Theater

While the lynching of Emmett Till is well known as the spark that fueled the civil rights movement, what is less known is the story of the trial that sought to bring his murderers, J.W. Milan and Roy Bryant, to justice. Till’s murder took place in 1955 but it wasn’t until 50 years later, when

When a lavish new production of the Broadway classic, West Side Story, hit the Lyric Opera stage in Chicago in 2019, it sold out performances and wowed local critics. Praised as both “a suite of searing, soaring melodies,” and “musical theater euphoria,” the 1957 musical that retells the story of Romeo and Juliet on the

New Trier Freshman Julia Dale is already a veteran performer on the stage. She got her first professional role at Chicago’s Steep Theater in Edgewater when she was just in the 4th grade, and prior to that performed in community theater and school productions. The 15-year-old Kenilworth resident says she used to do performances of