2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (29+ words) The marquee of the Chicago Theatre is a dazzling icon of the city that has hosted film premieres, film festivals, fashion shows, vaudeville entertainment, concerts, musicals and even memorials....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (535+ words) The award-winning Naperville-area barershop a cappella quartet Stiletto Quartet will be among the featured performers Saturday at the Chorus of DuPage’s fall show, “Melodies and Memories,” in Naperville. The all-female group will be joined by former Barbershop Harmony Society international…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (318+ words) NEW YORK — Her wish is being granted: Sherri Shepherd plans to join the hit musical “Aladdin” as the Genie. The Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show host and NAACP Image Award winner will slip into the magical role from Oct. 16 to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (415+ words) Some 30 years ago, Sheldon Epps had a cool idea for a hot show. Why not fuse the music of Duke Ellington with the plot of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and set the whole thing in swinging 1930s Harlem? “My idea was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (155+ words) “Dirty Dancing” has a new tour arriving in Chicago and its distinguished director, Lonny Price, says it is a whole new treatment of how Baby gets out of her corner. The show has toured before, but in the past it…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (272+ words) Most specifically, the show is a reminder that you must keep moving on, keeping your eye on the next thing, banishing imposter syndrome and ignoring critics (I know, I know). They have their job and their place, he says in…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (732+ words) The show must go on for Northwest Indiana’s loyal band of Rocky Horror performers as they prepare for their Saturday performance following the death of Tim Curry, the actor who brought the film’s extravagant main character to life. “When I…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) NEW YORK — Dark movie theaters — or creepy home basements — are the classic venues of choice for those who love supernatural scares. But “Paranormal Activity,” which opened Tuesday night at the August Wilson Theatre, makes the case that, yes, Virginia, you…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (42+ words) Chicago Tribune Dolly Parton, the country music icon, has died. She was 80 years old. Parton died peacefully Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, her publicist said in a statement. A cause of death was not disclosed....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (337+ words) Robert Falls is returning to directing in the Chicago theater, this time not at the Goodman, his artistic home for decades, but at Redtwist Theatre, a tiny venue located at 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. with fewer than 50 seats. Casting has not…...