Pictured above: Actors rehearsing on a stage/Photo: Ruca Souza A friend of mine came into Chicago from out of town and asked me what plays were running while they were…
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Pictured above: (l to r) Rory Zacher, Rob Frankel, Stephanie Mattos, and Myesha-Tiara in Swamp Baby/Photo: Shepsu Aakhu Lauren “LL” Lundy has only been with Chicago theatre mainstay MPAACT since…
Bros do Prose is a creative team composed of founding members Ella Raymont, Christian Libonati, and Omen Sade. Their mission: to create epic works of physical theater with two actors.
Pictured above: (left to right) Matthew Perry Smith and Rich in Williams in The Trolls, by Steven Townshend, part of the PARAGON Festival/Photo: Otherworld Theatre Editor’s Note: This is an expression…
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…
Pictured above: Paloma Nozicka in In The Canyon/Photo: Sarah Lawson CW: Mentions of abortion Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Zach Barr in response to In The Canyon in…
Pictured above: Circular by Laura Shamas received a reading in the 2016 Fall Festival. The two-hander play between one man and one woman in which a young army psychiatrist finds herself…
Pictured above: Errol McLendon, RjW Mays, Kaileigh JaKirra Robinson and Brian Boller during a Breaker workshop at the Prop Thtr/Photo: Jamie Olah I interviewed and followed Jamie Olah over the…
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…
“The show is a ship,” Director and deviser Gina Marie Hayes said. “The director is not the captain, but the cartographer, who sets the map and the course that you’re…