Monday, August 14, 2017
Goodman Theatre announced the lineup of its 14th annual New Stages Festival Monday. Featuring three weeks of developmental productions and staged readings, the free fest runs Sept. 20-Oc…
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On a sunny Monday afternoon in Lakeview, a man bikes by Chicago Bagel Authority and a woman walks into Walgreens. Someone wearing a tie-dye Lollapalooza T-shirt crosses the street. At 959 W.…
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The Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour will make a Chicago stop this fall, it was announced Friday. The political-protest-as-comedy show features national television and talk radio host Stephanie …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:45PM[SHARE]This week's Showcase features a song from Disney's "Aladdin," now in its final weeks at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Jacob Dickey, who stars as the loveable street rat who wins the he…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:18PM[SHARE]No need to wait for it. The official "Hamilton" app is here. The HamApp, sure to please fans of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Founding Fathers phenomenon, is available now for iOS and Android devices…
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced the all-woman cast of "The Taming of the Shrew" Thursday. Set in 1919 Chicago during the Suffragette movement and featuring additional dialogue by Ron W…
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The complete lineup is set for the first Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, a month-long event opening in Chicago this fall. Presented by the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:35PM[SHARE]Congo Square Theatre Company announced its 18th season Wednesday. Opening the season is the return of the holiday concert "A Nativity Tribute," produced in partnership with Studio One Dance …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PM[SHARE]Goodman Theatre announced casting for its 2017-18 season openers Wednesday. Opening the season is Ivo van Hove's revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" (Sept. 9-Oct. 15) in the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Casting is complete for the pre-Broadway tour and Broadway premiere of the new Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical "Escape to Margaritaville," it was announced Tuesday. Paul Alexander Nolan, who s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]Idina Menzel mooed as the performance artist Maureen in the original production of "Rent" in 1996 and, ever since, Broadway audiences have mooed back. Over the past decades, Menzel has won o…
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"On Your Feet!" will conga its way back to Chicago next spring, Broadway in Chicago announced Monday. The Broadway musical based on the life, music and cultural phenomenon created by Gloria …
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This week's Showcase features magician Brett Schneider, whose one-man show "Communion" opens this weekend at The Den Theatre. In the video, Schneider is joined by RedEye editor Sade Carpe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:35PM[SHARE]Porchlight Music Theatre announced the cast of "Billy Elliot" Wednesday. The cast of the Tony-winning musical will be the largest in Porchlight's history. Jacob Kaiser and Lincoln Seymour w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Following productions in London, Hong Kong and Edinburgh, the beatboxing show "Gobsmacked!" is coming to Chicago, Broadway in Chicago and producer and creator Nic Doodson announced Tuesday. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
American Theater Company announced complete casting for its 33rd season Tuesday. The cast of the premiere of Janine Nabers' "Welcome to Jesus" (Oct. 26-Dec. 3) will include Taylor Blim as Di…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:31PM[SHARE]This week's Showcase features a romantic duet from the Marriott Theatre's production of "The Bridges of Madison County," the Jason Robert Brown musical based on the 1992 best-selling novel. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:29PM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
Drury Lane Theatre announced casting for the Chicago premiere of "Rock of Ages" Friday. Russell Mernagh and Cherry Torres will star as Drew and Sherrie, a couple fighting to save the Sunset …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2017
Haven Theatre will produce the world premiere of Isaac Gomez's "The Displaced" and the Chicago premiere of Stew and Heidi Rodewald's "The Total Bent" in upcoming seasons, the company announc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:07PM[SHARE]Shattered Globe Theatre announced its 2017-18 season Thursday. First up, Louis Contey will direct James Still's "The Heavens are Hung in Black" (Sept. 7-Oct. 21), an epic focusing on the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
About Face Theatre will present three Chicago premieres in its 2017-18 season, including Joshua Harmon's "Significant Other," which played its last performance on Broadway in April.  …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:51PM[SHARE]The Facility Theatre, a new theater collective lead by artistic director Kirk Anderson, announced its inaugural season Wednesday. The collective says it aims to bring veteran and emerging…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The Marriott Theatre announced the cast of "Honeymoon in Vegas" Tuesday. As previously announced, the regional premiere will be lead by the original Broadway team, including director Gary…
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The Second City has announced the cast of its 106th mainstage revue. Returning cast member Kelsey Kinney will be joined by Ryan Asher, Tyler Davis, Jeffrey Murdoch, Tien Tran and Nate Varron…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:28PM[SHARE]BoHo Theatre announced its 2018 season Wednesday. First up is "Cyrano" (March 3-April 15) by Edmund Rostand, translated by Michael Hollinger and adapted by Hollinger and Aaron Posner. The ni…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:40PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced fall programming for its multi-genre LookOut Series Monday, including performances part of the previously announced month-long Chicago International …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
This week's Showcase video features two football dancers from Cirque du Soleil's "Luzia," now playing to Chicago crowds under the Grand Chapiteau. In the video, Abou Traore and Laura Biondo …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
First Floor Theater announced its 2017-18 season featuring three new-to-Chicago plays Thursday. Opening the company's sixth season is Leah Nanako Winkler's "Two Mile Hollow" (Oct. 8-No…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:47PM[SHARE]At the beginning of an afternoon class at Dewey School of Excellence in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, an adult wearing a crayon-colored T-shirt emblazoned with a lanky monkey says to a r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:42PM[SHARE]Montego Glover and Gregory Treco are heading in to the Chicago production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical "Hamilton," and Daniel Breaker and Karen Olivo are heading out, producer Jeffrey…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:01PM[SHARE]Strawdog Theatre Company announced its 30th season Thursday, the first to take place at the company's new home on Berenice Avenue. First up is the previously announced Chicago premiere o…
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