Tap into your inner Alfred Hitchcock with Oil Lamp Theater's exquisite "Dial M for Murder."

Audrey Niffenegger's sequel to "The Time Traveler's Wife" sets its time-traveling romance in a world reshaped by climate change and AI.

The adaptation of Jonathan Eig's book on the pill's invention struggles to express the complexity of a topic suited for a documentary.

Trap Door Theatre puts on a simple yet powerful play based on a short story by magical realist master Gabriel García Márquez that makes one wonder if there's anything humans won't exploit.

Mark Pracht's adaptation of the 1949 book rewrites masculinity in a Western setting, with a phenomenal performance by lead Michael B. Woods.

Patti Smith is the recipient of this year’s Harold Washington Literary Award and, while nearing age 80, is also performing at Riot Fest.

Patti Smith is the recipient of this year’s Harold Washington Literary Award and, while nearing age 80, is also performing at Riot Fest.

This production of Leonard Bernstein’s classic goes big in every way, featuring tremendous singers and actors, fabulous costumes, explosive choreography and a nimble twenty-two-piece orchestra.

It’s summer in the city, which means taking every chance to be outside. Fortunately, if you want to see art in Chicago, there’s plenty outdoors.

The Hoosier president was an interesting guy and deserves to be better remembered. The twenty-third president had just one term, but reforms he initiated were carried forward by other presidents.

In Shakespeare's comedy, the characters go to the forest and become more fully human. The same thing happens when you see theater in the woods at Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Kokandy Productions revives the "tribal love-rock musical" at Chopin Theatre.

Roosevelt said that he would not have been president if not for his experience in North Dakota. “It was here that the romance of my life began."

On stage at American Players Theatre, Wisconsin native Thornton Wilder's play is an old-fashioned but well-made farce that was later adapted into the 1964 Broadway hit.

The musician's new Algren-inspired collection features melodic stories about wanting to belong, in places like Maxwell Street or a Lutheran church basement.

In this production at Steppenwolf Theatre, three gifted ensemble members transition between genders and ages to tell a family story in a new way.

Over its 115-year run, City News was a training ground for young journalists, including Seymour Hersh and Mike Royko. A new book, born of a conversation with longtime editor Paul Zimbrakos two years b...

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In “The Targeted,” a new play by Hanna Kime, conspiracy theorists gather at a rustic retreat for a meeting of the “Solidarity and Truth Summit.”

TimeLine Theatre christens its new Uptown building with the Henrik Ibsen work, adapted by Amy Herzog in 2024, about a doctor whose alarming discovery makes him a town pariah.

The Chicago reporter, who's written eighty-two volumes of diaries over almost sixty years, is out with a book on her lifelong practice.

Playwright and actor Ashley Robinson was performing in Wicked when he saw Brokeback Mountain the film. Now he's written a play adaptation.

The musical version of the classic novel makes its world debut at City Lit Theater, a comedy-adventure-romance mixed with dueling and song.

Elizabeth Auman discusses TimeLine Theatre Company's new home, built for performance, and the journey that led them there.

In “Partially Devoured," Chicago writer Daniel Kraus brings a microscopic point of view to George A. Romero's classic 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead.”

In Wilson's 1982 play, the playwright imagined a recording session for prolific early-blues recording artist Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and her band in Chicago in 1927.

The West Side native and interdisciplinary artist is taking on a new challenge—acting and singing in his own production that draws from gospel hymns, blues, funk and poetry.

Gary Houston and Shelby Marie Edwards star as two leads who develop an improbable intellectual chemistry in this play by Kurt McGinnis Brown.

David Byrne and Mala Goankar's show explores the science of perception, taking audience members through experiments involving sight, vision and taste, while telling a story of a life from its end to t...