It’s the eighteenth and, sadly, final season for the series of free outdoor professional dance concerts, performing at ...

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 Saints have been a pillar of support for the cultural community for more than forty years, providing volunteer ushers to medium and small performing-arts companies throughout the Chicago area. The ...

Is Chicago theater back? That was the sentiment at photographer Joe Mazza’s studio, where my visit to an icy, dark alleyway led to a doorway leaking warm light and frantic jazz energy. Inside, this ...

The annual international festival of body-forward theater features a sporty, sexy two-man (and one radio) locker room face-off from Argentina; an ode to Nina Simone from Scotland; and an acclaimed ...

It was the summer of 1980—the first season for American Players Theatre in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. The company was performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the hilltop stage. William Borth, ...

One takeaway from Idle Muse Theatre Company’s minimalistic but nonetheless gorgeous production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s late-eighteenth-century comedy is that we are far from being the first ...

In my early days as a journalist I learned a really important lesson from a veteran bulldog journo: not all writers can be journalists and not all journalists can be writers. Only a special few can be ...

American Blues stages this musical play created by Ted Swindley about the pioneer of the Nashville sound whose life was tragically cut short in a plane crash.

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.

When you enter the small, dimly lit Redtwist Theatre for its production of “Agnes of God,” Rose Johnson’s set makes you dizzy. On either end of the black-box theater space are stylized church windows, ...