Theater
5 months
ago
Barbara Gaines
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater artistic director, 72, on the Bard, fear, and past lives
5 months
ago
Bruce Norris on His New Play about Paroled Sex Offenders
The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright dishes on Downstate, which he set in southern Illinois. It runs at Steppenwolf September 20 through November 4.
6 months
ago
Jeff Awards Scrap Gender-Binary Acting Categories, Proceed to Nominate Two-Thirds Men
The committee announced potential winners of the 2018 Equity Awards earlier this week.
7 months
ago
A Support Group, for Men. Stay With Us Now.
A new play at the Goodman imagines a hopeful model for masculinity.
7 months
ago
Stacy Keach Returns to the Stage
The actor heads back to the Goodman to finish what he started.
10 months
ago
The Yard Tackles High School Shootings on Stage
The youth theater company hits Steppenwolf’s stage with a timely play.
10 months
ago
Rainn Wilson Shares Some of His Influences
Before he was on The Office, the actor was finding inspiration in Chekhov and punk rock. The former New Trier student is back for a Steppenwolf play.
11 months
ago
Court Theatre Holds Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner up to the Light
“To sit with the piece in a live setting is to become unsettled that these conversations are still so relevant.”
11 months
ago
Why Stacy Osei-Kuffour Put a Hanged Man on Stage
The Glenwood native’s world premiere upends the lynching-story stereotype.
12 months
ago
