United States Artists, an L.A.-based organization providing direct support to living artists, has included Steppenwolf ensemble member Tina Landau on its 2007 list of USA Fellows, granted to expert artists of all disciplines. Landau will get an unrestricted grant of $50,000. … Victory Gardens Theater begins another series of “Crip Slam Sundays,” a weekly event designed to promote, explore and celebrate disability culture. It kicks off Sunday with a screening of “Body and Soul,” a true story about two friends, one with Down Syndrome, the other with cerebral palsy. … Bohemian Theater Ensemble will transfer its hit production of “Songs for a New World” to the Theatre Building Chicago, where it will reopen Jan. 17. … The 7th annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival is slated to begin Jan. 3, also at the Theatre Building Chicago. … The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis will premiere next summer a new musical based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie.”
