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.
Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.
Former Raven production manager and artistic producer Cole von Glahn will assume the role of interim managing director at the beginning of May.
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.
This 4-month state-wide celebration of theatrical abundance is already strengthening bonds among artists and audiences, all while keeping the focus on new writing.
The program is currently accepting applications from Chicagoland theatre artists of color, two of whom will receive grants of $10,000.
The new bookstore and café aims to fill a niche for theatre-loving readers, book-loving stage folks, and anyone else who’s been missing a sense of community.
The storefront theatre company, known for producing world and American premieres, will donate all remaining funds to 7 other Chicago nonprofits.
Currently an associate artistic director at the theatre, he will succeed Janet Allen as of July 1.
Stori Ayers and Charly Evon Simpson resigned in solidarity with a performer whose assault they feel was mishandled. That performer says the problem is bigger than a single incident.
Diaz’s play ‘Things With Friends’ will be staged at the 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival.
The inaugural Incubator program members include 9 organizations and 2 artists.