Philadelphia wants to build its new American Museum of Liberty on the grounds of George Washington's home and slave quarters. Soon a conservative academic star and a liberal political activist are confronting each other with polarizing questions of African-American identity and legacy. Elegantly juxtaposed with this contemporary conflict is the true story.... Read More

Wicked enthusiasts looking to make their night on the town very Ozmopolitan are invited to dine with cast members on Wednesday, October 29 and November 5, 2008. For $30, in addition to the price of a ticket, fans and cast members will dine prior to the show at 5:30 p.m. at Hotel Monaco (225.... Read More

On Monday, October 20, at a star-studded gala celebrating 40 years of the Jeff Awards, The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee presented 37 awards to celebrate excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre. Over 700 gathered at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie to honor 150 nominees from Equity theatrical productions.... Read More

Goodman Theatre opens its "Strong Women, Strong Voices" Owen Theatre Series with the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's Ruined, directed by Kate Whoriskey and co-produced with Manhattan Theatre Club. Commissioned by the Goodman and first seen in the 2007 New Stages Series, Ruined was developed through Nottage and Whoriskey's pilgrimage to Uganda-where .... Read More

This season there's a whole lot of moving and shaking going on around some of Chicago's most reputable Off-Loop theatres. After eight years, Stage Left Theatre's Artistic Director Kevin Heckman is now the Managing Director for Evanston's Next Theatre, where it has just been announced that Bostonian Jason Southerland will succeed the highly.... Read More

Steep Theatre, the small but critically-respected storefront company known for its productions of The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot in 2006 and Brecht's The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui last season, is moving.  Formerly located at the corner of Sheffield and Sheridan Road (where Sheridan ends its short jaunt west and turns back north.... Read More

Now celebrating ten glorious years of girls, glitz and glamour across the country, the record-breaking smash hit musical Chicago will be 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.).

Murder. Greed. Corruption..... Read More

Chicago boasts a slew of award winning, multi-million dollar theatre edifices built of brick, glass, concrete and cement, but few can match the unique environment that First Folio Theatre has called home since 1996.  This small Equity company, which has now dropped Shakespeare from its title to more accurately reflect the range of.... Read More

Eileen Boevers, founder and recently retired Executive Artistic Director of Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, will receive a Special Jeff Award at this year's Jeff Awards Ceremony on October 20, 2008. Mrs. Boevers has produced, directed, taught, performed and written for Apple Tree Theatre since its founding in 1983. During her tenure Apple.... Read More

Parents, when was the last time you and your spouse enjoyed an evening of live theater - without worrying about the high cost and hassle of finding someone to watch your kids? Probably not since before you had them!

It's time to act like adults again, and Victory Gardens Theater's Family Saturday series.... Read More

In terms of organization and real estate, Chicago Dramatists is a relatively small operation, but it is a giant in its ongoing pursuit of introducing new plays and playwrights to the theatre world.  Where some companies focus on an ensemble of actors such as Steppenwolf, others specialize in daring directorial innovations.  At Chicago.... Read More

Archive, gallery, library, study center, museum... however you picture the place, Chicago's performing arts community needs somewhere to celebrate its past, anchor its present and envision its future. Richard Christiansen, former Chief Critic for the Chicago Tribune, was the first to articulate this need in an essay published in the Tribune last March.  In an.... Read More

Goodman Theatre starts its 2008/2009 season on a high note with the greatest music of the 20th century in Turn of the Century, a star-studded romantic tour through time and the American songbook, directed by the nine-time Tony Award-winning director/ choreographer Tommy Tune. The latest work from Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice- the.... Read More

Amelia Earhart was much more than a historical figure or the subject of an unexplainable mystery, she was an American original whose spirit still fascinates today.  And as the title character in a brand new theatrical work by a young and emerging group of Chicago artists, her legend inspires a new generation over.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced the new national tour of Rent, starring original Broadway cast members Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, will play a limited engagement at Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.) March 31 - April 12, 2009. 

Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp originated the.... Read More

One of the best kept secrets on the North Shore may be the Attic Playhouse, now beginning its eleventh season above an Indian restaurant in downtown Highwood.  It's the kind of charming and intimate venue where everyone knows your name and goes out of their way to make you feel like a.... Read More

American Theater Company (ATC) kicks off its Season 24 with The People's Temple about Jonestown and the followers of Jim Jones' People Temple movement. The production, directed by co-creator of The Laramie Project Leigh Fondakowski, will run September 4 - September 28, 2008 at American Theater Company, 1909 W Byron St, Chicago.

The play centers around Jonestown,.... Read More

Where do some of Chicago's best actors and directors spend their summers?  For a growing number of them, it's Spring Green, Wisconsin, known as the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright called Taliesin, and also for one of the finest classical repertory companies in the country, the American Players Theatre.  Nestled in a.... Read More

Continuing a tradition of recognizing achievement in Chicago's diverse theatre scene, The Jeff Awards announced 150 nominations in 35 categories for Chicago Equity theatrical productions which opened between August 1, 2007 and July 31, 2008. The Jeff Awards sent judges to the opening nights of 123 openings offered by 52 producing .... Read More

As a native of the great state of Michigan, I can speak to a certain wry affection for the habits of the denizens of that northernmost one-third of my home state known as the Upper Peninsula.  Cold, isolated, and often neglected (it once tried to secede from Michigan and form its own.... Read More