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Relationships and 'yes, and' guide HMS Media's approach to filming live shows.
If COVID-19 hadn't shuttered all the theaters in town about a month ago, Scott Sil…
The Chicago-based company brings laughter and levity to a stressful time.
Quiplash. Zeeple Dome.…
The author and comedian shares her techniques while also bringing people together with a daily livestream.
I purchased How to Be Alone sometime last year when my…
Chicago Symphony Orchestra institutes across the board cuts in musicians and staff salaries.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association announced today that its …
A new bilingual podcast puts a microphone to the local Latinx community.
Everyone has a podcast. Even your dog has a podcast.…
Arts for Illinois offers short-term assistance. Will it have long-term implications for funding?
It came in waves last month. At first, we had a trickle of annou…
Dancers figure out how to create in isolation.
Dances are made in time and space, a minute or an hour in a dancer's life never to be seen again. Dances do not la…
Major performing arts organizations recalibrate for COVID-19.
After the crushing decision last month to cancel its long-awaited Ring Cycle, Lyric Opera today ann…
The Quarantine Times is virtually helping folks keep their cool.
Over the last few weeks, I've been overwhelmed with the creativity of Chicagoans spreading news,…
How canceled BFA and MFA shows are persisting during the COVID crisis.
It's been more than a week since the shelter-in-place order was given.…
Departing president Gary Johnson talks about going digital in a pandemic.
At this outlier moment in our history, every story is about coronavirus"even last week'…
Hubbard Street's management blames COVID-19, but Conte and others raise questions.
A studio, in its essence, is nothing more than an empty room.…
The best online options for enjoying theater from local, national, and international companies
I'm compiling this list of online theater options on World Theatre…
From Warp! to Re-Animator, Gordon told the stories he wanted to see his way.
When current mystery novelist and former Reader theater critic Lenny Kleinfeld (aka …
Here's a reminder of what the theater community has done in the last five years.
Dear Chicago Theater Community, This was not an easy article to write.…
Her show at Steppenwolf is off for now, but the 'difficult' SNL vet still has plenty to say.
Two weeks ago, Saturday Night Live alum and west-side native Nora Du…
Steven Strafford's solo remains honest and hilarious, even through a screen.
Steven Strafford was supposed to be live onstage at Berwyn's 16th Street Theater thi…
Here's how DIY face masks can help our local hospitals
Not only is Illinois facing a shortage of surgical masks and respirators, so is the entire world. Bulk pur…
Theater Wit's production about a disabled schemer carries on online.
I spend more evenings than most people in the dark with other people, watching yet other peo…
Americans for the Arts wants you to speak up, now.
The federal government's getting ready to unleash a flood of coronavirus relief cash, much of which will, as u…
How soon is "too soon" when you're living through it?
I'm in a great position going into indefinite isolation, because I get to read jokes, like this one from M…
Cameron Esposito looks back on her defining moments in the memoir Save Yourself.
Comedian Cameron Esposito has never shied away from talking about her personal l…
Tennessee Williams's oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L'Acadie.
"Having the necessary arrogance to assume that a failed production of …
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit offers an illuminating look at casual hookups.
A global pandemic isn't the best time to be hooking up with random strangers, so…
A solo show about the man behind Bull Moose stands alone.
By the time I had the opportunity to see Derek Evans's 75-minute solo biographical lecture enactment, T…
