For over a decade, a proper in-water boat show has been missing from lower Lake Michigan, and it has been greatly missed by manufacturers, dealers, and consumers that call our beautiful lakefront home ...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the cast and creative team of its highly anticipated North American Premiere ...

Michael Shayan, in flowing caftan, spends much of the performance in the guise of his own larger-than-life Iranian-Jewish ...

The new stage adaptation by playwright Tom Wells will delight families over the festive period, kicking off a 10-week run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from November 25 ...

Michael Shayan’s show, in which he plays his own mother as she celebrates the Iranian New Year, has much akin to stand-up comedy and I mean that as a compliment.

In one-man show at Chicago Shakespeare, writer-performer Michael Shayan embodies his Jewish Iranian mother and keeps the humor coming, even as events turn serious.

Now playing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" is a vibrant production spotlighting African and Black culture, beauty and some of the harsh realities of immigration. Why it ...

Just a day before an extraordinary amount of political theater took place on Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C., a heartbreaking and wholly unexpected drama of a very different kind played out in ...

Rich Hein’s photo from the 2012 Goodman Theatre production of “The Iceman Cometh,” with Brian Dennehy, center left, and Nathan Lane, center right. The photo credit in the program listed ...

The staged reading of Valor, Agravio y Mujer (The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs) celebrates the writing of Ana Caro Mallén de Soto, a woman playwright of the Spanish Golden Age who was a ...

From “Barbershop”  and “Beauty Shop” to “Shear Madness” and “Steel Magnolias,” hair emporia have served for years as great settings for plays and movies. They’re community staples, home to countless ...

“Personal attacks and petty political theater such as this are not … I will not be bullied out of a position to which I was elected by residents with a nearly two-to- one majority. And I will ...