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 There's no more gilded cage for Norma in director Jamie Lloyd's red-hot, straight-from-London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's noir 1993 musical.

Review: Nicole Scherzinger is devastating in a sultry new ‘Sunset Blvd.’ on Broadway

October 20, 2024 at 9:00 p.m.

There's no more gilded cage for Norma in director Jamie Lloyd's red-hot, straight-from-London revival of...

![ Can a person make up for the harm they have caused? That's the question in Ian McEwan’s novel turned movie, now a ballet by choreographer Cathy Marston. In the Joffrey's hands, "Atonement" is her most fully realized work yet.](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CTC-L-ENT-ATONEMENT-JOFFREY-03-e1729186162619.jpg?w=140 " Can a person make up for the harm they have caused? That's the question in Ian McEwan’s novel turned movie, now a ballet by choreographer Cathy Marston. In the Joffrey's hands, "Atonement" is her most fully realized work yet.")

 The puppets are an experiment by Color Club in Irving Park. Beneath the googly eyes, there’s a truism: When we talk to puppets, we are no longer ourselves.

No strings on me: What the Sugar Hole puppets have learned about human nature

October 16, 2024 at 12:13 p.m.

The puppets are an experiment by Color Club in Irving Park. Beneath the googly eyes,...

 A self-described “girl with big feelings” who can’t afford therapy, she wrote a show instead. “I’m basically Tinker Bell,” she says. “The more you clap, the more I heal.”

Review: In ‘Jocey y Las Mariachis,’ a Mexican American artist shares both hopes and apprehensions

October 16, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

A self-described “girl with big feelings” who can’t afford therapy, she wrote a show instead....

Eboni Booth's Pulitzer Prize-winner is now at the Goodman Theatre with Namir Smallwood as Kenneth, a man at a crossroads.

Review: ‘Primary Trust’ is a quiet, moving play set mostly inside our storyteller’s head

October 15, 2024 at 2:45 p.m.

Eboni Booth's Pulitzer Prize-winner is now at the Goodman Theatre with Namir Smallwood as Kenneth,...

![ The Ecuadorian American magician and mentalist is a guest for the next couple of weeks at Dennis Watkins' intimate "Magic Parlour." Don't miss his show.](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/tieber-e1728942479340.jpeg?w=140 " The Ecuadorian American magician and mentalist is a guest for the next couple of weeks at Dennis Watkins' intimate "Magic Parlour." Don't miss his show.")

Review: Magician Siegfried Tieber’s best trick is his deft touch with audiences

October 14, 2024 at 4:48 p.m.

The Ecuadorian American magician and mentalist is a guest for the next couple of weeks...

A lot has happened since Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Wendy Whelan and Francesca Harper agreed to make a dance together in 2019. Their work is coming to Chicago's Harris Theater.

 The first Chicago production by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Linda Reiter as the descendent of a woman executed during the Salem witch trials.

Review: Which witch? ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ is a complicated new Sarah Ruhl play

October 11, 2024 at 10:42 a.m.

The first Chicago production by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Linda Reiter as the descendent of...

 One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American play and make it feel like it was written about all Americans.

Review: This ‘Our Town’ Broadway revival opens Thornton Wilder’s story up to everyone

October 10, 2024 at 10:00 p.m.

One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American...

Former Bad Boy Radio DJ Victor Blackful is set to open his second season of booking shows at Nathan Manilow Theatre in Park Forest.

Radio’s ‘Dizz’ Blackful busy ‘adding my own flavor’ to Park Forest venue

October 9, 2024 at 1:55 p.m.

Former Bad Boy Radio DJ Victor Blackful is set to open his second season of...

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