Kevin Douglas News

Tacoma Musical Playhouse and The Boeing Co. are proud to present the exciting Regional Premiere of the ground-breaking musical, RENT.

There is much fun to be had at a student matinee for the Center Stage Production of 'Around the World in 80 Days.'

The Lookingglass Theatre Company brings Jules Verne's classic 'Around the World in 80 Days' to Baltimore's Center Stage.

For the fifth consecutive summer, Goodman Theatre welcomes young people from the Chicagoland area as participants in its General Theater Studies program (GTS), a free, six week intensive introduction to the theater arts.

For the fifth consecutive summer, Goodman Theatre welcomes young people from the Chicagoland area as participants in its General Theater Studies program (GTS), a free, six week intensive introduction to the theater arts.

Lookingglass Theatre Company announces an added performance to the sold-out run of Thornton Wilder's Our Town to benefit the company's new play initiative, gglassworks. The benefit on Sunday, April 5, 2009, includes a pre-show reception at 6:30 p.m. and performance at 7:30 p.m.

The citizens of Grover's Corners share the ultimate tale of community in this American classic. The Lookingglass Ensemble will infuse the play with a singular chemistry you won't see anywhere else. In the hands of these renowned artists, Thornton Wilder's masterpiece will be disarmingly beautiful, utterly compelling and painfully funny.

Writers? Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce a free public performance of The MLK Project: The Fight for Civil Rights, a one-woman play by Yolanda Androzzo, directed by Kevin Douglas and featuring Tawney Newsome. The performance will be held in conjunction with ?A Day of Service and Inspiration? organized by the Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs and the Volunteer Center of New Trier Township at Wilmette Junior High School, 620 Locust Road, Wilmette, on Monday, January 19, 2009, at 11:00 a.m.

Summer is coming to a close and what better way to get acquainted with this autumn's hot shows than getting a sneak peak at The Greenhouse's Open House! Come preview the fall line-ups of four of Chicago's hottest Off-Loop theater companies and fall back into theater at the Greenhouse Theater, Saturday, September 6 from 4 pm to 6 pm, at The Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.

Today, the Jefferson Awards announced the 150 nominations in 35 categories for Chicago Equity theatrical productions which opened between August 1, 2007 and July 31, 2008. Beginning with this season, the Jeff Awards is acknowledging the work of Large and Midsize theatres in separate categories for productions and technical elements.

Multicultural story theater, with a touch of romance and a large dollop of stage fights, is on display now at the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago...

Schadenfreude - derived from the German noun meaning 'pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others' - has been performing sketch comedy for years. They have headlined the Chicago Improv Festival, performed at Lollapalooza and had their own self-titled radio program on Chicago Public Radio. The troupe has also performed at L.A.'s UCB Theater, HERE Arts in NYC and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kevin Douglas and Inda Craig-Galvan, collectively known as kevINda, have created a smart mix of racial and political satire. Their first revue as a sketch duo, These Coloreds Don't Run, played at Donny's Skybox Theatre in 2003. Since then, the duo has performed at C'est La Vie Drama, the Black Arts Initiative at HotHouse and the Acme Arts Building for Wordplay.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008 Traffic Series with A Celebration of Chicago Sketch Comedy.