The Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast hit a milestone with its 100th Episode! The first episode "aired" on February 13, 2006, with an interview with Dorothy Milne, the Artistic Director of Lifeline Theatre. Since then the popular podcast has put out a new episode with a new guest every Monday for 100 consecutive weeks.
Over the course of 100.... Read More
Victory Gardens Theater's ongoing exploration of crucial moments in African-American history continues with A Big Blue Nail, the company's first world premiere of 2008. Written by acclaimed playwright and adventurer Carlyle Brown, with direction and scenic design by award-winning theater artist Loy Arcenas, A Big Blue Nail is a phantasmagorical tale examining.... Read More
Lookingglass Theatre Company continues its 20th Anniversary Season with the triumphant return of the previously sold-out hit, Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale. The world’s elite circus performers, including veteran members of the Wallenda Family, Ringling Bros. and Cirque du Soleil, return to Chicago’s Water Tower Works for Hephaestus. A world .... Read More
Raven Theatre continues its Silver Anniversary Season with the Chicago premiere of the United States Theatre Project’s columbinus, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, recently appointed the new Artistic Director of American Theatre Company. Multiple Jeff Citation and After Dark Award winner Greg Kolack directs.
Artists with the United States Theatre.... Read More
Silk Road Theatre Project Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Executive Director Malik Gillani announce the company’s sixth season, which includes the world premiere of Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Patrizia Acerra; the Midwest premiere of Durango by Julia Cho, directed by Carlos Murillo; and the.... Read More
Profiles Theatre continues its 2007-2008 Season devoted to the works of acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute with the Midwest Premiere (and American Premiere of this version) of This is How it Goes, directed by Profiles’ Associate Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox. The production runs January 14- March 2, 2008, at Profiles.... Read More
Pegasus Players will kick off the New Year with its 22nd Annual Young Playwrights Festival, a professional production of four selected one-act plays written by Chicago teenagers. This year marks the program’s twenty-second annual showcase at Pegasus Players, 1145 W. Wilson Avenue in the O’Rourke Center at Truman College, .... Read More
The National Touring Company of the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera, directed by Harold Prince, celebrates its 15th anniversary on December 13, 2007 when it reaches performance number 6,139 during its 5th Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. This.... Read More
The Christmas Schooner, John Reeger and Julie Shannon's much-beloved musical will set sail for two special benefit concert presentations in the Bailiwick Repertory Mainstage, 1229 W Belmont Avenue on December 18 and 19, 2007 at 7:30 PM. This humorous, poignant musical was inspired by the historical story of the German and Swiss immigrants who.... Read More
Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 32nd season with the world premiere of Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, directed by Pam MacKinnon. The production, featuring ensemble member Martha Lavey with Stephen Louis Grush, Nick Horst, Mark Minton, Kelly O'Sullivan, John Procaccino, Tim Rock and Kelli Simpkins, will run December 12, 2007-.... Read More
Chicagoans benefit from living in one of the nation’s largest theatre markets. With hundreds of theatres in the Chicago area, it is easy to overlook smaller venues and storefront theatres located around the city, even those that may be right in your own neighborhood!
To help you discover some of these hidden.... Read More
Broadway In Chicago has announced the National Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, the groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece by legendary writing team Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and starring Ted Neeley, is coming to Chicago for a limited one-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from February 19 –.... Read More
Northlight Theatre continues its 33rd season, celebrating Artistic Director BJ Jones’ 10th Anniversary season, with the Midwest premiere of Ella, book by Jeffrey Hatcher, conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison. The production will run from November 28, 2007 to January 6, 2008, at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.
Northlight has.... Read More
The Chicago cast of the hit musical Altar Boyz will host "An Altar Boyz Christmas," a one-night-only holiday concert, at 200 East on Chestnut, located in the landmark Seneca Hotel at 200 East Chestnut St. in Chicago, Monday, December 17 at 7 p.m. This star-studded event will feature cast members from Jersey.... Read More
For 30 years, Goodman Theatre has proudly made A Christmas Carol a Chicago holiday institution-host of seven Scrooges, 27 Tiny Tims, over 17,000 "Bah Humbug!"s, and featured such notables as Del Close, Harry J. Lennix, Felicia P. Fields, Raul Esparza, Sally Murphy and Frank Galati. Returning for his second season as director,.... Read More
Chicago has a new holiday tradition to look forward to this season, with the much-anticipated return of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved winter tale The Snow Queen, November 30-December 23, 2007 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago.
Conceived by Chicago folk music legend.... Read More
Black Ensemble Theater Founder and Executive Director Jackie Taylor announced the Third Annual Black Playwrights Festival, presented by the Black Ensemble Theater of Chicago, November 15-18, 2007. The Black Playwrights Festival, produced by Ms. Taylor and award-winning actor and writer David Barr III, presents a weekend of new works by both up-and-coming as well.... Read More
On Wednesday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m., Chicago’s record-breaking Wicked will mark a new milestone as the curtain goes up on its 1,000th performance. Breaking multiple box office records since opening, Wicked is the top grossing and longest running Broadway show in Chicago history and continually casts spell on Chicagoans and visitors from.... Read More
Profiles Theatre continues its 2007-2008 Season devoted to the works of acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute, with LaBute’s new collection of six short plays entitled, Things We Said Today. The production will run November 12- December 16 at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway.
Neil LaBute said this about the collection, "Things We Said .... Read More
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek has announced the addition of two new playwrights to the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble, plus two new play commissions and a December workshop designed to fuel the theater's new play mission.
"I'm thrilled to share fantastic news - Nilo Cruz, the only Latino.... Read More
