On Q With the Folks Behind “Sophisticated Ladies”
byPorchlight Music Theatre’s production of Sophisticated Ladies will make your heart sing. The swing music of Duke Ellington makes great theater. One music critic…
Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of Sophisticated Ladies will make your heart sing. The swing music of Duke Ellington makes great theater. One music critic…
Let’s take a walk down memory lane during the Harlem Renaissance days, when Black performers like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, the dancing Nicholas Brothers,…
The next time you hear a comedian spit a four-letter word from the stage, you may want to consider thanking Lenny Bruce for the…
In junior high, Kayla Davion decided she wanted to be an R&B artist, but didn’t get passionate about it until she was heading to…
These days when most animation is computer-generated, the imaginary world of a child is slowly disappearing. The Chicago Children Theatre’s (CCT) Founding Artistic Director…
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Ah, tis the season for the puncturing of flesh by razor sharp vampire fangs and the resulting blood-letting. Let if flow, let it flow,…
Court Theatre continues its 64th season with the groundbreaking play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, written by Ntozake Shange…
It’s been 25 years since rapper, producer, singer, entrepreneur, actor, TV game show host, football coach, and weed enthusiast Snoop Dogg released his debut…
Ilesa Duncan is the executive/artistic director at Pegasus Theatre Chicago. Her recent directing work there includes the Jeff-Recommended, sold-out Shakin the Mess Outta Misery,…
Lifelong artist Morris Gearring began his career from the most humble beginnings in Gary, Indiana. Literally making something out of nothing to put on…
Last chance to catch Dr. Ricardo Rosenkranz’s popular magic show, The Rosenkranz Mysteries: Physician Magician, whose run at the Royal George Theater ends this…