It’s the eighteenth and, sadly, final season for the series of free outdoor professional dance concerts, performing 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 ...

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 ...

During Peter Andersen’s time as producing artistic director of Oak Park Festival Theatre, the company has seen tremendous growth in audience and artist engagement. Says Andersen, “Audiences have been ...

The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has reinvented classic musicals and produced Chicago premieres and new works for fifty years—but they’re not out of surprises. “Our favorite shows,” says Peter ...

The Saints have been a pillar of support for the cultural community for more than forty years, providing volunteer ushers to medium and small performing-arts companies throughout the Chicago area. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Playwright, producer, fundraiser extraordinaire, LC Bernadine is a visionary and a doer, a theatrical sparkplug who wills her ideas into concrete results. Her writing and producing achievements—she’s ...

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 ...

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 ...