The 102nd Second City Mainstage revue, yet untitled, will be directed by Annoyance Theatre founder Mick Napier, the theater announced on Monday. The Second City alumnus adds another directin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:36PMThe 13th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival lineup was announced on Thursday. Billed as the largest of its kind in the nation, the 2014 festival features more than 150 troupes spread out …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PMActress Jessie Mueller, a former musical theater fixture in Chicago and present Broadway star, plays singer-songwriter Carole King in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," a new King bio-pie…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00AMThe Actors Theatre of Louisville has announced the roster for the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays. The festival, entirely composed of world premieres, boasts six fully-staged prod…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:11PMRivendell Theatre Company announced its 2014 season on Monday. Given the theme, "Stirring the Pot," the Edgewater theater's lineup includes two productions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:41PMOn Thursday, Collaboraction announced both its 18th season and what it says is a new mission. After the success of last season's "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology," the Wicker Park theater c…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:26PMThree members of legendary rock group The Rascals — Eddie Brigati, Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli — sat down with theater critic Chris Jones on Wednesday to discuss their new show…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:59AMOn Wednesday, the Goodman Theatre announced casting for the Chicago premiere of "Buzzer," Tracey Scott Wilson's ("The Good Negro") play about the shifting landscapes of an urban neighborhood…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:41PMOn October 26, an ornery puppet named Moses from Blind Summit Theatre’s “The Table,” which recently concluded an acclaimed stint at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, took to ano…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:21PMAlbany Park Theater Project, the multi-ethnic, youth performing arts ensemble, will return to the Goodman Theatre next spring with "God's Work," the Goodman announced on Tuesday. Receiving a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMWorld-renowned dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov will attend Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's annual Spotlight Ball in May, where he'll be honored with the 2014 Spotlight Award, the company…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:18PMIt seems chef Rick Bayless has been by bitten the acting bug. In addition to next summer's Goodman Theatre remount of "Cascabel," the dining-entertainment fusion show that originated at Look…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59PMOn Wednesday the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation named Charles Newell, artistic director of Court Theatre in Hyde Park, the recipient of the 2013 Zelda Fichandler Award. This $…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:16PMAmerican Theater Company announced on Tuesday the late addition of the touring one-man show "Mercy Killers" to the theater's new Town Hall Series. The show plays five performances from Oct. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05PMThis Theater Loop Showcase video is playwright Brooke Allen’s "The Life and Death of Madam Barker," with music and lyrics by John Fournier, currently onstage at Red Tape Theatre. Molly…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:01AM"Parks and Recreation" star and former Defiant Theatre actor, Nick Offerman, will appear alongside his wife, Megan Mullally of "Will & Grace," in "Annapurna" with the New Group off-Broadway,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:09PMThe Light Opera Works in Evanston announced their 2014 season on Monday. In June, artistic director Rudy Hogenmiller will star in "Damn Yankees." Then, in August, is "Fiddler On The Roof." "…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMBroadway legend Elaine Stritch delighted the Chicago International Film Festival audience of the new documentary, "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," at AMC River East on Sunday afternoon by partic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AMIn preparation for the annual Goodman vs. Steppenwolf flag football game next weekend, the Goodman Theatre's staff and artists wish to tell the world why they're all that and an intermission…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMIn "The North China Lover," Heidi Stillman's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' novel currently onstage at Lookingglass Theatre, a writer, M, recalls the early loves of her teenage years spent …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:02PMOn Thursday, Lookingglass Theatre and chef Rick Bayless announced, as expected, that the popular 'Rick Bayless in Cascabel: Dinner - Daring - Desire' will return in July for a month-long eng…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:20PMAs A Red Orchid Theatre begins its twenty-first season on Wells Street, the theater adds three members to its longstanding ensemble, the first such additions since playwright Craig Wright jo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMStrawdog Theatre Company announced Hugen Hall's 2013-14 season on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMThe Music Theatre Company in Highland Park announced its 2013-14 season on Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AMThis week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is a song from the national tour of "Once," the Tony Award-winning musical that currently plays the Oriental Theatre. Guy is a vacuum cleaner re…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:30AMThe Gift Theatre announced its 2014 season on Wednesday. Beginning with "Ten," the company's annual opener of new ten-minute plays, the season continues with three productions. &n…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AMPiven Theatre announced its 2014 season on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:56AMThis week's Theater Loop Showcase video is a song from Cheryl L. West's "Pullman Porter Blues," currently onstage at the Goodman Theatre. Set in 1937 on the Panama Limited Pullman Train from…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMEclipse Theatre Company, well-known for presenting the partial oeuvre of a single playwright per season, announced on Thursday that its 2014 lineup will focus on the work of Lynn Nottage.&nb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:40AMThis week's Theater Loop Showcase video is a scene from Amy Herzog's "4000 Miles." Depicting an oft-ignored onstage relationship, that of a grandmother and her grandson, the play is set in m…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMIn Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1976 musical, "Evita," the young Eva Duarte aspires to a life beyond her lowly upbringings only to become overtaken by her own ambition. The sung-throug…
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