How Chicago Theatre Week Builds Audiences for Theatres Big and Small
The event offers $15-30 tickets to more than 100 productions at Chicago theatres, and experts and theatre leaders say it’s putting more (and new) butts in seats.
Category Archives: Great Lakes
Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.
Theatre Nova Announces Inaugural Season Devoted to New Plays
New theatre plans two world premieres and several local premieres, including works by George Brant, Lauren Gunderson and Jonathan Tolins.
TimeLine Theatre Company Slates Another Season of History Plays
The BP oil spill, the Tiananmen Square massacre and the legacy of the Black Power movement are among the inspirations for plays in the theatre’s next season.
Milwaukee Rep Season to Include 3 World Premieres, Ayad Akhtar and ‘Dreamgirls’
The theatre’s 2015–16 seasons spans three stages with a variety of musicals and dramas. World premieres include a new John Denver revue and Joanna Murray-Smith’s ‘American Song.’
Joseph Haj to Succeed Joe Dowling as Guthrie Theater Artistic Director
To replace its longtime a.d., the venerable Minneapolis company taps an actor/director with a wide-ranging—you might even say ‘diverse’—history in U.S. resident theatres.
Kelli Strickland to Replace Megan Wildebour as Hypocrites’ Managing Director
It’s not just the artistic directorship that’s changing hands at the growing Chicago ensemble.
For Its 50th, Children’s Theatre Company Slates Premieres, Collaborations
Adaptations of ‘Akeelah and the Bee,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ and stories by Ezra Jack Keats bring in national and international talents.
Know a Theatre: 16th Street Theater of Berwyn, Ill.
This 49-seat venue in a small suburb west of Chicago serves its neighborhood with new plays at neighborly ticket prices.
Executive Letter for Feb. 2015: L’art pour l’art
As the field faces the uncertain future, might ensemble theatres—with their mix of continuity and adaptability, and their focus on the artistic mission—point the way forward?
The Bourgie Pecking Order Breaks Down in ‘Barbecue Apocalypse’
Matt Lyle’s wild comedy, inspired by a mild real-life social humiliation, throws self-judgment and invidious class comparison on the grill next to the road kill.
