The 2018 Non-Equity Jeff Award Winners
For the first time, the Jeff Awards have dropped gender from the performance awards, instead nominating double the actors per category. Two awards were handed out each for principal and supporting roles for both musicals and plays.
Chicagoans at the 2018 Tonys: The Performances, Speeches, and Memories
Watch Chicago luminaries’ acceptance speeches and performances from the 2018 Tony Awards.
Congo Square Announces First Sam Roberson Award Recipient
Congo Square Theatre Company has announced that their inaugural “Sam Roberson Artist | Activist: Believe, Conceive, Achieve Award” will go to artist Cassandra Bell. The Sam Roberson Award recognizes a Chicago-based artist who has demonstrated a strong sense of activism, justice, and equity in their work and lives. Bell is being recognized...
Review: HAMLET at The Gift Theatre
…an intriguing production that, due to the wonderful work from Kyri and Fenner, will be one to be examined for years to come.
Review: THE DISPLACED at Haven Theatre
“We Lost Our Lease” is emblazoned across the storefront of one of my favorite thrift stores. As I pass it on my way to The Den to see Isaac Gomez’s THE DISPLACED I can’t help but relive my experiences there. This is – or was – a pre-hipster thrift store: where the prices were determined by who was on the counter that day, rummaging was required, and mysterious smells rose out of boxes only accessible by parkour. Its windows now masked in papers advertising percentages off, the sun-worn name is the wrong kind of vintage in juxtaposition to the new storefronts with shiny signage and logos in primary retro colors. The store’s closure may be an unhappy accident but it also serves as potent proof of the relevancy of gentrification that THE DISPLACED addresses.