Some theater transports you to a distant time or place, and some theater holds up the mirror to the life you lead. Theatre Seven, a four-year-old company taking up residence in Lincoln Park's Greenhouse Theater Center later this spring, falls decidedly into the latter camp. The company has the surprisingly unique dedication to being "a company of Chicago,.... Read More

American Theater Company has announced their Season 26, which includes the 40th Anniversary revival of The Original Grease with restored, revised and R-rated book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey and directed by Artistic Director PJ Paparelli; Two David Mamet classics in rotating repertory: Oleanna directed by Rick Snyder and Speed-the-Plow directed by.... Read More

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson announced the lineup of productions for the 2010/11 Season. A three-play Subscription Series of classics, renowned artists from around the world and productions for the entire family set the stage for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 24th season.

Inaugurating the 2010/11 Subscription Series, world-renowned.... Read More

On March 27, Chicago theaters will join the world in celebrating World Theatre Day. A brainchild of the International Theatre Institute, World Theatre Day was created in June of 1961 and takes place every year on March 27. The mission is to "Promote international exchange of knowledge and practice in theatre arts (drama, dance, music theatre) in order.... Read More

Yoga and Butoh classes, a traveling mimed staging of old radio shows in retirement homes, one of the scariest Halloween spectacles in town, and an aggressive and experimental incorporation all kinds of media into staged productions. This could easily sound like the work of at least four different young companies, but all of it comes out of the.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced the complete 2010/2011 Broadway In Chicago Season Series.  The shows in the 2010/2011 Season Series include the Chicago premieres of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, Rock Of Ages, Traces, God Of Carnage and 9 to 5: The Musical. Burn The Floor also makes a special return to Chicago as part of the Season.... Read More

Lookingglass Theatre Company will present Trust, written by Founding Ensemble Member David Schwimmer and Andy Bellin, based on the screenplay by Andy Bellin and Rob Festinger and directed by Ensemble Members David Schwimmer and Heidi Stillman. The production runs from March 3 - April 25 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside.... Read More

Court Theatre continues its 55th season with Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, freely adapted by Tony Kushner anddirected by Artistic Director Charles Newell. The production will run from March 11- April 11, 2010 at Court Theatre located at 5535 S. Ellis Avenue. 

Tony Kushner brings his sophisticated style and breathtaking language to the French Baroque's.... Read More

Profiles Theatre has announced the extension of its hit production Killer Joe by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder.  All cast members are continuing in their roles, including Profiles ensemble members Darrell W. Cox and Somer Benson along with Kevin Bigley, Howie Johnson and Claire.... Read More

To figure out which designer to interview for this piece, I solicited suggestions from a few friends with the following direction: "I want a rad lady designer." Costume Designer Debbie Baer came up more than once. After setting up our meeting, I mentioned it to a few theatre-industry friends - I couldn't believe how.... Read More

Start spreading the news...wait, wrong coast. But a coast. In fact, TheatreInChicago is making like the three men Don McLean admires most and catching the last train for the Coast, with a capital "C". TheatreInChicago has decided that it's time to do what all the members of Steppenwolf do who get famous...go Hollywood! Not that we're leaving Chicago,.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced the return engagement of Wicked this fall, beginning Wednesday, December 1, 2010. The most successful show in Chicago history makes its triumphant return to the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph) for eight weeks only, December 1, 2010 to January 23, 2011.

"We are thrilled to host the.... Read More

A lot of theater companies think of themselves as a family, and many theater companies produce plays especially for families, but BackStage Theatre Company makes theater about families.     

Of course, it's not a particularly small niche. A generous eye can see perhaps every play ever written as offering some insight or highlighting some aspect of.... Read More

Jonathan L. Green is a busy man. Sure it's the holiday season, but if you're running a small storefront theater that just got a $25,000 grant and you have a Chicago premiere in the works for spring, suffice it to say, it's hard to get face time, and Green, artistic director and founding member of Sideshow Theatre Company,.... Read More

Are you sick of year-end round-up lists yet? You can't be, not until TheatreInChicago.com puts in their two pence. Hopefully it will put you back into a warm, fuzzy, vaguely inebriated feeling of year-is-over happiness, because whatever sideshow you were watching (economy, politics, weather, Cubs, Sox, Bears...), you must be sick of the.... Read More

Most Chicago actors work hard to one day join Actors' Equity, the union of professional actors and stage managers that guarantees safe working conditions, living wages and health insurance. The story of WNEP Theater, one of Chicago's older and most proudly "fringe" companies, is the reverse. Don Hall, founder and long-time executive director of the company, was working.... Read More

Silent film. Vaudeville. Dance. Mime. Tom & Jerry cartoons. What do these seemingly divergent worlds have in common? Each informs and inspires the unique theatrical artistry of the Chicago's Silent Theatre Company.

Artistic Director Tonika Todorova founded the company in 2005 for the sake of remounting a single show, Lulu - a black and white theatrical piece.... Read More

If your friends and/or family are theatre-going types (or if they're not and you'd like them to be), you might consider giving them season tickets to a theatre company they like, or gift certificates for a specific show or shows this holiday season. And whether they prefer the big downtown musicals or the small storefront theatres scattered.... Read More

James Bohnen, artistic director of Remy Bumppo Theatre, is a nice guy. So nice he winces at even the blandest questions about what makes his award-winning theater company unique, "I don't want it to sound like we think we're better than other people."

So instead, I asked about the name. While Remy Bumppo has spent the last.... Read More

'Tis, once again, the season. Time for toys, time for cheer, as Alvin and the Chipmunks would say. 'Tis also, once again, time for all your favorite holiday-themed plays to start showing at theatres around Chicago: A Christmas Carol, The Christmas Schooner, It's A Wonderful Life, The Nutcracker, etc. (I'm assuming these are some of your favorite plays..... Read More