Johnny Oleksinski

Chicago Children's Theatre announced its full 2015-16 season on Friday. The lineup, among six other productions, features a new play from the writer Nambi E. Kelley. First is the return...

Sideshow Theatre Company's "Stupid F---ing Bird" will return this summer in a commercial production on a bigger stage, a spokeswoman for the show announced Friday. Sideshow's staging of Aaron Posner's...

"Beaches, A New Musical" — based on Iris Rainer Dart's novel that also inspired the popular Bette Midler film — playing the Drury Lane Theatre this summer, has announced a...

Producers of "Matilda the Musical," the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, announced the cast of the first national tour on Tuesday. Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly's musical is based...

Soon-to-be Steppenwolf artistic director Anna D. Shapiro will direct Tracy Letts' new play "Mary Page Marlowe," the theater announced on Monday.It was widely assumed Shapiro would helm this production (March...

This week's Showcase — our longest ever — is Laura Osnes and Steven Pasquale from Lyric Opera's "Carousel." The classic 1945 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II is...

First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook announced its 2015-16 season on Thursday. For the fall, the company's "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story" (Sept. 23-Nov. 1) returns...

The Goodman Theatre, Lyric Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Victory Gardens Theater are among twenty-six national recipients sharing a single $52 million dollar grant, it was announced on Wednesday. The...

This week's Theater Loop Showcase is "Outside Mullingar," starring Kate Fry and Mark Montgomery at Northlight Theatre. John Patrick Shanley's play takes place on a farm in Ireland that Anthony,...

The full schedule for the 3rd annual Pivot Arts Festival was announced on Tuesday. The 10-day festival of performances and other events takes place in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods...