Columnist: Kerry Reid

THE LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES finalizes its plans for celebrating World Theatre Day – Chicago being the first U.S. city to hold one) on Tuesday, March 27 at the Chicago Cultu...

THE SKOKIE THEATRE HAS BEEN PURCHASED by the Gorilla Tango Theatre, which has been operating on a for-profit basis in an 80-seat black box at 1919 N. Milwaukee in Bucktown since...

SECOND CITY ANNOUNCED their first theater opening outside North America. As first reported February 15 by Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune, the comedy behemoth is joining with...

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, but Chicago’s global theater connections continue to grow. March 27 marks the 50th celebration of World Theatre Day, and John Malkovich (an early St...

STEPPENWOLF THEATRE is physically expanding with the acquisition of the Ethan Allen furniture store next door to their current building on Halsted St. for $6.4 million, as repor...

DAVID GARFINKLE’S FIRST BROADWAY outing provided thrills, chills, and some unfortunate spills. But the Highland Park entertainment lawyer who was the original lead producer on...

They’ve been neighbors in the same building for years, but Profiles Theatre and National Pastime Theater will be widening the physical gap between their companies in the month...

Only six months after accepting the artistic director’s job at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Timothy Douglas has resigned the post. Longtime Remy Bumppo artistic associate Nick...

NEW EDGEWATER HOME FOR RIVENDELL. The ensemble theater, which is now in its 18th year of production (16th year of being an official nonprofit), celebrates its first permanent ho...

WRITERS’ THEATRE in Glencoe has hired none other than Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects to design the new building on the site of the Tudor Court building, which will be r...

GIFT GIVING DOESN’T END with Christmas in the theatre world.  Three companies received well-deserved grants that will be put to good use, starting with the John D. and Ca...

Come January, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) Central Regional office (CRO) will have a familiar face as its new head honcho. Christine Provost, who has been at the CRO for 1...

VICTORY GARDENS THEATER received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, earmarked for their production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, “We Are Proud ...

YEAR’S END always brings accolades in the form of always-welcome grants, and there are three to acknowledge, starting with the generosity of The Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Mei...

The Goodman Theatre’s production of Candide, Chicago Shakespeare’s production of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III, Remy Bumppo’s production of Edward Albee’s T...

STEPPENWOLF PRESENTS its annual “First Look Repertory of New Work,” with three developmental productions – Christina Anderson’s Man in Love, Zayd Dohrn’s Want, and Car...

STAGE 773 SHOWED OFF its newly renovated space on Sunday, Oct. 16 – and also gained two resident companies for the year. Congo Square Theatre Company, which lost its venue at ...

The name “Maryann Ziesch” may not immediately register. But as Maryann Kohler-Drake, she spent over ten high-profile years as a film, television, and theater agent for Stewa...

SANDRA DELGADO RECEIVES THE $15,000 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship from the William and Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group. Delgado, a longtime member...