Tuesday, May 7, 2013
InFusion Theatre Company is proud to announce its second collaboration with award-winning playwright Qui Nguyen with the Midwest premiere of Fight Girl Battle World, directed by InFusion…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:10PMBroadway Musicals; A Jewish Legacy is a must see for two reasons. First, it features interviews with some of the most prolific musical theater composers and lyricists ever to set pen to pa…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:56AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Podcast with Mary Arrchie Theater’s THE BRIG from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:41PMPodcast with Mary Arrchie Theater’s THE BRIG from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. THE BRIG director Jennifer Markowitz and cast members Connor McNamara, G. Riley Mills, Aaron Norman, Mike Ne…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:36PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
If you ever wanted to experience immersive theatre at its finest then Oracle Theatre’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother is a must see. Based on Maxim Gorky’s…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:30PMSJCChicago LLC is proud to announce the extension of Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s production of Smokey Joe’s Café – The Songs of Leiber and Stoller at the Royal George Cabaret Thea…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:40PMAs part of its 2013 season exploring CHOICES, Pegasus will produce the world premiere of IF YOU SPLIT A SECOND by award-winning Chicago playwright Dana Lynn Formby. The play will run Thursda…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:37PMCirque Shanghai returns to Chicago’s Navy Pier this summer with a magnificent new show “Cirque Shanghai: Dragon’s Thunder” beginning Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The production will run …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:55AMFriday, May 3, 2013
With hundreds of antique phonographs, high quality music boxes, and vintage radios, thousands of rare records from the 1890’s to the 1950’s and more, the 38th Annual Phonograph and Musi…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:52PMIconic entertainer Pat Boone will perform two concerts only at Drury Lane Theatre on Monday, May 13 at 1:30 p.m. and Tuesday, May 14 at 1:30 p.m. Celebrating 75 years in show business, Boone…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:46PMBlack Ensemble Theater Founder and Executive Director Jackie Taylor announces a special Mother’s Day concert, To Mother – With Love (A Concert Just For Her), featuring the stars of B…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:24AMBe forewarned that prior to viewing playwright Adam Pasen’s intellectually intricate new work Tea with Edie & Fitz, it will behoove you to do some basic research on the characters invo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:25AMThursday, May 2, 2013
Music Theatre International (MTI) will bring a musical flair to the Scene Partner e-Script library, thanks to a new Distribution Agreement between the world’s premier musical theatre licen…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:38PMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical, including Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the original 1983 film, are holding open auditions to find exceptionally talented ki…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:33PMPBS today unveiled a summer line-up that features a diverse array of new programming. A summer of intrigue presents new episodes of MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! productions: “Inspector Lewis, S…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:21PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards. The Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:50AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Date: May 17th, 2013 Day & Time: Friday, 7pm Location: Cafe Ballou, 939 N Western, Chicago, IL “Cafe Cabaret” Cafe Cabaret is an eclectic variety/cabaret show with a rotating…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:40PMMembers of the cast of Chicago’s Book of Mormon performed a sold out cabaret benefit for BC/EFA and Chicago House. The event, which included Nic Rouleau, Ben Platt, Syesha Mercado, J…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:07PMKathryn Gauthier, award-winning visual and performing artist, will enthrallChicago audiences on Thursday, May 23 from 6 – 8 PM with a musical performance of 20 songs along with a 20 year …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:50PMOracle Productions continues Season 3 of Public Access Theatre with its first musical, THE MOTHER by Bertolt Brecht. This bold production is directed by Max Truax, Artistic Director of Oracl…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:14PMThe 67th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from Radio City Music Hall, on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 9, 2013. BEST PLAY The Assembled Parti…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:57PMCourt Theatre Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J. Albert presentThe Molière Festival: The Misanthrope & Tartuffe, written by Molière with a translation …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:40PMTimeLine Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today’s social and political issues, announces that The How and the Why by Sarah Treem (Netf…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:32PMRush Hour Concerts presents its 14th annual Summer Concert Series featuring free concerts of “great music for busy lives” at River North’s historic St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:13AMSummer 2013 will bring a wealth of new works to Chicago stages, closing out this season with some of the most exciting theater in the country, and holding Chicago’s place as a leader on th…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:07AMMonday, April 29, 2013
The New York premiere of SURVIVING MOMMIE DEAREST an empowering and inspirational new production starring Christina Crawford – actress, activist and author of the 1978 best-selling …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:25AMREVIEWED BY: JOSEPH HILLENMETER “Ploughed Under: An American Songbook,” is The House Theatre of Chicago’s most recent forte into “amazing feats of storytelling,” the mission of…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:05AMThere certainly seems to be a plethora of “Father” centric shows making their way around Chicago. Within the past two weeks, more than half of the productions that have opened …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:37AMThere is an old joke with musical theatre composers when they are asked what comes first, the music or the lyrics. The answer is neither. First comes the contract!!! I have been in the…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:39AMSunday, April 28, 2013
REVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT Pal Joey first appeared on stage on Christmas Day 1940. This wonderful musical creation by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart features one of the greatest …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:40PMWhile watching AstonRep’s Chicago premiere of Next Fall, playwright Geoffrey Nauffts’ deftly emotional play now on stage at the very intimate Boho Theatre space, I was wondering …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:02PM 
