The Viaduct
Point Break LIVE!

Description:
The critically acclaimed, coast to coast hit, Point Break LIVE! is coming to Chicago. Yes, it's the movie on stage with a brilliant twist. Bring on your best Patrick Swayze for the role of zen surfer guru/bankrobber, Bodhi. Also looking for surfer dude type guys (20-30) for Ex-Presidents gang. Bring....Read More

Theatre Seven
Mimesophobia

Audition Dates: Nov 17 - Nov 21, 2009

Description:
Auditions for Mimesophobia, written by Carlos Murillo and directed by Margot Bordelon.

Looking for:
Henry: late 20's to mid 30's. Fast talking, ambitious, LA sensibility. Filmmaker.

Woman who Speaks and Man who Speaks: must be able to play mid 30's, open on race for man, woman is Caucasian. Attractive; has pedigree,....Read More

Gorilla Tango Theatre
Immigrant Song

Audition Dates: Jan 3

Description:
Actors wanted for Immigrant Song, A sketch comedy about immigration. All actors are welcome, but with a preference to first and second generation Americans (and people who are really good at accents).

Writers also wanted
We are looking for a small group of writers to help develop material for Immigrant Song.....Read More

Project 891 Theatre Company
Epic Proportions

Audition Dates: Dec 12 - Dec 14, 2009

Description:
Project 891 Theatre Company seeks men and women (18-50) for Epic Proportions.

Seeking actors with great comedic timing. Fight experience and Improv helpful but not required.

Auditions will be held Saturday Dec 12 at Center on Halsted Room 205. Callbacks will be held at Stage Left theatre on Monday Dec 14.

Set....Read More

Village Players Performing Arts Center
Lost in Yonkers

Description:
Village Players Theater is seeking two adult male actors, 35-45, for the roles of Eddie and Uncle Louie and two young male actors, approximately 13 and 16, for the key roles of Jay and Arty in Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork, "Lost in Yonkers", directed by Brian Rabinowitz.....Read More

Diamante Productions
Lucid

Description:
Looking for male actors to portray the role of Peter. Late 20's to mid 30's, any race, at least 5'8". A romantic. An artist stifled by a corporate job. A man who is at the end of his rope with his too-ordinary life but, because of his circumstances, he feels....Read More

Cock And Bull Theatre
General Auditions

Audition Dates: Nov 9 - Nov 10, 2009

Description:
Cock and Bull Theatre a new late night theatre company presenting original experimental work, and deconstructed classics in a late night environment with artistic director Chris Garcia Peak Auditioning for roles for The Legend og Ginger Bred and general season auditions.....Read More

About Face Theatre
Fast Forward

Audition Dates: Nov 17

Description:
Seeking women of color, ages 18-30 to play swing roles in Fast Forward, a play about the challenges of being gay in high school and the sex education crisis in America.

Actors must be able to play high school students and adults. Actors will also be expected to....Read More

Lights Out Theatre Company
Song For a Future Generation

Audition Dates: Nov 21 - Nov 30, 2009

Description:
Lights Out Theater Company is holding auditions for Song For a Future Generation, a futuristic dance party in outer space inspired by the music of the B-52s. It's kind of like "Can't Hardly Wait" but in outer space.

LOTC is looking for actors ages 20-35, male and female.....Read More

Cirque du Soleil
Actors and Clowns

Audition Dates: Dec 7 - Dec 8, 2009

Description:
Cirque du Soleil is seeking performers in acting and clowning to be part of their current shows and upcoming creations. We will be hosting auditions in Chicago in December 2009 for the following profiles:

• Middle-aged Caucasian comic theatre actor
• Voluptuous physical actress or clown
• Physical....Read More
  
  

Dream Theatre
Aelita and Shiny Boxes

Audition Dates: Nov 21

Description:
Seeking four men and four women ages 18 – 35 for two world premiere plays. ....Read More

Village Players Performing Arts Center
Savage in Limbo

Audition Dates: Nov 16

Description:
Seeking men and women (late 20s/early 30s).....Read More

Pegasus Players
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)

Audition Dates: Nov 23

Description:
Pegasus is seeking two males and two females singing actors who move well. Preference given to those who also play piano.

June (the ingenue): Female, late teens-late 20's-sings/acts in the styles of Laurie (Oklahoma) & Julie (Carousel); Amy (Company) and Joanna (Sweeney); Minnie Fae (Dolly) and Agnes (Mame);....Read More

Profiles Theatre
Killer Joe

Description:
Casting one male and one female, late teens - early 20s and one male, early 40s - early 50s for the play Killer Joe.

Killer Joe focuses on the Smith family, a greedy, vindictive clan of Texans who hatch a plan to murder their estranged matriarch to cash....Read More

The James Downing Theatre
The Fantasticks

Audition Dates: Nov 11

Description:
The James Downing Theatre announces Auditions for their upcoming production of the beloved musical The Fantasticks....Read More

Halcyon Theatre
The Alcyone Festival 2010-Celebrating the work of Maria Irene Fornes

Audition Dates: Nov 7 - Nov 8, 2009

Description:
We are seeking actors of all types, ages and ethnicities.....Read More

The Beverly Theatre Guild
Arsenic and Old Lace

Audition Dates: Nov 15 - Nov 16, 2009

Description:
The Beverly Theatre Guild is pleased to announce open auditions for the second production of its 2009-2010 Season, Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic comedy about two sweet mercy-killing elderly spinsters written by Joseph Kesselring.

The production will be directed by John Grant-Phillips.

Casting 11 Men, 3 Women:

• Abby Brewster, Martha Brewster:....Read More
  
  

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre
The Crucible

Audition Dates: Nov 14

Description:
Caucasian Men, aged 25-70. Caucasian Women, aged 18-70 African-American Women, aged 25-40

Set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and written in direct response to the McCarthy trials in the 1950s, this scathing indictment of censorship remains a timeless classic of American drama - a master study on the....Read More

Illinois Shakespeare Festival
2010 Season

Audition Dates: Nov 13

Description:
Seeking Male and Female actors to play in two or three of the summer season's productions, performed in rep in Normal, IL.

The season will include The Tempest, The Three Musketeers, and The Merry Wives of Windsor....Read More

The Hypocrites
Cabaret

Audition Dates: Nov 9

Description:
Looking for a young male actor/singer (who can play between 6-11 yrs. of age).

Featuring sexy, witty and politically-charged musical numbers, Cabaret highlights the impact global conflicts bear on the lives of everyday people. Set in Weimar Berlin just prior to Nazi rule, the play follows the unlikely romance between two....Read More

Profiles Theatre
21st Season

Audition Dates: Through November 15, 2009

Description:
Profiles Theatre is accepting headshot/resumes for the remainder of their 21st Season through November 15, 2009.....Read More

Independent Stars Playhouse NFP, INC.
Doubt

Audition Dates: Dec 12 - Dec 14, 2009

Description:
1 white/ Caucasian male (age 20-50), 1 white/ Caucasian woman (age 18-30), 1 white/ Caucasian woman (age 30-60), 1 African American woman (age 30-50).....Read More

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
The Mikado

Audition Dates: Jan 9 - Jan 10, 2010

Description:
The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company will be holding auditions for The Mikado at Goodspeed Hall, Univ. of Chicago, 1010 E 59th St., Chicago.

There are 7 prinicpal parts with modest stipends and a large mixed chorus.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Inc. along with the University of Chicago Department of....Read More

Harper College
Urinetown

Audition Dates: Dec 10 - Dec 11, 2009

Description:
Harper College is announcing auditions for its production of Urinetown.
Auditions open to students and community. You do not need to be a Harper student to audition. All roles open.

Urinetown is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book....Read More