- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 26, 2012
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Eight faves, six stars, and a horror: 2012 in theater
The best productions, beloved artists, and a show more than one Reader writer hated
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 20, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Jackie Taylor, the dramatist"I put my life into this and I don't want it to go when my life goes."
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Alejandro Cerrudo, the dancer"I make you uncomfortable so the contrast is greater."
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Dave Cerda, the performer"I loved camp before I knew it was camp."
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Oct 17, 2012
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Burning down the house
Only the polemics get really hot in The Arsonists
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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Our ten best bets for fall theater
Trainspotting: the play, 44 plays for 44 presidents, and more
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: comedian Brian Babylon
Prince of Bronzeville works both sides of Chicago's color line, from Jokes and Notes to Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: Starinah "Star" Dixon has performance in her blood
Tap dancer attributes her hard-hitting style to being taught by men
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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Our three best bets for fall dance
Skeletons in Imperial Silence: Un Ópera Muerta, painted nudes in Gallim Dance, and Chagall's windows at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: Eric Hoff works the corner of justice and art
The director of Hit the Wall stages The Skriker, promenade-style, at Red Tape Theatre
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Jamil Khoury, the theater activist
'We love the art form, but that's not where we're coming from. It's the desire to impact change.'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Kelly Williams and Dan Abbate, the burlesque producers
'There's so many funny female performers. Now find the funny female performers who are willing to take off their clothes.'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Rick Snyder, the actor's director
'I never kinda said, "I'll be an actor." One thing just kind of led to another.'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Brian Posen, the comedian trainer
'The more I teach, the less I know. The more I dig in, the more I realize I don't know anything about this.'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Phoenix Askani, the sexpot
'I did it because I wanted to and I could'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Nov 3, 2011
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Saved by rock 'n' roll
The Arts of Life Band shows that being developmentally disabled doesn't stand in the way of rocking out
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Oct 13, 2011
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Reminiscence from a reviled theater critic
'If there are still some bad feelings out there after all these years then, damn, you've got to learn to let go'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Oct 13, 2011
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Excerpts from a reviled theater critic's most scathing reviews
Tom Boeker: 'This is a fungus that's festered in the back of the refrigerator for 20 years'
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 15, 2011
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The Reader's Fall Arts Preview
Our advice for navigating a season that offers way too much
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 15, 2011
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Theater of broken plays
"Problem" scripts are a specialty for director Max Truax
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