The founding of Chicago’s leading theater was quixotic. An undistinguished playwright named Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who had some success in Chicago’s Little Theatre movement, had written a letter to ...

Good morning, Chicago. Images of a slight Sonya Massey being fatally shot in the face by an imposing law enforcement officer inside her home in July 2024 shocked much of America.

1979: First production of “A Christmas Carol,” starring William Norris as Ebenezer Scrooge. The stage adaptation of Charles ...