Monday, April 28, 2014
Sideshow 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…
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
A 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 02:58PM[SHARE]On 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…
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The 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…
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The 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…
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Chairman 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…
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Chicago 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…
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The 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…
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Theater 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.Â
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PM[SHARE]First 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…
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Do 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…
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Kareem 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 10:53AM[SHARE]Casting 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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Raven Theatre announced its full 2014-15 season on Wednesday. The four-play lineup features the previously announced Chicago premiere of “Dividing The Estate,” Horton Foote&rsquo…
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Lookingglass Theatre Company’s 2014-15 season will feature a remounting of “Lookingglass Alice,” the company’s popular adaptation of the Lewis Carroll story, it was a…
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Stephen Sondheim is experiencing a big moment in Chicago, where four of the composer-lyricist’s musicals are concurrently running. The Sondheimmania will continue next season at Porchl…
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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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
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…
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