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Georgina Escobar reflects on Day 1 of Carnaval 2015.

P. Carl interviews playwright Tanya Saracho on how writing for television has affected her work and life in the theatre.

Guillermo Reyes reflects on the twentieth anniversary of his play, remembers how it was received, and the challenges he came across making it.

Regina García kicks off our week on Designing Women with her thoughts on collaboration, a sustainable life in the theatre, and championing artists. 

Rob Onorato on Steppenwolf Theatre’s production of Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi.

In her latest installation, Morgan Greene rediscovers high school through Albany Park Theater Project’s immersive experience Learning Curve.

The Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee invites you to attend Carnaval 2015, July 23-25 at the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.

The twelve plays to be showcased at Carnaval 2015 are just the tip of the iceberg. The totality of the plays submitted for consideration represents the depth and breadth of artistic ambition within the Latina/o theatremaking community.

The Latina/o Theatre Commons announces the lineup for the 2015 LTC Carnaval of New Latina/o Work, hosted by The Theatre School at DePaul University July 23-25th in Chicago.  

Director Joanie Schultz talks to theatre critics and theatre artists about critic rating systems.

The Artistic and Education Director of Steppenwolf for Young Adults  explores the  choice to program This  Is Modern Art  and the ensuing public and critical debate in  Chicago. 

Native voices week continues! August: Osage County’s Kimberly Guerrero explores her work on the show, and what lesson the American theatre can learn from it.

P. Carl and outgoing artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre, Martha Lavey, in conversation.

Airline Highway is about community. D’Amour focuses the play not on their pain, but on their joy and celebration of a life fully lived, using the “living funeral” as a landscape to highlight her nuanced characters and their complex relationships.

Director Lavina Jadhwani ask three questions, addressing how color-conscious casting impacts the story being told.

Director Lisa DiFranza employs Living Newspapers—an 80-year-old theatrical form that combines theatre and journalism—to share compelling narratives about twenty-first century homelessness in Chicago. 

Based on interviews with local teachers and students about the current educational climate, Forgotten Futures creates space for discussion of the dysfunction plaguing Chicago Public Schools.

Vickie Vértiz writes about Teatro Luna's production of Your Problem with Men

Shakespearean Actor Samuel Taylor shares his insight on how to make Shakespeare theatre more attractive to a contemporary and millennial audience.

Sydney Chatman is the creator and director of The Tofu Chitlin’ Circuit, a community and youth ensemble training collective based in Chicago’s South Side. Before creating TCC, Chatman worked on productions from Chicago to Broadway, while also teaching at the University of Chicago Charter School. When students she once taught as kindergarteners came to her as teens and said, “Can you train and teach me?” she said, “Yes.”

At this historic moment in which it is still quite dangerous to be a black man in the United States, Native Son offers an important provocation. For all the world has changed since 1939, the production asks us to take a good hard look at what has not.