Willa Taylor News

Theatre industry leaders and editors of “Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity” Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Khalid Y. Long, and DeRon S. Williams will be welcomed to The Understudy for a book signing on Monday, July 31st. The event will run from 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

The League of Chicago Theatres has announced a free Theatre Industry Career Fair at the Mundelein Center for Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University, 1020 W. Sheridan Rd in Chicago.  The event opens with a panel discussion, “Different Journeys through the Performing Arts Landscape” at 1pm followed by a tabling event, including information sessions with Chicago theatre professionals, resume reviews, speed interviews, headshot photography and more from 2pm-5pm.

About Face Theatre announced the recipients of their Leppen Leadership Awards, to be presented at an awards ceremony on May 14.

From Dec. 7-9, Roundabout Theatre Company, with support from The National Endowment for the Arts will host Opening Stage Doors, the first-of-its-kind virtual convening to share tools and innovations in job training, mentorship, and job placement, with the goal of helping remove traditional barriers to off-stage performing-arts jobs.

For this week's Live @ Five, The Goodman Theatre will welcome 'School Girls, Or, the African Mean Girls Play' playwright Jocelyn Bioh and director Lili-Anne Brown!

Be a queen of the dance floor this spring at About Face Theatre's annual gala and Chicago's hottest party: WONKA BALL: Disco Inferno on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 8 pm (VIP cocktail reception and awards ceremony at 7 pm) at Venue West, 221 N. Paulina St. in Chicago.

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (RTE), Chicago's only Equity theatre dedicated to producing new work with women at the core will add four performances to the run The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Lauren Shouse, and featuring RTE Founders Tara Mallen and Keith Kupferer, RTE Member Krystel McNeil, with Tuckie White.  Eight performances have been added to the run, which must close June 2, 2018 at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 5779 N. Ridge Avenue in Chicago. 

The League of Chicago Theatres, Goodman Theatre, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Broadway In Chicago and competition organizer Derrick Sanders announce the three Chicago finalists for the 9th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition: Nia Safro from Chicago High School for the Performing Arts (first place, performed Molly, Joe Turner's Come and Gone); Chisom Chima from Nicholas Senn High School (second place; performed King, King Hedley II); and Evan Simpson from Chicago High School for the Performing Arts (third place, performed Youngblood, Jitney). The top three Chicago finalists were awarded scholarships in the amount of $500, $250 and $100, respectively. The top two winning students will receive expenses paid to travel to New York City for the National Finals, where they will compete on May 7, 2018.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater will host the first of its kind, Intersections Summit, a national convening for community engagement practitioners in regional theaters across the country.

Artistic Director Robert Falls and Executive Director Roche Schulfer announce that Goodman Theatre will expand its Education programming into elementary schools with a $100,000 grant from Disney to bring the "Disney Musicals in Schools" program to the Chicago area.

Goodman Theatre Board of Directors Chair Joan Clifford, Artistic Director Robert Falls and Executive Director Roche Schulfer announce plans to establish the "Alice B. Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement"-a $15 million expansion effort that realizes the theater's 30-year commitment to using its art as education: empowering and inspiring individuals through the process of creating and experiencing live theater.

Goodman Theatre continues its partnership with Chicago Public Library by presenting Stage Chemistry lessons at select branches, as part of each location's ongoing programming. These sessions are a part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's "Summer of Learning" (through August 10), which encourages young people to participate in activities focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM). The Stage Chemistry lessons focus on the physics of lighting in the Goodman's production of The Jungle Book (now through August 18).

Goodman Theatre and Derrick Sanders, in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Music at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the League of Chicago Theatres, American Theater Company, Court Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre and Atlanta's True Colors Theatre Company are proud to announce the finalists of Chicago's August Wilson Monologue Competition. The finalists will deliver their monologues on March 19 at 6pm at Goodman Theatre (170 N. Dearborn); admission is free, and reservations are not required.

Goodman Theatre kicks off the New Year with a slate of panel and round-table discussions to encourage conversation around the productions of the season.

Goodman Theatre kicks off the New Year with a slate of panel and round-table discussions to encourage conversation around the productions of the season.

For the sixth consecutive summer, Goodman Theatre welcomes 86 students from Chicagoland public, private and parochial schools as participants in its General Theater Studies (GTS) program, a free, six-week intensive introduction to the theater arts.

For the sixth consecutive summer, Goodman Theatre welcomes 86 students from Chicagoland public, private and parochial schools as participants in its General Theater Studies (GTS) program, a free, six-week intensive introduction to the theater arts.

Goodman Theatre's program dedicated to shaping theater critics of the future, the 'Cindy Bandle Young Critics' (CBYC) program, named for the Goodman's longtime press director, returns for its third year, engaging 29 11th graders from high schools in Chicago and neighboring Algonquin, Evanston, Hinsdale, Homer Glen, Itasca, Lake Bluff, Northbrook, Oak Lawn, Spring Grove, Westchester and Zion.

From Manischewitz to Matzo balls to the mayhem of High Holidays by Alan Gross, Goodman Theatre's Education and Community Engagement division and Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies join forces for a unique dining event, 'Tasting Tradition: Tales at the Table of Jewish Culture,' on November 23 from 6:30 - 8:30pm at the award-winning Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies facility (610 S Michigan Ave) with floor-to-ceiling views of Grant Park and Lake Michigan.

From Manischewitz to Matzo balls to the mayhem of High Holidays by Alan Gross, Goodman Theatre's Education and Community Engagement division and Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies join forces for a unique dining event, 'Tasting Tradition: Tales at the Table of Jewish Culture,' on November 23 from 6:30 - 8:30pm at the award-winning Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies facility (610 S Michigan Ave) with floor-to-ceiling views of Grant Park and Lake Michigan.