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
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
