Theater | Review: ‘East Texas Hot Links’ is a Black thriller in experienced hands at Court Theatre By Chris Jones September 19, 2024 at 11:57 a.m. Director Ron OJ Parson returns to Eugene Lee's play, and if you haven't seen it...
Theater | Review: ‘The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk’ at Northlight Theatre is the love story of the artist Chagall and his Bella By Chris Jones September 17, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. This small-scale musical captures the passion of their relationship, though it doesn't travel much further.
Theater | Review: ‘Never Better’ at Theo tells an authentic musical story about mental illness By Emily McClanathan September 17, 2024 at 5:15 a.m. Preston Max Allen's new show in development could be everything I’d hoped “Dear Evan Hansen”...
Theater | Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ is simply superb at Writers Theatre By Chris Jones September 16, 2024 at 10:23 p.m. Based on Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," the material is not for all tastes. But...
Theater | Review: ‘Henry V’ at Chicago Shakespeare opens the Edward Hall era on Navy Pier By Chris Jones September 16, 2024 at 11:34 a.m. Rulers long have known that prosecuting a war against a foreign enemy is a helpful...
Theater | Review: Lyric’s ‘Rigoletto’ updates Verdi’s opera without lessening its vitality By Chris Jones September 15, 2024 at 6:11 p.m. Director Mary Birnbaum offers up a "Rigoletto" that's partly revisionist yet has all the traditional...
Theater | ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ opens soon in Chicago, a third and final version of the epic sequel By Chris Jones September 16, 2024 at 4:34 p.m. An all-new and radically shorter version of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" opens at...
Theater | Review: ‘The Roommate’ on Broadway has stars much bigger than this story By Chris Jones September 12, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone are roommates in a story set in Iowa City. Farrow...
Theater | Review: ‘The Full Monty’ at Paramount Theatre will have you seeing this musical anew By Chris Jones September 10, 2024 at 2:56 p.m. On a Sunday afternoon in Aurora, I changed my mind about this show, starting with...
Theater | In appreciation: In everything from ‘Fences’ to ‘Field of Dreams,’ James Earl Jones gave both voice and heart By Michael Phillips September 10, 2024 at 7:48 p.m. He played presidents and kings and garbage haulers and apartheid survivors. Through the decades, the...