Manual Cinema’s adaptation of Dickens’ Victorian ghost story sees a reluctant Chicago aunt recreating her late husband’s ...

Don’t be surprised if you recognize Charin Alvarez, as her extensive career in Chicago theater and film continues to grow. Alvarez has been acting in Chicago since 1996, and it would be simpler to ...

The founder of Making a Difference Dancing (the M.A.D.D. part of the name) continues to do just that. His twenty-three-year-old organization, founded to disrupt the “school-to-prison pipeline,” has ...

Hubbard Street closes their season with a world premiere by Alvin Ailey artistic director Matthew Rushing, a company premiere by resident artist Aszure Barton, and the reprise of sexy, stylish Bob ...

I remember thinking when the Broadway-bound musical based on Betty Boop was announced that it had genius potential. The character was a widely known brand, and yet most of us knew nothing about that ...

Founded in 1980 as Light Opera Works, Music Theater Works has steadily veered from the operettas that had defined the company. Under the leadership of its fourth artistic director and first producing ...

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 ...

Now in its thirty-first season, Writers Theatre continues its tradition of staging both new works and new interpretations of the classics. Artistic director Braden Abraham says that the Glencoe ...

It was the summer of 1980—the first season for American Players Theatre in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. The company was performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the hilltop stage. William Borth, ...

Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak present the final chapter in a multi-year project exploring the body’s relationship with, response to and resilience in the face of trauma.

It’s 6:30 in the morning, and Jackie Taylor is a bundle of high energy and vibrancy. She greets me with a friendly, “Hi sweetheart!” at the newly built Black Ensemble Theater, a 59,000-square-foot ...