New Lookingglass show remembers the quick and the dead

Jun. 19, 2012
Eastland wishes to be an elegy and not an exclamation point, an ache rather than a terrible wound, and at this it is highly successful.

How to enter a room: Kevin Douglas in Lookingglass's 'Mr. Rickey'

Jan. 25, 2012
What’s his secret? Kevin Douglas, 37, plays a bellhop 20 years his junior—very believably—in Lookingglass Theatre’s Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting.

Rick Bayless does theater with Lookingglass

Sep. 20, 2011
Lookingglass Theatre, winner of the 2011 Tony Award as Outstanding Regional Theatre, will experiment with a dinner theater policy for a limited run, next March 23-April 22.It won’t be your suburban grandmother’s dinner theater, however.

Daily Rehearsal: Tim J. MacMillan bikes for theater

Aug. 8, 2011
1. Playright Tim J. MacMillan is biking from New York City to Chicago to raise money for his play Soul mates don't die.

Morning Rehearsal: Chicago theater 5/3

May. 3, 2011
1. Did you hear? Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre has won the 2011 Tony Award for Excellence in Regional Theatre, Onstage/Backstage's Jonathan Abarbanel reports. The Lookingglass is the fifth Chicago Off-Loop troupe to win this award.

Morning Rehearsal: Chicago Theater 4/20

Apr. 20, 2011
1. The Madness of George III, written by British playwright Alan Bennett (he won a Tony for The History Boys), just started it's run at the Shakespeare Theater.

Despite rumors, Pegasus still flying

Dec. 15, 2010
Venerable Pegasus Players has left its home of 25 years, the O’Rourke Theater of Truman College, but the troupe is not abandoning the Uptown neighborhood.

Peter Pan's Matt Hawkins takes flight

Dec. 9, 2010
A word to the wise from Matt Hawkins: To fly, first suspend disbelief. With your rediscovered courage (or stupidity), push yourself. The movement director of Lookingglass Theatre’s “Peter Pan (A Play)” says he spent the show’s first two workshop days teaching the actors “to play, and play hard.