It is a completely new year.  Winter has finally arrived, and in this early part of January, we enter what I like to refer to as The Dark of Winter.  […]

The chart to the right is as always a great place to see what is running this weekend in Chicago.  It isn’t everything that is running, though.  I should point […]

Every year about this time, this happens.  This is the week wherein we start to see holiday offerings.  But, to my surprise, not all the shows starting here in early […]

And… We’re back! After a number of months off for an extended summer vacation, Theatre By Numbers is back to publishing weekly previews and reviews of shows in Chicago.  And […]

We’ve got a chart on here this week that is filled with solid war-horse type shows.  Big companies and small companies alike are tackling works with storied histories or established […]

I have found that being in rehearsal for one show while producing another and reviewing for two media outlets leave no time for breathing.  So… I’m belated in putting up […]

Looking at this week’s chart, you’ll notice that it’s a complete overhaul from the last one that appeared in this space.  That’s partly because I forgot to post the chart […]

Hello!  You may have noticed that there wasn’t a chart or preview last week.  Sorry about that.  There was actually a chart, and one show was rolled on it.  Jackie […]

I’ll be seeing four shows this weekend, and Jackie will take in another.  That’s five shows total.  What’s amazing about that is how last year, when we got started in […]

There are adult actors on Chicago stages tonight who weren’t born yet when “The Simpsons” first hit the airwaves. Why do I mention that factoid?  Read on. As I sat […]