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“Lookingglass Alice” is a show where folding chairs fly out of picnic baskets, the White Knight rides a unicycle, characters bounce on massive balls and Alice has a tea party with an audience member.

The first indication that you're not seeing a run-of-the-mill stage production of Alice in Wonderland is when the White Rabbit appears suspended 30 feet over the stage and does a somersault through a hoop. “It’s a beautiful combination,” says Molly Hernández, who plays Alice. The show “Lookingglass Alice” from the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago has been a local treat for decades, but this year gets national attention with a broadcast on PBS...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Maine East will become the second high school in the U.S. to stage "Lookingglass Alice," which tells the story of Alice in Wonderland using circus elements.

The sense of what might have been permeates Marriott Theatres joyous revival of "Buddy -- The Buddy Holly Story," a jukebox tuner celebrating rock n roll, beloved bespectacled pioneer whose brief career had a profound influence on The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.

The organization shared a list of steps it is taking after artists raised issues about the mishandling of a sexual assault and the mistreatment of Black women.

Enter Aurora’s beautiful 1,800-seat Paramount Theatre for an ideally cast production of a the grand-scale Stephen Sondheim classic "Into the Woods." This is a production that not only entertains but also pays a winning tribute to the late Sondheim

In the latest Horror En Espanol, Mikey Peralta looks at Cookie Este's short film 'Split Ends' and how much it speaks to his own experience.

Lookingglass Theatre Company’s first production was a rendition of “Alice in Wonderland” performed at Shanley Pavilion.  Now, founding ensemble member and Communication Prof. David Catlin said the group’s “whimsical and physically intensive” “Lookingglass Alice” show stems from that first performance. “Every time we do it, (the stories) continue to mean something, and they mean something...