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 ...

This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary with “Twelfth Night.” Peter Andersen says that ...

History on the Hill The company was started in 1977 by actor Randall Duk Kim, then an actor with Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theatre, along with his friends Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright. They had a ...

For those in Chicago’s dance, performance art, puppetry, experimental and cross-disciplinary performance worlds—pretty much any theater of the non-kitchen-sink variety—the name Links Hall needs no ...

Eclectic is an overused word. But in the case of trumpeter, pianist and composer Terence Blanchard who rose to the top of the jazz world, has composed scores for more than fifty films and more ...

“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 ...

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 ...