Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames.  I began my "Great Old Broad"...

Marie Osmond Donny and Marie - Christmas in Chicago Through December 24 Ford Center for the Performing Arts 24 W. Randolph Street Chicago

RAIN: A Tribute To The Beatles February 8 - 13 Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre 24 W. Randolph Chicago www.broadwayinchicago.com RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including the most complex and...

1,2,3 Fag!: Local comics Seth Dodson ("Impress These Apes" champion), John Hartman ("Baby Wants Candy") and Kellen Alexander (from iO and The Playground teams) perform an interconnected, four-scene improv set with multiple characters. The Katydids and...

When Culture Monster first heard that producers were planning a stage musical of "The Addams Family," we weren't sure if they could pull off the signature ghoulish aesthetic that Charles Addams immortalized in his cartoons in the New Yorker. Having......

Tommy Batchelor, 14 (from left) JP Viernes,13, Giuseppe Bausilio, 12, and Cesar Coralles, 13, strike a pose outside the Ford Center for the Performing Arts / Oriental Theatre, home of the Chicago production of "Billy Elliot the Musical." (William...

Show information: Fiddler on the Roof June 10 - 28 Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre 24 W. Randolph For tickets: www.broadwayinchicago.com

Elton John, left, walks down the red carpet for the opening night of Billy Elliot at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday, April 11, 2010. (Andrew A. Nelles/ For The Chicago Tribune) Even though Elton John guesses he has...

In order to make some news to promote the unstoppable show's second-anniversary shebang last week, the savvy "Wicked" handlers at Broadway in Chicago announced that the musical has become "Chicago's longest-running Broadway musical." So, to check out that...

Charlotte D'Amboise will star as Roxie Hart, joining John O'Hurley as Billy Flynn, when Chicago the Musical returns to the Windy City Murder. Greed. Corruption. Violence. Exploitation. Adultery. Treachery. Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the...

Blond girl. Green girl. Tragically beautiful sister. Love interests. Goat. Wizard. All are in fine Midwestern fettle. All have received a brand-new coat of emerald paint. The recent minor improvements in Chicago's most prominent theatrical attraction...