Category Archives: Great Lakes

Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.

Ifrah Mansour, Refracting Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes

In her art and in her play ‘How to Have Fun in a Civil War,’ the Somali artist strives to reach past facts and into our emotions.

Carpenter Molly Diers, who resigned last March due to the theatre’s allegedly ‘sexist culture,’ has disputed the city’s ruling.

This bayside company started as a summer theatre, and now boasts year-round programming for audiences of all ages.

Six cultural organizations in the Great Lakes region will partner with artists to create new works.

The playwright talks about growing up the border and his play ‘La Ruta,’ currently running at Steppenwolf Theatre.

The Wisconsin theatre’s 84th season will feature a world premiere play.

Smith, the company’s marketing and development director, will be the first new leader in 61 years.

Inspired as much by the avant-garde as by Golden Age Broadway, this multiple threat has a varied and ever-expanding toolkit.

The ‘Spitfire Grill’ tunesmith is also the co-artistic director of Wisconsin’s Third Avenue Playhouse.

He sees his work as a collaboration with the performers he’s dressing.