Mary Williamson

Pivot Arts Festival Returns To Edge Theater This June

Pivot Arts, a hub for adventurous, multidisciplinary performance, presents the 2022 Pivot Arts Festival, highlighting artists' resilience and ability to “pivot” during the pandemic to film/video works and creatively structured live events.

The New Coordinates' LOVE IN THE TIME OF JONESTOWN: A Radio Play Streams Beginning Next Month

Sinister and seductive, this brand-new audio experience by Ensemble Member Omer Abbas Salem and directed by Sophiyaa Nayar explores the splendid ache of acceptance and the profound bliss of betrayal. 

The New Coordinates Presents LOVE IN THE TIME OF JONESTOWN �" A Radio Play

The New Coordinates, formerly The New Colony, will launch its 2021-22 season with the world premiere of Love in the Time of Jonestown – A Radio Play, streaming on demand from October 28 – November 21, 2021 at thenewcoordinates.org.

2020 Pivot Arts Festival Goes Virtual, June 5�"30

Pivot Arts, which celebrates adventurous, multidisciplinary performance, is a?oepivotinga?? in the presentation of its eighth annual Pivot Arts Festival, in response to restrictions due to COVID-19. For this year's Festivala?"subtitled a?oeThis is How We Pivota??a?"performances originally scheduled at venues in Chicago's Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods are shifting to online presentations premiering June 5a?"11, with content remaining available through June 30 at pivotarts.org/festival. Live events are postponed to future dates that will be announced.

Nominations Announced for the 47th Annual Non�"Equity Jeff Awards

With the conclusion of the 2019-2020 Chicago non-Equity theater season, the Jeff Awards announced the nominees for the 47th annual awards for theater excellence that include 120 theater artists across 21 categories.

Photo Flash: Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT Opens This Week at Writers Theatre

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night opens this week at Writers Theatre!

Rec Room Arts Brings Ike Holter to Houston Audiences with Regional Premiere of SENDER

Rec Room Arts is thrilled to present SENDER, a raucous new comedy by Chicago-based playwright Ike Holter, recent recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Drama and author of notable works EXIT STRATEGY and HIT THE WALL. In SENDER, Holter utilizes his signature rich, lyrical, rapid-fire language as he presents a millennial-centric, pressure-cooker of a world that's edgy, challenging, socially relevant, and hilarious.

BWW Interview: Playwright/Actress Halley Feiffer on Her Long Titles, Collaborations, & Growing Up Funny

Halley Feiffer's no stranger to the stage with her latest A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT SLOAN-KETTERING MEMORIAL CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY already in previews this first week of September at The Geffen Playhouse. A FUNNY THING..., however, will mark Halley's first time performing in her own work, after her self-described, humbling acting role in the theatre legends-studded THE FRONT PAGE earlier this year on Broadway.

Photo Flash: First Look at Route 66 Theatre's 'A FUNNY THING... NEW YORK CITY'

Route 66 Theatre Company will conclude its ninth season with the Chicago premiere of Halley Feiffer's dark comedy A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT SLOAN-KETTERING MEMORIAL CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY, directed by Keira Fromm, playing now through September 23, 2017 at The Den Theatre's new Bookspan Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. The press opening is tonight, August 29, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!