Merle Reskin Theatre Archives

The time David Bowie called Chicago home

The artist’s monthlong stint in Chicago in 1980 provides some insight into his career and the MCA’s blockbuster retrospective.

Chicago Opera Theater is fleshing out its double bill of Ullmann and Orff with Chaplin.

Margaret Atwood reading: The Year of the Flood

What will it take for our city to embrace its BIPOC citizens, especially the youngest ones?

by Salem Collo-Julin

The New Vanguard embodies the phrase “Think global, act local.”

by Tara C. Mahadevan

The Physical Theater Festival explores aesthetic intersections.

by Nora Paul

MAGA won’t rest until they make abortions as illegal in Illinois as they are in Mississippi.

by Ben Joravsky