Friday, January 8, 2021
"Love" may be too strong, but Abi Sanchez, Calvin Evans, Jeanie Doogan, Alex Kumin and Pat McGann share what they've learned, and changed, in doing livestreamed shows online during the pande…
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The Paramount Theatre in Aurora is know for its Broadway musicals. Now it is trying something different, putting new plays and marginalized voices on the stage, first via Zoom.
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The Chicago theater on the move has added director Laura Alcalá Baker, actor Debo Balogun and others to its growing ensemble.
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The North Side theater known for European plays has taken the first steps of a radical transformation, with plans for both theater and theater artists to relocate to the West Side.
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He was one of three artists from Chicago to win 2021 Creative Capital Awards given to support the creation of new artworks.
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Zanies in Rosemont must close, shows by psychic/comedian Karen Rontowski Oct. 29-31 at Zanies in Rosemont have been canceled.
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Halloween has gone shut-in-and-be-scared for 2020 ... these virtual shows from Chicago theater, from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allen Poe, are designed to play on your fears in the best kind of way.
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The theater announced the remaining fall performances for “Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!,” including those that were rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns, and adding an encore appearanc…
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When audiences return, will COVID redesigns make Chicago's theaters look different? What is Steppenwolf doing with its new theater-in-the-round? Theaters big and small have some answers.
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
The Goodman Theatre series “Statesville Voices,” shut down in April, is back with three online performances July 3.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00PMThe Chicago-area Zanies comedy clubs have announced they will reopen in July, with Vince Carone in Chicago and Pat McGann in Rosemont.
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The longtime iO Theater Chicago is shutting down and the building it moved to in 2014 will be sold. Photos from the past decade.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMChicago’s theater awards for the community’s non-union theaters have been rescheduled for June 22 in a free, live-streaming ceremony.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:04PMChicago’s long-lived iO Theater will shut down and the theater building at 1501 N. Kingsbury St. will be put up for sale.
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The building on Berwyn Street has been sold and Steep Theatre Co. must move out in September. But the change was not caused by the current shutdown.
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The Mercury Theater Chicago in the Southport Corridor, known for musicals such as “Avenue Q” and “Spamalot,” announced Tuesday it is closing at the end of June.
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Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre Company on Thursday announced four new playwrights have joined its Playwrights Collective, the company’s new-play incubator.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has partnered with Second City for a weekly video series, titled “The Second City’s Phased & Confused."
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The touring Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen” has been put off to 2022, presenter Broadway in Chicago announced Wednesday.
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Florence Pugh, Brandon Flynn and Margaret Qualley part of Brando Crawford's Acting for a Cause livestream plays
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Chicago’s Pivot Arts Festival announces June 5-11 schedule, as the North Side performance fest pivots to online for summer 2020.
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Get your Chicago theater fix online: Our updating list of play videos, interactive classes, concerts and more.
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FRIDAY "Sweet Texas Reckoning": Kate comes home to Texas with her African American wife. Artemisia Theatre at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; www. artemisiatheatre.org SATURDAY "Get…
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The House Theatre of Chicago has announced its 2019-20 season, the 18th for the Chicago company. All mainstage shows will be performed in the Chopin Upstairs Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.; s…
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MONDAY "Ms. Blakk For President": Steppenwolf ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney stars in this play based on the true story of Joan Jett Blakk, the radical drag persona of Terence Smith w…
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SUNDAY "For Services Rendered": Unearthing W. Somerset Maugham’s 1933 play about the aftermath of war and its effect on survivors. Griffin Theatre Company at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwa…
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on Wednesday announced its 2019-20 season, including world premieres by Kyle Abraham and Robyn Mineko Williams and a return of "Decadance." Subscriptions to the …
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Comedian Patton Oswalt is coming to the Den Theatre in Wicker Park for three performances Aug. 15-16. According to the announcement Tuesday, tickets ($35 general admission, $55 VIP table sea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:20PMThe New York cast has been announced for Tracy Letts' "Linda Vista," and it's a lot of Chicago faces. The Broadway production of the play, which premiered at Letts’ home stage at Steppenwo…
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Newly announced for the Mercury Theater Chicago on Southport, the musical “Spamalot,” coming this fall to the theater’s mainstage from Aug. 30 to Nov. 3, 2019. ‘Tis but a scratch. Th…
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