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

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