Farewell to a Chicago Director’s Haven
As Haven Theatre closes its doors after 10 years in the city, it takes with it an initiative that has helped foster 7 cohorts of emerging directors.
Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.
As Haven Theatre closes its doors after 10 years in the city, it takes with it an initiative that has helped foster 7 cohorts of emerging directors.
Somewhere between the earth and the stars, tradition and experimentation, La MaMa and the Met Opera, he keeps exploring his art form’s possibilities.
Leak succeeds Andrew Hungerford, who has stepped away from the theatre after 10 years.
In this month’s Chicago newsletter, theatremakers Jillian Leff and Joel Willison share what inspires them and the American Theatre team invites you to join us for a special event in the city.
In Know Theatre’s new show, Cloud Cult’s 2010 concept album becomes an interstellar family drama set somewhere between Ohio and Proxima Centauri.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s world premiere play about a Black political dynasty is the latest in Steppenwolf’s lineage of explosive work crafted around their acting ensemble.
The traveling workshop series for local TNB2S+ artists begins with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in May and Steppenwolf Theatre in July.
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.
From an instant connection at a workshop to world premiere productions, the creative duo’s working relationship has continued to blossom over the years.
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?