August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a play about music. Yes… about the blues. Yes… about the eponymous singer. And yes… about the heart‑breaking circumstances in which her recordings […]
Ever wanted to attend your own funeral? Ever wondered if your memories are real or imagined? Ever desired to get inside the big brain of big-suited Talking Heads frontman David […]
Oscar Wao is a nerdy guy and a wannabe writer with a big heart. He’s open to friendship and longing for love. We even get to experience his loss of […]
Several versions of A Christmas Carol are familiar on television, in the movies, and, specifically, live at the Goodman Theatre. It’s a start to the holiday season in Chicago, usually coinciding […]
Chicago will have a new entertainment space that will enable you to “step into a new world of totally different experiences” from those you usually find in a theater or […]
Something unusual happened Monday night as we entered Goodman’s Owen Theatre. We were offered ear plugs. And I thought to myself, yes, this is going to be good—and loud. The […]
Richard Engling is a Chicago theater guy—actor, director, artistic director. He’s taken his years of experience as the raw material for a trilogy of novels about life in Chicago storefront […]
The energy in the Goodman Theatre’s larger Albert Theatre was palpable even before Monday’s premiere of The Color Purple began, and it built upon itself as the evening progressed towards […]
The Antiquities at Goodman Theatre is a panorama of human invention and storytelling beginning in the 19th century and continuing into the 23rd century, when humans may be .extinct. These scenes […]
A triangle has three sides. But the three sides are not always equal, as we learn in maths. Or geometry, if you’re an American. And so it is in Betrayal, the […]
Fat Ham, the prize-winning play by James Ijames, is now on stage at Goodman Theatre in a co-production with Definition Theatre. Ijames’ script was inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet and incorporates some of the original’s […]
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