Raven Theatre follows their brilliant “Octet” with another musical, teaming up with About Face to stage this Chicago premiere ...

The intimate festival co-produced by Same Planet Performance Project and Zephyr Dance returns for a third season with a slew ...

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 ...

Arushi Mudgal, a scholar and expert on Odissi, headlines an evening of classical Indian dance as part of the annual performance festival by Mandala South Asian Performing Arts.

One of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan theater events of the year stages its thirteenth edition this month, with mainstays like its annual “Scratch Night,” plus productions from Peru, Argentina and ...

Oak Park Festival Theatre’s producing artistic director Peter Andersen directs this production in Oak Park’s “Secret Garden,” “where the world of the play meets the rhythms of the park.” City Lit ...

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 ...

Playwright, producer, fundraiser extraordinaire, LC Bernadine is a visionary and a doer, a theatrical sparkplug who wills her ideas into concrete results. Her writing and producing achievements—she’s ...

Kokandy turned the musical with a cult following into a breakout hit, and is now taking it from the Chopin Theater to the Broadway Playhouse in a co-production with Broadway in Chicago. Jonathan Eig’s ...

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