Tuesday, January 6, 2015
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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Porchlight Music Theatre announced the cast of “Porchlight Revisits… City of Angels” on Friday.
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The Mercury Theater announced the cast of its winter production of “The Addams Family” on Wednesday.
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The theater and dance communities of Chicago are mourning the death of Eric Eatherly, a publicist for the Chicago-based Silverman Group and a former dancer. He was 35. Eatherly died Monday i…
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Steep Theatre in Edgewater announced the cast of its upcoming production of “The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle” on Monday.
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Something’s coming! It’s the Drury Lane Theatre production of “West Side Story.” The theater announced casting for its upcoming staging of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Art…
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This week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is Paige Faure from the national tour of “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” currently onstage at the Cadillac Palace Theatre.
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Route 66 Theatre Company announced its partial 2015 season on Friday. The lineup features two productions, one of which will be announced later in February.
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Lyric Opera’s spring production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Carousel” will boast some top-drawer Broadway talent.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMThis Theater Loop Showcase is Dan DeLuca and Zachary Sayle from the national tour of Disney’s “Newsies.”
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The touring casts of “Newsies” and “Cinderella,” both stationed in Chicago for the month of December, will perform “Seize the Slipper,” a cabaret at Sidetrack bar in Boystown on …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:39PMThe touring casts of “Newsies” and “Cinderella,” both stationed in Chicago for the month of December, will perform “Seize the Slipper,” a cabaret at Sidetrack bar in Lakeview on …
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This Theater Loop Showcase video is soprano Adina Aaron from “Porgy and Bess” at Lyric Opera.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:38PMIt's that time of year again, and you know what that means — The Theater Loop's annual holiday video message! This year, 38 theaters and productions participated in the video.
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Lock up your daughters! Kokandy Productions announced the cast of its upcoming production of “The Full Monty” on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:00PMThe Chicago premiere of the musical “First Date” will arrive in early 2015, a spokesperson for the production announced on Monday.
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Porchlight Music Theatre announced casting for its upcoming production of “Sondheim on Sondheim,” a musical revue that blends composer Stephen Sondheim’s songs with stories and multime…
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In the wake of controversial grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, Victory Gardens Theater will host a discussion on issues of inequality and race on Thursday, Dec…
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The New Colony, the oddball theater company that produces original, often humorous ensemble works, announced its 2015 season on Tuesday. This will be the company’s first year in residence …
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Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, the longtime home of Next Theatre that shuttered last month, is in search of new tenants, Angela Allyn, program coordinator for the City of Evanston, …
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The 2015 Chicago Fringe Festival will introduce a Kids Fringe this summer, a spokesman for the festival said Thursday.
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Jackalope Theatre announced the cast of its upcoming production of Christopher Shinn’s “Four” on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:31PMBlack Ensemble Theater, the Uptown company best known for its jubilant musical biographies and recurring original musicals, will begin its 2015 season with an unlikely selection — a straig…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:45PMBlack Ensemble Theater, the Uptown company best known for its jubilant musical biographies and recurring original musicals, will begin its 2015 season with an unlikely selection — a play, …
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The actress Laurie Metcalf will be honored next year at the Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts luncheon, the theater said on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMThe National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2015 grant recipients on Tuesday. Out of $29 million in nationwide awards, 60 Illinois arts organizations will receive a total of $1,636,000.
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This week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is Travis Taylor from “Camelot,” the 1960 musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, currently playing Drury Lane Theatre.
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Just in time for Thanksgiving comes this week’s Theater Loop Showcase video: Kelly O’Sullivan and Sadieh Rifai in “The Humans,” a new play by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Karam at…
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This week's Theater Loop Showcase video is Leah Urzendowski in "Burning Bluebeard," the dark holiday play from The Ruffians beginning Dec. 13 at Theater Wit.
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They are who they are. The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire announced the cast of its upcoming production of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s drag musical comedy “La Cage Aux Folles�…
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