Even after the pandemic has passed and Chicago comedy theaters are back to doing live shows, the popular ComedySportz chain wants to keeps its successful e-shows running.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMThis new show, livestreamed from Scotland, is on the cutting edge of translating old-school magic into our new online worlds. Worlds where ostensibly we're all connected.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMPart of the reason some voters got the wrong sense of who was winning and losing on Election Night may have been in the way TV networks reported votes as if they were sports results.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMDon't miss ”A Lady’s Facade,” “Containment” and “These Glass Lives” as the winners of Pegasus Theatre's 34th annual Young Playwrights Festival.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PMThe Scottish illusionist has a new kind of livestreamed show, and has figured out how to project an audience on the walls of his childhood home.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:02PMIn the final days of 2020, the COVID-19 virus revealed the same disrespect for the calendar as it had previously shown for national boundaries, political affiliations and state lines.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMOnly a few people got to see "Lazarus," the musical that was Bowie's last artistic creation. Now a video of the London production will stream on the fifth anniversary of his death.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMActress E. Faye Butler is our Chicagoan of the Year for Theater
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMThe second entry in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s virtual season, “Wally World” by Isaac Gomez is an audio play set in a big-box store in the bordertown of El Paso, Texas.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:14PMJoffrey Ballet gets $3 million in new funding from Abbott Labs
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMAugust Wilson's monologues hold a singular place in American theater, as evidenced by the late Chadwick Boseman's devastating performance in the Netflix film of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" an…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMThe artistic director of a Chicago theater company plans to move on.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMThe first national tour of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical!,” the hit Broadway show based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann movie, now will begin its North American tour in Chicago. That's the good ne…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:52AMAnn Reinking, critic Chris Jones argues, choreographed the very soul of the City of Chicago.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMMedia personality Dean Richards, 66, said his illness was not serious. He plans to broadcast his Sunday morning WGN radio show from home.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:15PMThe year started with a flurry of promising shows, with a suburban "Grease," Steppenwolf's "Bug" and the Goodman's "Graveyard Shift" among the standouts. Then the pandemic came and everythin…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMIt’s a virtual "Chris Jones recommends" ... Here are some seasonal Chicago attractions to support your local theater artists.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMManual Cinema has forged a live, puppet version of 'Christmas Carol,' toned to the traumas of a lonely pandemic Christmas. It begins with Lysol and Zoom.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:51PMWe all hope to see performers and shows back on stages in the coming year, be they in Chicago or on Broadway. But what happens when artists have all that time away from live audiences?
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMThe Goodman Theatre's seasonal tradition is available for free this December as an audio play. Comforting, entertaining and well worth a listen.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:10PMAn old brick warehouse on S. Cottage Grove will house both the Congo Square Theatre Company and the new African American Museum of Performing Arts.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:47PMThe University of Michigan football team announced Monday that it would pause all of its “in person activity" because of likely positive tests for coronavirus on the team. As the pandemic …
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:54PMIn his previous book “Razzle Dazzle,” the writer Michael Riedel claims 1980s Broadway saved New York City. In his new sequel, '90s Broadway comes into its own. Shows like "Rent" and "Ang…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:57PMSecond City said Wednesday that it has hired a new executive producer: Jon Carr, a writer and artistic director with roots in Atlanta improv and theater.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:37PMThe first of what will be an annual fellowship totaling $27,500 will go to the Chicago playwright Kristiana Rae Colón and, aptly enough, Congo Square.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:22PMAmerican Blues is presenting its long-running, old time radio-style show via Zoom this year, performed live each night for the audience from the actors' homes.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMPorchlight Music Theatre found young performers you haven't seen before and the historic Studebaker Theater as a venue, then added hits ("Les Miz," "Phantom") and forgotten songs from Broadw…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:34PMWhen Chicago's Newberry Library opened a 2016 exhibition entitled “Civil War to Civil Rights: African American Chicago in the Newberry Collection,” the artifacts on display included a sa…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:49AMA streaming video of “Eleanor’s Merry Christmas Wish — The Musical" is being repackaged and offered to theater audiences all over the country. And it's not the only one. Is this a new …
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMWhen Broadway closed down due to the pandemic, Tracy Letts' play “The Minutes” was on the cusp of its opening night.
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:29AMSet during the pandemic, when some people have been tempted to look up old flames, James Ijames' play stars K. Todd Freeman and Jon Michael Hill and clocks in at just 20 minutes.
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