The all-female company specializing in West African styles makes their evening-length debut with seasonally apropos ...

This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it’s the company’s seventieth season and also its thirtieth ...

Don’t be surprised if you recognize Charin Alvarez, as her extensive career in Chicago theater and film continues to grow. Alvarez has been acting in Chicago since 1996, and it would be simpler to ...

Red Clay Dance Company premieres a multimedia piece by founder Vershawn Sanders-Ward envisioning a utopia for Black women and girls, as part of the MCA’s “Chicago Performs” festival.

Chicago stages have been described as petri dishes for talent development, with the city seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or ...

Sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton was named Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second-ever resident artist in 2023 and has been adding gems to the company’s wide-ranging repertoire since. Two of ...

Now in its thirty-first season, Writers Theatre continues its tradition of staging both new works and new interpretations of the classics. Artistic director Braden Abraham says that the Glencoe ...

In nineteenth-century New Orleans, Congo Square was a place where enslaved and free Africans could gather on Sundays to dance, sing, play music and trade goods. The spot, now part of Louis Armstrong ...

It was the summer of 1980—the first season for American Players Theatre in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. The company was performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the hilltop stage. William Borth, ...

Can storytelling improve the world? Artistic director of 2nd Story, Amanda Delheimer, and interim managing director Lilian Matsuda believe that it can. 2nd Story’s goal is to build more empathetic ...

The American premiere of the British musical “London Road” seems to pull off the impossible. The mesmerizing but highly complex score requires singers and musicians who can manage its intricate ...

Once upon a time back in 1988, Tim Burton made a quirky but charming little movie about a couple who gradually make the discovery that they are deceased and work to learn how to scare away the ...