An interview with up-and-comer Mikael Burke, director of First Floor Theater's "Hooded, Or Being Black For Dummies" and About Face Theatre's "This Bitter Earth."
The world premiere of Calamity West's generation-spanning epic at Jackalope Theatre is a definitive example of the bold work the company is best known for.
In alternating its two leads between creature and creator, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company leans into their inescapable interrelation.
Strawdog Theatre Company's immersive season opener is a bold choice though one that stops short of creating a communal experience.
At American Blues Theater, Pearl Cleage's stunning historical melodrama remains an essential addendum to the history of American expansion.
Structured as a series of vignettes across a range of contemporary issues, this Midwest premiere at Steep Theatre puts increasing distance between itself and its audience.
This well-intended world premiere from The New Colony feels like another in a long line of excuses for the very people it is trying to hold accountable: men.
The full list of winners at the first ever ALTA Awards.
In recasting the story's lead, Lifeline's world premiere adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel seeks a feminist slant but misses the gender privilege at the core of the original.
Red Tape Theatre sets the bar high for this nascent theater season with a bold production of Young Jean Lee's play directed by Wardell Julius Clark.
Despite women leading the action on stage, this world premiere cannot belie the sense of a dubious start to The House Theatre's all-male-directed season.
Lifeline Theatre's remount of their adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel is inventive in design and powerful in its representation.
Monty Cole's unapologetically irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare's classic at The Gift Theatre focuses on grief instead of madness.
Raven Theatre's production of this Tennessee Williams play obscures rather than clarifies the play's intentions.
This world premiere at Strawdog Theatre Company stalls on its way to comprehending white privilege and supremacy.
Gomez doesn't just ask tough questions. He guides conversation through his writing and activism.
Context is crucial though not enough makes it into this world premiere based on true events at TimeLine Theatre.
Like the best of the horror genre, the newest play from Ike Holter, in its world premiere at Jackalope Theatre, is equal part scares and scathing social commentary.
A rock musical about the crucifixion of Jesus playing at the world-renowned Lyric Opera is surprisingly and astonishingly youthful.
Holter is working to break expectations. He's constantly playing with genre.
In producing this play about prison and societal reintegration, Victory Gardens Theater unconsciously traffics in some of the racial dynamics that prop up the prison system.
Language-heavy, plot-light and emotionally fraught, this world premiere from Philip Dawkins' finds an ideal home at Raven Theatre.
First Folio Theatre's latest channels its Canadian setting and spirit by being faultlessly amendable.
Refuge Theatre Project's practice of staging work in found spaces leads them to this wholesome but saccharine sweet musical from the early aughts.
Firebrand Theatre artistic director Harmony France discusses the second production of their inaugural season, "9 to 5: The Musical."