The magical Into the Woods is touring the country, but its opening night in Chicago was proof-positive of the magic of live theatre.

Mercury Theater’s Big River is expectedly impeccable, and what it has to say is as important as ever, even if the musical itself remains imperfect.

Rock (‘n’ roll) is here to stay in Chicagoland this spring.

Fortunately for Chicagoland patrons—or unsurprisingly, given their batting average—Marriott Theatre’s new production of Damn Yankees is pitch-perfect. (There may be more baseball puns in store.)

Two musicals tackling everything under the sun.

Two brand new opera productions—one about a brilliant technician, the other technically theatrically brilliant.

Brecht and Weill’s sleazy oddball classic may be formally dusty, but its social commentary endures and the tongue-in-cheek depravity meshes well with these restless cynical times.

If shaggy around the edges, Tina is in its way charming and endearing, and Zurin Villanueva commands a stage like it’s her own arena.

One production casts its material in a new light while another blows itself up and puts it back together

Two musicals that, in their own ways, take you on a galloping ride.

With a knock-out triple-threat ensemble, Drury Lane’s production lives up to the musical’s award-laden legend.

An impeccable mood piece, Roston’s turn as Billie Holiday is as fresh as those gardenias and as bracing as her tumbler of Seagrams neat.