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Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre has announced a third performance, Saturday, April 25 at 2 p.m., of its Porchlight in Concert production of Follies. Learn more about the show here!

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced that Stephen Wallem will join the cast of its Porchlight in Concert production of FOLLIES this spring. The staged concert will take place over two performances at the Studebaker Theater and features Broadway veterans and Chicago favorites.

Chicago theatre veteran and TV favorite Stephen Wallem has joined the cast of the Porchlight in Concert production of Follies as “Buddy Plummer.” The cast also features Anthony Rapp and more.

Porchlight Music Theatre will stage a concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies, featuring a cast led by Michelle Duffy, Alexander Gemignani, Angela Ingersoll, and Anthony Rapp.

Celebrating its 51st anniversary awarding recognition for Non-Equity theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards revealed its nominations for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2024 season. Learn more about the nominations.

What did our critic think of THE SECRET GARDEN at Theo Ubique?

What did our critic think of CAROUSEL at Music Theater Works At The North Shore Center For The Performing Arts?

Music Theater Works’ second production of its 2024 season, Carousel, in the Center Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts In Skokie is now playing through August 18. Check out photos here!

Music Theater Works officially opened its first production of its 2024 season, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The musical is now playing through March 31.  Check out photos from opening night here!

The semi-improvised, fourth-wall-breaking musical now receives a delightful production at Music Theater Works that's heavy on humor if occasionally light on heart. It runs through March 31 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.

Music Theater Works’ first production of its 2024 season, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is now playing through March 31. See photos from the production!

BroadwayWorld announces the upcoming production of HAMILTON at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The show will feature an all-star cast and promises to be a must-see for theater lovers. Get all the details here.

Although it debuted off-Broadway more than thirty years ago, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s ASSASSINS remains a thrilling, bone chilling, brilliant, and immensely taut musical. Drawing on the United States history of successful and would-be presidential assassins, ASSASSINS is an astounding exploration of disillusionment and infamy. The musical feels remarkably prescient in the era of TikTok influencers and an epidemic of mass shootings in America; ASSASSINS unnervingly pre-dates both of these phenomena and yet is a real immediate reflection of them. When the ensemble sings in “The Gun Song” that “all you have to do is move your little finger/ and you can change the world,” it’s absolutely terrifying in a 2023 context. Sondheim and Weidman present a cast of historical characters that feel disenfranchised and disillusioned by American ideals, and modern America certainly hasn’t been disabused of this notion.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre has revealed the cast and production team of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's provocative musical Assassins.

Paramount Theatre has released additional clips of for Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's brilliant reimagining of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales, which runs through March 19, 2023. Get an extended look at the production!

Paramount Theatre has released a video preview for Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's brilliant reimagining of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales, which runs through March 19, 2023.

What did our critic think of INTO THE WOODS at Paramount Theatre?

Paramount Theatre has release production photos for Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's brilliant reimagining of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales, which runs through March 19, 2023. Check out the photos here!

Up next in Paramount Theatre’s 2022-23 Broadway Series is Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s brilliant reimagining of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales, February 1-March 19, 2023.

Up next in Paramount Theatre’s 2022-23 Broadway Series is Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s brilliant reimagining of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales, February 1-March 19, 2023.