Pictured above: The photo used for the first DIY theater and performance article I wrote, with Anna Rose Ii-Epstein, Jamie Newell, and Caroline Wright in Nothing Without a Company’s Punk…
Posts tagged as “social justice”
Pictured above: Free Street Theater’s Youth Ensemble and Company/Photo: Provided by Free Street Theater Though Free Street Theater has been rooted in Chicago for nearly 50 years, their programs and…
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: 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…
Photo by Quinn Dombrowski For those not following police funding in Chicago, there has been a push by local activists against a proposed police academy in Garfield Park. This year’s 4th…
Pictured above: Heather Jencks and Silvita Diaz in Nanay/Photo: Giau Minh Truong/Design: Lani T. Montreal When Lani Montreal speaks, she is at once educator, mother, cancer survivor, playwright and DIY theater…