Introduction: During these challenging times, I will be sharing a range of ideas, dreams, essays and mostly-true tales stemming from the six decades (so far) of this wonderful career in [...]

A Christmas Carol Dialect Coach, Saren Nofs Snyder answered a few questions on the dialects in A Christmas Carol, for our student study guide. Thanks again to Metropolis School of [...]

This year's A Christmas Carol has some exciting new elements that we are very excited to share with audiences. Projection Designer, Anthony Churchill answered a few questions on what to [...]

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Acting is a strange balancing act. As actors, we’re under constant pressure to remember that, though we’re the only ones on stage, we are never the most important person involved [...]

Stunning, delicate, explosive, intimate, touching, immersive, passionate, funny, lovely - these are the characteristics of live theater and when done well, there is simply no substitute for the immediacy and [...]

I've never really considered myself a "good" theatre person. I honestly don't know many musicals or plays other than the ones I was in or had to read about in [...]

On my thirteenth birthday (it might've been my fourteenth) my girlfriend at the time bought me "B'Way: The American Musical" CD; a compilation of songs from monumental musicals starting with [...]

Chicago has earned a worldwide reputation as the training ground for future comedy stars. While Chicago is renowned as the birthplace of improvisational comedy and has been the training ground [...]

A New Season It’s the time of year when seasons change, both the weather and our theater, and as we open our 2018/19 productions, let’s take a look back to [...]