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 • 10th November 2022 The Art of Creative Protest Court Theatre’s Gabrielle Randle-Bent directs an anti-apartheid play that echoes wider.
Chicago Magazine • 20th September 2022 Fall Guide: Reflect on Segregation in Steppenwolf’s <em>1919</em> I spoke to playwright J. Nicole Brooks about her stage adaptation of Eve L. Ewing's poetry collection 1919 as part of Chicago magazine's fall culture guide.
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.