Monday, November 10, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
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 on Thu…
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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 04:16PM[SHARE]The 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 04:00PM[SHARE]Chicago 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 02:34PM[SHARE]This 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 locally-produ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
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 play man…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:04PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
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 04:17PM[SHARE]Light Opera Works in Evanston, a theater whose productions boast full, original orchestrations of classic musicals, announced its 2015 season on Monday.Â
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This 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," "Frozen"), will go …
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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 27 actor…
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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 05:26PM[SHARE]Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook announced the cast of its upcoming production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "Camelot" on Monday.Â
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:13PM[SHARE]The 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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley will play the mean, green Grinch in the national tour of "Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical" at the Chicago Theatre this fall, the venue…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will return to the United Center and Allstate Arena in Rosemont in November with "Legends," a melange of traditional circus and mythological beasts, it was…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:16PM[SHARE]A lineup of Broadway talent including 2014 Tony Award-winner Jessie Mueller will take part in the previously announced Humanities Festival program "A Night at the Tonys," hosted by Rob Lindl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Theatre at the Center in Munster announced on Wednesday the cast of its upcoming production of "A Christmas Memory," Duane Poole, Larry Grossman and Carol Hall's musical adaptation of the Tr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Chicago Dramatists announced its 2014-15 season on Tuesday. This is the playwright-centric theater's first roster of work since the 2012-2013 season. Its last show was "Homecoming 1972" in M…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
3Arts, the local non-profit organization that supports women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities, announced the recipients of its 2014 awards at a ceremony at the Museum …
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Goodman Theatre announced on Thursday the cast of its upcoming collaboration with Second City, "Twist Your Dickens, or Scrooge You!" by Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort. The show previously pl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Tympanic Theatre Company has announced its 2014-15 season. The storefront company's eighth year includes two productions.
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