Broadway In Chicago has announced the surprise hit Broadway musical Xanadu will premiere in Chicago at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place beginning January 16, 2009. Tickets will go on-sale at a later date to be announced.
Xanadu opened at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre to critical acclaim on July 10, 2007 as the first.... Read More
Artistic Directors Joe Jahraus and Darrell W. Cox announce Profiles Theatre's 20th Anniversary Season, to include five new plays- two by acclaimed Chicago playwrights Jason Wells and Ellen Fairey. Profiles' 2008-2009 Season is the most ambitious offering in its distinguished twenty-year history and includes a world premiere, a U.S. premiere and two Midwest.... Read More
Due to high demand for tickets, Cirque du Soleil has added the final 18 performances to the Chicago engagement of Kooza. The final Kooza performance in Chicago will now be August 24, 2008, under the blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau at the United Center (parking lot K).
Kooza is a return to the origins.... Read More
Two years ago, Chicago actress and singer Alene Robertson suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm that sent shock waves through the theatre community. When Theatre in Chicago reported the news, we were inundated with e-mails from friends and fans of the plucky musical theatre star, who was in the midst of starring in a.... Read More
Theatre Building Chicago will present Stages 2008, a festival of 4 new musicals in progress and 4 panel discussions of musical theatre in America on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 15-17, 2008. The three-day musical extravaganza performs each new work twice in concert style formats. Now in its fifteenth season, Stages focuses on the.... Read More
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Theater introduces the Incubator Series, a program designed to support the creation of new work by emerging Chicago theater companies. Utilizing Chicago DCA Theater resources and rehearsal space in the Chicago Cultural Center, participants will explore new projects, develop and refine styles, and share their process.... Read More
Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will soon place a new block of tickets on-sale. Audiences may plan for the season ahead as tickets for the holiday block of performances October 14, 2008 - January 11, 2009 go on-sale to the public Friday, July 25 at 10 a.m.
Directed.... Read More
The vibrant history of the American musical is explored in Chicago author Sheldon Patinkin’s encyclopedic and opinionated new book, "No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance" : A History of American Musical Theater. Patinkin guides readers through the evolution of the American musical from its roots in 19th Century burlesque, revue and operettato the phenomenon.... Read More
Coming to Millennium Park this summer for five days as part of the Family Fun Festival is Australia's Strange Fruit, the Melbourne-based performing arts company that fuses dance, circus and spectacle theater in their work. Perched atop fourteen-foot flexible poles that bend and sway in the air, Australia's Strange Fruit can be .... Read More
Raven Theatre has announced their 2008/2009 Season, which includes Stephen Adly Guirgis' searing Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, the world premiere of Tom Patrick's darkly comic Misamerica, and Jon Robin Baitz's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic Hedda Gabler.
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
October 7 – December
Raven begins its 26th season with the.... Read More
The U.S touring production of the international hit Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage has announced principal casting for the upcoming pre-Broadway U.S. premiere. Josef Brown will re-create the role of Johnny Castle direct from the London production and Amanda Leigh Cobb will play Frances "Baby" Houseman. Chicago's own .... Read More
Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Executive Director Malik Gillani announced Silk Road Theatre Project's collaboration with San Francisco's Golden Thread Productions and New York City's Lark Play Development Center in New York to form Middle East America: A National New Plays Initiative. This tri-coastal initiative represents the first-ever national effort to.... Read More
Every year Live Bait Theater produces stellar solo performance, presenting world premiere shows on a wide variety of themes during the Fillet of Solo Festival. This year's lineup for the festival, now in it's 13th year, kicks off in July and will have solo performances exploring spirituality, woodland creatures and suburban sprawl.
The 2008.... Read More
Each summer, the Chicago Park District's Theater on the Lake remounts eight shows from the previous off-Loop theatre season. Eight weeks, eight shows, eight chances to sample some of the best of what Chicago's flourishing off-Loop theatre scene has to offer; it's a kind of Taste of Chicago for theatre-goers.
The.... Read More
Stef Tovar, Jeff Award-winning actor, American Theater Company ensemble member and former resident of Los Angeles, has announced that he has launched The Route 66 Theatre Company. Its mission is to cultivate dynamic, relevant and provocative stories that bridge the 2,448 miles of cultural divide, seeking to be the leading arts organization.... Read More
Theater Oobleck's The Strangerer will be the latest Chicago show heading out to New York. The show, which is currently running at the Chopin Theatre through June 29th and has received rave reviews, will be opening on July 9th for a run at the 199 seat Barrow Street Theatre located at 27 Barrow .... Read More
Victory Gardens Theater has announced the six plays selected for Ignition: Emerging Writers of Color, a summer festival with a goal to introduce exceptional new writers under the age of 40 to Victory Gardens and to jump start future productions of the winning plays around the country. The six plays were selected out.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago has announced the premiere of Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award-winner in years! Spring Awakening, the eight-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical, will play a limited engagement in Chicago next summer, August 4 - 16, 2009. Chicagoans can get a free "taste" of.... Read More
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's critically-acclaimed American play August: Osage County by Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts and directed by ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro, won big at the 2008 Tony Awards garnering 5 awards including:
Chicago DCA Theater offers downtown audiences a great opportunity to experience Chicago's vibrant off-Loop theater scene with an innovative and exciting look at the many diverse theater companies that call Chicago home. The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs continues 2008 with a full roster of events at the DCA Theaters which include.... Read More
