Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Black 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�…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:48PMComedian Mike Birbiglia will stop at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn as part of his “Thank God for Jokes” tour, a spokesperson for the theater said on Wednesday.
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Albany Park Theater Project, the youth theater group that creates its own original works, will perform two productions in 2015, it was announced on Monday.
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Six full-length plays and a bill of three ten-minute plays will premiere in the 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the theater said on Tuesday.
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Windy City Playhouse, a new Equity theater in Chicago, announced the cast of its inaugural production, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s comedy “End Days,” on Monday.
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Diedre Hall, the daytime TV actress who starred as Dr. Marlena Evans on “Days of Our Lives,” will perform in Hell In A Handbag Productions’ holiday benefit this year, the theater said …
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The previously announced Chicago-area premiere of “Billy Elliot” will be joined by two plays and two musicals at Drury Lane Theatre during the 2015-16 season, the theater said Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PMThe New Colony, a storefront theater company known for its zany, ensemble-based work, will make The Den Theatre in Wicker Park its new home, the company announced Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:00PMChicago Dramatists, the city’s playwright-centric theater, named five new resident playwrights on Monday, bringing the company’s total to 35.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:34PMThis week’s Theater Loop Showcase is Justin Adair and Royen Kent from Griffin Theatre Company’s “Titanic.” Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s 1997 musical, here receiving its first loc…
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Richard Cotovsky will once again get behind the wheel of the “Hellcab” at Profiles Theatre, the theater has announced. Cotovsky played the driver of the eponymous cab in Will Kern’s pl…
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Steppenwolf For Young Adults' acclaimed production of "Animal Farm," newly-adapted from George Orwell's novel by Alice Austen and Steve Pickering, will add four more public performances, the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:17PMLight Opera Works in Evanston, a theater whose productions boast full, original orchestrations of classic musicals, announced its 2015 season on Monday.
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The groundbreaking of the new, Studio Gang-designed Writers Theatre in Glencoe took place on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:11PMThis week’s Theater Loop Showcase is Josh Young from the new musical “Amazing Grace,” currently playing the Bank of America Theatre.
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Tickets for the return engagement of the national tour of “The Book of Mormon,” the musical comedy by Matt Stone, Trey Parker (“South Park”) and Robert Lopez (“Avenue Q,” “Froz…
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“Burning Bluebeard” will return to Theater Wit for three weeks this winter, it was announced on Tuesday.
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Kate Piatt-Eckert, Steep Theatre's business manager for the past year, will become the small Edgewater company's new executive director, it was announced on Thursday.
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Griffin Theatre Company announced the cast of its upcoming production of Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” on Wednesday. Director Jonathan Berry’s production will include a whopping …
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Eclipse Theatre Company, the theater that dedicates each season to the work of only one playwright, will produce three plays by Terrence McNally in 2015.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:26PMDrury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook announced the cast of its upcoming production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “Camelot” on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:13PMThe Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit, a yearlong residency program meant to nurture playwrights as they develop new works, will include four participants during the 2014-15 season, the theat…
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This week’s Theater Loop Showcase is soprano Marina Rebeka from “Don Giovanni,” currently in a new production directed by Goodman artistic director Robert Falls at Lyric Opera.
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