Chicago Magazine • 1st March 2022 King James Shows How Sports Help Us Express Ourselves Rajiv Joseph’s new Steppenwolf play views friendship through the lens of fandom.
Chicago Magazine • 2nd December 2021 House Theatre of Chicago Gets a New Artistic Director Lanise Antoine Shelley, House Theatre’s new artistic director, is doing away with boys’-club culture and changing the status quo.
Chicago Magazine • 4th October 2021 Broadway in Chicago Returns in Paradise A new musical about a progressive community in Civil War America debuts at the Nederlander this month before heading to Broadway.
Chicago Magazine • 14th January 2021 Children’s Theater With Bite A puppet-filled play about a child navigating the COVID pandemic kicks off an initiative by Chicago Children’s Theatre to commission work from diverse writers.
Chicago magazine • 11th November 2020 A User’s Guide to Stay-At-Home Holiday Theater Audio plays, Zoom performances, and other ways theater companies are getting creative with their seasonal fare.
Chicago magazine • 22nd September 2020 Take Your Tykes to a Drive-In Play Chicago Children’s Theatre brings “Beatrix Potter and Friends” to an outdoor screen near you.
Chicago magazine • 22nd September 2020 See a Steppenwolf Play … Online The theater pivots to video (and radio, and animation, and…) with its Steppenwolf Now series of virtual productions.
Chicago magazine • 24th July 2020 Theaters Are Dark, But Manual Cinema Works in Shadows Puppeteering powerhouse Manual Cinema celebrates its 10th anniversary with a livestreamed variety show.
Storefront Rebellion • 26th May 2020 Victory Gardens loses an ensemble of playwrights, again Why the theater's board of directors really, really should have seen this coming.
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.
Storefront Rebellion • 31st December 2019 The best Chicago theater of the 2010s As we enter a new decade, I was moved to look back over the one we’re ending, and the maybe-literally thousands of Chicago plays I saw in it.
Storefront Rebellion • 20th September 2019 SR Digest: Why aren’t Chicago playwrights getting more productions? Are we falling down on the job when it comes to promoting our playwrights?
Chicago magazine • 17th September 2019 Fall Culture Guide: Marti Lyons Lyons directs Eleanor Burgess’s “The Niceties” at Writers Theatre.
Storefront Rebellion • 30th August 2019 SR Digest: 18 shows to see in September After a relatively quiet summer theatrically, the 2019–2020 season is here, and September has no chill.
Chicago magazine • 31st July 2019 The Hamilton Exhibition Was Doomed From the Start Producers are closing the exhibit early to avoid congestion during North Coast Music Festival and a Bears game. But Northerly Island was a bad home to begin with.
Chicago magazine • 24th July 2019 Where to See Free Outdoor Theater in Chicago This Summer You don’t need to be indoors to catch a show.
Chicago magazine • 4th June 2019 Where Does Non-Equity Theater Go Next? Last night’s Jeff Awards for nonunion work were a reminder of the complicated circumstances of local companies.
The New York Times • 30th April 2019 A Lost Latino Hotspot Is Reborn on a Chicago Stage Sandra Delgado wrote "La Havana Madrid" to answer her own question: How could a hub of the Spanish-speaking community be so forgotten?
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.
Storefront Rebellion • 21st February 2019 SR Digest: This is the dawning of the Year of Chicago Theatre How have you been enjoying the Year of Chicago Theatre so far?
