Oracle Productions Closes After 11 Years
Oracle has been a champion of “public access theater” for the past 6 years, in which all tickets are free.
Spiel Chicago Episode 12: Not In Our House
In June of 2015, actress Lori Myers heard–for the fourth time in two months–a story from yet another colleague about extreme abuses of power in the Chicago theater community. Frustrated, she posted a now infamous Facebook post asking, “If your friend, sister, daughter, or co-worker was working under a sexual predator—what would you do about it?”
15 Years of Making Bedford Falls ‘WONDERFUL’
An inside look at what makes American Blues Theater’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE IN CHICAGO! keep ringing after 15 years.
Inside PSYCHONAUT LIBRARIANS Part One: Welcome to PSY LI
I would like to share this story with you. And if that title isn’t enough to grab you, let me try a little harder.
Race and Representation Among Decision-Makers in Chicago Theater
Diversity on Chicago’s stages has been the hot button issue in 2016. But, as Lavina Jadhwani observes, “Casting is the symptom, not the root problem.”
Alison Vesely, Artistic Director of First Folio Theatre, Passes Away at 59
Vesely directed over forty productions at the Oak Brook-based institution she founded in 1997 with her surviving husband, David Rice.
Hamilton Shows Its Power to Pence – 8 Thoughts
VIEW FROM THE MEZZANINE PerformInk Publisher Jason Epperson’s take on the business and life of producing theater. In case you missed it … Vice-President Elect Mike Pence was booed before Friday night’s Broadway performance of HAMILTON by the audience. During several moments relevant to our current political discourse, the actors...
Attendance down, Contributions up According to TCG
With fewer people buying tickets, theaters are cutting play development and investing in education.
Integrating the Unthinkable: How to Respond to Election 2016
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
-Toni Morrison
Spiel Chicago Episode Ten: Iris Sowlat
SPIEL CHICAGO is a bi-weekly podcast that explores the progressive and thoughtful work of women in Chicago theatre.