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SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PMThe touring production comes to Chicago as a free work designed as an intervention to educate people on the HIV epidemic in marginalized communities.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMYou may know Charlique Rolle as Congo Square Theater's executive director. Now she is the new president of the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:46PMPearl Cleage on what it means to have a Chicago festival focused on her work, including "The Nacirema Society" at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMThe playwright and screenwriter said it was important to support small theaters, especially during the Hollywood writer's strike.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMSince Dwight White left Northwestern in 2016, he’s been saying a lot through art centered on the Black experience, melding oil paints and acrylics, sociology and experiential design into s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:42PMCongo Square Theatre's latest production, "How Blood Go," centers on the bias found in the American health care system.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:15PMWe spoke with playwright Christina Anderson and star Christiana Clark about what they want us to see in the work.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMThe nonprofit Make Believe Association asks: Can the people of Chicago come together to save their city and each other in the year 2098?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:36PMCongo Square Theatre and artist Brandon Breaux reach out through art to help the Black community heal from racialized violence.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:07PMThe theater group known for socially conscious work is staging the first-known dramatization of the actual text from the monumental Mississippi case.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:55PMWhen a cat celebrity escapes from O’Hare and is lost on the streets of Chicago, who will come to the rescue? Three youth with disabilities. “When I read the script, I cried because it’…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWalk and listen to "Ghosts of Bloomingdale Trail" at your own pace, using QR codes along the way to hear ghost stories by Chicagoans.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:55AMThe Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation surveyed its performing arts grantees and 27% are unable to welcome audiences in-person, and 16% remain uncertain about returning to the stage th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:30AM'Hummingbird,' a new virtual-reality play designed for younger tech-savvy audiences, debuts at UIC with plans to move to the Goodman Theatre this fall.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMChicago Children's Theatre's "Walkie Talkies" self-guided podcasts are a new way for families to take a walk, release stress and create happy shared family memories until we can be back toge…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMPublic figures and celebrities say they “don’t see color” or they “don’t see race.” But race is something that Northeastern Illinois University is bringing to the forefront with …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:10PMOn an October evening a small crowd of theater-goers get to meet Christopher Boone, the central character of the play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at Steppenwolf …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:20AMWar! What is it good for? In the case of the Poetry Foundation and Manual Cinema’s latest collaboration, it’s good for “Three World War I Poems,” a nine-minute video that commemorate…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:35PM“Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me” is stepping out of the Chase Auditorium in favor of Millennium Park on Thursday for a live show. On this, their 20th anniversary year, host Peter Sagal w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:50PMRemember the “Sesame Street” song that includes the lyrical question: Who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet when you’re walking down the street. The people …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:54PMPoet. Teacher. Mentor. All are words synonymous with Gwendolyn Brooks. Born in Topeka, Kan., in 1917, Brooks made her name as a poet in Chicago. A Bronzeville resident, she grew up writing �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:15PMManual Cinema's space in the Kimball Arts Center is deceiving to an outsider’s eye. The garage/warehouse facade feels reminiscent of a workspace not frequented, but inside, two rooms hold …
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