A packed house at the Music Box Theater on April 26 waited in anticipation as a moderator tried to introduce the evening’s special guest: Vera Drew, the director/editor/star of “The People’s Joker.”...

Customers rifle through records and cassettes of their favorite artists in Let's Boogie Record & Tapes as the morning sun streams through the store windows. Behind the counter, co-owner Jason Keller...

David Dastmalchian enrolled in DePaul’s Theater School in the mid-1990s with a difficult past weighing heavy on him. In high school, he struggled with a secret drug problem and undiagnosed clinical...

Vishaal Desai adores cinema. In 2009, he graduated from the prestigious London Film School. He worked for years in the film industry in India before coming to DePaul for his graduate degree. His affinity...

Leslie Sophia Pérez remembers the beginning of her acting career with fondness. Mostly, though, she happily remembers the mooing.  Years into her Catholic grammar school’s theater program, she finally...