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A matinee of madcap comedy and conversation with Mel Brooks after a spoof on the big screen

Just a month shy of his 91st birthday, director/actor/comedian Mel Brooks was back in the touring saddle, returning to the Chicago Theatre with Star Productions for the [More…]

Berlin’s Kit Kat Klub comes to Theatre At The Center in spunky yet serious “Cabaret”

The last time “Cabaret” toured though Chicago, the musical about a Berlin nightclub and the many quirky characters that pass through its transient tables just prior to [More…]

Broadway at Lyric’s “My Fair Lady” is elegant, magnificent

For the fifth installment of the Broadway at Lyric series, the Lyric Opera of Chicago dipped back to Lerner and Loewe’s classic “My Fair Lady,” which swept the Tony [More…]

“A Whole New World” for “Aladdin” in spectacular stage adaptation

There’s never been a shortage of spectacle when Disney takes to Broadway, but the company that redefined the rules with “The Lion King,” “Beauty And The Beast” and [More…]

“The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein” gives Metropolis season a frightfully funny start

Halloween came about a month early when the “The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein” set up its mad science laboratory under the direction of Robin M. Hughes at [More…]

“Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical” dips back to the roaring ‘20s with the words of Woody Allen

In 1994, “Bullets Over Broadway” came to the big screen under the direction of Woody Allen, continuing in his zany tradition of blurring comedy and crime in a farce that [More…]

“Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” masters the life and music of America’s greatest songwriter

Boasting a catalogue with over 1,500 songs, 18 Broadway shows, 16 feature films, 232 top ten hits and ten chart-topping singles, Irving Berlin is amongst the most prolific, [More…]

“Cabaret” swings with style, substance and shock value

Throughout its countless incarnations on Broadway and the Liza Minnelli-starring movie that took home eight Academy Awards, John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff’s [More…]