Chicago Fire FC announced today that the Club has acquired goalkeeper Connor Sparrow. He is under contract with the Fire for the 2020 MLS season with contract options for the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce that tickets for the North American tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s critically-acclaimed production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY, directed by Bartlett Sher, will go on sale Friday, January 17.  Lerner & Lowe’s MY FAIR LADY will play Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph) from March 24 – April 12, 2020.

Starring Drama Desk-Nominee Orlagh Cassidy, Production to Run Three Weeks Only through Feb. 15

GFour Productions, producers of MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL® and Tony-nominated FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, today announced that they will present their new play MIDDLETOWN® at The Apollo Theater from February 27 - March 22, 2020.

Nationally, TSA set new record for guns caught at airport checkpoints in 2019

On December 23rd, Munster Police responded to the parking lot of Munster Tobacco & Hookah (7950 Calumet) for a report of “shots fired.”

"Best of Enemies" by Mark St. Germain, based on "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson at STUDIO 217; 217 S Michigan, South Bend through January 26th.

North Township Trustee Frank Mrvan shares this Commentary which first appeared in the Chicago Tribune with all of us. Let us celebrate Dr. King—the man, the minister, and the humanitarian. Let us be inspired by the words and life of Dr. King.

*** Recommended *** After a couple of weeks off for the holidays, I look forward to the Young Playwrights Festival which is almost always the first theatrical opening of the year.  This is the 33rd year of the annual event sponsored by Pegasus Theatre Chicago.     This is a chance to see the future of Chicago theater – maybe the future of American theater.  If you go, you’ll see three very different plays written by two outstanding high school students, and a third who graduated and started college in the meantime.  I always gain valuable insight about the things on kids’ minds today. 3 Spotlights. 

*** Recommended *** My first reaction after seeing “Dance Nation” was a qualified ‘interesting’.  I just didn’t understand why adults were cast as tweens. However, the more I thought about it, the more it dawned on me.  Tween angst is real!  Some of the things that tweens are dealing with – things like fitting in, being bullied, zits, weight, menstruation, problems at home – are so embarrassing a young actor might have difficulty even voicing them.  The Steppenwolf cast – adults of all ages – are well able to access those angst-y memories of tween-hood.  “Dance Nation” was more than interesting, it was quirky, intense and insightful.  3 Spotlights