Peninsula Players Names 2023 Scholarship Recipient
Graduating senior Hunter Malvitz, who will receive a $500 scholarship, plans to attend UW-Eau Claire this fall to pursue a BMEd in music education with a choral emphasis.
Category Archives: Great Lakes
Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.
Jerry Zaks to Lead 10 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows at Ten Chimneys
The Tony-winning director will lead a week-long intensive for veteran actors Demetria Joyce Bailey, Anthony Fusco, Blake Hackler, Elizabeth Heflin, Bob Hess, Michael Manuel, Sandra Marquez, Zuhairah McGill, Lawrence Redmond, and Jomar Tagatac.
Rachel Fink Named Managing Director at Cleveland Play House
Fink, who grew up in Northeast Ohio, will join the company this summer after years working in theatre in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.
First Stage Managing Director Betsy Corry to Retire
She has worked with the influential TYA theatre for 18 years.
Jerald Raymond Pierce to Return as American Theatre’s Chicago Editor
A former editor for this magazine from Chicago, Pierce will lead coverage of the Midwest’s great theatre city and its wider impact and influence.
Pillsbury House + Theatre Names Naked Stages Fellows
snem DeSellier, Yoni Light, and Dakota Blankenship will participate in a 7-month development program to provide time, financial support, and mentoring.
Black Arts MKE Announces Theatre Festival Lineup
The 3-week-long event will offer ticketed and free events at various venues throughout Milwaukee this summer.
TCG Selects Chicago for 2024 National Conference
The first in the Windy City since 2010 and the first nationwide TCG gathering since 2022, it will be held in a hybrid format in partnership with the League of Chicago Theatres.
Markie Gray to Step Down as Raven Theatre Managing Director
Former Raven production manager and artistic producer Cole von Glahn will assume the role of interim managing director at the beginning of May.
Theatrical Mustang: Will Wilhelm Lives Out Loud
This month Woodzick talks with Chicago theatremaker Will Wilhelm about taking up more space as a trans non-binary artist, centering gender-imaginative stories in the canon, and finding resilience through the work.
