Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards were just presented, and two local teens are heading to Broadway. The students talked to ABC7 Chicago's Hosea Sanders just after they won. Now, they're ...

The producers of Broadway's Maybe Happy Ending and Buena Vista Social Club have announced national tours for 2026.

Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: What one wore as a Black man mattered.

I have been deep in conversation with ChatGPT, asking all kinds of questions. Are there direct flights between the U.S. and ...

Sexy quips like that are sprinkled throughout this affirmative musical about Latina garment workers in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1987, a new Broadway attraction based on ...

Much like the film, the musical acts as a star-making moment for its lead. It's a shock that Real Women marks Córdoba's first time on Broadway: She crafts an easily lovable protagonist ...

NEW YORK — Most great Broadway musicals are about mortality ... At one point, Cromer and his gifted Chicago-based lighting designer, Heather Gilbert, combine for what must be the best lighting ...

Dead Outlaw drives the final nail into the 2024-25 Broadway season, and I’ve never felt more alive. Elmer McCurdy’s funeral is the party of the year: wall-to-wall country and rock bangers ...

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Where “Dead Outlaw” stares down mortality with a sardonic cackle, the 1996 musical by composer Adam Guettel and writer Tina Landau (who also directs the stately Broadway premiere) approaches ...

Anyone who’s ever dressed up in a sequinned headband or felt fedora will recognise the 1920s trappings of this flashy Broadway musical version of The Great Gatsby. There’s jaunty dancing in ...