November North Shore Theatre Guide

Northlight Theatre 9501 Skokie Blvd. 847-673-6300 Thursday, November 12 – Sunday, December 20: “Souvenir” Next Theatre 927 Noyes St., Evanston 847-475-1875 Through November 29: “End Days” Writers’ Theatre 325 Tudor Ct., Glencoe 664 Vernon Ave., Glencoe 847-242-6000 Tuesday, November 17 – March 21: “Oh Coward!” Through December 6: “Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead” Cahn Auditorium […]

Billy Elliot: 3 Boys Share a Role in the Award-Winning Musical

When the laurel-laden production “Billy Elliot the Musical” opens in Chicago in March, it will star 3 young boys with astonishing talents. The dancers will alternate in the role, and Broadway in Chicago introduced the trio—and their moms and caretakers—to the press Sept. 10.   The Broadway show, based on the 2000 film about an […]

"Fake" at Steppenwolf: A Play that Gets Real on Evolution and Religion

Has the missing link ever been found? In 1912 a skull supposedly unearthed in Sussex, England seemed to prove that man had evolved from the ape, supporting Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” published more than half a century earlier. That’s the crux of the new, thought-provoking drama “Fake,” which opened at Steppenwolf on Sept. […]