Thursday, January 3, 2013
Giving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCM® Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League present “One Night Stand: Creating …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:11PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house records in three different cities for the week ending December 30, 2012. On Broadway, THE BOO…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:00PMBroadway In Chicago and the producers of the new musical THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, announced today that tickets will be available for 14 addition…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:54PMShattered Globe Theatre continues its 2012/13 Season with the dark comedy HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Artistic Director Roger Smart, playing January 24 – March 2, 2013 at …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:45PMWendy Kaplan, President of MadKap Productions, will present the Chicago Premiere of SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE…, written by former Seinfeld writer Marc Jaffe and Emmy nominated playwright Er…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:37PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Britain’s iconic singer LULU will make her NYC concert debut with a February 16th performance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, backed by an All-Star Band, featuring Will Lee, Jimmy Viv…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:45PMIn honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet,hosts an African Dance Master Class with Andrea Vinson. Well-suited for familie…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:27PMThe hilarious Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and his partner Justin Makita stopped by our favorite talk show Windy City LIVE and discussed marri…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:03PMPride Films and Plays is thrilled to announce the Chicago 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s acclaimed Beautiful Thing, the heartwarming story of two teenaged boys coming to …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:23PMThe Mercury Theater,3745 N. Southport, begins its highly anticipated 2013 season with the exhilarating Broadway musical revue A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING, running from January 16 through March…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:42PMChicago Sinfonietta continues its milestone 25th Anniversary Season with its Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrating the universal lessons of Dr. King with music from the …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:37PMIn profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, the joyous Somewhere Between illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable. The deeply moving doc…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:31PMMonday, December 31, 2012
Sitting through the laborious two hours of Redtwist Theatre’s production of Bruce Norris’ Purple Heart one ponders the question of how the powers that be thought this haphazard pl…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:30PMFriday, December 28, 2012
Big Noise Theatre Company will present Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday as their 2nd production of the company’s 2012-13 season. Performances will be held at the Prairie Lake Thea…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:08AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
As we close another fantastic year in Chicago theatre, here is our top 10 plays and musicals of 2012, including our favorite performance art piece. We at Showbiz Chicago wish you the happi…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:45PMSaturday, December 22, 2012
If you are going to experience The Den Theatre’s intricate remount of Faith Healer, be prepared because it will surely be a test of your physical stamina. Timing in at almost three hours…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:37PMThe Redtwist Theatre will present Purple Heart by Bruce Norris from tonight, December 22 from January 27. In this twisted, dark comedy, company member, KC Karen Hill, and guest artist, Kathl…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:22PMBIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will star Norbert Leo Butz as Edward Bloom, and have its pre-Broadway…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:16PMAkvavit Theatre presents two Chicago and one United States premieres of the work of Europe’s most-produced living playwright, Norway’s Jon Fosse, under the unified title of Gjeng…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:09PMInFusion Theatre Company is proud to announce the world premiere of Mark Mason’s Allotment Annie, directed by InFusion Company Member Bridgette Harney, January 3 – February 3, 20…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:03PMThe Second National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, broke the house record in its first week of performances at the Bank of America Theatre (18…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:59PMBroadway In Chicago has announced that I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE, the brand new hit musical stage show adapted from the longest-running and most beloved television program in history, starri…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:52PMRight-wing parents and left-leaning offspring take center stage in Jon Robin Baitz’s political potboiler, Other Desert Cities—a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-nominated “best n…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:41PMEvery once in a while, a film comes around that is a game changer. For the movie musical, Les Misérables is that film. Based on the 1985 Cameron Macintosh produced play, which epical…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:49AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Art has always mirrored life. No more so is that statement true than in the literary world. Parceling together Charles Dickens’ real relationships with the opposite sex to those in his…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:39AMThursday, December 20, 2012
American Theater Company announces the world premiere of the revised version of columbinus, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, with dramaturgy by Patricia Hersch, and conceived and d…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:58PMCourt Theatre Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J. Albert present Skylight, written by David Hare, and directed by William Brown. Skylight will run January 10 �…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:49PMOscar Season is in full swing; the big, end-of-year releases are hitting theaters and nominations voting began Monday. From now until the awards ceremony on February 24, the film world is ab…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:32PMWriters’ Theatre Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma and Artistic Director Michael Halberstam announce the Writers’ Theatre production of Sweet Charity, book by Neil Simon with music by…
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