Monday, March 17, 2014
The complete cast of “Motown The Musical,” starting in Chicago in April, was announced by Broadway In Chicago on Monday.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
TimeLine Theatre Company announced its 2014-15 season on Thursday. Actor Mike Nussbaum, very busy next season, will star in two plays at TimeLine before returning to the theater for the open…
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The national tour of “Motown The Musical,” kicking off in Chicago on April 22, has found its Diana Ross and Berry Gordy, representatives for the tour announced on Monday. &n…
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Writers Theatre announced on Friday the cast of its upcoming new musical, “Days Like Today” inspired by the plays of Charles Mee, with music and lyrics by Alan Schmuckler and a b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:37PMThe Joyce Theater Foundation in New York City announced that it will honor Chicagoans David Herro and Jay Franke at its Spring Gala this year, a representative for the Foundation announced o…
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Heidi Kettenring will lead the kitty cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, playing Grizabella, the “Memory”-crooning gla…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:01PMOn Tuesday, Court Theatre announced the cast of its spring production of David Henry Hwang’s ("Chinglish") “M. Butterfly,” directed by Charles Newell. &nbs…
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The Factory Theater has announced its 2014 season. The company’s 22nd season of original work features three productions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:02PMRemy Bumppo Theatre Company announced its 2014-15 season on Monday. This is the company’s 18th season, which will once again be entirely performed upstairs at the Greenhouse Theater Ce…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:17PMDrury Lane Theatre announced the cast for its upcoming production of the musical “Les Miserables,” on Monday. In director Rachel Rockwell’s production, Ivan Rutherford, a l…
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The six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award were announced on Thursday. The award, which will be presented on April 5 as part of t…
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Porchlight Music Theatre announced on Thursday the cast of its upcoming revival of “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying,” the 1961 workplace musical with a score by …
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While in Chicago on Tuesday, the Grammy Award-winning musician Sting stopped by Tribune Tower to have a chat with theater critic Chris Jones. In addition to Sting's many albums and internati…
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On Saturday Feb. 22, the starry cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of “Of Mice and Men,” currently rehearsing in Chicago, stopped by the Goodman Theatre to take in a performan…
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The Chicago Commercial Collective, a young for-profit producing entity, announced on Thursday the next two local productions it will remount: The original Inconvenience staging of “Hit…
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An electrical fire at theHarris Theater for Music and Dance (205 E. Randolph St. at Millennium Park) has prompted the cancellation of Wednesday night's performance of the Hamburg Ballet's …
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The Joffrey Ballet announced its 2014-15 season on Tuesday. The company’s twentieth year in Chicago will feature eight premieres and some familiar Joffrey classics. &n…
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"The Lincoln Lodge Comedy Showcase," the 14-year-old weekly stand-up show that was recently displaced by the shuttering of its longtime home, The Lincoln Restaurant, seven weeks ago, has fou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:39PMThe Falcon Theatre in Burbank, California — owned by Gary and Kathleen Marshall — will present the West Coast premiere of of “The Last Act of Lilka Kadison” in associ…
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The Second City e.t.c. announced the cast and creative team of its 38th revue on Wednesday. Second City Touring Company director Jen Ellison stages her first resident stage show, which will …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:47PMProducers of “The Last Ship,” the new musical by Sting having its pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago this summer, announced casting and the show's future Broadway home on Wednesday. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:04PMTickets for “The Last Ship,” the new Broadway-bound musical with an original score by Sting, will go on sale on Friday, Feb. 14, representatives for Broadway In Chicago announced…
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TimeLine Theatre Company has announced eight playwrights for its inaugural Playwrights Collective, representatives for the theater said on Tuesday.
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Stage 773 has announced the line-up for the second annual “Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival,” a festival dedicated to the geekier sect of the Chicago funny scene, representatives for…
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The Paramount Theatre in Aurora announced the cast of its upcoming production of Jonathan Larson's 1996 musical “Rent” on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:11PMCollaboraction announced the lineup for its 14th annual Sketchbook festival on Thursday. Titled “SKETCHBOOK 14: 2049,” the collection of 18 world-premiere performance pieces cura…
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Northlight Theatre’s upcoming world premiere of Christian O’Reilly’s “Chapatti” will travel to the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland in July 2014, the theater ann…
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