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The Grown-Up

The New Plays Humana Festival, sponsored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, has great respect for the writing of Jordan Harrison. To

Carousel – Lyric Opera

Chicago audiences are in for a magical, moving musical treat with the Lyric Opera’s third year of their five-show retrospective, showcasing

Return to the Forbidden Planet – Jedlicka Performing Arts Center

In 1989, British playwright and director Bob Carlton came up with the idea of adapting Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” into a musical whose

The Upstairs Concierge – Goodman Theatre

On the heels of his enormous critical and popular success, the Jeff Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist,“The Elaborate Entrance of

Murder Ballad – Bailiwick

Tales of murder and passion have always fascinated the public. Songs of revenge have been around for ages. Centuries ago the murder

Travesties – Remy Bumppo

In a surreal mixture of Monty Pythonesque characters, Oscar Wilde wordplay and Marx Brothers’ situations, Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-

Title and Deed – Lookingglass Theatre

Will Eno, runner-up for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play “Thom Paine (based on nothing),” has written a new one-man show

Our Bad Magnet – Mary-Arrchie Theatre

Take an unsolved local mystery, combine it with a dark, rural tale of lost innocence and lace it with bursts of unexpected black humor and

Balm in Gilead = Griffin Theatre

Lanford Wilson’s first full-length play, written back in 1965 when the young playwright was living in New York City, became his signature

Les Miserables – Paramount Arts Center

Ringing down the curtain on their fourth successful season of musicals, Paramount tops itself once more with this spectacular production.