Para.Mar Dance Theatre has long championed the creative power of Latina women, so its fitting that the company's first ever evening-length work, created by founder and artistic director Stephanie ...

Don’t be surprised if you recognize Charin Alvarez, as her extensive career in Chicago theater and film continues to grow. Alvarez has been acting in Chicago since 1996, and it would be simpler to ...

During Peter Andersen’s time as producing artistic director of Oak Park Festival Theatre, the company has seen tremendous growth in audience and artist engagement. Says Andersen, “Audiences have been ...

Chicago stages have been described as petri dishes for talent development, with the city seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or ...

The founder of Making a Difference Dancing (the M.A.D.D. part of the name) continues to do just that. His twenty-three-year-old organization, founded to disrupt the “school-to-prison pipeline,” has ...

The Saints have been a pillar of support for the cultural community for more than forty years, providing volunteer ushers to medium and small performing-arts companies throughout the Chicago area. The ...

Gods give demigods life. So does Margaret Atwood. In Atwood’s retelling of the life of Penelope, the veiled, enigmatic, ever-weaving wife of Odysseus is reborn. In Homer’s “Odyssey,” Penelope is ...

The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has reinvented classic musicals and produced Chicago premieres and new works for fifty years—but they’re not out of surprises. “Our favorite shows,” says Peter ...

I went into “Marie and Rosetta,” a play about gospel and rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, thinking it would be a typical jukebox musical. That’s the kind of play that features the hits by ...

This season marks fifty years since a young group of Highland Park friends formed the storied Chicago performing arts institution, staging some of their first productions in a suburban Catholic school ...

Sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton was named Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second-ever resident artist in 2023 and has been adding gems to the company’s wide-ranging repertoire since. Two of ...

Hubbard Street closes their season with a world premiere by Alvin Ailey artistic director Matthew Rushing, a company premiere by resident artist Aszure Barton, and the reprise of sexy, stylish Bob ...