Welcome to the Building Stage Blog

The Building Stage is a theater company and performance space located in Chicago’s industrial West Loop.

We believe theater is made, not written.

What is theater? What can it be? How is it made? How can it be made better?

Here you will find our thoughts, our responses, examples, proposals and more as we try to answer these questions.

You will also find information and various riffs on and around the physical Building Stage work: our productions, our lab series, and anything else we get up to.

We view this blog as part of creative tools not merely a marketing effort. As such we will use this to post thoughts and references for use and inspiration by our artists as well as more general articles, interviews, audio/video clips, photos.

Please poke around and see what’s here, what’s new… Use the links to the right to search through our archives by topic or author. The author links also will tell you a bit about each of the writers so you can get an idea who they are and where they are coming from.

And, please, feel free to comment on posts, offer your opinions, points of view. Let us know if there is anything you think we should be including in the blog, articles to link to, etc.