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ONSTAGE+ About the Plays Education and Engagement Blog & Buzz Tickets Visit GoodmanTheatre.org Visit GoodmanTheatre.org An Inside Look at All Things Goodman Theatre Search ONSTAGE+ About the Plays Education and Engagement Blog & Buzz Tickets Blog & Buzz Skin Deep Read more Blog & Buzz Top of Her Class Read more Blog & Buzz Second Act Read more Blog & Buzz Skin Deep A Brief History of Race and the Beauty Pageant By Neena Arndt In School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, the teenage characters pine to win the Miss Global Universe Pageant, 1986. In the midst of their youth and enthusiasm, these Ghanaian young women aren’t yet aware that they are entering into a system… Read More February 26, 2020 Blog & Buzz Top of Her Class Lili-Anne Brown isn’t afraid of high school mean girls– or directing a big, boisterous play about them either. By Thomas Connors For most of us, success doesn’t come overnight, but it can appear that way to others when good things seem to happen all at once. Take Chicago’s Lili-Anne Brown. She has been performing and… Read More February 26, 2020 Blog & Buzz Second Act graveyard shift Offers Returning Creatives the Chance to Dig Deeper for the World-Premiere Production For 16 years, Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Festival has played a key role in helping playwrights get their work out into the world, but they aren’t the only ones who learn and grow as a show finds its legs. Directors and… Read More February 3, 2020 Blog & Buzz “Family Limitation” Reproductive Rights pre-Roe v. Wade By Jonathan L. Green Abortion, defined here as the purposeful termination of pregnancy, has existed in different forms—surgical, medicinal and physical—across the globe for thousands of years (the first written record of an induced abortion is more than 3,500 years old). In ancient Egypt, Greece, southeast and east Asia, among… Read More January 3, 2020 Blog & Buzz Decision v. Dissent The Constitutional Arguments in Roe v. Wade By Jonathan L. Green Photo by Wesley Tingey In the Supreme Court’s majority opinion of Roe v. Wade in 1973, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “We forthwith acknowledge our awareness of the sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion controversy… One's philosophy, one's experiences, one's exposure to the raw… Read More January 3, 2020 About the Plays Turning The Page By Thomas Connors In the thought-provoking play Roe, playwright Lisa Loomer and director Vanessa Stalling give new voice to women who made history. Here, they offer some insights into the lessons that history offers. LOOKING FOR TICKETS? VISIT GOODMANTHEATRE.ORG/ROE >> The great Studs Terkel bemoaned the fact that we suffer from what he called “national… Read More January 3, 2020 Blog & Buzz It’s Not Easy Being Green Steven Strafford slips into the role of Crumpet, the less-than-jolly elf in The Santaland Diaries Celebrated for his knack of identifying the odd in the obvious and weirdness around every turn—expressed with a genuine astonishment at the ways of the world—humorist David Sedaris has become something of a regular Christmas visitor, thanks to The Santaland… Read More November 20, 2019 Blog & Buzz Meet the Man Behind the Miser An Interview with Actor Larry Yando In 2006, award-winning actor Larry Yando stepped into the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the very first time. Little did he know that 13 years later, he’d still be delighting Goodman audiences with his take on one of the greatest grouches of all time. As the holiday season swings… Read More October 29, 2019 About the Plays An Enduring Classic in Many Forms Charles Dickens began writing A Christmas Carol in October 1843; he completed it the following month, and it appeared in bookstores in December. Two months later, eight theater companies had mounted productions of the ghostly Christmas tale. Later in his life, Dickens himself performed the story, giving readings of his work throughout Britain and America.… Read More October 29, 2019 Blog & Buzz The Spirit of the Season A Conversation with A Christmas Carol’s young performers During the Christmas season at the Goodman, the joyous feeling of holiday magic is palpable throughout the halls of our theater. This year, we asked some of our young performers in A Christmas Carol to tell us what “Christmas Spirit” means to them—and we can learn a… Read More October 29, 2019 Previous Next 1 2 3 … 40 Follow us on Instagram 126 2 55 2 76 3 69 13 58 0 297 7...