Great Lakes

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

Chicago Dramatists Adjusts to a New Generation

The company announces a new mission as well as its 2016-17 resident playwrights.

The season will feature the return of a holiday favorite and Matthew Lopez’s ‘The Whipping Man.’

The Akron theatre is closing its doors after 17 seasons.

The Latino theatre will debut new plays by Mando Alvarado, Ike Holter, and Sandra Delgado.

Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Emilio Rodriguez, and Zoe Sarnak will take part in the incubator’s first year.

The Oakland native receives the inaugural fellowship for artistic leadership.

First Stage, New Visions/New Voices, Imagination Stage, and more are staging original stories for young audiences.

The director, who receives the Alan Schneider Director Award at #TCG16, talks about her self-starting career and artistic restlessness.

The season will feature the return of an audience favorite, and two additional plays about the LGBT experience.

The storefront is shuttered six days after a Chicago Reader exposé detailed decades of alleged mistreatment by director Darrell Cox.