Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago's #1 producer of new work, is ramping things up next season with an ambitious seven play line-up, launching with one of the company's most daring new play development projects in 36 years - the next phase of its Ignition Festival.
Last Spring, 120 new works were submitted from around the U.S. by playwrights.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago will present Michael Bennett's masterpiece, A Chorus Line, for a limited 3-week engagement April 14 to May 3, 2009. The award-winning show will play Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre at 24 W. Randolph St.
A Chorus Line recouped its entire $8 million.... Read More
Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans have announced the 2009-2010 Northlight Theatre Season, which includes Roger Bean's pop musical, The Marvelous Wonderettes; Stephen Temperley's comedic musical tribute, Souvenir directed by David Bell; Clifford Odets' Depression-era classic Awake and Sing directed by Amy Morton and featuring Rondi Reed and.... Read More
Silk Road Theatre Project begins its 2009 season with the Midwest Premiere of Pangs of the Messiah by renowned Israeli playwright Motti Lerner. The production, directed by Piven Theatre Workshop Artistic Director Jennifer Green, will run March 19 - May 10, 2009, in Pierce Hall at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 .... Read More
Goodman Theatre has announced a diverse line-up - from musical hilarity and classic yarns, to memory pieces and family dramas, to stories with ethnic roots that reflect today's world- in Goodman Theatre's new 2009/2010 season.
The madcap Marx Brothers musical Animal Crackers, directed by Henry Wishcamper, launches the season in the Albert Theatre. Next, Artistic Director Robert.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago has announced that Mary Poppins will be extending its stay at the Cadillac Palace Theatre through July 12, 2009. Tickets for newly announced performances from May 20 to July 12, 2009 will go on sale March 13, 2009 at 10:00am. Individual tickets for performances are available for as low as.... Read More
Rent returns to Chicago for a limited engagement March 31 to April 12, 2009. Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, and Gwen Stewart will reprise the roles they originated on Broadway in Rent at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre.
Pascal, Rapp, and Stewart originated the roles of Roger Davis, Mark Cohen,.... Read More
Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announced the company's 18th season, which includes Tom Stoppard's comedic masterpiece Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, directed by Michael Halberstam; Noel Coward's musical revue, Oh Coward! to be performed in Writers' most intimate venue; The Old Settler by John Henry .... Read More
Lookingglass Theatre has announced its 2009-2010 season, featuring the world premieres of three Lookingglass Original productions by Ensemble Members J. Nicole Brooks, David Catlin and David Schwimmer.
Lookingglass' 22nd season opens with Fedra: Queen of Haiti, an explosive retelling of Phaedra that would make Euripides, Seneca and Jean Racine blush..... Read More
Profiles Theatre continues its 20th Anniversary Season with the acclaimed new dark comedy The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson, directed by Profiles Associate Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox. The production runs March 26 - May 10, 2009, at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway.
The Wonderful World of Dissocia is a colorful and.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago will present the Chicago debut of Legally Blonde The Musical for a four week engagement. Elle, Bruiser, and friends will "Bend and Snap" May 12 to June 7, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.). Individual tickets will go on sale Friday,.... Read More
Chicago Shakespeare Theater will conclude its 2008/09 subscription season with Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare's rollicking comedy of disorder and revelry staged by London's Bush Theatre Artistic Director Josie Rourke. CST's Courtyard Theater stage will be flooded with water to create the coast of the imaginary world in which the play is set..... Read More
Court Theatre continues its 2008-2009 season with Frederick Knott's classic psychological thriller Wait Until Dark, directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson. The production will run at Court Theatre, 5535 S Ellis Avenue, March 5 - April 5, 2009
A cool-as-ice psychopath smooth talks his way into the home of an unsuspecting blind woman..... Read More
In an effort to find the right show, Circle Theatre, located at 7300 West Madison Street in Forest Park, is presenting a 3 night series of staged readings, all of which have the potential to be part of the Circle's 2009-2010 season. Audience members of the staged readings will help Circle Theatre choose.... Read More
A Bronx Tale, written by and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri, will be making a stop in Chicago. This funny and touching memoir about a young man's experiences growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s will play at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre for a limited engagement March 10 - 22,.... Read More
Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans prepare for the Chicago Premiere of Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Rick Snyder. The production, featuring Anne Adams, Lance Baker, Gary Houston, Dan Kuhlman and Suzanne Lang will run February 25- April 5, 2009 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in.... Read More
Steppenwolf Theatre has announced its 2009-2010 Subscription Season, exploring the theme of belief. Steppenwolf ensemble members currently confirmed for the 2009-2010 Season include: Alana Arenas, Kate Arrington, Ian Barford, Frank Galati, Jon Michael Hill, Francis Guinan, Tina Landau, Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, William Petersen, Rondi Reed, Anna D. Shapiro, Eric Simonson and Alan Wilder.
"Steppenwolf.... Read More
High School Musical, the theatrical version of Disney's Emmy Award-winning mega-hit, sings and dances its way onto Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences' stage from March 10th through May 9th and is expected to be the hottest ticket in the Chicago-land area for families and young audiences. High School Musical is directed and choreographed.... Read More
Now celebrating ten glorious years of girls, glitz and glamour across the country, the record-breaking smash hit musical Chicago is returning to the Windy City for a limited run February 25 - March 8, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W.Randolph St). Charlotte d'Amboise will star as.... Read More
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) international programming initiative, the World's Stage Series, brings to Chicago Michael Pennington's Sweet William, a one-man show melding biography with performance of the life and works of Shakespeare for 20 performances only February 3 - 22, 2009 Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare.
Building on the facts that are known about Shakespeare's life, and drawing.... Read More
