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In the wake of controversial grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, Victory Gardens Theater will host a discussion on issues of inequality and race on Thursday, Dec…
The New Colony, the oddball theater company that produces original, often humorous ensemble works, announced its 2015 season on Tuesday. This will be the company's first year in residence at…
Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, the longtime home of Next Theatre that shuttered last month, is in search of new tenants, Angela Allyn, program coordinator for the City of Evanston, …
16th Street Theater in Berwyn has announced its 2015 season.
The 2015 Chicago Fringe Festival will introduce a Kids Fringe this summer, a spokesman for the festival said Thursday.
Jackalope Theatre announced the cast of its upcoming production of Christopher Shinn's "Four" on Tuesday.
Black Ensemble Theater, the Uptown company best known for its jubilant musical biographies and recurring original musicals, will begin its 2015 season with an unlikely selection " a straight…
Black Ensemble Theater, the Uptown company best known for its jubilant musical biographies and recurring original musicals, will begin its 2015 season with an unlikely selection " a play, th…
The actress Laurie Metcalf will be honored next year at the Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts luncheon, the theater said on Tuesday.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2015 grant recipients on Tuesday. Out of $29 million in nationwide awards, 60 Illinois arts organizations will receive a total of $1,636,000.
This week's Theater Loop Showcase video is Travis Taylor from "Camelot," the 1960 musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, currently playing Drury Lane Theatre.Â
Just in time for Thanksgiving comes this week's Theater Loop Showcase video: Kelly O'Sullivan and Sadieh Rifai in "The Humans," a new play by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Karam at America…
This week's Theater Loop Showcase video is Leah Urzendowski in "Burning Bluebeard," the dark holiday play from The Ruffians beginning Dec. 13 at Theater Wit.
They are who they are. The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire announced the cast of its upcoming production of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's drag musical comedy "La Cage Aux Folles" on W…
Comedian Mike Birbiglia will stop at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn as part of his "Thank God for Jokes" tour, a spokesperson for the theater said on Wednesday.
Albany Park Theater Project, the youth theater group that creates its own original works, will perform two productions in 2015, it was announced on Monday.
Six full-length plays and a bill of three ten-minute plays will premiere in the 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the theater said on Tuesday.
Windy City Playhouse, a new Equity theater in Chicago, announced the cast of its inaugural production, Deborah Zoe Laufer's comedy "End Days," on Monday.
Diedre Hall, the daytime TV actress who starred as Dr. Marlena Evans on "Days of Our Lives," will perform in Hell In A Handbag Productions' holiday benefit this year, the theater said on Thu…
The previously announced Chicago-area premiere of "Billy Elliot" will be joined by two plays and two musicals at Drury Lane Theatre during the 2015-16 season, the theater said Monday.
The New Colony, a storefront theater company known for its zany, ensemble-based work, will make The Den Theatre in Wicker Park its new home, the company announced Monday.
Chicago Dramatists, the city's playwright-centric theater, named five new resident playwrights on Monday, bringing the company's total to 35.
This week's Theater Loop Showcase is Justin Adair and Royen Kent from Griffin Theatre Company's "Titanic." Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's 1997 musical, here receiving its first locally-produ…
Richard Cotovsky will once again get behind the wheel of the "Hellcab" at Profiles Theatre, the theater has announced. Cotovsky played the driver of the eponymous cab in Will Kern's play man…
Steppenwolf For Young Adults' acclaimed production of "Animal Farm," newly-adapted from George Orwell's novel by Alice Austen and Steve Pickering, will add four more public performances, the…
