It was a dark and stormy night. A young theatre artist looked out the window of their parents' home in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. They heard a crash, "and I could just see a downed power cable and it was just sparking and dancing around. I was so struck by the electricity," they recall. "Energy, current, voltage:.... Read More

The Jeff Awards has announced that Circle Theatre, celebrating its 25th Anniversary, will receive a Special Award at the 37th Annual Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony on June 7, 2010, honoring its many contributions to Chicago theatre over the years.

In 1985, Karen Skinner, Wayne Buidens and Joseph Bass founded.... Read More

One of America's most-produced plays of the past decade was a one-man show about an East German transvestite, Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife. Like dozens of other adventurous plays engaged in ideas of gender and sexuality, I Am My Own Wife received a healthy dose of its early support from a resilient and passionate Chicago company.... Read More

The Jeff Awards today announced 105 nominations in 24 categories for Non-Equity Jeff Awards, which honor excellence in Chicago theatres not under a union contract, for productions that opened between April 1, 2009, and March 31, 2010.  The Jeff Awards judged the opening nights of 116 productions offered by 55 non-Equity producing organizations.... Read More

TheatreInChicago has already gone Hollywood, and now it's going political! Now, mixed in with your daily dose of all things theatrical, TheatreInChicago will be posting political soapbox rants from all of your favorite on-the-fringe bloggers and journalists! About all of your favorite "isn't-this-a-dead-horse-by-now topics!"

Don't worry, thankfully this is not what TheatreInChicago is doing at all. What TheatreInChicago is,.... Read More

Two's company, three's a crowd, and 160 is the number of playwrights in the diverse roster of Chicago Dramatists' playwrights' network.  But if you think they're worried about overdoing it you should guess again. Over the last year this group of playwrights received some 700 productions, awards, and honors around the world, and.... Read More

Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek has announced exciting plans for the company's 38th season, promising "new and compelling stories that transform, entertain and reflect the human condition."

Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo will receive its Chicago premiere, starring Peter Strauss, star of stage and screen, directed by Zacek, to launch Victory Gardens'.... Read More

Common thinking goes, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, but in the case of Babes With Blades, when you fight 'em, you beat 'em. Frustrated at the lack of opportunity for female actors to use their stage combat skills, Babes With Blades was founded in 1997 originally purely as a showcase for the .... Read More

The Chicago Park District's 58th annual Theater on the Lake season features reprisals of eight artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 16 - Aug. 8, 2010.  The season opens with The Second City's 50th Anniversary Revue (June 16-20) and continues with popular productions by Bohemian Theatre Ensemble (June 23-27), A.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago and Water Tower Place have announced the addition of a new venue, the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut Street to its family of theatres. Broadway In Chicago has entered into a long-term agreement with General Growth Properties (owner and manager of Water Tower Place) that will allow the theatre, formerly known.... Read More

Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls has announced the addition of the world premiere of Chinglish by Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) in Goodman Theatre's upcoming 2010/2011 season with performances begining in June 2011. Produced in association with The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Andrew D..... Read More

Profiles Theatre has announced the transfer of its hit production Killer Joe by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts to Chicago’s Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St.  After 13 weeks at Profiles, the critically-acclaimed production will move to The Royal George Theatre's Cabaret space for an 8-week run April 15- .... Read More

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