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Crap-shootishness is part of the charm of new play festivals, and with six scripts scheduled for readings, this one will necessarily have its share. But host Victory Gardens Theater has clea…
In 2010, when the young actor Corbin Bleu took over the lead role of Usnavi in In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who'd written the show's score and also originated the role, hailed him …
When I first saw the lineup for Porchlight Music Theatre's 2016 season, I thought: Wow! This might be our chance.Â
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In 2010, when the young actor Corbin Bleu took over the lead role of Usnavi in In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who'd written the show's score and also originated the role, hailed him …
A life in the theater, on- or offstage, is so notoriously difficult that it's become romanticized. Young, aspiring actors and crew members expect long hours, late nights, and hard physic…
Since Profiles Theatre abruptly closed its doors nearly a month ago, six days after the Reader published its investigation of alleged abuse and misconduct within the theater, there has be…
The Reader's exposé of Profiles Theatre triggered something in Chicago that one theater-world friend calls "incredibly important""an overdue acknowledgement and fierce repudiation of abuse…
If you want to follow the Profiles Theatre story and all its developments from the very beginning, here, in chronological order, are all the stories and blog posts the Reader has run since J…
In a Tribune article about the closing of Profiles Theatre in the wake of a Reader investigation, reporters Chris Jones and Nina Metz address the theater's use of pseudonyms in previous t…
Darrell W. Cox, coartistic director of the now-closed Profiles Theatre, has denied accusations of abuse leveled against him by former actors and crew members in last week's Reader cover s…
Profiles Theatre has shut down permanently, effective immediately.
Just six days after the Reader published an investigation into alleged abuse at the acclaimed storefront theater,…
Activists calling for a code of conduct in non-Equity theaters have declined to meet with Darrell W. Cox, the actor and artistic director accused of misconduct at Profiles Theatre, unless he…
In a Facebook post published Friday evening, Profiles Theatre artistic director Darrell W. Cox dismisses allegations of workplace abuse documented by the Reader during a yearlong investig…
Penelope Skinner, the British playwright whose 2011 play The Village Bike was scheduled to open at Profiles Theatre in August, has withdrawn the rights to the script after reading this we…
Last night, after reading this week's Reader cover story about alleged abuses at Profiles Theatre, Gaby Labotka, a Chicago actor and director, decided to go to the theater and hand out…
Theater communities in Chicago and across the country reacted swiftly to the publication of this week's Reader cover story""At Profiles Theatre, the drama"and abuse"is real""condemning the a…
Of all the upsetting stories I heard while Aimee Levitt and I were investigating Profiles Theatre, the one that disturbed me the most came not from anyone who'd ever met or allegedly …
For more than 20 years, actors and crew members stayed silent about mistreatment they suffered at the acclaimed storefront theater. Now they're speaking up, hoping to protect workers in non-…
As its title implies, Rebecca Gilman's new play, Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976, is set during the American bicentennial"but its roots are very much in the present day, notably the 20…
1. Cabaret is a landmark. When it opened in 1967 it was arguably the first Broadway hit to deal with subject matter that had been repressed, or at least buried, by the trauma of Wor…
A storm to end all storms, a battle scene to end all battle scenes"both achieved with barely more than some well-deployed tarpaulins.…
Rhinofest, Curious Theatre Branch's fringe theater festival, continues through Sunday, February 28, at Prop Theatr (3502 N. Elston). Now in its 27th year, the fest has departed from its usua…
Presented by Chicago Shakespeare Theater as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago (a yearlong, citywide tribute to the Bard on the 400th anniversary of his shuffling off, mortal-coil-wise), this c…
Grease belongs to the ages. Well, it obviously doesn't belong to Jim Jacobs and the late Warren Casey, who wrote and composed the show that debuted at Chicago's old Kingston Mines in 1971…
The catalog for Shakespeare 400 Chicago is officially out now, both online and in print. As festival producer Doreen Sayegh promised when I talked to her the other day, it is, indeed, possib…
