In a rare Harris Theater appearance, the Joffrey Ballet presents new works by two extraordinary women choreographers: a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early nineties, I saw Robert Morse in “Tru,” his Tony-winning portrayal of Truman Capote. I remember it being magnificent, but I mostly remember a song played in the show, Louis Armstrong’s “A ...

I arrived late to the puppet cabaret, but my friend had kindly saved me a seat. A standing-room crowd filled the larger of two studios housed in an unassuming one-story brick building on Western ...

Sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton was named Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second-ever resident artist in 2023 and has been adding gems to the company’s wide-ranging repertoire since. Two of ...

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 ...

This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it’s the company’s seventieth season and also its thirtieth year since it relocated from New York to the Third Coast. With its two-story ...

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 ...

Growing up in the 1960s and seventies, the Titanic disaster was an iconic event that had occurred some fifty years before. Thus, it was still possible to have a personal connection to a survivor’s ...

The eighth edition of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival features more than a dozen productions—many of them world premieres—across more than eleven venues, with work ranging “from ...