A new evening-length holiday show by South Chicago Dance Theatre founder and director Kia S. Smith is aimed at fostering a ...

Your month in theatergoing might be committed to annual traditions, but here are a few cases for making time for new work, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Red Clay Dance Company’s return to the Dance Center includes a restaging of “Written on the Flesh” by artistic director Vershawn Sanders-Ward and a world premiere by the great Bebe Miller.

For some artists, recognition flares up for a hot season or two when they seem everywhere all at once, but then their sparkle burns off. Then there are folks like Ron OJ Parson. His brilliance sneaks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...