Pictured above: Katie Gonzalez, Julian Stroop, Henry Greenberg and Anne Smith in Strawdog Theatre’s recent new work, Masque Macabre, co-directed by Anderson Lawfer with Eli Newell and Janet Howe/Photo: Clark…
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Pictured above: Photo of Melissa DuPrey mid-performance/Photo: Provided by Melissa DuPrey When I sit down with Melissa DuPrey, a modern-day renaissance woman of the arts, I realize this is the…
Pictured above: Promotional image for Fight Night/Photo: Provided by Chicago Shakespeare Theater Editor’s Note: This is a poetic expression in response to Onroerend Goed’s Fight Night. The piece will take…
Pictured above: Free Street Theater’s original 1969 company ensemble/Photo: Provided by Free Street Theater Turn to the news and it’s sometimes unclear what decade we are living in. Racism continues…
When I asked to write about Improvised Dungeons & Dragons at Otherworld Theatre Company, I wasn’t too familiar with the roleplaying game growing up until I got to college and…
Pictured above: Christopher Sylvie, Karen Fort, Zoë Pike and Lyle Mays in Last Days of the Commune by Bertolt Brecht, performed in 2017 at Prop Thtr/Photo: Provided by Prop Thtr…
Pictured above: Carolyn Waldee as Aggie (front) with the cast in the world premiere of Neverland at Prop Thtr/Photo: Beth Rooney Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel…
Pictured above: Capture from Ele Não event/Photo: Egon Schiele “The Trump of the Tropics,” they call him. But really, he’s worse. “Bolsonazi” is another nickname. He’s openly homophobic, misogynistic and…
Pictured above: Joe Johnson, Katie Ruppert and Billy Ferguson in a February Improvised Dungeons & Dragons performance/Photo: Out on a Whim Comedy Facebook page Editor’s Note: This is a D&D…
Pictured above: Christina Renee Jones and Anna Connelly in Cursed: An American Tragedy/Photo by Gracie Meier Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Mike Haverty in response to Cursed: An American…
Pictured above: Paul Brennan, Zoe Pike, Robert Puig and John Francis Klingle in The Uploose Odditorium’s Spookey-Ookey Bash/Photo: Katya Pietruszka Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Shoshana Rice in…
Pictured above: The ensemble of The New Colony’s Fun Harmless Warmachine/Photo: Emily Schwartz Is it overkill to write another op-ed about the state of the union? On one hand, absolutely.…