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

Presented locally by Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Bob the Builder Live! Spud's Big Mess will be making a stop in Chicago, Saturday, Feb. 7 for two performances at 2 and 5 p.m. at the legendary Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St. It is Bob the Builder's first touring stage show in the United States in five years..... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced the return Chicago engagement of August: Osage County, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons will star as the family matriarch, Violet Weston. August: Osage County comes to Chicago's Ford Center.... Read More

The Prague Shakespeare Festival, Prague's only professional English-language classical theatre company, and the Mermaid Theatre Company will present the American premiere of a new one man presentation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet by PSF Artistic Director Guy Roberts in Chicago at the Gorilla Tango Theatre February 6th-15th, 2009 in preparation for a May .... Read More

Steppenwolf Theatre presents the MaTEENée Series: an affordable way for high school students to see Steppenwolf productions, meet Chicago's most celebrated artists and connect with other teens who are passionate about theatre.

MaTEENée tickets cost $15 and include: a Steppenwolf performance, lunch and a post-show discussion with actors featured in the production -.... Read More

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Brett Neveu's Old Glory, a world premiere production commissioned through Writers' Theatre Literary Development Initiative.  The production, directed by William Brown, will run February 3-March 29, 2009, at Writers' Theatre, 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe. 

Shrouded in mystery, the.... Read More

Tickets for Lookingglass Theatre Company's production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder and directed by 2008 Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf Ensemble Member Anna D. Shapiro and Steppenwolf Artistic Associate Jessica Thebus, will be on sale to the public beginning at 10:00am on Friday, January 16, 2009. 

The production will run February 11 - April.... Read More

Broadway's surprise hit musical Xanadu is coming to Chicago's Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place beginning Friday, January 16, 2009. Xanadu opened at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre to critical acclaim on July 10, 2007 as the first new musical of the 2007/2008 season. Since the 2007 opening, the award-winning musical garnered the best.... Read More

TimeLine Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Not Enough Air by Masha Obolensky and directed by Nick Bowling. This world premiere drama follows famed journalist-turned-playwright Sophie Treadwell as she is drawn into the real-life tragedy of Ruth Snyder's famous 1928 murder trial. Treadwell is haunted by Ruth's story and finds herself.... Read More

American Theater Company (ATC) continues its ambitious Season 24 with the inauguration of American Classic Repertory featuring Sam Shepard's True West directed by ATC Artistic Director PJ Paparelli and Suzan-Lori Parks' topdog/underdog directed by Congo Square Theatre Company Artistic Director Derrick Sanders. American Classic Repertory will run at American Theatre Company, 1909 W.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago will soon present the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005, Monty Python's Spamalot, at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. Starring Richard Chamberlain as King Arthur, Monty Python's Spamalot will run for a limited engagement January 20 to February 1, 2009.

The Tony and Grammy Award winning Monty Python's Spamalot.... Read More

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) continues its 2008-09 CST Family Series with Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream, a 75-minute abridged production of Shakespeare's classic comedy, adapted and directed by Amanda Dehnert. CST's Short Shakespeare! Series is designed for parents, grandparents, teachers-and all adults with children in their lives-to introduce young people to.... Read More

If you get out, are you obligated to give back? Living Green, a world premiere drama by Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble member Gloria Bond Clunie (North Star, Shoes), explores this and other thorny questions in its story of a well-to-do African American family "living green" in a mostly white Chicago suburb, who are.... Read More

Northlight Theatre continues its 2008-2009 Season with the World Premiere of Po Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin, directed by Chay Yew.  The production, featuring Ken Narasaki, Jeanne Sakata and Jacqueline Williams, runs January 7-February 15, 2009 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

A celebration of the human spirit and the.... Read More