New Wicked Tickets and other Theatre Happenings

As it approaches its third anniversary of residence in the Downtown Theatre District, the record-breaking Chicago company of Wicked will enable a new block of tickets for purchase. Tickets for performances July 29 - November 2, 2008 will go on-sale to the public on Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m.

Breaking multiple.... Read More

Mamma Mia! Returns to Chicago

Broadway In Chicago has announced the return of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' Mamma Mia!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, to Chicago for a limited engagement this September.  Performances begin on September 17 and run through September 28 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E Congress Pkwy,.... Read More

Theatre In Chicago Launches Opening Night Calendar

If you've been looking for an easy way to find all of the official opening nights for plays in Chicago, look no further. TheatreInChicago.com has launched a dynamic new Chicago Theatre Opening Night Calendar.

Besides providing theatergoers.... Read More

Island of Dr. Moreau and Cabaret Lead The Joseph Jefferson Award Nominees

The Jeff Awards Committee has announced 113 nominations for Non-Equity Jeff Awards in 23 categories for productions that opened during the 2007-08 season (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008). The Committee judged the opening nights of 143 productions offered by 61 non-Equity producing organizations, and recommended 66 of them for further judging, which made these.... Read More

Theatre Tidbits

Oh, What A Night the Windy City has in store with not one but Two rockin' reasons to plan a night on the town on Tuesday evenings in May.  The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) River Cruise is teaming up the Chicago's own company of Jersey Boys - the legendary blockbuster musical celebrating a record-breaking open-ended.... Read More

Pegasus Players' 30th Anniversary Season Announced

Pegasus Players Founder and Executive Director Arlene Crewdson and Artistic Director Alex Levy have announced the Company’s 30th Anniversary 2008-2009 season, featuring two Chicago Premieres: the politically-charged two-play cycle Continental Divide: Mothers Against & Daughters of the Revolution, October 6 - November 9, 2008, and the one-women show, The Shape of a Girl, March 2.... Read More

Steppenwolf Announces Lineup for 4th Annual First Look Repertory of New Work

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced the lineup for First Look Repertory of New Work, the 4th annual program featuring three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotation and accompanied by a series of readings, lectures and events around the development of new work.  First Look Repertory of New Work runs in The Merle.... Read More

The Kid From Brooklyn Comes To The Mercury Theater

The Kid From Brooklyn: The Danny Kaye Musical, the critically-acclaimed new musical based on the life of entertainment legend Danny Kaye, is coming to the Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago, for a limited engagement previewing May 28, opening June 7 and running through August 24, before making its way to New .... Read More

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Stages The Comedy of Errors

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) concludes its 21st Season with The Comedy of Errors staged by CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines, whose collaboration with Second City veteran Ron West brings an additional comedic twist to the production. Set in 1940, during the golden age of film, Shakespeare’s comedic classic unfolds as an eccentric group.... Read More

Theatre Comes To Taylor Street

Onesti Entertainment Corporation and Gipeti Entertainment announced the critically acclaimed production of Hizzoner: Daley the First has found a home at the new Frank Sinatra Performing Arts Center, 1431 W. Taylor St. The open-ended run begins Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m. in "The Upstairs Room," in the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame,.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago Announces 2009 Season

Broadway In Chicago has announced the complete 2009 Broadway In Chicago Season Series. The anticipated Chicago premiere of Mary Poppins, will be joined in the season by Grease, A Chorus Line, A Bronx Tale and Xanadu.

The complete 2009 season lineup includes:

Grease
January 6 - 18, 2009

The one that you want is.... Read More

Theater on the Lake Revives Productions from Eight Companies for the 56th Season

The Chicago Park District's 56th annual Theater on the Lake season features reprisals of eight artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 11 - Aug. 3, 2008. Each production will be performed for five evenings only at the theater at Fullerton Avenue and Lake Michigan.

Hallie Gordon, Artistic Director of Theater on the Lake, comments, "Theater on.... Read More

When It Rains, You Save

April showers mean discounts to A Steady Rain, Chicago Dramatists' hit production now playing through June 8 at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted.  On any rainy day through April 30, you can get $10 off tickets to all performances.  For tickets, call the box office at 312-988-9000 and mention the code STEADY.  .... Read More

Steppenwolf Ensemble Member Tracy Letts' August: Osage County Wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize Board has awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Tracy Letts' critically-acclaimed American play August: Osage County.

August: Osage County, a "darkly funny family drama" directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro, is currently enjoying an open engagement on Broadway, following its sold-out run at Chicago’s Steppenwolf.... Read More

Celeb Playwrights For Chicago Stories Gala Benefit Announced

Comedian Jeff Garlin, author Stuart Dybek and community leader Allen Turner are this year's celebrity playwrights for Victory Gardens Theater's Chicago Stories gala, Friday, May 9, 2008, 6pm at the Four Seasons Hotel, 120 E. Delaware in Chicago.

With its annual one-night-only presentation of three 10-minute, celeb-authored plays, Chicago Stories is always the city's most.... Read More

Goodman Theatre to Present World Premiere Of 'The Ballad Of Emmet Till'

Through countless interviews over the past decade with Emmett Till's family, teachers, classmates and eye-witnesses to the boy's brutal 1955 murder, emerging Chicago playwright Ifa Bayeza has penned a new dramatic work, part history and part mystery: The Ballad of Emmett Till. Oz Scott, who directed for colored girls who have considered suicide when.... Read More

'Dirty Dancing' Dances Into Chicago

Tickets for the U.S. premiere of the international stage hit Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage will go onsale to the general public Friday, April 4. The National Tour of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage will open during a limited engagement in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W..... Read More

Theater So Close, It Touches You

Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago's #1 presenter of new work, announced an exciting line-up of two world premieres, a Chicago premiere, a major revival, the return of its smash hit holiday musical The Snow Queen, and a TBA project starring William L. Petersen, to complete its 2008/09 season of "theater so close, it touches you."
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Lookingglass Theatre Announces 2008/2009 Season

Lookingglass Theatre Company proudly announces the company's 21st season, to include the World Premiere of The Brother’s Karamazov adapted and directed for Lookingglass by Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman; Thornton Wilder’s Our Town co-directed by Anna D. Shapiro and Jessica Thebus; and The Arabian Nights adapted and directed by Ensemble Member and Tony Award winner .... Read More

Fools and Foes Share the Stage in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 2008/09 Season

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson have announced CST's 2008/09 Season. In 10 newly-imagined and classic works throughout the coming year, fierce rivals and witty fools collide on stage in the Theater's ninth season on Navy Pier.

The 2008/09 season of rivalry and revelry begins in June 2008 and runs.... Read More