"The Second City Guide to the Symphony" will premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the National Symphony Orchestra Pops announced Thursday. Colin Mochrie, a Second City alum of …
The waiter does a double take when he gets to our table at the Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park and sees a 20-something guy with Ray-Bans nestled in his untamed, wavy hair. "Have you been here …
Windy City Playhouse announced its 2017 season Wednesday, which will mark the company's third year in Irving Park. Opening the season in January is Robert O'Hara's "Bootycandy," a coming-…
Pivot Arts will produce a site-specific interactive production titled "The Memory Tour," the North Side company announced Tuesday. Structured as a 90-minute indoor and outdoor walking tou…
The Chicago Musical Improv Festival will return to iO Chicago this month with a 4-day lineup featuring everything from an improvised rock opera to a puppet musical. Closing out the festival …
Jackalope Theatre Company has announced the lineup of its 7th Annual Living Newspaper Festival, featuring a collection of 10-minute plays inspired by recent headlines. The slate of perfor…
Teatro Vista has announced casting for "Parachute Men," the first production in the company's 2016-17 season. The family drama by Mando Alvarado, about three brothers reunited on the eve …
The Agency Theater Collective announced that it will produce Mia McCullough's "Chagrin Falls" this fall. In McCullough's play, a journalism grad student comes to a town in Oklahoma to …
Theatre Y will present a production of "Macbeth" this fall, directed by French actor Georges Bigot. Starring in the Shakespearean tragedy about the demise of the politically hungry Scotsman�…
Who has the right to tell whose story? Enough people to fill every seat at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater gathered Tuesday night for more than three hours to debate that very question …
Goodman Theatre announced Wednesday the lineup of its 13th annual New Stages festival, featuring a slate of six new plays to be performed for free over a three-week period. The first of …
Tympanic Theatre Company announced its 2016-17 season on Monday. Opening the season in October is Hayes Borkowski's "Sweet Analytics," a new play inspired by Marlowe's "The Tragical Histo…
Nelson Rodriguez has been named the first-ever artistic director of Pride Films and Plays, the company announced Monday. Rodriguez, a Chicago-based theater artist, has been an ensembl…
The Q Brothers' "Othello: The Remix" will make its New York debut this fall at Westside Theatre. Written, directed and composed by GQ and JQ, the hip-hop update to Shakespeare's tragedy rece…
Victory Gardens Theater has announced casting for "Hand To God," the first show in its 2016-17 season. Starring in the production will be Nina Ganet as Jessica, Curtis Edward Jackson as T…
Casting is complete for the return of the '80s-set dinner-theater staple "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding." The interactive production stars Mitchell Conti as Anthony Angelo Nunzio Jr. (Tony) and …
Remy Bumppo Theatre announced casting for its 2016-17 season on Thursday. In the fall, "Pirandello's Henry IV" by Tom Stoppard will feature Mark L. Montgomery as Henry with Chris Amos as Cou…
In this week's Showcase video, Evan Linder and Liz Sharpe perform a scene from "Byhalia, Mississippi," written by Linder and now in a remount at Steppenwolf's 1700 Theatre. In the video, Lin…
First Floor Theater has announced its 2016-17 season, which features comedies from three women playwrights and is set to take place at The Den Theatre, where First Floor will be a new reside…
Goodman Theatre announced the cast of its fall production of Andrew Hinderaker's "The Magic Play" on Wednesday. Francis Guinan (Father) and Sean Parris (Diver) will join the previously annou…
Hannibal Buress will make a hometown stop on his stand-up comedy tour this fall, it was announced Wednesday. "The Hannibal Montanabal Experience" will play the Chicago Theatre on Sept.…
"Welcome to the future home of Ellen Gates Starr High School," announces Albany Park Theater Project co-founder David Feiner, smiling, unable to stand still. "Whoooo!," responds a crowd of C…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced the fall lineup for "LookOut," the company's wide-ranging performance series now in the middle of its first slate of summer programming, on Thursday.Â�…
Slate and The Second City have announced the cast of "Unelectable You," a new political comedy show from the daily web magazine and the Chicago comedy company, inspired by the elect…
American Theater Company will present just three of four originally announced plays in its 2016-17 season, producing no fall production, the company announced Thursday. The season, th…