SMOKEY JOE’s CAFÉ is playing at the Royal George Cabaret, 1641 North Halsted. The show was just extended to June 30 by popular demand. It is no wonder why. They have also just received 5 Jeff Nominations. Way to go. This is a musical featuring the songs of Rock’N Roll pioneers – Jerry Leiber and [...]

Maid In Chicago:  Lottery Lady Lands “Vera Stark” Role At The Goodman By DeShong Perry-Smitherman Chicago’s own Tamberla Perry stars in the title role in the new Goodman stage play By The Way, Meet Vera Stark. But before her talents could help sell out major stages, before her teeth were “NeNe Leakes perfect”, even before [...]

The smooth sounds from the band filled the Black Ensemble Theater as the audience anxiously waited to see the spectacular performance of From Doo Wop to Hip Hop, written and directed by Black Ensemble Theater Founder and CEO Jackie Taylor and Associate Director Rueben Echoles. Let’s take a walk through Unison Hills where everyone is [...]

By Nicole Rhoden Chicago Dramatists Theater’s current production, Southbridge, is inspired by a true, tragic tale set in 1881 in Athens, Ohio, when a young African-American man named Christopher C. Davis was accused of the brutal murder of a White woman. The most recent endeavor of Dramatists resident playwright and author Reginald Edmund, Southbridge, directed [...]