After graduation, Alston traveled to Guinea to continue her drum and dance studies at Les Merveilles de Guinée, then moved to ...

The eighth edition of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival features work ranging “from movement-driven ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sought-after choreographer Aszure Barton was named Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second-ever resident artist in 2023 and has been adding gems to the company’s wide-ranging repertoire since. Two of ...

For centuries, lighting designers have been integral to bringing stories to life on stage, playing a noble role as an artist who avoids the spotlight to illuminate others. You know good lighting ...

Red Clay Dance Company premieres a multimedia piece by founder Vershawn Sanders-Ward envisioning a utopia for Black women and girls, as part of the MCA’s “Chicago Performs” festival.

The Saints have been a pillar of support for the cultural community for more than forty years, providing volunteer ushers to medium and small performing-arts companies throughout the Chicago area. The ...

This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it’s the company’s seventieth season and also its thirtieth year since it relocated from New York to the Third Coast. With its two-story ...

It was the summer of 1980—the first season for American Players Theatre in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. The company was performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the hilltop stage. William Borth, ...

The founder of Making a Difference Dancing (the M.A.D.D. part of the name) continues to do just that. His twenty-three-year-old organization, founded to disrupt the “school-to-prison pipeline,” has ...