Chicago magazine • 4th June 2019Where 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 2019A 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 2019How Lili-Anne Brown Found Success As a Director The Pill Hill native makes her Goodman Theatre debut with Lottery Day.
Storefront Rebellion • 21st February 2019SR Digest: This is the dawning of the Year of Chicago Theatre How have you been enjoying the Year of Chicago Theatre so far?
Chicago magazine • 5th February 2019Reviving August Wilson’s Oeuvre, Play by Play Chicago director Ron OJ Parson discusses his close relationship with the late playwright’s work
Chicago magazine • 16th January 2019You Should Know: Sydney Charles She plays the title role in “Nina Simone: Four Women” this month at Northlight Theatre.
Chicago Reader • 5th December 2018From 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.
Chicago magazine • 19th October 2018Hamlet Is the Latest Chicago Shakespeare Theater Role that Didn’t Go to a Local In casting Raúl Esparza as the Bard’s thinky prince, the theater yet again overlooks qualified locals.
Chicago magazine • 10th October 2018E. Faye Butler Lands the Role She Said She’d Sell a Grandkid to Play The seven-time Jeff Award winner portrays the iconic diva Rose in Gypsy, running October 12 to November 25 at Porchlight Music Theatre.
Chicago magazine • 24th September 2018The Civic Playwright Four years into his ambitious seven-play cycle about Chicago, Ike Holter ratchets up the tension.
Chicago magazine • 29th August 2018Jeff Awards Scrap Gender-Binary Acting Categories, Proceed to Nominate Two-Thirds Men The committee announced potential winners of the 2018 Equity Awards earlier this week.
AMERICAN THEATRE • 21st August 2018Theatre’s Silence Breakers Six people who came forward with stories of harassment at the theatre, and where they are now.
Chicago magazine • 10th August 2018The Chicago Choreographer Behind Smashing Pumpkins’ Reunion Tour Ahead of the band’s hometown shows, Jessica Redish talks writing the dance moves that color the set’s backdrop.
TodayTix Insider • 3rd July 2018Everything You Need to Know About Chicago’s Realest Late-Night Show A first-timer’s guide to the Neo-Futurists’ flagship show, The Infinite Wrench.
TodayTix Insider • 28th June 2018‘The View UpStairs’ Revisits a Forgotten Chapter in LGBTQ+ History I talk with writer-composer Max Vernon and director Derek Van Barham about the pop-rock musical, receiving its Chicago premiere at Circle Theatre.
Time Out Chicago • 12th June 2018Here’s what we know about ‘The Cher Show,’ debuting tonight in Chicago Three actors share the title role in the Broadway-bound pop-star biography.
Time Out Chicago • 7th March 2018The Chicago Magic Lounge provides a new home for old tricks The new theater in Andersonville hopes to be a hub for the city’s revitalized sleight-of-hand scene.
Time Out Chicago • 6th March 2018Theo Ubique’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ heralds the end of the No Exit era Theo Ubique bids farewell to its longtime home with a Sondheim switcheroo.
Time Out Chicago • 22nd December 2017The best Chicago theater of 2017 In a year when ‘identity politics’ was a hot topic, much of 2017’s best theater grappled with questions of identity
Time Out Chicago • 5th December 2017Keep smaller, scrappy theater companies in Chicago Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Greta Honold explains why sharing the spotlight is good for Chicago theater.