Where Chicago Theatre is Second to None! Welcome to Steadstyle Chicago!  Chicago has long been renowned for its innovations in the arts and architecture.  While it has earned its nickname as the Second City, within the past two decades it has also become one of the most vital and important theatre cities in America.  Our downtown Loop is bustling with over a dozen major venues hosting a wide array of theatre and performing arts.  Broadway in Chicago brings the cream of Broadway plays and musicals to beautiful and historic venues, including the Auditorium, Cadillac Palace, Bank of America and Ford Center Oriental Theatres.  Chicago now hosts four Tony Award winning regional companies.  The Goodman, Steppenwolf and Victory Gardens Theatres all specialize in top quality, nationally recognized work, while the internationally acclaimed Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier draws an eclectic audience to its beautiful courtyard style theatre and superb mountings of Shakespeare and family friendly fare.  Suburban enterprises such as the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and Light Opera Works specialize in presenting the best musicals in the Chicagoland area.  And, of course, the lifeblood of Chicago theatre is the Off Loop storefront companies that constantly introduce the gutsiest, most provocative and edgy work any serious theatre devotee could wish to see.  Read about them all at Steadstyle Chicago, and please visit Theatre in Chicago for complete listings, news, reviews and restaurant recommendations.  This site is intended to be both functional and aesthetically appealing.  You can now click on any photo on the site to get more information on the show!  E-Mail Steadstyle Chicago   See what is playing and what's coming up throughout the Chicagoland area theatres.   Leapin' Lizards!  The renowned Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre has the Broadway musical classic "Annie" onstage in Indianapolis through July 3.  Steadstyle Chicago has the review.   The splendid American Players Theatre celebrates its 30th season with the opening of a brand new indoor performing space (pictured above left) and classic productions ranging from William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" (above right), "The Winter's Tale" and "Henry V," to George Bernard Shaw's "The Philanderer" and Noel Coward's "Hay Fever".  Stay posted to this site for more information on the exciting APT season.   Chicago Reviews 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal Earth: TTFN?! Up Boleros for the Disenchanted Little Brother The Hollow Lands Dead Wrong Snoopy! the Musical Strauss at Midnight The Producers Defying Gravity A Song for Coretta A Tribute to the Black Crooners Follies Hope VI Fifth of July Visiting Mr. Green Fiddler on the Roof A Minister's Wife Evita The K of D: An Urban Legend A Little Night Music City of Angels Third The Ride Down Mount Morgan Bombs Away! Pump Boys and Dinettes Cirque Shanghai The Arabian Nights Graceland Uncle Vanya La Cage aux Folles Spelling Bee Busman's Honeymoon Hedda Gabler The History Boys Mary Poppins Rod Blagojevich Superstar! Jersey Boys Million Dollar Quartet   What's in a Rating? Steadstyle Chicago evaluates every production we cover on a scale of 1 to 4.  The rating serves as a way of measuring the artistic accomplishment of each show as well as advising our readers whether or not to spend your hard earned money for a ticket.  Recognizing that art and theatre are subjective, not everyone will agree on the merits of every show.  These ratings therefore are the critical impression of our reviewers.  We have assigned a unique rating to each production reviewed on this site.  Four drama masks are an indication of outstanding achievement and are highly recommended.  Three masks indicate a producton with many worthy attributes and is recommended.  Two masks indicate a mix of pro's and con's and is somewhat recommended.  One mask indicates a very disappointing production that we do not recommend to our readers.  Archived Reviews