to the late director Fred Anzevino outweighs everything else in this...