Thursday, December 13, 2012
Profiles Theatre Artistic Directors Darrell W. Cox and Joe Jahraus announce the World premiere of Resident Artist Neil LaBute’s revised stage version of In the Company of Men, opening at T…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:40PMFrom the moment you walk into the theatre proper at Chicago Shakes you know are in for a experience like no other. The grand parlor in which David Ives’ new adaptation of Molière’s The …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:22PMSideshow Theatre Company continues its 2012/13 season with the Chicago premiere of MARIA/STUART by Jason Grote, directed by Marti Lyons, playing March 30 – May 5, 2013 at Theater Wit, 1…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:43PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Goodman Theatre announces a special staged reading of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666—co-adapted for the stage and co-directed by Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls and new Goodman…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:21AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Broadway In Chicago has announced single tickets for the two-time Emmy Award winning and two-time Tony Award nominated production Cathy Rigby is PETER PAN! go on sale to the public today, No…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:48PMFive new plays (two fully staged workshop productions performed in repertory plus three staged readings) comprise Goodman Theatre’s free 2012 New Stages Amplified in the Owen Theatre, a se…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:43PMRed Tape Theatre is pleased to announce that starting in January 2013, Brooke Allen will become their first playwright in residence as part of the newly revised Fresh Eyes Project. Formed in…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:36PMSteep Theatre Company will kick off the new year with the Midwest Premiere of Obie Award-winner Ethan Lipton’s Luther. This darkly comic examination of America’s uneasy relationship with…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:29PMEVENT: Bizarre Bazaar: A Holiday Special CURATED BY: Philip Elson, Melissa Ganser & Cristina Tadeo SHOW DATES: Friday, December 14 TIMES: 8:30pm TICKETS: $15 regular Online at www.redtap…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:22PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is pleased to announce a day-of-show drawing for the Second National Tour, which launches in Chicago on December 11, 20…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:15PMPride Films and Plays is thrilled to announce the Chicago 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s acclaimed Beautiful Thing, theheartwarming story of two teenaged boys comin…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:40PMOo la la! Champagne corks will pop when the New Philharmonic (NP) and Music Director and Conductor Kirk Muspratt provide a special way to ring out the old with “Viennese Pops New Year̵…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:32PMAbout Face Theatre blends classic Christmas tales with queer pop culture for its world premiere holiday production WE THREE LIZAS with book and lyrics by AFT Artistic Associate Scott Bra…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:28PM Following sold-out runs in London (where it received the Olivier Award) and Paris, Roadkill has its American premiere in Chicago. Based on the real life experiences of a young woman t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:00PMMonday, December 10, 2012
Phillip Dawkins has created quite an interesting piece of theatre with his latest piece, Failure: A Love Story. Set in the 1920’s, this Chicago-centric piece tells the story of three d…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:52PMSugarward, Sean Graney’s new play about the governor of the British Leeward Islands circa 1706, will receive its world premiere January 5, 2013, at 7:30 pm at The Side Project. Sugarward…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:45AMSaturday, December 8, 2012
Watching Jeff Garlin weave his way through the material of his new show “Closer Than I Appear” you quickly come to one conclusion; that there is no better stand-up comedian working in th…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:19PMFriday, December 7, 2012
Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, today announced promotions for two senior staff members. Drew Landmesser, Lyric’s production and technical director, will bec…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:07PMNew Year’s Eve at The Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier The Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Monday, Dec. 31st, 2012 9pm-2am 5 Hour Premium Open Bar 9pm-2am Chicago’s #1 Party! Joonb…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:51PMBuffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE) presents “The Underpants,” by Carl Sternheim, adapted by Steve Martin, directed by BTE Associate Artistic Director Amelia Barrett*+ and featuring BTE…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:37PMThe company that brought you SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DRAG QUEENS, TWINKIE AND THE BEAST and ALEX IN WONDERLAND are premiering something new this holiday season! Giving homage to classic no…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:54PMFor more information visit www.ScroogeandMarleyMovie.com Tracy Baim was executive producer of the award-winning and critically acclaimed lesbian feature film Hannah Free starring Sh…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:35AMThursday, December 6, 2012
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced last week that Steppenwolf Theatre Company is one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Wo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:38PMYou’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really are a heel. You’re as cuddly as a cactus. You’re as charming as an eel. Mr. Grinch! You’re a bad banana with a greasy bla…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:15PMContinuing its 25th Anniversary Season, Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by En…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:07AMWriters’ Theatre continues its season with Sweet Charity, book by Neil Simon with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, directed by Artistic Director Michael Halberstam …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:54AMREVIEWED BY: MELODY UDELL From the Brothers Grimm to sanitized Disney animations, fairy tales have certainly earned their place in musical cannon — they’re classics that can be endlessly…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:35AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Commedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based non-profit theater company, has announced that Dr. Marc Okrand, creator of the Klingon Language, will be attending the December 15 (4pm) showing of A…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:00PMThe Montrose Room located at the InterContinental Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont introduces Coco Montoya on Friday, December 7, and Sam Llanas formerly from the BoDeans, will perform on S…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:55PMIn the iconic 1972 action-disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure, a luxury ocean liner overturns at midnight on New Year’s Eve. This December 31, 2012, on the 40th anniversary of The Pose…
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