Daily Rehearsal: A chance to see Cyndi Lauper

Jun. 27, 2012
Broadway in Chicago has bowed out of the Taste of Chicago line-up but are doing their same summer concert in Millenium Park on August 6.

Act locally, think Broadway

Mar. 2, 2012
Listen to Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman discuss tax breaks for theaters on Eight Forty-Eight, and Chicago Fusion Theatre's 'Las Hermanas Padillas'

Is live theater tax credit a good thing?

Dec. 27, 2011
In a joyful press release, Broadway in Chicago recently announced that the Live Theatre Production Tax Credit had been passed by both houses of the Illinois legislature, and that Gove

Dueling Critics Rumble Over 'West Side Story'

Jul. 22, 2011
JONATHAN: They used to call it Hell's Kitchen, but now the substantially-gentrified West Side of midtown Manhattan is called Clinton, and the Puerto Rican vs. Polack gangs of West Side Story are history.

Biggest theater disappointments of 2010

Dec. 16, 2010
1. "The Brother/Sister Plays" at Steppenwolf. This trilogy was supposed to be the unveiling of a major new talent addressing the African-American experience, and instead it turned out to be a single excellent one-act flanked by one that was mediocre and another that was out-and-out poor.