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

Choose your own ending: The new theater trend?

Jan. 31, 2011
Once, after a dose of a mind-altering drug, I spent hours passing the white silk of a hammock over my palm again and again, trying to ascertain whether the array of colors appearing in the interstices were real or an hallucination.  I was never able to resolve the question to my satisfaction