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Sideshow Theatre Company announced its 2014-15 season on Monday. All three plays will be performed at the Victory Gardens Richard Christiansen Theater where the company continues in residenc…
A Red Orchid Theatre has extended its acclaimed production of Marisa Wegrzyn’s flight attendant comedy “Mud Blue Sky” five weeks, the theater said on Wednesday. It will now…
On May 13, the Goodman Theatre will celebrate the life of Robert Christen, the theater’s Resident Lighting Designer who died on March 9 at the age of 64. Christen spent over three deca…
The cast of the Goodman Theatre’s summer revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “Brigadoon” was announced on Monday. The theater also said that writ…
The theater company The Neo-Futurists announced its 2014-15 season on Friday. The theater also said that Kurt Chiang will succeed Megan Mercier as Artistic Director. Chiang will work alongsi…
Chairman of the Chicago Blackhawks, William Rockwell “Rocky” Wirtz, and his wife, Marilyn, have made a multimillion dollar gift to the Northwestern University School of Communica…
Chicago arts organizations will receive $1,233,500 in grants from the National Endowment for The Arts this year, 2014 headlined by a $100,000 grant to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for its Mo…
Signal Ensemble Theatre announced its 2014-15 season on Tuesday.
The House Theatre of Chicago’s 2014-15 season will feature "The Iron Stag King," "The Crownless King" and the new "The Excelsior King," the company's three-part fantasy saga, performed…
Columbia College Chicago has announced that it will present theater artist Jim Jacobs with a 2014 honorary degree.Â
Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced the final title in its 2014-15 season on Thursday.
Theater Wit in Lakeview will present the Chicago premiere of Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns, a post-electric play” in January, 2015, the company said on Tuesday.Â
First Folio Theatre announced its 2014-15 season on Monday. Made up of two venues in West suburban Oak Brook, one indoors and one outdoors, the theater will present four plays in its 19th ye…
Do you love Shakespeare? On May 18, The Theater Loop will host a gathering with Antoni Cimolino , artistic director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. The Festival, which produces…
Northlight Theatre in Skokie announced its spring 2015 production on Monday.Â
Next Theatre in Evanston announced its 2014-15 season, the company’s 34th, on Monday.
Kareem Bandealy will play the title role in William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at The Gift Theatre, while Michael Patrick Thornton will star opposite him as the scheming Iago,…
Casting for American Theater Company’s revival of “Hair,” the flower-child rock musical by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermott, was announced on Thursday. &nb…
Raven Theatre announced its full 2014-15 season on Wednesday. The four-play lineup features the previously announced Chicago premiere of “Dividing The Estate,” Horton Foote&rsquo…
Lifeline Theatre announced its 2014-15 season on Tuesday.
Lookingglass Theatre Company’s 2014-15 season will feature a remounting of “Lookingglass Alice,” the company’s popular adaptation of the Lewis Carroll story, it was a…
Stephen Sondheim is experiencing a big moment in Chicago, where four of the composer-lyricist’s musicals are concurrently running. The Sondheimmania will continue next season at Porchl…
Writers Theatre in Glencoe announced its 2014-15 season on Wednesday.
