Tickets for the long-awaited production of Mary Poppins will go on sale to the public Friday, November 14, 2008 with a special public pre-sale at 8 a.m. at the Cadillac Palace Theatre box office.  Telephone ticketing lines, internet, and other box office outlets will have tickets available to the public beginning at 10 a.m..... Read More

Haul out the holly, it's that time of year Chicago theatres are trotting out their holiday shows, some familiar and others not so. Theatre in Chicago lists around forty holiday themed shows this year, meaning that between Thanksgiving and Christmas area theatergoers could get a daily dose of holiday cheer if they have a.... Read More

One acts from Chicagoans Sean Graney, Brett Neveu, Laura Jacqmin and Mark Young are among those lined up for  the side project theatre company's fall one-act festival, Cut to the Quick which will premiere November 16, 2008 and run through December 21.

The festival launches the company's 9th season, which will focus solely on.... Read More

At the dawn of the French Revolution, when the ruling class made extravagant displays of their wealth and power, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote The Marriage of Figaro, one of France's most controversial plays about lower classes striving for freedom and women breaking from traditional roles. In order to resonate with contemporary audiences,.... Read More

Lillian Hellmania!, a moveable feast of a festival celebrating the work of one of the most talented and controversial American writers of the twentieth century, will play a broken run this fall and winter as three of her best known works are staged by Eclipse Theatre Company, Shattered Globe Theatre and City Lit Theater.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced they will host the world premiere of The Addams Family, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, beginning performances Friday, November 13, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.,.... Read More

As part of its 40th Anniversary Celebration, the Jeff Awards Committee is presenting an exhibition Celebrating Four Decades of Chicago Theatre, now through November 30, at 72 East Randolph. The exhibit is free and open to the public Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-6pm and Sunday from 11am-4pm.

A special reception will be held on Monday, November 10 from.... Read More

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