Children’s Theater With Bite
A puppet-filled play about a child navigating the COVID pandemic kicks off an initiative by Chicago Children’s Theatre to commission work from diverse writers.
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Take Your Tykes to a Drive-In Play
Illustration: Jeff Rogers When the coronavirus shut down performing arts, Chicago Children’s Theatre was quicker than most grown-up groups to retool its programming. In late March, two weeks after suspending...
See a Steppenwolf Play … Online
K. Todd Freeman (left); Jon Michael Hill (right) Photography: (FREEMAN) COURTESY OF K. TODD FREEMAN; (HILL) COURTESY OF JON MICHAEL HILL A main stage production at Steppenwolf is a significant...
Museums Are Reopening. But Will They Ever Be the Same?
Science and nature exhibits are rife with buttons to press, touchscreens to swipe, and levers to pull — all the high-touch activities we're meant to be avoiding.
Sleight of Screen
Puppeteering powerhouse Manual Cinema celebrates its 10th anniversary with a livestreamed variety show.
Will Chicago Theaters Go Dark for Coronavirus?
In most houses, the show will go on — but that could change quickly.
Brian Balcom Wants Accessible Theater Onstage and Off
Paraplegic since a 1993 spinal cord injury, the 39-year-old director advocates for people with disabilities both onstage and in the audience.
Jane Byrne’s Cabrini-Green Stunt Gets a Theatrical Treatment at Lookingglass
Photo: Johnnyboy Photography J. Nicole Brooks has written a play about female freedom fighters in Liberia and reimagined a Greek tragedy by setting it in Haiti. For her latest, opening...
“Where Did You Laugh?”
Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts talk spousal script reading, being almost famous, and bringing Bug back to Steppenwolf.
Behind the Bar: Molly’s Pub
If you are a regular watcher of Chicago Fire or Chicago P.D., then you are probably familiar with Molly’s Pub, the spot where the firefighters and cops in the shared...