Theatre

SAIC Alum John Boesche on his collaboration with Remy Bumppo Theater Company

A Letter From the Entertainment Editor

Chicago's Porchlight Music Theatre celebrates the long history of ‘Cabaret.’

Alumnus Javier Carmona (BFA 1994) talks photography, acting, SAIC, and how to measure time.

In "Lysistrata Jones," Refuge Theatre puts on a sad excuse for an empowering female piece.

Porchlight's casting misstep is only one in a series of racially irresponsible production mistakes on national stages.

Lookingglass Theatre's production of "Thaddeus and Slocum" asks audiences to face the problems facing actors of color in theater, then and now.

Local favorites the Neo-Futurists host a "micro-festival" that's not small at all.

Was it planned for a long time or an act of depression? Was Yamout acting out against his default role of a leader because he wanted to be an anarchist?

Elana Cooper, 2012 MFA graduate in FVNMA, has written and produced "The Weight of a Real Woman," which addresses the issues of four diverse personalities, each battle their own demons; that ultimately reveal the weight of their character and "The Weight Of A Real Woman."

I love that moment when the lights come up and we see each other face to face as nothing more than people.

The Lost Boys meet the American dream in a new Chicago play that relies on stereotype in order to critique it.

Of Murakami’s six collected stories, Steppenwolf’s After the Quake blends “Super-frog Saves Tokyo” and “Honey Pie” into a one-act play where one’s imagination can keep a disaster resonating long after it’s over.

Sure to be a hot ticket Steppenwolf Theater Company's world premier production of Lost Land opens April 10. Actually, it already is a hot ticket. When F News went to press, an employee at the box office said the play is 99 percent sold out. Lost Land is written by Stephen Jeffrey and directed by Terry Johnson and stars the well-known actor, John Malkovich.

The UFO of human feelings: a hardly believable phenomenon where you not only have hot pants for one another but every worldly care is forgotten