The Players 2004: Chicago theater’s fifty leading characters
Click here to visit the most recent Players list. We’ve always known we were a town for theater. But this year perhaps we needed outsiders to remind us of just how great Chicago’s theater community is...
View ArticleThe Players 2009: The 50 people who really perform for Chicago
What makes Chicago’s theater world special? We picked up the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly for clues. In the cover story, “CSI” star William Petersen explains his decision to leave his role as...
View ArticleThe Players 2010: The 50 people who really perform for Chicago
In this town of performers—theater makers, dancers, comedy creators—you’d think it’d be pretty easy to assemble a list of artistic influencers and innovators. And it is. The challenge is paring that...
View ArticleThe Players 2011: The 50 people who really perform in Chicago
As the economy slowly lifts us back to our feet and we look around, we see a remarkable sight: a performance industry in Chicago that survived the worst recession since the Great Depression wholly...
View ArticleThe Players: The Fifty People Who Really Perform in Chicago
With our criteria shifted back to artistic accomplishment in theater, dance, comedy and opera this year, our task got infinitely tougher. Because while the number of performing venues grows at a steady...
View ArticleThe Players 2013: The 50 People Who Really Perform in Chicago
Though we publish a list of “players” every year, we alternate between those whose accomplishments are most visible on-stage (the artists, last year) and those who wield their influence behind the...
View ArticleThe Players 2014: The Fifty People Who Really Perform in Chicago
Once was the time, when it came to performing arts, that Chicago was a great place to come from. But thanks to the constant upward trajectory of our community, Chicago is now a great place to come from...
View ArticleThe Players 2004: Chicago theater’s fifty leading characters
Click here to visit the most recent Players list. We’ve always known we were a town for theater. But this year perhaps we needed outsiders to remind us of just how great Chicago’s theater community is...
View ArticlePlayer of the Moment: David Schmitz, New Managing Director of Steppenwolf...
By Brian Hieggelke Last October, Steppenwolf surprised the theater world by announcing a double-barreled transition in leadership: long-term artistic director Martha Lavey would give way to Anna...
View ArticlePlayers 2015: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago
The steady expansion of the performing arts in Chicago continues its marvelous pace, with more and better theater, dance, comedy and opera gracing more and better stages each passing year. The upward...
View ArticlePlayer of the Moment: The Era Footwork Crew
By Sharon Hoyer Born on the West and South Sides in the eighties, footwork is a dance style that evolved out of juke and moves to a breakneck tempo of Chicago house music. Like the name suggests,...
View ArticlePlayers 2016: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago
“Out with the old, in with the new,” is one of the many well-intentioned platitudes you hear frequently this time of year. Personally, I find that type of sharp-turn resolution a bit difficult to...
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