From Chicago, Contraction and Expansion
This month, theatres are still making tough programming choices as they look hopefully toward growing into the future, plus thoughts from Willow James and Tiffany Keane Schaefer.
Category Archives: On the Scene
Into the ‘Babble Lab’ With Autumn Ness
A new Dada-influenced work from this longtime Children’s Theatre Company member explores the intersection of sound and language.
Life Imitates Art in Hampshire High’s Contested Staging of ‘The Prom’
First it was cancelled, then it wasn’t, then the students couldn’t talk about it. Now that the show actually went on, it’s worth asking: Were this school district’s precautions about safety or silencing?
TCG’s 2024 Gala: Telling ‘Our Stories’ of Lives in the Theatre
This year’s event recognized several vital industry changemakers and raised approximately $200,000 in support of TCG’s mission to lead for a just and thriving theatre ecology.
Jennifer Morrison Realizes a Childhood Dream
The film and television actor talks returning to Chicago, acting training, and tackling Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’ at the Goodman.
On the D.C. Street Where You Live: The H Street Oral History Project
A multi-year community-based project led by Mosaic Theater Company and local director Psalmayene 24 culminates with 3 new plays.
From Chicago, the Infectiousness of Joy
This month, we look at joy as a candle in the darkness and hear from artists Yao Nana Dogbe and Michelle Renee Bester.
Katy Sullivan’s Changeable, Charming, Deadly ‘Richard III’
Director Edward Hall and actor Katy Sullivan discuss the unique qualities that the Paralympian brings to one of Shakespeare’s iconic roles.
How 2 Iranian American Directors Translate Sanaz Toossi’s ‘English’
Arya Shahi and Naghmeh Samini are staging the Pulitzer-winning play about an Iranian language class at the Old Globe and ArtsWest, respectively.
Where We Are and Where We’ve Been: ‘Tad in 5th City’
As Chicago’s MPAACT remounts ‘Tad in 5th City,’ which first ran in 2010, its content finds new and continuing resonances within the Chicago community.
