Chicago’s Collaboraction Launches Mental Health PSA Effort
While theatres remain dark, the company has started Call Time to advocate for mental wellness support for theatre workers.
Category Archives: Great Lakes
Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.
Theater Latté Da Announces the Ghostlight Series
The Minneapolis company will present five virtual cabarets in 2021.
What Can Still Be Taught During COVID: Bodies, Voices, Dramaturgy
Deprived of regular, full-face in-person interaction, high school theatre students at Interlochen Center for the Arts have expanded other creative capacities.
Renaissance Theaterworks Moves Season Online
The virtual season will include short plays, including works by Lynn Nottage, José Rivera, and Alayna Jacqueline.
Jon Carr Named Executive Producer of Second City
Carr will leave Atlanta’s Dad’s Garage for a move to Chicago to lead all three of Second City’s locations.
Detroit Public Theatre Names Dominique Morisseau Exec Artistic Producer
The Detroit native, a founding board member of the company, has joined the leadership team.
Quarantine, Ventilate, Be Ready to Quit: In-Person Theatre in the Time of COVID
Recent stagings of ‘Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!’ showed the possibility—and stringent protocols—of pandemic-era live theatre.
Masked and Raging, Ohio Students Make a ‘Spring Awakening’
How Baldwin Wallace University turned a ‘Totally Fucked’ year into an opportunity to film a virtual production of the rock musical.
Drury Lane Takes Home 8 Equity Jeff Awards
Drury Lane, Windy City Playhouse, Court Theatre, and Mercury Theater all received best production awards for plays and musical produced during the pandemic-shortened season.
A Red Orchid Names Travis Knight, Sadieh Rifai to Artistic Positions
Knight will serve as associate artistic director, while Rifai will work as artistic development coordinator.
