Afro-surrealist opera, two Jazz Age tales and a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney are among April’s top productions to see.

Para.Mar Dance Theatre honors Chilean diplomat, poet and first Latin American Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral with 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ducking in and out of a dense flurry of snow, I jump onto a bus heading downtown. Anxiously looking down at my watch, I wonder if I will be late. The first arrival of a protracted snow presses into ...

I went into “Marie and Rosetta,” a play about gospel and rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, thinking it would be a typical jukebox musical. That’s the kind of play that features the hits by ...

A play in prose by a poet, written nearly ninety years ago at the precipice of world fascism, about the most famous death of the Middle Ages, “Murder in the Cathedral” was one of T.S. Eliot’s earliest ...