Riverfront Theater

Two components of many a Chicago summer of live entertainment are absent this year — there's no Cirque du Soleil tent at the United Center and no Riverfront Theater at the Tribune Company's Freedom Center. So you'll have to go camping for fun...

For the past two decades, a touring show from Cirque du Soleil has typically arrived in Chicago every other year. The most recent production was "Ovo" in 2011, performed in the parking lot at the United Center. The current touring Cirque show, "Totem,"...

The Riverfront Theater, the Chicago Tribune Media Group's tented venue located at the newspaper's printing plant, is closing down until the spring. The planned return engagement in December of the circus "La Soiree" has been canceled. Meanwhile, the...

Bobby Womack picks up the phone, and speaks what’s on his mind in a voice made of gravel. “I know a lot of people who are not here anymore,” the R&B great says, “and I wonder why I’m still here. … Not a day goes by...

New York has a spiegeltent, pitched in Times Square. Las Vegas has both "Absinthe" and "Zumanity," each Strip show offering arty, athletic, mildly shocking eroticism for the pleasure-seeking refugee from the quotidian hinterlands. But until this week, the...

A potential superhero awaits the unleashing of his powers. Tracy Letts mourns over Moscow. A Chicago disaster is revisited. A young man misses his appointment with Goldman Sachs. Oedipus hits the streets of Los Angeles. Hats fly on the Goodman Theatre...

Gentleman’s Rule Royal George Theater Nov 13 thru Nov 25th www.gentlemansrule.com The men of Gentleman’s Rule have been working hard in the studio and on stage to prepare for the launch of their debut album, Act Accordingly, which will...

Event: BeerHoptacular Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10 Riverfront Theater 650 W. Chicago Avenue Chicago www.beerhoptacular.com/ Three sessions:  Friday: 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Saturday: 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Tickets:...

School is winding down and the days are stretching out, which is the perfect time for fun at the old ballpark, beach, street fair, and all the other seasonal frolics that Chicagoans dream about during the dreary winter months. But don't forget that...