Sol Invictus (Harris Theater) November 14 Contemporary juggernaut Compagnie Hervé Koubi makes its Chicago debut with a ...

TimeLine begins its first full season at its new home, Kokandy brings "Jekyll & Hyde" to a bigger stage and more.

Autumn commences each year with this month-long series of the best Chicago modern dance has to offer. This year’s lineup includes two dozen companies and individual artists, along with flash mobs, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 annual international festival of body-forward theater features a sporty, sexy two-man (and one radio) locker room face-off from Argentina; an ode to Nina Simone from Scotland; and an acclaimed ...

Is Chicago theater back? That was the sentiment at photographer Joe Mazza’s studio, where my visit to an icy, dark alleyway led to a doorway leaking warm light and frantic jazz energy. Inside, this ...

Ducking in and out of a dense flurry of snow, I jump onto a bus heading downtown. Anxiously looking down at my watch, I wonder if I will be late. The first arrival of a protracted snow presses into ...