Pictured above: (L to R) Christopher Acevedo, Jaq Seifert and Kathleen Ruhl in Sagittarius Ponderosa/Photo: Jan Ellen Graves The intimate black box of Piven Theatre Workshop was aglow with excitement…
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Pictured above: Team Scapi Magazine after completing an escape room at Escape Artistry/Photo: Melissa Schlesinger Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you know that escape rooms…
Pictured above: Ada Cheng meeting with fans at Women and Children First Bookstore/Photo: Given by Ada Cheng When I first noticed Ada Cheng, I was sitting inside one of the…
Above Picture from Robyn Lambird’s Instagram When YouTube first became popular, it was mainly used to post random, silly videos that you hoped would go viral (remember Charlie Bit My Finger?).…
Pictured above: Matthew Romriell in Red Noses at Northern Illinois University/Photo: David Booth This is the third installment in a five-part series entitled “Building Consent Culture,” which defines and explores…
Pictured above: Andi Aguilar, Jenny Munson, and Olivia Moeschet in the audience of Karaoke Storytellers/Photo: Ken Czechanski One night, a few years ago, Connor Gorman accompanied some coworkers to Brando’s Speakeasy…
Pictured above: Cassie Bowers performs Arcana Obscura at Nightfall: A Birthday Party/Photo: Danielle Levsky I—a Very Large Cynic and Professional Rejector of All Things I Deem PigeonHoling (my astrological sign, BuzzFeed…
Pictured above: The finished scarves that were made for the ensemble members of (the)forget_me\knot/Photo: Dr. Betsy DeCourcy-Wernette Denise Yvette Serna, a theater practitioner and arts activist based in Chicago, was inspired…
Pictured above: Meera Syal as Zehrunisa in Behind the Beautiful Forevers/Photo: Variety Playwrights love to give voice to the voiceless. But does it always work in practice? To investigate this question,…
Pictured above: (L to R) Amanda Giles, Joey Harbert, Erik Pearson, Eric Loughlin, Elleon Dobias, Mike Mazzocca, T.J. Anderson, Sarah Beth Tanner, Kelan M. Smith, Melanie Vitaterna, Josiah Robinson and…
Pictured above: Installation at Pop Magic Productions’ first birthday party Nightfall/Photo: Aliza Feder Founded on June 1, 2017, Pop Magic Productions celebrated its very first birthday June 2: Nightfall: A…
Pictured above: María (Steph Vondell) and Lola (Allyce Carryn Torres) escaping the flood/Photo: Anthony Aicardi When I was little, I use to run around a massive backyard catching fireflies with…