Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Podcast with Debbie Reynolds from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:23PMFavorite players of years past will return to The ComedySportz Theatre for its annual Alumni WeekendFriday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24, 2013. Alumni players will play alongside curren…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:20PMStep Up Production is pleased to kick-off its 2013-14 season with Richard A. Roberts’ touching Chicago drama The BenchMark, directed by Tara Branham, playing September 13 – October…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:12PMThe twists and turns of the American political system have long been turned into storied tales of deception, turmoil and mystery chronicling the dark underbelly of American culture.This year…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:23PMA Red Orchid Theatre announces new performance dates for its smash-hit production of Sam Shepard’s Simpatico, directed by ensemble member Dado and featuring ensemble member Michael S…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:17PMThe Chicago Sinfonietta opens its 2013-14 season with “eMotion,” a concert continuing Music Director Mei-Ann Chen’s award-winning experimental programming style, moving toward the c…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:50PMFor the fifth year, Music Box Theatre presents Noir City: Chicago in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation. The eagerly anticipated annual festival combines extraordinary rarities wi…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:45PMWriters Theatre opens its 2013-14 season with the Midwest Premiere of The Old Man and The Old Moon, a new play with music by PigPen Theatre Co., directed by Associate Artistic Director …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:38PMMonday, August 12, 2013
Northlight Theatre Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans announce casting for the first three selections of the 2013-14 season. Northlight will open its season w…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:58PMthe side project will kick off its 14th season and celebrate its neighborhood with a free, eight-day festival of seven short plays–each about seven minutes long–that will all be perfo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:03PMAudiences will have eight more opportunities to catch Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s summer hit. The cabaret of over 30 songs by songwriter Cole Porter, which had already extended for …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:56PMBarrel of Monkeys is pleased to kick-off its 16th season with the 12th year of its long-running, critically acclaimed revue THAT’S WEIRD, GRANDMA, conceived and written by Chicago Publ…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:40PM“50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL,” the critically-hailed parody of the phenomenally popular books, will release an Original Cast Album Tuesday, Aug. 13. The album is being released by Theater…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:30PMCheck out these great videos from About Face Theatre and their fantastic KEEP IT GAY campaign showing the relevancy of this groundbreaking theatre company. For more information visit about…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:22PM Four weeks after having the Village of Brookfield unexpectedly decide they no longer wanted to host the 2013 Chicago tour stop for the BADASS Dash™ Obstacle Course Challenge & Advent…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:10PMWhen Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, a musical about the uprise of Nazi Germany, premiered on Broadway in 1966, it was saluted (and vilified) as being edgy, transformational and groundbrea…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:37PMPunch Me If I’m Dreaming, a two-person musical sketch show starring Matthew Van Colton and Nicole C. Hastings, opens Monday, August 12th at StudioBe. Punch Me If I’m Dreaming looks to …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:54AMThe final program line-up is set for the 7th annual Chicago Dancing Festival, taking place at venues across downtown Chicago August 20 – 24. Co-produced by internationally renowned ch…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:48AMFriday, August 9, 2013
JASON STUART, PAUL ELIA and ALEXANDRA PAUL star in the new web series MENTOR JASON STUART, a veteran character actor and comedian with lots of credits, feels like this is the end.…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:12PMTHE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE, starring internationally-acclaimed storyteller and pianist, Mona Golabek, which was recently extended due to popular demand through September 1, will host a s…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:07PMDoug Vincent’s autobiographical play, A Day for Grace will open in Chicago on September 11th for a three-night engagement from September 11 thru 13 at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:58PMWithout a doubt, Jason Robert Brown has become one of our most prolific and admired musical theatre composers of the last fifteen years. His melodic structure always comes with an edge tha…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:42PMJAMES VAN PRAAGH Returns To Chicago For Two Days Only!!! Thursday, August 15th & Friday August 16th 7pm-10pm Unity Church in Chicago, 1925 W. Thome Ave. (S. of Devon, W. of Ridge…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:21PMThursday, August 8, 2013
Kristine W (Kristine Weitz) is an American Dance-pop, House music and Hi-NRG singer/songwriter. She has released seven albums, three of them through major labels, plus an early recor…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:49PMChicago Opera Theater’s Chicago Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Joan of Arc places the audience directly in the midst of a play within a play in a newly conceived production by “avant…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:28PMRehearsals begin next week at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the American premiere of The Wheel by Zinnie Harris. Ensemble member Tina Landau directs Harris’s epic, a work of magic re…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:21PMBroadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that individual tickets for ONCE,winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:08PMWhen the film of Flashdance was unveiled in the early 1980′s, it was considered somewhat revolutionary as it was the first of its genre to incorporate an MTV music video vibe into cine…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:55PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Podcast with recording sensation SHARA STRAND from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:41PMPodcast with recording sensation SHARA STRAND from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Recording sensation Shara Strand discusses her incredible career. Shara will be performing at North Halsted Stree…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:49PMMonday, August 5, 2013
Acclaimed comedians Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah lead a group of Muslim-American standup comedians as they go on the road to counter Islamophobia using the only weapon they have: jokes.�…
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