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Home » In the Heights

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Posted inFilm

Corey Hawkins comes full circle with In the Heights

by Taryn Allen June 10, 2021August 18, 2021

The actor’s role in the onscreen adaptation hearkens back to his introduction to musical theater and time spent in New York City.

In the Heights
Posted inFilm

It’s officially summer with In the Heights

by Taryn Allen June 10, 2021August 18, 2021

After a delayed release, the vibrant film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical couldn’t be more welcome.

Posted inArts & Culture

In Tanya Saracho’s Fade, it’s hard to say who’s oppressed

by Tony Adler November 15, 2017August 18, 2021

Intersectionality meets the workplace comedy in this Teatro Vista-Victory Gardens coproduction.

Posted inArts & Culture

2016 in theater was wildly convulsive on- and offstage

by Tony Adler December 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Controversies over abuse, alleged druggings, and “whitewashing” roiled even as Shakespeare 400 Chicago soared.

Posted inArts & Culture

From the $10 bill to the multimillion-dollar musical

by Tony Adler October 25, 2016August 18, 2021

In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light.

Posted inArts & Culture

A dispute seems to have galvanized Porchlight’s In the Heights

by Tony Adler September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

There was much ado about the casting of Porchlight Theatre’s In the Heights, but Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical shines through.

Posted inArts & Culture

Onstage this fall: Race and violence

by Tony Adler September 3, 2016August 18, 2021

Chicago’s fall theater season shows a new emphasis on social consciousness.

Posted inBlogs

How do you stop whitewashing Chicago theater?

by Aimee Levitt August 11, 2016August 18, 2021

The theater community gathered to work on a solution.

Posted inBlogs

Porchlight casting raises questions on the nature of ‘authentic’ theater

by Michael Miner August 3, 2016August 18, 2021

The Chicago theater community debates casting for Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights.

Posted inBlogs

Porchlight’s whitewashing of In the Heights narrator is a letdown for Latinx community

by Tommy Rivera-Vega August 3, 2016August 18, 2021

The Hemosa-based musical theater company could have told a powerful story of Latinxs in America. Instead they cast a white actor as the storyteller.

Posted inBlogs

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