The legendary musical Les Miserables will make its highly anticipated premiere at The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.  Preview performances begin February 13th, and the show will run through May 11th, 2008.  Having established a national reputation for launching Broadway musicals into the regional market, The Marriott Theatre is one of only five theatres chosen.... Read More

Northlight Theatre continues its 33rd season and its celebration of Artistic Director BJ Jones’ 10th Anniversary season with the Midwest premiere of Gee’s Bend, by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder. The production will run January 30 to March 9, 2008 at the Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

This epic yet intimate.... Read More

Madrid St. Angelo is a pretty spiritual person, which may come as a surprise given his often controversial political, social and theatrical activism.  But talking with the Chicago-based actor/director/playwright for even a short time, one understands how these diverse facets come to feed one another.  “I really see theatre as a ministry.... Read More

Signal Ensemble Theatre culminates its fifth season, comprised of 20th-century American works, with 1776, the Tony Award-winning musical by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone. Directed by Ronan Marra with musical direction by Andra Velis Simon and featuring a 26-member award-winning ensemble, the production runs January 25 through March 1, 2008 at the Chopin.... Read More

Broadway in Chicago presents the national touring production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent, featuring Heinz Winckler as Roger Davis and Anwar Robinson as Tom Collins, for a limited one-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from February 12 - 17, 2008. 

Heinz Winckler was the.... Read More

The Theatre of Western Springs annual winter benefit will feature Academy Award winner Patty Duke, returning to the TWS stage, along with eight actors from the TWS family in Kate Aspengren's highly acclaimed Blue Yonder February 1 – 3.

Blue Yonder features a series of fascinating monologues, and Patty Duke will perform three of them while the.... Read More

Goodman Theatre rings in 2008 with intrigue and mystery with the arrival of the acclaimed Broadway hit, Shining City by Conor McPherson. Artistic Director Robert Falls, whom McPherson hand-picked to direct his play's Broadway premiere last season, directs the Goodman production with four noted Chicago actors: Jay Whittaker (Frank's Home); Nicole Wiesner.... Read More

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