Your month in theatergoing might be committed to annual traditions, but here are a few cases for making time for new work, ...

A new evening-length holiday show by South Chicago Dance Theatre founder and director Kia S. Smith is aimed at fostering a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I arrived late to the puppet cabaret, but my friend had kindly saved me a seat. A standing-room crowd filled the larger of two studios housed in an unassuming one-story brick building on Western ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early nineties, I saw Robert Morse in “Tru,” his Tony-winning portrayal of Truman Capote. I remember it being magnificent, but I mostly remember a song played in the show, Louis Armstrong’s “A ...

Red Clay Dance Company’s return to the Dance Center includes a restaging of “Written on the Flesh” by artistic director Vershawn Sanders-Ward and a world premiere by the great Bebe Miller.