This volume brings together a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating work as an ensemble. Both handbook and history, Ensemble-Made Chicago includes background on each company, detailed instructions for executing performance and writing exercises, and an overview of the politics shaping the development of ensemble-created work in Chicago.

Penned by award-winning Chicago journalist Bryan Smith, The Breakaway tells the remarkable story of how Rocky Wirtz, scion of a Chicago business and sports dynasty, defied his family and skeptics to take the Chicago Blackhawks from "worst to first."