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It's just you on a video call with a Court Theatre cast member for a 10-minute monologue. And the actor can see you, too.
Chicago's famed comedy theater Second City is close to a deal that would see it sold to Strauss Zelnick's ZMC.
"NY PopsUp," a spring series of events with the backing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, shows New York's willingness to take small steps to return to live arts. A teachable moment for us.
When should massive festivals like Glastonbury, or Chicago's Lollapalooza, return? How about big weddings? We need to keep in mind there are different ways of looking at those questions.
Sideshow Theatre has announced a 2021 season of virtual readings, its first slate under new artistic director Regina Victor.
Steppenwolf Theatre will bring back "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" as an audio adaptation, based on the book by Erika L. SaÌnchez and once again starring Karen Rodriguez.
The new livestreaming magic show via A Red Orchid Theatre is very persuasive, and even therapeutic in these isolating pandemic times.
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell first danced at HSDC at the invitation of Lou Conte, then spent more than a decade as a principal dancer with Alvin Ailey in New York.
At one time, theater producers thought no one would be interested in solo shows. Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain changed that. Everyone from Gilda Radner to the upcoming "Fillet of Solo" at Lifel…
Captain Tom, the 100-year-old veteran, is best known for his fundraising walks around his garden. But he came to symbolize so much in the COVID-19 moment.
A theater critic, trying to live up to his colleagues, reviews a show in a blizzard only to end up in a dangerous snowdrift. A memory of a fateful night at "Burn the Floor."
Second City founder Bernie Sahlins had some wisdom about staying young " it was on my mind as I watched a new documentary set at the Florida retirement community The Villages.
In Rajiv Joseph's animated new short play, a first grader voiced by Carrie Coon must face down his fear.
Fundraising works better online, and Zoom performances can reach bigger audiences from all over the country, according to a new survey of Chicago arts groups by Gaylord & Dorothy Donnell…
Sideshow Theatre Company adds new collaborators
We have to be spontaneous and organic, letting Chicago artists and street festivals lead the way, and DCASE and the city must with the plans. And soon.
Even after the pandemic has passed and Chicago comedy theaters are back to doing live shows, the popular ComedySportz chain wants to keeps its successful e-shows running.
This new show, livestreamed from Scotland, is on the cutting edge of translating old-school magic into our new online worlds. Worlds where ostensibly we're all connected.
Part of the reason some voters got the wrong sense of who was winning and losing on Election Night may have been in the way TV networks reported votes as if they were sports results.
Don't miss "A Lady's Facade," "Containment" and "These Glass Lives" as the winners of Pegasus Theatre's 34th annual Young Playwrights Festival.
The Scottish illusionist has a new kind of livestreamed show, and has figured out how to project an audience on the walls of his childhood home.
In the final days of 2020, the COVID-19 virus revealed the same disrespect for the calendar as it had previously shown for national boundaries, political affiliations and state lines.
Only a few people got to see "Lazarus," the musical that was Bowie's last artistic creation. Now a video of the London production will stream on the fifth anniversary of his death.
Actress E. Faye Butler is our Chicagoan of the Year for Theater
The second entry in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's virtual season, "Wally World" by Isaac Gomez is an audio play set in a big-box store in the bordertown of El Paso, Texas.
