Chicago Magazine • 21st February 2023

Chicago's Rising Stars: Omer Abbas Salem

On a frigid Sunday morning in December, the Goodman Theatre had a full house for a staged reading of Modern Women, a work in progress by actor-turned-playwright Omer Abbas Salem. The piece is a riff on Steel Magnolias, with the setting transferred from Louisiana to Skokie, and Southern belle archetypes remade into Arab and Indian aunties.

Steel Magnolias was among the first plays Salem saw as a student at Hinsdale South High School two decades ago. “It stuck with me because it was a story of pe

Chicago Magazine • 23rd January 2023

Billie Holiday Lives On In Alexis J. Roston

Alexis J. Roston embarks on her second decade of embodying Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.

Chicago Magazine • 1st December 2022

Emerald Visions

Artist Max Guy is off to see the Wizard with his first solo show.

Chicago Magazine • 10th November 2022

The Art of Creative Protest

Court Theatre’s Gabrielle Randle-Bent directs an anti-apartheid play that echoes wider.

Rotary magazine • 1st June 2021

Masterpiece theater [PDF download]

Auctioneer enjoys the deals — and the art

Rotary magazine • 1st May 2021

The Conversation: Sophie Scott [PDF download]

A funny thing happened during this neuroscientist's research: She stumbled on the study of laughter

Rotary magazine • 1st April 2021

Aqua Man [PDF download]

Water expert lends his skills to The Rotary Foundation

Chicago magazine • 3rd March 2020

Brian Balcom Wants Accessible Theater Onstage and Off

The director of Theater Wit’s “Teenage Dick” on creating opportunities for artists with disabilities.

Chicago magazine • 21st February 2020

Jane Byrne’s Cabrini-Green Stunt Gets a Theatrical Treatment at Lookingglass

Three Questions for playwright J. Nicole Brooks about “Her Honor Jane Byrne.”

Chicago magazine • 16th January 2020

“Where Did You Laugh?”

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts talk spousal script reading, being almost famous, and bringing Bug back to Steppenwolf.

Chicago magazine • 7th October 2019

New Auditorium CEO on the Theater’s Rocky Year

Rich Regan talks turnover on the board and filling the Joffrey’s vacancy.

Chicago magazine • 3rd September 2019

Bri Sudia Is So In Demand She Competes Against Herself

Get to know the local actor soon to star in “Oslo” at TimeLine Theatre Company.

Chicago magazine • 11th June 2019

Gina Rodriguez Is Taking On Her Anxiety

The Jane the Virgin star answers some questions ahead of an appearance tonight at the Harris Theater.

Chicago magazine • 13th May 2019

After Moonlight

Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney returns to Chicago — and to acting — for his new Steppenwolf play.

Chicago magazine • 24th April 2019

Hamlet’s on Trial, Kim Foxx Is the Prosecutor, and You’re the Jury

Chicago Humanities Festival artistic director Alison Cuddy discusses the making of Please, Continue (Hamlet).

Chicago magazine • 25th March 2019

How Lili-Anne Brown Found Success As a Director

The Pill Hill native makes her Goodman Theatre debut with Lottery Day.

Chicago magazine • 5th February 2019

Reviving August Wilson’s Oeuvre, Play by Play

Chicago director Ron OJ Parson discusses his close relationship with the late playwright’s work

Sixtysix Magazine • 24th January 2019

Oculus' Peter Bristol Talks Comfortable VR & Adjustable Chandeliers

Bristol’s hyper-diverse CV includes ergonomic Microsoft mice, spider-like lighting fixtures, and the first consumer-available virtual reality system.

Chicago magazine • 16th January 2019

You Should Know: Sydney Charles

She plays the title role in “Nina Simone: Four Women” this month at Northlight Theatre.

Chicago Reader • 5th December 2018

From Hull House to Second City, Ensemble-Made Chicago documents a distinctively democratic way of making theater

A new book by Chloe Johnston and Coya Paz Brownrigg makes a persuasive case that devised performance is in Chicago’s DNA.