Nancy Maes

Prop: Wind machine Appearing in: "The Dresser," Steppenwolf Theatre Company When Shakespeare's King Lear is in an onstage storm, sophisticated sound equipment creates the effect of wind blowing. But high-tech...

Prop: George W. Bush doll in flight suit Appearing in: "W!," Theater Wit When Tom Mula wrote the book for the musical satire "W!" he wasn't worried about including a...

Hicham Chami was 8 years old when he started learning the qanun, a Mideastern zitherlike instrument with 75 strings, at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in his native...

Prop: Wooden boxes Appearing in: Performances by The Boxmen Japanese men who have no place to live, find shelter in cardboard boxes in Tokyo's subway. In a nod to these...

Walkabout Theater Company's "The Unembarrassed Mind" features some unusual characters, including Queen Victoria, explorer Richard Burton and wife Lady Isabel Burton, and bawdy shadow puppets. For music, director Stephan Mazurek...

Prop: Marionette puppets. Appearing in: "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World" tells the true story of three musically-challenged sisters forced by their blue-collar father...

Children's Penny Cinema Series You can't beat the price of tickets: For just a cent, you can see one of more than a dozen movies about the African-American experience at...

Organized by the Chicago Park District, the highly popular Movies in the Park (June 8 through Aug. 28) offers more than 90 free screenings under the stars in green spaces...

Prop: Giant tulip Appearing in: "The Alchemy of Tulips" Joseph Ravens, founder of Ravenous Productions, created "The Alchemy of Tulips" around the theme of transformation: of his perception of tulips,...

When you're rehabbing, the Chicago Center of Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento Blvd., operated by the city's Department of Environment, has a wealth of ideas for building "green." Not only...