Circle’s newly renovated lobby (coined “The Velvet Lounge”) serves as the backdrop for a fully immersive experience audiences won’t forget. Travel back in time all the way to 1929, with a lively ...

Ebony Repertory Theatre will present AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', starring Grammy-winner Ledisi and NAACP-winner Chester Gregory, from ...

A decade after doing his first show with The Drama Group, Cordaro Johnson directs “Ain’t Misbehavin’” from Feb. 16 to 25 at Chicago Heights’ Milord Studio Theatre. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16-17 ...

The first Chicago-area production of the Fats Waller revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’” I saw was in 2008 at the Goodman Theatre, co-starring the inimitable E. Faye Butler. By then, Butler had already earned ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Step into another era and enjoy the sounds of an American musical legend as Drury Lane Theatre showcases "Ain't Misbehavin'—The Fats Waller Musical Show," and the director talks about ...

Some jukebox shows include almost all of a songwriter’s canon. Not so “Ain’t Misbehavin,'” given that Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller wrote (or co-wrote) more than 400 songs, even as he became famous as a ...

During the 1920s and '30s, the music of Fats Waller spanned the cultural divide between New York City's swanky downtown nightclubs and uptown Harlem's haunts and dives. Playing the Lied Center for ...

With Memorial Day come and gone and local presenters now on their summer schedules, the number of touring jazz musicians coming through St. Louis definitely takes a noticeable drop at this time of ...

A classic song-and-dance show that’s often dismissed as a frothy revue shows its full force as a carefully constructed piece of deeply affecting musical theater in director/choreographer Jeffrey L.