Wednesday, February 11, 2015
“A Steady Rain” playwright Keith Huff will premiere a new play at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a spokesman for the production said on Wednesday.
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Two new works by choreographer Twyla Tharp will be performed in Chicago this fall as part of a multi-city tour celebrating Tharp’s 50-year career, it was announced on Tuesday.
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Newsman Anderson Cooper and late-night host Andy Cohen will take the Chicago Theatre stage this spring for a friendly talk, a representative for the tour said Monday.
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This week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is Mark L. Montgomery and Jennifer Coombs in “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” a comedy by Gina Gionfriddo currently playing the Goodman Theatre.
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Two musicals by composer Henry Krieger, "Side Show" and "Dreamgirls," will bookend Porchlight Music Theatre's new season. A spokesman announced the company's full 2015-16 lineup on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:01AMTwo musicals by composer Henry Krieger, "Side Show" and "Dreamgirls," will bookend Porchlight Music Theatre's new season. A spokesman announced the company's full 2015-16 lineup on Thursday.
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Choreographer and director Tommy Tune will receive the JUBA! Award from the Chicago Human Rhythm Project at its Jubalee Gala in July, the company announced Wednesday. Aside from his tall sta…
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
This week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is Judith Roberts ("Orange Is The New Black") in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Broadway-bound production of “Airline Highway” by Lisa D’Amou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMThis week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is Judith Roberts ("Orange Is The New Black") in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Broadway-bound production of “Airline Highway” by Lisa D’Amou…
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Friday, January 23, 2015
Marcus Gardley’s drama “A Wonder in My Soul,” which was to be performed in April at Victory Gardens Theater, will be replaced by a different Marcus Gardley drama, a spokeswoman for the…
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American Blues Theater announced its 2015-16 season on Thursday. The three plays and one musical will be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center in Lincoln Park where the company is in re…
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It’s been over six months since the mammoth ill-fated arena tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” was set to play the United Center. That 51-city tour, …
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A notable group of stage and screen artists will celebrate the life of Sheldon Patinkin, the theater artist and teacher who died Sept. 21, it was announced on Friday.
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Shattered Globe Theatre announced the final show of its 2014-15 season Thursday. It’s “The Grown-Up” by Jordan Harrison.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PMMore key casting was announced for Lyric Opera’s spring production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Carousel” on Thursday.
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A memorial for Julia Neary, the DePaul University professor and theater artist who died Jan. 3,
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMA memorial for Julia Neary, the DePaul University professor and theater artist who died Jan. 3, will be held Saturday Jan. 24 at the Merle Reskin Theatre, a representative for DePaul said on…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMWriters Theatre artistic director Michael Halberstam will direct Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” for the young Definition Theatre Company, a spokeswoman for the production said on Tu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:05PMCasting was announced for “Louis & Keely ‘Live’ at The Sahara” on Wednesday. Produced by Hershey Felder, the musical show is set to begin performances at the Royal George Theatre in …
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An opening act of the inaugural Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, “Freeze!,” has been cancelled two days before it was set to begin performances at Chicago Shakespeare Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:11PMCasting for The Hypocrites’s productions of “Endgame” — coming hot on the heels of its currently-running Gilbert and Sullivan repertory — and "The Three Sisters" was announced on M…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PMThe Goodman Theatre announced a cast replacement for its fast approaching production of Gina Gionfriddo’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn” on Monday.
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British comedian Simon Amstell will bring his new show to Chicago this spring, a spokesman for the tour said on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59PMThe national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical "Once," based on the 2007 romantic, indie movie-musical of the same name, will come back to Chicago this spring, Broadway in Chicago said …
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The upcoming pre-Broadway tryout, “First Wives Club,” announced its full cast on Wednesday morning.
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Tickets for participating productions in Chicago Theatre Week, the League of Chicago Theatres and Choose Chicago's annual period of discounted show tickets, went on sale Tuesday morning.
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