When drama teachers gather once a year in New York City, they’re reminded that theater isn’t fluff; it’s quite possibly the center of the academic universe. The fight unfolds like this: Woman slaps ...

Softly and musically, but sadly and longingly… So read the stage directions appended to one of Marchbanks' lines in George Bernard Shaw's Candida. Good grief—how is an actor expected to deal with that ...

Not many directors could helm a blockbuster stage adaptation of a hit film starring George Clooney, the Broadway transfer of a dark and quirky musical about a Dead Outlaw, and an off-Broadway ...

Have you been following the Urinetown lawsuits? Last year, a suit was filed by members of the creative team of the musical's original 2001 Broadway staging against a Chicago production that the ...

Sharks rarely swarm onto theater stages. But darned if some Great Whites (or approximations thereof) haven't torpedoed their way into the delightfully irreverent stunt occupying the Arlene and Robert ...

Seeing two male actors kissing onstage is not all that common, despite social/sexual liberation. Scripter-thesp L. Trey Wilson offers a highly entertaining look at the tensions, both comical and ...

The curtain goes up at Chicago theaters long before the house lights begin to dim. The action starts on the Internet, where the League of Chicago Theatres is center stage with a Web site ...