OSF Announces New Round of American Revolutions Commissions
Zakiyyah Alexander, Jaclyn Backhaus, E.M. Lewis, Mary Katheryn Nagle, Sara Nović, and Sanaz Toossi will create works for the project.
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Zakiyyah Alexander, Jaclyn Backhaus, E.M. Lewis, Mary Katheryn Nagle, Sara Nović, and Sanaz Toossi will create works for the project.
Four Chicago-based writers will develop new works as part of the year-long residency.
Leadership turnover at both of the city’s biggest theatres comes after, but certainly won’t end, a period of intense controversy and scrutiny.
A total of $970,000 has been awarded to artists and organizations to support the development and touring of 8 theatre projects.
The season comprises 5 plays and 1 musical.
The season will celebrate the centennial of the company’s late founder, Ellen Stewart, with a slate of new and revived works.
The Tony winner has found fame via TV’s ‘Pose,’ but he can’t seem to quit the theatre.
Olson joined the company earlier this month.
A new play about health-care inequity gets the new-works-festival treatment in Zimbabwe and California.
Professionals from the food and theatre world are collaborating on a new take on Shakespeare, complete with crudités.