How many Sarah Ruhl plays can one town take at the same time? It would appear Chicago is about to find out as an unofficial festival of Ruhl’s work descends upon us.

On February 17, I ran into Marj Halperin at the Ford Center/Oriental Theatre where we both were in the audience for the final televised mayoral forum prior to the Feb. 22 election.

So maybe I missed it, but now I get it 'cause someone actually has sent out a press release that makes it all clear: Chicago Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel's Transition Team--which heretofore most folks understood to be a tight-knit handful of people--actually is a broad-spectrum set of six committees add

What do you do at a subscription theater when you have a hit? Why, you extend it, of course, for a week or two or even three if possible until the next production just can't be put off any longer.

"Tomorrow Morning," the British-born intimate tuner that won the 2009 Jeff Award for a Musical, is scheduled for a March 21-April 23 New York run at the Off-Broadway York Theatre Company, where the Chicago director, Tom Mullen, will repeat.

Today, March 4, marks the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of one of our most theater-loving Presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Indeed, Lincoln loved theater just a little too much for his own good, giving rise to the often-quoted send-up of a disaster, “Other than that, Mrs.

Mayor Daley has appointed Katherine LaMantia the Acting Commissioner for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), assisted by Sue Vopicka. Ms.