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Jonathan AbarbanelQuick Contacts email the dept. of performing arts email the music dept. email the theater dept.
UIC Department of Performing Arts |
Theatre History, Theatre Critic  Jonathan Abarbanel is theater critic for Chicago Public Radio and the weekly Windy City Times newspaper. He is senior writer for Chicago Footlights magazine and Chicago correspondent for Back Stage, the national trade paper. His own plays, libretti, lyrics and revue sketches have been performed in Chicago at the Center for New Music, Court Theatre, Bailiwick Repertory, Theatre BAM! and The Second City. His work also has been produced at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Westside Theatre (Off-Broadway), at London's Royal Festival Hall, and broadcast on WFMT. Jonathan is a long-time member of the American Theatre Critics Association and has represented the United States at three World Congresses of the International Association of Theatre Critics, a UNESCO-affiliated organization. His articles on theatre and opera have been published globally in English, French, Dutch, German and Portuguese. He is one of the few theatre critics to serve as a site reporter and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Jonathan has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Friends of Literature, the Illinois Theatre Association and the Prix Italia (for radio production). He has received multiple grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Rosenbaum Foundation. Jonathan has appeared on The Antiques Road Show and, in an earlier life as a copywriter, coined the immortal slogan, "America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T." Jonathan was born in Chicago, attended Tufts University (Magna Cum Laude) and Tufts-in-London, a year-long concentration in theatre studies. He has taught previously at Columbia College Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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