Theater

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a horrific echo of the Holocaust, according to the director of the new production from Heartland Theatre Company.

Heartland Theatre’s current project is to make the most Russian of Russian plays accessible to a Bloomington-Normal audience.

Community Players Theatre is gearing up to announce their 100th season in January. But with Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” the nearly century old organization is still experiencing firsts.

Punk rock and Elizabethan poetry might not seem like a natural combination. But Illinois Wesleyan University makes it work in a new production of the musical, "Head Over Heels," streaming Friday through Sunday.

Theater students at Normal Community High School are eager to perform in person after so much time lost to the pandemic. The spring production (cross your…

Programmers for the Bloomington Center For The Performing Arts said the city-owned venue had a full and successful season last year and hope to build on…

The Broadway musical “Rock of Ages” is a send-up to the outrageous hair and costumes especially favored by 1980s hair-metal acts.The Tony Award-winning…

Bloomington’s Coalescence Theatre Project has a curtain call on the national stage in June.“Walking With My Ancestors” was selected to compete at the…

One of this year's hottest Broadway shows this year was produced by an Illinois Wesleyan University alum.Bill Damaschke’s company StoryKey Entertainment…

When a community is struggling with a social issue, theatre can be a place to explore it. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” tackled the obsession with…