by Sharon Hoyer | February 3, 2026Milestones: The Joffrey Ballet Celebrates Seventy with a Tribute to American Dance The spring program honors American choreographers; appropriate for a ballet company that made its name touring the United States while pushing the boundaries of classicism in dance. Newcity spoke with Joffrey artistic director Ashley Wheater about the program.
by Charles Kenney | January 28, 2026A Long Marriage: Jeff Perry on Steppenwolf Theatre’s Fiftieth Anniversary and His Return for “The Dance of Death” “The Dance of Death” serves as a middle point of the fiftieth-anniversary season and is “a strain of work Steppenwolf has always been drawn to”—turn-of-the-century dramas which “feel absolutely contemporary.”
by Mary Wisniewski | October 6, 2025Masi Asare Launches a Workshop for Writing Musicals at Northwestern The university’s American Music Theatre Project will debut the Chicago Musical Theater Writers Workshop, offering instruction and support in musical theater writing for local writers and composers.
by Robert Eric Shoemaker | September 15, 2025Chicago’s New Golden Age of Magic A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.
by Sharon Hoyer | September 10, 2025A Force Of Movement: The Joffrey Ballet’s Seventy Years of Pushing Boundaries
by Mary Wisniewski | September 3, 2025Susan Booth on the Goodman Theatre’s Quintessentially Chicago “Ashland Avenue”
by Carl Kozlowski | August 4, 2025Not Your Regular Poetry Reading: A Profile of “Giggle Hour” at The Lincoln Lodge
by Mary Wisniewski | July 25, 2025The Ghost in the Barbershop: Gavin Dillon Lawrence on “The Death of Chuck Brown” at American Players Theatre
by Mary Wisniewski | June 25, 2025As American as Apple Pie: Oak Park Festival Theatre Celebrates Its Fiftieth Anniversary
by Robert Eric Shoemaker | June 12, 2025“What Risk There Is In the World”: Revising “An Iliad” at Court Theatre
by Dennis Polkow | June 9, 2025Heartbreak and Hilarity: How Composer Jeanine Tesori Makes Works “Sing” Across Genres
