After Long Wait, Goodman Bringing Cheryl L. West’s “Fannie” to the Stage
One year after nearly 2,000 audience members flocked to nine Chicago Parks to experience the power of American civil rights
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Author: Oscar Peterson
Steppenwolf Theatre Announces Slate of Artists for Loft Teen Arts Program
e Company has announced the final artists selected for its Loft Teen Arts Project. The visual art competition provides commissions of $1,500-$2,500 to young Chicagoland artists for original new artworks to be displayed in The Loft—Steppenwolf’s first-ever dedicated education space that encompasses the entire fourth floor of its trailblazing new Arts and Education Center, designed by world-renowned architect Gordon Gill of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
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Goodman to Present Zulema to a Chicago Park Near You
Goodman Theatre invites you to bring the whole family to your neighborhood Chicago park for Zulema—Grammy Award-nominated Sones de México Ensemble’s electrifying new work with Music Director Victor Pichardo, written by Dolores Díaz and co-directed by Goodman Theatre’s Resident Artistic Associate Henry Godinezand Marcela Muñoz, Aguijon Theater Co-Artistic Director.
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Hyde Park Art Center to Present The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa
Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, will present The Metamorphosis of Gabriel Villa and a related virtual artist talk. This major new solo exhibition introduces the Chicago artist’s new direction in installation and clay sculpture created during his 2018-19 Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Art Center, along with a selection of his earlier paintings. Curated by Allison Peters Quinn, Hyde Park Art Center Director of Exhibition & Residency Programs, the exhibition—which is available for in-person viewing—runs through July 17, 2021.
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Artemisia’s World Premeire Goods Wins Two Kennedy Center Awards
Lauren Ferebee’s new play Goods, a sci-fi adventure about two intergalactic trash collectors receiving the 2021 Planet Earth Arts Playwrighting Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The new play received its virtual world premiere May 5 and runs through May 30 via Chicago’s Artemisia Theatre.
The Planet Earth Arts Playwriting Award, created in partnership with the Planet Earth Arts Foundation, is given to plays that discuss sustainability and address the most urgent environmental and social justice issues of our time through the lens of arts and human creativity
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Goodman Theatre Teams with Michael Cotey on #Enough to Take on the Scourge of Gun Violence
As one of Chicago’s world-renowned cultural institutions, the Goodman Theatre is committed to the development of a more just and equitable Chicago. Key to this commitment has been the growth of the Goodman’s Educational and Engagement outreach programs. These programs seek to use the art and tools of theater to develop generational learning and understanding of the city’s diverse cultures and voices.
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COVID-19 Closures Pause Chicago’s 2019/20 Cultural Season
Virtually all of Chicago’s stages, concert halls and museums went dark almost simultaneously last week when Governor Jim Pritzker announced state-wide closures of non-essential businesses in an effort to stem the tide of COVID-19 infection rates in Illinois. Programming for the 2019-2020 cultural season came to a screeching halt and audiences typically accustomed to an ocean of wildly diverse performance opportunities found themselves in isolation with mandatory stay-at-home orders from the state.
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Risky Business
Acclaimed stage director Daryl Cloran brings an unlikely paring of The Beatles and The Bard to Chicago in his hit
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