Porchlight’s LITTLE ME Leaves a Big Impression
Porchlight Music Theatre’s three-night-only concert staging of the 1962 Broadway musical LITTLE ME as part of its Porchlight Revisits series is every bit as effervescent as a glass of champagne—and it’s certainly an evening of theater worth toasting.
Cole, Morton, Mahoney, Letts, Landau Highlight Steppenwolf’s 17/18 Season
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro and Executive Director David Schmitz announced today the 2017/18 Season.
Yale Awards Ike Holter $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize
Yale University announced today that Chicago playwright Ike Holter (HIT THE WALL, EXIT STRATEGY, THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE BLOCK) is one of eight recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes for “literary achievement or promise.” The Windham-Campbell Prizes were founded in 2013 by novelist Donald Windham in memory of...
BEST OF BRI-KO Takes Audience Participation a Step Too Far
Upon exiting Stage 773’s THE BEST OF BRI-KO it was unsettling to have to check that I was not tracking mushed lettuce into the carpeted lobby. This vegetable was just one of many unlikely props wielded by three actors as they explored status and relationship in this hour-long silent sketch show.
Neo-Futurists Name Late Night Show
Pictured: Audience featuring Kurt Chiang. Photo by Evan Hanover. The Neo-Futurists in Chicago, along with the New York and the San Francisco companies, have announced the new name of their late night shows, following founder Greg Allen’s revocation of the trademark license for Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind last November. The...
Porchlight Music Theatre Announces 17/18 Season
Michael Weber, artistic director of Porchlight Music Theatre, is proud to announce Porchlight Music Theatre’s 2017 – 2018 season which includes mainstage production of BILLY ELLIOT, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG and MEMPHIS and the continuation of Porchlight Revisits and New Faces Sing Broadway. Porchlight Mainstage and Porchlight Revisits productions take...
Lookingglass Announces 30th Season and Featured Casting
Ensemble Member David Schwimmer will return to direct a Kevin Douglas’ world premiere comedy PLANTATION!
New Colony’s SCAPEGOAT Has Its Cast and Production Team
The New Colony has announced the cast and production team for the world premiere of Connor McNamara’s SCAPEGOAT; OR (WHY THE DEVIL ALWAYS LOVED US).
Spiel Chicago Episode Fourteen: Loose Chicks (Roberta Miles and Holly Beaudry)
SPIEL CHICAGO is a bi-weekly podcast that explores the progressive and thoughtful work of women in Chicago theater.
THE COLUMNIST Struggles to Engage
Joseph Alsop (Philip Earl Johnson), our journalist protagonist, as a character draws similarities to Kushner’s’ Roy Cohn, but is not pathetically endearing or despicably hypocritical or even conflicted enough to hold the fascination that Kushner’s’ depiction of Roy creates. There is little urgency for this character and nothing particularly captivating about him.