“Shear Madness” has been like Chicago’s theatrical atomic clock, ticking away steadily and reliably at the Mayfair Theatre in the Blackstone Hotel for 17 years. But on Friday night, the ...

The name immediately sends me strolling down a memory lane that includes shows by the likes of Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell and Stanley Turrentine. Ever since Paul Cebar introduced me to it by ...

is back in Chicago to do double duty as a comedy performer. Besides appearing as a flitty hairdresser in the long-running “Shear Madness” in the Mayfair Theatre of the Blackstone Hotel ...

Mayfair Hotel downtown St. Louis. Photo by TIm Bryant/[email protected] The Chicago-based developer ... the Orpheum Theater and other buildings last fall from businessmen brothers Michael ...