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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cuban-born Victor Alexander was trained at the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana. As director of the Ruth Page School of Dance, Alexander’s leadership embraces diverse cultures as a ...

For centuries, lighting designers have been integral to bringing stories to life on stage, playing a noble role as an artist who avoids the spotlight to illuminate others. You know good lighting ...

In the nineteenth century, Shakespearean burlesques were in vogue, with productions of “Hamlet the Dainty” and “Julius Sneezer” holding a mirror to working-class conflict and the absurdities of human ...