The American theater business and society in general offer plenty of opportunity for criticism of “wokeness” and efforts to satisfy all sides—both in the arts, in other nonprofits and in […]
Chicago musicians Chance the Rapper, Jennifer Hudson, plus legendary producer Quincy Jones, recently opened the renovated Ramova Theatre. The interior’s quaint cityscape-inside-a-building balconies and windows have been restored to usher […]
A Red Orchid Theatre’s newest production Turret is a world premiere written and directed by Levi Holloway, whose recent works have included a Broadway run of his play Grey House, […]
A world premiere by Martin Zimmerman chronicles one of Milwaukee’s least-known historical events: the 1917 bombing of a police department and the subsequent indictment of imprisoned Italian immigrants who were […]
Sammy (Jason Alexander) and Father Michael (Daniel Breaker) sit in a car with binoculars. It’s dark, and they are on a stakeout outside a bar—anxious to find anything they can […]
Four seasoned legal minds – all MSNBC commentators—have joined forces, like a Justice League of all Wonder Women, to discuss America’s pressing legal issues with plenty of fodder in this […]
Chicago’s newest theater, Blue In The Right Way, is staging its inaugural production, Women Beware Women, a half-modernized, half-classical mashup of Thomas Middleton’s original work of the same name, written […]
Paging Ava DuVernay—the Chicago Humanities Festival has two future film ideas for you. On Saturday, April 27, the vibrant cultural series presented two Lincoln Park events to highlight Black excellence […]
It’s the top of the first act. As the lights come down and the guards enter, those familiar with Shakespeare’s famous piece know what is about to happen. The guards […]
Shattered Globe Theatre is snow staging the simultaneously heartbreaking and life-affirming Jump, by Charly Evon Simpson. The play saw its world premiere with PlayMakers Repertory Company in 2019 and made […]
Collaboraction Theatre, which makes social change its mission, has created a powerful film based on the 1955 Mississippi murder of Chicago’s Emmett Till and the subsequent trial of two men […]
I was not exactly expecting Puck and the other fairies when I sat down to watch the new production by the Joffrey Ballet. This Midsummer Night’s Dream is Sweden’s celebration […]