Scott C. Morgan

6 days ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

In 1987, the Chicago nonprofit organization Season of Concern was created to financially assist members of the local theater community who were ill and dying from HIV/AIDS. But the roots of Season of Concern go back two years earlier following the AIDS-related deaths of two beloved figures from the Chicago theater community: actor/stage manager Tom Biscotto and actor J. Pat Miller.

3 weeks ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

There's a foreboding fear of history on the precipice of repeating itself in Prayer for the French Republic. Thisambitious 2022 off-Broadway drama (which also received an acclaimed 2024 Broadway run) by gay playwright Joshua Harmon is now making a pitch-perfect regional premierein a co-production by Northlight Theatre and Theater Wit at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.

1 month ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

NEW YORK-Time is running out to catch two of New York City's most high-profile and starry stage productions featuring drag excellence. The Picture of Dorian Gray is now playing a limited engagement at Broadway's Music Box Theatre through June 29. It stars Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sarah Snook of HBO Succession fame as she takes on 26 different roles (mostly male) in director/playwright Kip Williams' high-tech adaptation of Oscar Wilde's iconic 1890 queer novel.

1 month ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

Gay Canadian writer Royce Vavrek and American composer Missy Mazzoli are finally making their Lyric Opera of Chicago debut with The Listeners, a contemporary thriller about a strange, sound-induced cult movement that rises in the U.S. Southwest. Lyric co-commissioned and co-produced The Listeners with Norwegian National Opera and Ballet (which presented the world premiere in 2022), and with Opera Philadelphia, which staged it last year.

1 month ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

Opera purists often get outraged when stage directors update classics like Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 romantic tragedy La Bohème. The gorgeous imported revival of La Bohème at the Lyric Opera of Chicago is technically updated, but not as drastic as some recent approaches (for example, director Claus Guth’s Opéra National de Paris production shuttled Puccini’s artists and free spirits from 1830s Paris to a space station and the surface of the moon).