Don’t be surprised if you recognize Charin Alvarez, as her extensive career in Chicago theater and film continues to grow. Alvarez has been acting in Chicago since 1996, and it would be simpler to ...

Chicago stages have been described as petri dishes for talent development, with the city seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or ...

The Saints have been a pillar of support for the cultural community for more than forty years, providing volunteer ushers to medium and small performing-arts companies throughout the Chicago area. The ...

The founder of Making a Difference Dancing (the M.A.D.D. part of the name) continues to do just that. His twenty-three-year-old organization, founded to disrupt the “school-to-prison pipeline,” has ...

The sixtieth anniversary of the death of playwright Lorraine Hansberry is the catalyst for the first-ever Court Theatre production of “A Raisin in the Sun.” The Chicago-born Hansberry was the first ...

Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak present the final chapter in a multi-year project exploring the body’s relationship with, response to and resilience in the face of trauma.

The annual international festival of body-forward theater features a sporty, sexy two-man (and one radio) locker room face-off from Argentina; an ode to Nina Simone from Scotland; and an acclaimed ...

Sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton was named Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second-ever resident artist in 2023 and has been adding gems to the company’s wide-ranging repertoire since. Two of ...

Now in its thirty-first season, Writers Theatre continues its tradition of staging both new works and new interpretations of the classics. Artistic director Braden Abraham says that the Glencoe ...

Chances are, if you read this magazine—or any other arts publication in Chicago—you’ve seen William Frederking’s work. Check the caption of an image in any dance section in the last thirty years and ...

It’s 6:30 in the morning, and Jackie Taylor is a bundle of high energy and vibrancy. She greets me with a friendly, “Hi sweetheart!” at the newly built Black Ensemble Theater, a 59,000-square-foot ...

“Constellations” is a play that sneaks up on you. At first, it feels cool and cerebral. Short scenes are repeated, often with different results, demonstrating concepts from physics about string theory ...