White Noise, the new rock musical directed and choreographed by Broadway's Sergio Trujillo will play an 8-week limited engagement with previews beginning on April 1, 2011 and opening April 9, 2011. Featuring a cast of nineteen, the production will run at The Royal George Theatre, 1641 North Halsted Street. Tickets will be on sale in.... Read More
Performance Spotlight
John Leguizamo returns to Chicago next year for a limited two-week engagement with John Leguizamo Warms Up. Presented by WestBeth Entertainment, the pre-Broadway engagement will be performed at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 North Halsted Street, February 1 - 12, 2011.
Conceived and performed by Emmy and Obie Award winner John Leguizamo and.... Read More
TheatreInChicago presents its annual list of the top-rated plays that were produced in the Chicago area for 2010. The list was compiled objectively from critics' reviews, based on the Highly Recommended to Not Recommended scale. A few things to note...
There are 25 shows on the list, produced by 19 different theatre companies. There were four repeats: Marriott Theatre.... Read More
Profiles Theatre continues its 2010-2011 Season with reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder. Previews are January 21-26, 2011 and the production runs through March 13, 2011 at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway in Chicago.
In reasons to be pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil.... Read More
It's cold, it's snowy, it's Christmas time, which means it's time to buy things. Now more than ever. And if you're stuck on a gift idea for that person on your list who has everything but culture, then might we suggest the gift of Theatre? Fortunately, you live in Chicago, where, from ridiculously enormous Broadway extravaganzas to actors-tripping-over-your-feet.... Read More
That screeching sound you hear from off in the distance could be flying monkeys, or it could be the unrestrained vocal delight of gaggles of young girls that one of their favorite musicals of the past decade is dropping its house on Chicago again. Yes Aunty Em, Wicked is back.
For eight weeks only,.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago and threesixty° entertainment have announced the spectacular new threesixty° stage production of Peter Pan, J M Barrie's classic story performed in a state-of-the-art theater tent for a limited eight-week engagement beginning Friday, April 29, 2011. Conceived by an award-winning creative team and featuring 23 actors, stunning puppets, epic music, dazzling flying sequences and the.... Read More
To your list of things to be thankful for this holiday season, you may add the following: Theatre In Chicago's annual Holiday Shows Round-up! To help place you in the correct festive spirit, Theatre In Chicago has again made a full list (and yes, checked it twice) of all of the holiday-themed live theatrical offerings playing over.... Read More
In 1997 Sean Graney, founder and Artistic Director of The Hypocrites, looked around Chicago and saw a theatrical scene dominated by naturalistic acting ensembles, and resolved to shake things up. In Graney's words, "I thought there were a lot of great theater companies in Chicago in the mid 90's and they were all embracing a specific style.... Read More
The Joffrey Ballet's 2010-2011 season, entitled Stars, continues with the 23rd anniversary of Chicago's most popular family holiday event, Robert Joffrey's The Nutcracker, once again transforming the Auditorium Theatre into a winter wonderland complete with magical toys, dancing snowflakes and exotic sweets. The Joffrey Ballet presents America's #1 Nutcracker at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University,.... Read More
At the 42nd Annual Jeff Equity Awards, "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," produced by Victory Gardens Theater in association with Teatro Vista...Theatre With a View, took top honors for a play with a total of 5 awards. An exciting world premiere by Kristoffer Diaz, the production uses professional wrestling to focus on the manipulation of American prejudices..... Read More
Profiles Theatre continues its 2010-2011 Season with the World Premiere of Kid Sister by Will Kern, directed by Artistic Director Joe Jahraus. The production will run November 2 - December 19, 2010, at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway.
Demi Williams, a sexy 19-year-old single mom and American Idol wannabe, believes only one thing stands between herself.... Read More
In Budapest in 2003, Clint Sheffer, then a guest artist at the Studio K Theatre, began hatching a plan for a new theater company back home in Chicago. The idea was to mix the progressive and esoteric theatrical ideas he was encountering in Europe with a more traditional American theater. What he found upon returning home however,.... Read More
The Paper Machete, which describes itself defiantly as a weekly "live magazine", is a theater company like the Huffington Post is a newspaper. On the one hand it's formally divergent and intrinsically modern, but on the other hand entirely familiar. "There's something really obvious about it," says founder and host Christopher Piatt. "I don't feel like.... Read More
The Marriott Theatre, Chicago's longest running musical theatre announces its 2011 season. The critically acclaimed theatre will present the high stakes musical comedy Guys And Dolls, previewing January 26, opening February 2, running through March 27; the song and tap extravaganza 42nd Street, previewing March 30, opening April 6, running through May 29; a new twist.... Read More
Not too long ago, Adam Webster, the founder and Artistic Director of The Side Project Theatre in Roger's Park, realized that despite the ironic name of his theater company, it had taken over his entire life. After nearly nine years of producing, directing, stage managing, prop gathering, and the million other tasks that come.... Read More
Bailiwick Chicago Executive Director Kevin Mayes has announced details of the theater company's 2010/11 Season. Planned productions include: Departure Lounge, a new musical by Dougal Irvine; Violet, music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Brian Crawley; Passing Strange, book and lyrics by Stew, music by Stew.... Read More
The Jeff Awards announced 162 nominations in 31 categories for Chicago Equity theatrical productions which opened between August 1, 2009, and July 31, 2010. The 42nd Annual Jeff Awards ceremony honoring excellence in professional theatre produced within the immediate Chicago area will be held on Monday, October 25, at Drury.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago is proud to announce the complete 2011 Broadway In Chicago Spring Season Series. This season will include Les Miserables, Working, Hair, The Merchant Of Venice, Wishful Drinking and Next To Normal. Off-Season Specials include Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles, Spring Awakening and Disney's Beauty And The Beast..
In a sprawling loft on the north side of Chicago, a gaggle of young artists is sitting on a powder keg. For two years now, and for two months longer (their lease ends in November), these eleven actors, authors, dancers, directors, and artists have lived and worked here, inviting ever swelling audiences to their platformed living room for.... Read More