Politics and anxiety drive Part One, subtitled “Millennium Approaches,” and Part Two, “Perestroika,” diverges into the ...

Every once in a while, there is a show that blows all of your expectations out of the water, one that sets a new standard for ...

The Seldoms premiered the show in 2023 at the Harris Theater. The production will be remounted July 25 and 26, fittingly, at ...

Chicago stages have been described as petri dishes for talent development, with the city seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or ...

“8-Track: The Sounds of the ’70s” is exactly what it sounds like, a fun, light musical revue directed and choreographed by Jamal Howard that plumbs the breadth of a transformative decade in music. If ...

E. Faye Butler “There’s no community like the Chicago theater community,” says veteran actor, singer and director E. Faye Butler, “and I’ve worked in all of them.” Over forty-five-plus years, Butler ...

“Pippin” was a Broadway hit in 1972. Bob Fosse was the original Broadway director and choreographer. Being a seventies ...

This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary with “Twelfth Night.” Peter Andersen says that Shakespeare in the park as “American as apple pie.” ...

46 Nancy García Loza Playwright Nancy García Loza describes herself as a pocha playwright, a Mexican American writer who draws inspiration from the wealth of stories found in Chicago’s vibrant Mexican ...

Nicole Clarke-Springer and Makeda Crayton Artistic Director and Executive Director, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater It’s been an exciting year for Deeply Rooted; the longstanding African/African American ...

43 Elsa Hiltner Co-Founder, On Our Team As theaters emerge from pandemic shutdowns, there are many conversations about equity in all its forms. Elsa Hiltner is an advocate who, as publicist Jay Kelly ...