Effective immediately, eta Creative Arts Foundation co-founder and president Abena Joan Brown will step down. Former Development Director Phillip Thomas has assumed the role of chief executive. Ms.

Now is the time for all good theaters to thank their stars they don’t own their own buildings.  (Most of them don't, at least.)  Why?  Because if I were Mayor Emanuel I’d be doing what municipalities and states around the country are doing: looking at whether the proper

A lucky 13 years ago, playwright Eve Ensler decided she would permit groups around the world to conduct Valentine’s Day performances of her seminal (ovarian?) feminist work The Vagina Monologues, provided they used the proceeds to combat violence against women.  The demand was so great

The life of Joyce Sloane, who died Thursday night at the age of 80, reads like a one-woman history of the Chicago theater renaissance.  The Producer Emeritus of Second City also co-founded Victory Gardens Theater, the League of Chicago Theaters and the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee. 

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

Some people called the Chicago theater of the early ‘70s “rock ‘n’ roll,” some called it “scratch ‘n’ sniff.”

(Photo courtesy of 16th Street Theater/Anthony Aicardi) 16th Street Theater has opened its 2011 season with "The Beats," an amazing adaptation of the words, particularly the poems, of the Beat Generation.