Theatre

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts just released the 2024-2025 season and it’s fire. From Renée Fleming to a feminist reworking of Dracula to some phenomenal dance and unique magic-meets-performance art pieces, your calendar will …

At the end of Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night, we are left exploring the boundaries between truth and fiction, and, in fact, whether such boundaries exist. The authentically “real” characters and the “fictional” ones are …

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts invites all teachers, school district administrators, and parents who homeschool their kids to visit and learn more about their programming for young people for the 2024-25 academic year. The …

STEAM is all the rage. Combining the magical forces of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics has been a rallying cry in both K-12 and higher education for many moons. All too often, the …

After its 2021 debut on Broadway and subsequent publication, Lynn Nottage’s dark comedy Clyde’s became the most-produced play of the 2022-23 theatre season. All over the country, the play was performed by professional and amateur …

On Thursday, April 18th WILL-TV’s Prairie Fire will air a segment from Deke Weaver’s CETACEAN (The Whale). The show opens with ten minutes of introduction to this unique interdisciplinary and multi-media performance, followed by 50 …

Some musicals feel fresh and new no matter how many times you see them. The excitement of seeing what a different theater, director, designer, and actor may do with a favorite piece is palpable for …

The essence of a good story is its relatability. When you see yourself reflected in the characters and story on stage, that’s the magic of theatre. Of course, with a musical, a great score with …

This week, the Lyric Theatre at Illinois put on a production of Black Square, an opera with music by Ilya Demutsky, and a libretto by Igor Konyukhov and Olga Maslova. The opera is based on …