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‘Blue’ production inspired by Evanston playwright’s health, life journey

May 13, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

At age 13, Skokie native Daniel Noonan says he was diagnosed HIV positive, infected by a blood transfusion he'd received to combat hemophilia. "In the 1980s, it seemed like everyone...

Skokie theater director’s ‘Red Velvet’ on stage at Chicago Shakespeare

December 17, 2018 at 11:53 p.m.

Barely five years out of college, Skokie resident Tyrone Phillips has had the kind of impact on Chicago's "theatrosphere" that usually takes artists a decade or more to make. When...

Skokie theater director gets Chicago Shakespeare experience with ‘Red Velvet’

May 15, 2019 at 5:49 p.m.

Barely five years out of college, Skokie resident Tyrone Phillips has had the kind of impact on Chicago's "theatrosphere" that usually takes artists a decade or more to make. When...

Shout Out: Austin Tichenor

May 11, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.

For six-year Glencoe resident Austin Tichenor, Shakespeare is a way of life. A managing partner of the Reduced Shakespeare Company along with Reed Martin, Tichenor moves from the stage to...

Skokie’s Northlight, two Chicago theatres, lauded for commitment to female playwrights

May 15, 2019 at 5:47 p.m.

Being tapped for an award from the International Centre for Women Playwrights is great, says Northlight Theatre Artistic Director BJ Jones. But more important than winning? "It's that the award...

Comedy makes a killing in Oil Lamp’s ‘Par for the Corpse’

May 23, 2019 at 6:02 p.m.

The circumstances of the mystery genre are classics: A house full of idiosyncratic strangers is stranded way off the grid when suddenly there's both a dead body and — it...

Eighth graders snag roles in Tony-winning musical, ‘Fun Home,’ at Victory Gardens

May 10, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

In Victory Gardens' first locally produced staging of the Tony Award-winning musical, "Fun Home," a pair of young suburban actors are front and center in an ensemble cast that includes...

Big hair, big dreams, big guitar riffs in ‘Rock of Ages’

May 11, 2019 at 4:48 a.m.

Rock snobs love to hate the '80. Many's the professional rock critic who dismisses the era as one of auditory punchlines rather than actual music. Scoff if you will. Those...

‘Momager’ with moxy at the heart of classic ‘Gypsy’

May 10, 2019 at 9:40 p.m.

Mama Rose is the be-all, end-all of stage mothers. Neither the Great Depression nor the death of vaudeville can stop the musical matriarch of "Gypsy" as she pursues showbiz stardom...

From Mongolia to Skokie: How the son of a contortionist landed a role in ‘Moby Dick’

May 15, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

When the monstrous whale Moby Dick engulfs the stage in Lookingglass Theatre's thrilling staging of Herman Melville's seafaring classic, Skokie's Javen Ulambayer is swallowed into the belly of the beast,...

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