If you’ve been around the Chicago theater scene, you’ve likely heard the name Ike Holter — typically followed by heaps of praise.  Holter, a DePaul graduate and celebrated playwright, rose to...

Every weekend since 1988, a group of performers in Andersonville, Chicago, step onto a small stage and race against the clock to perform 30 original plays in 60 minutes. That show, called “The Infinite...

The book-lined walls of Malliway Bros. Magic and Witchcraft lead directly to the register where Lucas Lona stands helping patrons and organizing inventory. Spellbooks, candles and crystals fill the shelves...

Musical theater is the most you’ll be immersed in any art form. Thanks to the variety of the music, complementary production design and emotional storytelling, you can feel any kind of emotion when watching...

As Chicago drag king Peeper Johnson sprints down the alley between tables full of spectators, the brothers of Sigma Lambda Beta, clad in their letterman jackets, beam and cheer. Earlier this month,...

Cosplayers and con-goers crowd the queue line in front of giant red letters reading “C2E2” in McCormick Place on April 11. X-Men Gambit and Rogue chat with a Jedi and a hobbit, Sonic the Hedgehog adjusts...

At a packed Park West in Lincoln Park on March 20, the room positively hums. Nearly every seat is full as attendees await an unconventional act: a fully improvised musical. As Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna...

A crowd of theater students and enthusiasts buzzed in DePaul’s Student Center in Lincoln Park on Feb. 20, 2025. Streaks of green and pink clothing stood out against the tan walls of the building with...

If you venture to the depths of the Daley Building downtown on Tuesday evenings, you’ll find DePaul’s Directors for Actors club rehearsing, just past the hall of film posters and inside the auditorium. The...

While a movie or photograph can be physically kept until the end of time, the experience of live theater can never be replicated. No matter the show, that performance you watch live will never be recreated...

Dean Corrin, an associate dean at The Theatre School, has been teaching at the school for 32 years. “For a lot of us who have been here for a long time, in addition to the emotion and excitement of...

Moody shoegaze bands, plush monkeys strapped to remote controlled cars and countless raving college students — all of this and more invaded Chicago’s underground venues this weekend as a part of the...