Monday, April 13, 2015
Strawdog Theatre Company announced its 2015-16 season on Monday. It’s a diverse array of shows, from a riff on August Strindberg to one of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s largest comed…
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Signal Ensemble Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Wednesday. The season includes three plays, none of which have been seen on a Chicago stage before.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:30PMHubbard Street Dance Chicago announced its 2015-16 season on Wednesday. Alongside its three seasonal series, the roster includes the return of last year’s “The Art of Falling.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:30PMA Red Orchid Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Wednesday. The three-play roll includes two new works and a lesser-known show by Tennessee Williams.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMA Red Orchid Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Wednesday. The three-play roll includes two new works by Ike Holter and Brett Neveu and a lesser-known show by Tennessee Williams.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMThis week’s Showcase video is “The Upstairs Concierge,” a new farce by Kristoffer Diaz ("The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity") at the Goodman Theatre.
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Chicago actor McKenzie Chinn is one of five fellowship recipients from the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Visual and Performing Arts, it was announced on Tuesday.
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The League of Chicago Theatres announced on Monday that it’s received a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMThe Second City announced a new performance collaboration with NBCUniversal on Monday: the NBCUniversal Second City Break Out Comedy Festival.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMThe Second City announced the lineup of its performance collaboration with NBCUniversal on Monday: the NBCUniversal Second City Break Out Comedy Festival.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMTim Kazurinsky, the Chicago actor and Second City alum best known for his years spent on “Saturday Night Live” and his role in the "Police Academy" films, will perform on Broadway this s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMTim Kazurinsky, the Chicago actor and Second City alum best known for his years spent on “Saturday Night Live” and his role in the "Police Academy" films, will perform on Broadway this s…
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This week’s Showcase is “Title and Deed,” the play by Will Eno at Lookingglass Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:45PMThis week’s Showcase is “Title and Deed,” the play by Will Eno at Lookingglass Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:45PMChicago Children’s Theatre announced its 2015-16 season opener on Thursday. The play is “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane."
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Stephen Sondheim will receive the Carl Sandburg Literary Award this year, a spokesman for the Chicago Public Library said on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMThe family theater company Emerald City Theatre will bring “Fancy Nancy The Musical” to the Broadway Playhouse this summer, a spokesperson for Broadway in Chicago said on Monday.
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Route 66 Theatre Company announced its 2015-16 season on Friday night. All four shows are new-to-Chicago, and one is a brand new play.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMThe Hypocrites announced its 2015-16 season on Friday. A longer-than-usual lineup for this theater company, it features remounts of three popular productions of the past four years, plus a p…
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Griffin Theatre Company’s next show will be playwright Conor McPherson’s adaptation of “The Birds,” a spokesman for the theater said on Wednesday.
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Sean Graney will adapt and direct another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, but for the first time not with The Hypocrites, the Chicago theater company where he is artistic director.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:16PMSean Graney will adapt and direct another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, but for the first time not with The Hypocrites, the Chicago theater company where he is artistic director.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:16PMLookingglass Theatre Company filled in the gaps of its 2015-16 season on Tuesday. The three-play roster will begin with a new, previously announced adaptation of “Treasure Island” by Mar…
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Kokandy Productions announced its 2016 season on Monday, while also appending its 2015 season with a third production.
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Last week, the high school August Wilson Monologue Competition was held at the Goodman Theatre.
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The Auditorium Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Thursday. Of particular note is the previously announced Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour, which will incude two new works by the reno…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire announced the cast of its upcoming production of Cole Porter’s tap-dance-filled musical comedy “Anything Goes” on Thursday.
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