As spread to Chicago by choreographer Erika Chong Shuch, the program pairs up artists and elders and lets the creativity exchange begin. You could call it a new way of defining "audience."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AMAs presented by Chicago theater company The Roustabouts, this new audio play is about a virus, a liberal community and the present moment. Very scary for your Halloween listening.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:25PMAugust Wilson archive headed home to Pittsburgh
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59AMWhat will happen during this likely locked-down winter? Will we stay on our screens and spend on Big Tech? Or is there hope for local culture, if we try?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMTalking with Teller (of Penn & Teller) about his frequent collaborations with Chicago Shakespeare and what he thinks of magic over Zoom.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMAt the beginning of the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., President Trump kept his earlier bluster in check and outscored Joe Biden. It couldn't last forever, though.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:25AMThe Chicago comedy theater, along with troupes in New York and Los Angeles, are taking applications for an 'SNL' scholarship with the aim to diversify comedy.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:34PMThe Goodman Theatre's powerful staging of Arthur Miller's classic would go on to Broadway and win four Tony Awards. A Showtime film of that production is now available to watch for free thro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:01PMAnalyzing the trajectory of a presidency is not unlike inhabiting a writer’s room at Netflix or HBO. Or reading one's Shakespeare.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMThe theater in Glencoe has a new play with blues music, adds a Christmas play and the digital play "Ride Share."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:26AMAs "Peacebook" turns to video, we get authentic stories set in North Lawndale, a brave account from performance artist Sami Ismat and others, about two hours in all.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:12PMAs a fundraiser for Chicago's Actors Fund, the Goodman will stream the Chicago production that went on to Broadway. Here's how to watch.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMIn a strange year for Broadway, the 2020 Tony Award nominations have been announced. The last theater season was cut short by the pandemic, which forced Broadway to shut down on March 12, le…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29PMWhether they work on stage or screen, actors rely on their unions for health insurance. Those systems rely on a real, live working theater, or Broadway, or on Hollywood movie making. But thi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMThe Broadway star and this year’s recipient of the Chicago theater award sang “The Impossible Dream” from the musical “Man of La Mancha" for healthcare workers and the crowds that ga…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:17PMNo real position but a whole history of judgements. The Neo-Futurists write "45 Plays for America’s First Ladies" for this year's election season.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PMAs founding artistic director, we was at the artistic helm for the theater's very popular successes, including "The Sparrow" and “The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:32PMObituary: Big-hearted actor Bradley Mott of the Chicago theater (March 23, 1956 - Oct. 10, 2020)
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:37PM"The Beatrix Potter Drive-In Theatre Experience" at Chicago Children's Theatre is a blissful escape in a parking lot with some favorite children's stories.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMFounder Charna Halpern is selling her theater, a longtime Chicago home for comedy and improv. The news comes soon after Second City's sale announcement.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:54AMWith Second City up for sale, Chicago could lose a treasured institution. The theater can still be saved, but America's sense of humor — and its basic sense of civility — needs to heal i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMDemocratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence may have dodged questions and gone over time, but the whole proceedings were an improvement over the r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:25AMFollowing an exit by co-owner Andrew Alexander over the summer, the theater is now fully on the market. It's been shut down since March by the pandemic and continues to have expenses.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:36PMThe White House Rose Garden infection fiasco was a test case that showed rapid testing doesn't work as hoped, at least in present form. Chris Jones argues this debacle was bad news for the r…
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:12PMA new City of Chicago program offers grants to Chicago's struggling performing-arts venues, including for-profit operations with bands and DJs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:17PMA planned spring world premiere of Cathy Marston’s “Of Mice and Men” joins the already canceled "Nutcracker." But an emergency fund to support the company has already raised millions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AMYou’re a prestigious arts center in a pandemic. Here’s what not to do: Have a nightclub on your roof called Heist X. This is one of the strangest stories of the COVID arts shutdown.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMWith shouting, anger and calls to "shut up," the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into a bitter showdown in Cleveland, in a nation…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:36AMThe Milwaukee Repertory Theatre has the most ambitious plan in the region to return to live performances, beginning with a holiday show inspired by the Dickens tale.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMFor Jackie Taylor, the founder of the Black Ensemble Theater and a woman who has seen calls for diversity come and go over the years, this moment seems different.
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