21 stories by "Katie Powers"
Fat Theatre Project makes an exuberant debut with The InterPlays, an anthology of short plays celebrating and untangling the enigma of love. Founded by Eileen Tull in early 2024, Fat The…
An attic is a blank canvas for artistic expression and endless imagination in the Impostors Theatre Company's Footholds Vol. 5. This is the fifth installment of the annual anthology seri…
Invictus Theatre Company's production of Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog is gripping from start to finish. Since being abandoned by their parents as teens, brothers Lincoln (Mikha'el Amin…
From 1969 to 1973, a Chicago-based organization known by the code name "Jane" brought safe and accessible abortions to more than 10,000 women. Paula Kamen's Jane: Abortion and the Undergroun…
In the world premiere of MIA: Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?, writer and director Mary Bonnett uses interviews and research to illuminate the crisis of missing young women in the Unite…
In the musical stage adaptation of Mo Willems's Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (book by Willems and Mr. Warburton, music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, and lyrics by Willems), a down-on-his-…
After earning rave reviews during its Chicago premiere last year, Matthew Lombardo's provocative take on a holiday classic makes a triumphant return to Theater Wit. Who's Holiday follows a n…
In Cat McKay's queer comedy Plaid as Hell, Cass (Reagan James) hopes that a weekend away in the Wisconsin woods will be a fitting opportunity for her best friend Emilie […]
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What is an artist's relationship to their art? The complexities of that question form the central story in Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco's Tebas Land, now appearing under the dir…
The Chicago Children's Theatre's 18th season kicks off with Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster, an innovative production from the Emmy Award-winning multimedia performance c…
The Chicago premiere of David Alex's sociopolitical drama ENDS, directed by Davette J. Franklin, follows two men who represent conflicting visions of life in America. Set in 1967, the story …
The Chicago premiere of British playwright Chris Woodley's Tommy on Top, now playing at Pride Arts Center, is a witty farce that elevates crucial questions about representation and authentic…
In the Chicago premiere of Sarah Treem's When We Were Young and Unafraid with AstonRep, a group of multitudinous women navigate domesticity, violence, and identity in a cultural landscape th…
The virtual exhibit reached beyond Chicago to battleground states in the upcoming election.
In planning for its 2020 season, Weinberg/Newton Gallery owner and ex…
This year's virtual festival of plays breaks through our global isolation.
When Patrizia Acerra founded the International Voices Project in 2010, she sought to c…
D.C. Fidler's drama about the lingering psychic wounds of war makes its local debut with Ohio-based None Too Fragile Theatre.
Two soldiers of different generatio…
A daughter struggles to reconnect with her estranged activist father in Dominique Morisseau's drama.
Nina (Jazzma Pryor) and her estranged father, Kenyatta (Marc…
A young woman struggles with heartbreak and disconnection.
L M Feldman's Grace, or the Art of Climbing is a character-driven exploration of the world of competit…
It also offers a sharp critique of the British political system.
When W. Somerset Maugham's British war drama For Services Rendered premiered in 1932, it offered…
We can't worry about odd couple roommates until we know how much danger they're in.
Below the Belt, written by Richard Dresser and presented by Hundo4u Productio…
When Almanya Narula enrolled in graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she wanted to find a way to bring her passions for journalism and theater together to tell stor…
