The Infinity Play” has no rules yet breaks them anyway, and Brennan and Curious Theatre Branch are like courageous explorers ...

Any play that takes on Berlin during the Weimar Republic era must operate in “Cabaret’”s long shadow. “Berlin,” now in its ...

Fluorescent lights overhead came on with a startling thunk. Shudders ran through the audience each time it happened. Again and again, we were caught off guard. We were unsettled—which was the point. A ...

It was in high school, dim centuries ago, that I was introduced to the Theatre of the Absurd. An ambitious English teacher of mine included Eugène Ionesco’s play “The Chairs” in her syllabus, thus ...

When the inevitable happens, we are right there with each and all of them—those who make it and those who don’t—powerfully ...

As the season nears its annual summer pause, an all-star lineup of choreographers and companies take the stage in May.

For some artists, recognition flares up for a hot season or two when they seem everywhere all at once, but then their sparkle ...

Chicago theaters take us through history, from Galileo's heliocentrism to the invention of robots.

Running at three hours with two intermissions, “Prayer for the French Republic” is an engaging and thoughtful play that ...