The Don't-Miss List: Second City on Chicago History, Twyla Tharp and an 'Opus'

Jan. 5, 2012
Kelly KleimanStarting tonight (Thursday the 5th), the Gift Theatre will present Ten, a collection of ten ten-minute plays written to celebrate the theater's tenth anniversary by no-slouch playwrights including David Rabe, Eric Bogosian and Stephen Adly Guir

Theater on the Lake brings in new artistic directors

Dec. 20, 2011
An almost-end-of-the-year press release from the Chicago Park District—the kind that often is lost or buried—has announced a most interesting change in the artistic structure of Theater on the Lake, the annual Lincoln Park summer theater program which will be 60 years old in 2012.For quite a few yea

Director Si Osborne: Playing it on the fly

Jul. 6, 2011

Dueling Critics take the 'Northwest Highway'

Jun. 10, 2011