Chris Jones is editorial page editor, as well as chief theater critic for the Chicago Tribune. He also serves as Broadway critic for the New York Daily News. His latest book is Rise Up!

The theater critic Jack Helbig was famous for withering capsule theater reviews in such publications as Newcity and the Chicago Reader, demolishing productions he found wanting in a pithy sentence. He ...

The Scottish playwright David Harrower, whom Chicago theater fans likely will best know for the harrowing 2005 drama “Blackbird,” not that any theater would dare produce that play now, is a famously ...

Tribune theater critic Chris Jones and former Sun-Times theater critic Hedy Weiss were in attendance, as were Chris Henderson, former executive director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, actress ...

Vanessa Severo’s solo show about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is most effective when it’s about Severo’s own journey to ...

Good morning, Chicago. Promising a “fight” to protect all Chicagoans, Mayor Brandon Johnson said yesterday he has not reached out to the White House in the face of Republican President Donald Trump’s ...

Unforgotten is delving back into the past to solve another cold case murder as a sixth season of the show arrives on ITV this ...

"Train Dreams," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, is a beautiful drama that unfortunately muffles much of the dialogue.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Testimony’s ambitious sister. That’s what the late South African Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu ...

What awards has Christopher Gattelli been nominated for? Outstanding Choreographer (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Cher Show, The LaDuca Award for Outstanding Choreography (Drama Desk Awards ...

AFI Awards luncheon kicks off a busy awards weekend in style and it is all chronicled in Pete Hammond's Notes On The Season ...