Oak Park Festival Theatre announced its 2014 summer season, the theater’s 40th, on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:56AMThe Harris Theater for Music and Dance announced its 2014-15 dance season on Friday. The season features the Chicago debut of two international companies: the Beijing Dance Theater and Scott…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:39AMShawChicago, a company devoted to staged readings of the plays of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, announced its 2014-15 season on Wednesday. Two of the titles belong to the compa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company announced casting for the world premiere of "The Qualms" by Bruce Norris on Tuesday. Norris is the author of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award-winn…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:37PMA Red Orchid Theatre in Old Town announced its 2014-15 season, the theater’s 22nd, on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:29PM“MythBusters: Behind the Myths” will play one performance in Chicago on December 6, Broadway In Chicago said on Monday. The touring show features Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:19PMCasting was announced for Victory Gardens Theater’s upcoming revival of “Death and the Maiden” by Ariel Dorfman on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMProfiles Theatre will perform David Mamet’s “Cryptogram,” a characteristically tense Mamet drama that’s celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, as part of th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:43PMHubbard Street Dance Chicago announced its 2014-15 season, the company’s 37th, on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:30PMComedian Eddie Izzard sat down with theater critic Chris Jones for this interview, which recalls Izzard’s long history with Chicago. His new show, “Force Majeure,” plays th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:48PMCasting for “Amazing Grace,” the new musical set to begin performances at the Bank of America Theatre on October 9, was announced on Wednesday. The show features music and lyrics…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:22PMSideshow Theatre Company announced its 2014-15 season on Monday. All three plays will be performed at the Victory Gardens Richard Christiansen Theater where the company continues in residenc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMA Red Orchid Theatre has extended its acclaimed production of Marisa Wegrzyn’s flight attendant comedy “Mud Blue Sky” five weeks, the theater said on Wednesday. It will now…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:58PMOn May 13, the Goodman Theatre will celebrate the life of Robert Christen, the theater’s Resident Lighting Designer who died on March 9 at the age of 64. Christen spent over three deca…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMThe cast of the Goodman Theatre’s summer revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “Brigadoon” was announced on Monday. The theater also said that writ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMThe theater company The Neo-Futurists announced its 2014-15 season on Friday. The theater also said that Kurt Chiang will succeed Megan Mercier as Artistic Director. Chiang will work alongsi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMChairman of the Chicago Blackhawks, William Rockwell “Rocky” Wirtz, and his wife, Marilyn, have made a multimillion dollar gift to the Northwestern University School of Communica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:01PMChicago arts organizations will receive $1,233,500 in grants from the National Endowment for The Arts this year, 2014 headlined by a $100,000 grant to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for its Mo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PMSignal Ensemble Theatre announced its 2014-15 season on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:30PMThe House Theatre of Chicago’s 2014-15 season will feature "The Iron Stag King," "The Crownless King" and the new "The Excelsior King," the company's three-part fantasy saga, performed…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PMColumbia College Chicago has announced that it will present theater artist Jim Jacobs with a 2014 honorary degree.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:12PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company announced the final title in its 2014-15 season on Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:31PMTheater Wit in Lakeview will present the Chicago premiere of Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns, a post-electric play” in January, 2015, the company said on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PMFirst Folio Theatre announced its 2014-15 season on Monday. Made up of two venues in West suburban Oak Brook, one indoors and one outdoors, the theater will present four plays in its 19th ye…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:39AMDo you love Shakespeare? On May 18, The Theater Loop will host a gathering with Antoni Cimolino , artistic director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. The Festival, which produces…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:37PMNorthlight Theatre in Skokie announced its spring 2015 production on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:01PMNext Theatre in Evanston announced its 2014-15 season, the company’s 34th, on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:26PMKareem Bandealy will play the title role in William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at The Gift Theatre, while Michael Patrick Thornton will star opposite him as the scheming Iago,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:53AMCasting for American Theater Company’s revival of “Hair,” the flower-child rock musical by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermott, was announced on Thursday. &nb…
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