Friday, February 6, 2015
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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
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 09:01AM[SHARE]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 09:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
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'Amour.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PM[SHARE]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'Amour.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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 theat…
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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, of cours…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:05PM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
More key casting was announced for Lyric Opera's spring production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Carousel" on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
A 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 02:46PM[SHARE]Writers 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 Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:05PM[SHARE]Casting 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 March.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
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 Theater o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:11PM[SHARE]Casting 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 Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre announced a cast replacement for its fast approaching production of Gina Gionfriddo's "Rapture, Blister, Burn" on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
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 12:59PM[SHARE]The 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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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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:17PM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2015
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
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.Â
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