Theater

This time-bending love story at Heartland Theatre Company follows two star-crossed 20-somethings who spent a single day in Dublin together — and the regret they carried for decades.

The 23rd annual Art Walk is paired with a "shop small"-themed First Friday in downtown Bloomington

Dramaturg Morgan Rondinelli says themes coursing through "Fiddler on the Roof" apply to contemporary Jewish Americans.

In transferring the scary movie 'Carrie' to the stage, as a musical, there are some challenges. Like that one scene near the end when, in a horribly cruel prank, Carrie White gets splattered with pig blood at a high school homecoming.

The second annual Further Jazz Festival includes an 8-piece band playing Oliver Nelson's 1961 landmark album, "Blues and the Abstract Truth," led by Oliver Nelson, Jr.

Community Players Theatre in Bloomington is staging a new production of Neil Simon’s “Rumors.” WGLT talks to actors Sean Henderson and Alyssa Fabry about their roles and the show.

The 2023-24 season at Heartland Theatre Company begins with a modern comedy compared to those by American playwright Neil Simon. After a break, retired Illinois State theater professor Cyndee Brown couldn't say no to directing "Grand Horizons."

"Macbeth" was last produced at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in 2013. The so-called Scottish play was originally scheduled for 2020 and is only now finding its way back into rotation.

The musical “Bright Star” centers on a haunting moment: someone putting an unwanted newborn baby into a small suitcase and tossing it into a river. Prairie Fire Theatre stages a production next week at Illinois Wesleyan’s Westbrook Auditorium in Bloomington.

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is best known as Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby. She takes a break from fairy training to bring comedy cabaret, puppet-making and a sock called Lolly Lardpop to Bloomington-Normal and Peoria. Carrara-Rudolph and Normal native Paul Rudolph will sit down to talk about their journeys to Sesame Street at the end of the four-day residency next month.