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- Strawdog is having a benefit on November 19 called The Phone Book, which will feature performances by people you know like SNL's Nora Dunn, Jonathon Berry, Sean Graney, and mem

MPAACT takes on academic politics while Pine Box Theatre skewers electoral politics and the Strange Tree Group puts its own complicated spin on the venerable murder mystery.

Kelly KleimanSolo performers have a hard time finding outlets for their work; African-American solo performers have a doubly hard time.

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.

Do you know about the new show in town addressing the causes and consequences of Chicago's persistent racial segregation? No, not Clybourne Park, though Bruce Norris's Pulitzer prizewinner does so brilliantly.

So here’s good news, and a second thought. Chicago Community Trust has just awarded $50,000 to the Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University to bring in eta Creative Arts, MPAACT and Silk Road Theatre Project. The program is called “One More Night” and

KELLY: What's so terrific about MPAACT's Last Saint on Sugar Hill is its unapologetic approach to its subject.  As I watched this account of a man literally driven mad by greed, and the consequences of that for his two sons, I realized how often African-American-themed p