CRDT has a unique structure, pairing choreographers with jazz composers to develop pieces over a long period—often years—and ...

A fevered take on the summer solstice celebrations of Alexander Ekman’s native Sweden, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” has nothing ...

Veteran director Chuck Smith, our foremost August Wilson interpreter, has crafted an emotionally highly charged, exuberant, ...

Michael Shannon returns to his theater home to star in fellow ensemble member Levi Holloway’s world premiere that promises “a ...

A dramedy not for the faint of heart, “Brooklyn Laundry” explores romance as a second chance where prospective lovers must ...

Thanks to memorable music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a prose rewrite of Jo Sterling’s book by Abe Burrows, “Guys and ...

A range of trepidations about having children is presented in “Baby,” a restaging of the 1983 Broadway musical that runs ...

May dance highlights include Chicago stalwarts Hubbard Street, Cerqua Rivera, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Lucky Plush, and ...

“Eddie Izzard Performing Hamlet” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, 800 East Grand. Tickets ($69 and up) are available at chicagoshakes.com or by calling (312)595-5600. Through May 4.

Suicide is no laughing matter; when life becomes overwhelming, sometimes all you can do is laugh—and dance and sing and smoke ...

There is a line in “Jersey Boys” about Frankie Valli having to work until he’s ninety to pay off the half-million-dollar-plus ...