Thursday, March 12, 2026
FIVE CHOREOGRAPHERS, FIVE PREMIERES Winning Works gives emerging dancemakers a coveted professional stage"and a glimpse of dance's next generation The Joffrey Ballet's Winning Works initiati…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AMTuesday, February 24, 2026
A legacy program celebrating Joffrey's founders while showcasing the company's present vitality A richly performed evening where history fuels a thrilling, forward-looking repertory Preterna…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:24PMWednesday, January 14, 2026
CHICAGO TEENS DELIVER THE GOODS WITH ORIGINAL ONE-ACTS Pegasus Theatre Chicago's Young Playwrights Festival proves "again"that fresh voices can write with candor, wit, and bite. For the last…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:00AMTuesday, November 11, 2025
FROM FRIDA TO FUNK, MATTERS OF THE HEART THRILLS When words fall short of capturing the fullness and depth of life's experience, there is dance"or more broadly, art itself. That truth was ma…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30AMThursday, November 6, 2025
PLAYING THE CARDS YOU'RE DEALT: THE PILON SHUFFLES LOVE, VALUE, AND IDENTITY Sometimes theater takes you places you never expected " or even wanted " to find yourself. For some, Red Theater'…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:30PMSaturday, November 1, 2025
CELEBRATING THE INDESPENSIBILITY OF CHICAGO'S CREATIVES Glowing cultural vibrancy and great world cities are so often intertwined they are effectively one. Scan the globe and nearly every ci…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AMMonday, October 27, 2025
ST. SEBASTIAN PLAYERS HONORS SHIRLEY JACKSON'S EERIE INTELLECT There are more than a few reasons to head over to Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood and catch the St. Sebastian Player's (SSP…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Redtwist's Smashing New Play Rattles the Status Quo with Laughter and Wisdom Are there limits to happiness? Can any one of us remotely comprehend the countless forms it can take? Those two q…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:54PMFriday, August 8, 2025
NOW SERVING LEGS, LEAPS, AND LIFE: AN EVENING THAT OFFERS PIROUETTES WITH A PURPOSE Dance for Life, the exuberant gala of dance created in 1992 to help address the impact of AIDS on a beleag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:10AMSunday, July 13, 2025
BIG TOP, BIGGER DREAMS: ETHIOPIA FLIPS THE SCRIPT AT NAVY PIER (OR "GRAVITY? NEVER HEARD OF IT!") Despite their being a part of nearly everyone's lives, dreams hold a never-ending fascinatio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:05PMThursday, June 19, 2025
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO BAGHDAD: COMEDY BUMPS INTO HISTORY TO CREATE A MASTERPIECE We sometimes forget how much the theatrical stage can be a place of true discovery"until we st…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMThursday, May 8, 2025
TO KNOW HYMN IS TO LOVE HYMN It's not unusual to hear creatives, especially Black creatives, quote Toni Morrison when talking about what inspires them to write, paint or compose. "If there's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
UNCONVENTIONAL SPIN, DARING THEATER, CAUTIOUSLY RECOMMENDED There are sequels and there are sequels. Few can be considered as aspirational or as pioneering as Taylor Mac's Gary, a continuati…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Red Theater's Kairos Makes Us Look at Time and Life from an Unexpected Perspective Chance encounters rarely end this interestingly. In Lisa Sanaye Dring's new play Kairos"premiering now at T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:45AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
MAMET'S HENRY JOHNSON PROVES A DIFFICULT PROTAGONIST Along with blazingly rapid dialog, there's something aggressively determined about David Mamet plays"like Glengarry Glen Ross now being r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:58PMSunday, March 16, 2025
JOYOUSLY, GUYS & DOLLS HAS IT ALL Still touted as one of the greatest Broadway musicals of all time, Guys and Dolls turns 75 in November. You'd never know it based on Music Theater Works…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:13AMMonday, March 10, 2025
JOFFREY ADDS SURPRISE TO A PROGRAM ALREADY BRIMMING WITH EXCELLENT DANCE Joffrey Ballet certainly must be conscious of its earth shifting habits. More likely, its propensity for greatly b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:40PMSunday, March 9, 2025
THE PERPETUATION OF LEGACY Once a year we're reminded of the unique space Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) occupies in the global dance sphere. And every year we're also reminded h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:02AMThursday, February 20, 2025
Titus Andronicus brings prejudice and the politics of revenge to the forefront in Shakespeare's bloodiest script. Foreign wars have left the country divided, an impulsive leader stokes resen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PMMonday, February 17, 2025
Frida…A Self Portrait Enlightens and Beguiles with Impressive Force You'd have to go a long way to find someone with as potent a life force as Frida Kahlo's. She left this branch of existe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:03PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
A BRILLIANTLY BRACING LOOK AT LOVE'S OTHER SIDE Romantic love is rarely easy. Even when a relationship progresses from first attraction to full commitment to picture-perfect nuptials, there …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:37PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
Steep Theatre Company's A Slow Air: An Astonishing Journey Into Forbidden Territory "Estrangement" is an unfriendly word that carries with it all kinds of negative connotations"hostility, al…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:59AMTuesday, January 21, 2025
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE FUN HOME One of the first penetrating statements Alanna Chavez makes very early as Alison Bechdel in Porchlight's Fun Home, now playing at the Ruth Page Center for the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:58PMAN UNFORGETTABLE LAUGHTER-ETCHED LESSON ON LIFE BY WALKING IN SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES There are two things to know about Jocelyn Bioh, playwright of Jaja's African Hair Braiding, the theatrical…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMTuesday, December 24, 2024
EXCAVATING THE PAST TO SOLVE PUZZLES ABOUT THE PRESENT Family is so integral to our identity that it's difficult not to be enthralled by them. A complicated source of delight, distress, curi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AMSunday, November 3, 2024
HOT DOGS! Red Theater's Take on Speed Eating is a Fast and Furious Glimpse into the Fascinating Sometimes you need to head in a different direction to uncover life's true hidden treasures. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:03PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
A CAVALCADE OF RICHES Anticipating Giordano Dance Chicago's (GDC) newest season is getting to be a lot like looking forward to an extravagant Christmas that happens twice a year. In the Spri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM 
