Tapping into our present-day multiverse zeitgeist, the faux-retro BOOP! now playing in this universe is a darn good musical.

Shostakovich’s absurdist opera marks Maestra Lidiya Yankovskaya’s last time on the rostrum, making it serious business.

A Scottish a capella two-hander visiting through Chicago Shakes’s World Stage series, the seaborne Islander crackles with electricity.

Chances are slim to catch this sterling revival of The Wiz before it lands on Broadway, but the reasons to do so are abundant.

Two classic tales done up in out-there fashion.

For opera lovers who have not experienced Leoš Janáček’s masterpiece in any form, this production presents a prime opportunity.

This holiday season, see Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella again for the first time.

Daryl D. Brooks has brought to Theo an Assassins of dripping sweat, bulging veins, and flying spit. Everyone up there is mad as hell.

Surging Theatricals mounting of The Rocky Horror Show—the original stage show, a rare treat, all things considered—is the same wet ‘n’ wild Walpurgis Night that Richard O’Brien laced up in thigh-high boots and unleashed all those years ago.

‘Young Frankenstein’ at Mercury Theater Chicago; ‘A Wonderful World’ thru Broadway in Chicago; and ‘The Ninth Hour’ at Den Theatre.

Kokandy continues to make the spooky season the most wonderful time of the year, but, in American Psycho, those monsters are real and still very much with us.