All theater

Christine Mary Dunford

July 16, 2013

Christine Mary Dunford puts bestseller onstage

Play about living with, not dying from, Alzheimer’s

Theatre students meet Tom Hanks

June 11, 2013

Theatre students take a field trip to the stars

New York excursion takes them backstage on Broadway

Eslanda Robeson

April 23, 2013

Documenting a ‘large, unconventional life’

Researching the eventful life of Eslanda Robeson was journey of discovery for historian Barbara Ransby

Richard Juarez, Trace Hamilton, Quincey Krull

April 16, 2013

UIC Theatre ends season with optimistic classic

“The play has an unmistakenly American spirit of pulling together as a group through hard times.”

Yasen Peyankov directs Mikey Saubert, Quincey Krull and Trace Hamilton

April 15, 2013

UIC Theatre presents ‘The Time of Your Life’

Steppenwolf Theatre’s Yasen Peyankov directs an American classic by William Saroyan.

Luigi Salerni

April 2, 2013

Raising the bar to get ‘dream’ students

Luigi Salerni “has dedicated his life to making his students into his peers,” says a 2008 theatre grad.

Monotone

March 26, 2013

Celebrating Asian American culture

UIC marks Asian American Awareness Month with hip hop, talent shows, plays and a formal dance.

Martha Lavey

March 12, 2013

Keeping theater culture alive at Steppenwolf

Artistic director says the legendary theater company has “a passion to stay together.”

iera Alexander, Chiagoziem Nwakanma, and Jazzlyn Luckett in a scene from "The Bluest Eye"

February 13, 2013

UIC Theatre presents ‘The Bluest Eye’

Adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning novelist’s earliest work examines race, class and the power of beauty.

October 29, 2012

UIC Theatre Presents American Take on Russian Farce

The University of Illinois at Chicago Theatre’s second play of the season is based on “The Suicide,” a Russian satire so sharp that Josef Stalin banned it before even a single performance and exiled its author, Nicolai Erdman, to Siberia.

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