Performing Arts
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Marriott Theatre announces landmark anniversary seasonSep 13, 2024 5:04 pm - Marriott Theatre announced its 2025 season. Marking the Lincolnshire theater’s 50th anniversary will include a world premiere, as well as revivals of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” the film-inspired “Catch Me if You Can,” and the infrequently staged “Titanic the Musical.”
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Laugh and learn: Timing’s right for BTE’s revival of political satire ‘The Outsider’Sep 11, 2024 6:15 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s brisk revival of “The Outsider,” Paul Slade Smith’s 2015 satire on politics, comes at just the right time.
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Spotlight: Steppenwolf opens season with ‘Noises Off,’ Goodman with ‘Inherit the Wind’Sep 10, 2024 4:27 pm - Steppenwolf Theatre Company opens its season with Michael Frayn’s riotous, backstage farce “Noises Off,” while Goodman Theatre opens its season with the courtroom drama “Inherit the Wind.”
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Mundelein residents complain about concert at dispensarySep 10, 2024 11:47 am - A quartet of Mundelein residents took to the lectern at Monday night’s village board meeting to complain about an outdoor concert held the previous weekend.
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Best Bets: Follow a butterfly’s journey at Morton Arboretum, laugh it up at Second CitySep 10, 2024 6:08 am - Looking for something to do this week? Learn about a butterfly’s journey at the Morton Arboretum, see Lyric Opera’s season opener “Rigoletto,” laugh it up at The Second City’s newest show and experience Iceland by air at Flyover at Navy Pier.
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Regal revival: Uniformly excellent acting animates Drury Lane’s ‘The Audience’Sep 07, 2024 3:54 pm - The supremely talented Janet Ulrich Brooks, who played Queen Elizabeth seven years ago in a Chicago production of “The Audience,” revisits the role in Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of “The Audience” by Peter Morgan.
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All in good fun: Paramount Theatre goes all the way with ‘The Full Monty’Sep 04, 2024 5:23 pm - Paramount Theatre launches its 13th Broadway series with the deliciously titillating tuner “The Full Monty,” adapted from the 1997 film about unemployed steelworkers-turned-strippers.
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Best Bets: New Elmhurst exhibitions celebrate movie houses, public artSep 04, 2024 8:49 am - New exhibitions honoring historic movie houses and public art open at two Elmhurst museums; the Fiestas Patrias Festival returns to Aurora’s RiverEdge Park; and blues rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd plays the suburbs this week.
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Theater spotlight: A monarch takes charge in Chicago Shakes’ ‘Henry V’Sep 03, 2024 2:16 pm - Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s timely production of “Henry V” examines war, power and leadership, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” settles in for an extended stay in Chicago and “The Book of Mormon” returns for a brief run.
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Hot Tix offers discount theater tickets to select city, suburban productionsAug 30, 2024 1:27 pm - HotTix offers $20 advance tickets to select theater productions through Sept. 8 or while supplies last.