The League of Chicago Theatres is now accepting nominations to fill upcoming vacancies on its Board of Directors. Nominees may be from any voting budget category theatre or a civic represent…
All that Fosse. And yes it can be said here, “All that Jazz” has finally come to the Music Circus. The deconstructed but still fully entertaining 1996 revival of the Bob Fosse,…
Nikka Graff Lanzarone, who has been seen on Broadway in Chicago and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, offers a solo show entitled Keep Me Posted (a live rock documentary) Aug. 22 at…
Drury Lane Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, starring Jeff Award nominee Susie McMonagle as the bipolar matriarch Diana, which officially opens Aug. 22, fol…
The Dramatists Guild of America holds its annual conference in Chicago Aug. 22-25.
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Next: to the story of a Chicago theater where the scripts come from the real lives of the young performers. Jeffrey Brown has the story.…
Motown the Musical has announced an open casting call in the hopes of finding gifted African American singers to join its cast. Chicago has been listed as one of the cities hosting an open c…
Its first time ever at Music Circus, the sizzling, sexy Kander and Ebb smash hit Chicago is the final show of the 2013 Music Circus season, with an extended run at the Wells Fargo Pavilion f…
Producers announced today that off-Broadway's OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES will close on Sunday September 15. It will have played 22 previews and 552 regular performances. As previously announced…
 When you put horns in a rock band, everything else gets amped waaaay up. We know this because we sat behind the yo-yoing knobs of the sound board at the Chicago concert at Wolf Trap on …
Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce that, after sold out audiences in New York and a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a 4-star review, 50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL – T…
Podcast with Chicago Dancing Festival Co-Founder JAY FRANKE from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. The 7th Annual Chicago Dancing Festival begins August 20, 2013 and co-founder Jay Franke returns to…
Dramatists Guild of America presents the 2nd Annual National Conference in Chicago "Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future" livestreaming on the global, peer produced, open source HowlRound…
Steppenwolf in Chicago was founded in 1974 in a church basement by three people committed to starting an acting company; Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and"someone you probably know"film and TV…
Producers of Motown the Musical will launch a nationwide open casting call for African-American performers to join the Broadway and upcoming national tour of the musical that traces the life…
Olivier Award nominee Carol Woods returns to the role of Matron "Mama" Morton in the record-breaking, Tony Award-winning revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago beginning…
The Music Circus production of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Tony-winning musical Chicago, starring Brenda Braxton, Lindsay Roginski and Tom Hewitt, begins performances Aug. 20.
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents the Broadway musicalTHE COLOR PURPLE, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, now previewing and officially opens …
RECOMMENDED The free, weeklong festival that has made Chicago a national dance destination even in the off-season now "sells out" its three indoor events in minutes. But don't worry; tickets…
My colleague Chris Jones broke the news late in February, writing: "Famous for his work on 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,' (William) Petersen is generally a big box-office draw in Chicago,…
A popular tale of fame, fortune and jazz will be stripped back to its vaudevillian roots next month. Taking place at the Oldham Coliseum, Chicago is set to "Razzle Dazzle" audienc…
Michael Shannon will perform in the absurdist play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
The producers of "Riverdance," the massively successful Irish dance extravaganza, have announced that Chicago will host the United States premiere of their newest endeavor, "Heartbeat of Hom…
The beloved singer had a hand in Chicago Theatre's resurgence In 1955, a 27-year-old singer appeared at the Chicago Theatre. Although she was becoming known for her singing on a TV show fr…