Based on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” the material is not for all tastes. But none of that detracts from my enthusiasm for ...

"Let me say one thing. Just go see it!" writes. "It’s a fantastic production. Get tickets before it sells out." ...

Sung through in the style of an opera, the musical feels driven by a radiant, pulsing heartbeat that thrums through the ...

When Writers Theatre previously asked Katie Spelman to stage the musical “Once,” the 37-year-old director had a condition. “I want to do the show in thrust with the audience on three sides ...

But when she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, family friend Pierre must push through his existential crisis to ...

A warm, generous "hymn" to the joys of friendship, the show overflows with ideas. Not all of them land, and it lacks the ...

Actor Adrian Lester CBE, is patron of SCRUM theatre, a cooperative of actors and writers which opens in Hammersmith on ...

5-Oct. 27 at Writers Theatre. Dave Malloy’s Tony Award-winning sung-through musical is based on a segment of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” Performances are and 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays ...

Creative Nations, an Indigenous Artists Collective, announced its First Storyteller's Festival, featuring plays and a musical ...

Glen Ellyn. The show opens Sept. 6. $44. (630) 942-4000 or atthemac.org. Writers Theatre presents the Chicago-area premiere of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” the Tony Award ...

Aurora Penepacker stars as Natasha in “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" at Writers Theatre. Liz Lauren Share Theater in Chicago has turned a corner, and not just because of the gradual ...