The company that brought you the 5-time Jeff-citation winning Side Show is now turning its vision on one of the wittiest writers in history: Oscar Wilde, with the production Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.
BoHo's own Stephen M. Genovese (Jeff-citation award winner for directing Side Show) brings this show to audiences with.... Read More
On the occasion of celebrating the second anniversary of smash hit performances and the longest day of the year, the Chicago company of Wicked announced it has become the longest running Broadway musical in Chicago theater history. Since opening in Chicago, the musical phenomenon has grossed over $125 million at the.... Read More
Profiles Theatre announces its 2007-2008 Season, entirely devoted to the works of acclaimed playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute. Profiles, located at 4147 N. Broadway, will present four Midwest Premieres of works by LaBute, including an evening of new short plays. LaBute will work closely with Profiles throughout the season and will be participating in.... Read More
Signal Ensemble Theatre artistic directors Ronan Marra, Christopher Prentice and Joseph Stearns have announced the line-up for its 2007-08 Season in residence at the Chopin Theatre. The company's fifth year, featuring a 20th-Century American playbill, includes an iconic American drama, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the company's first musical.
The season opens in August in.... Read More
The International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) and Around the Coyote (ATC) prepare for their Chicago HER-RAH 2007: A Festival of The World’s Best Women Playwrights And Their New Plays, on June 21-24, 2007 at Around the Coyote Gallery Arts Complex, 1935-1/2 W. North Ave.
Chicago HER-RAH 2007 will present staged readings of new, .... Read More
At its annual celebration of Chicago's dynamic and growing non-union theatre scene at the Park West on June 11, The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee presented 38 Citations for excellence in Chicago productions during the 2006 – 2007 Season (April 1 to March 31). In addition, Lifeline Theatre and Stage Left.... Read More
Individual tickets for the limited holiday engagement of The Phantom of the Opera in Chicago will go on-sale to the general public on Sunday, June 17 at 10 a.m. The Phantom Of The Opera, directed by Harold Prince, will return to Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre this fall for a limited ten-week.... Read More
Michael Menendian announces Raven Theatre’s Silver Anniversary Season, which includes classic works by Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon, as well as the Chicago premiere of a play exploring the tragic events at Columbine High School. Raven kicks-off the season with a Silver Celebration gala event on Saturday, July 21.
Founded in 1983,.... Read More
Concluding Artistic Director Robert Falls’ 20th anniversary season at Goodman Theatre is Mirror of the Invisible World, adapted and directed by Manilow Resident Director Mary Zimmerman from the core of the 12th century Persian epic, the Haft Paykar. At the heart of this epic are seven romantic, adventurous and funny stories about seven.... Read More
Chicago’s very own Black Ensemble Theater Company celebrates Those Sensuous Seductive ‘70s with a sizzling new musical revue written, produced and directed by Black Ensemble Theater Founder and Artistic Director Jackie Taylor. Those Sensuous Seductive ‘70s will run in repertory with the company’s smash hit Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records) at the.... Read More
With productions ranging from comedy to circus shows and musicals, the Chicago Park District prepares for the 55th annual Theater on the Lake season featuring nine artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 13 – Aug. 12, 2007. The season opens with the world premiere of Apparently Heaven Can’t Wait … The Best of Jim.... Read More
The great British music hall comedian Max Wall used to say at the end of every performance: “Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. You have been half.” Which means that the quality of theater in Chicago depends not only on the vision and talent and sweat of the theatre artists involved, but also.... Read More
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theater...! The Neo-Futurists proudly present their sixth-annual series of staged readings of some of the most obscure, trashy, goofy, bizarre, cheesy, and all-around terrible film scripts of all time! These immensely popular one-night-only readings feature some of the best worst films.... Read More
The National Tour of the scamming, scheming, double-crossing hit Broadway musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will play Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 31 through August 12, 2007. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 1 at 10 am.
The cast of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels includes Tony-nominated actor Tom Hewitt.... Read More
“ShowBusiness: The Road To Broadway,” a new film by Dori Berinstein featuring the Broadway casts and creators of Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo, and Caroline, or Change, will have its Chicago premiere at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, on Friday, June 8, 2007. Among those featured in the film are Rosie O’Donnell, Boy.... Read More
Now entering its third year of sold-out performances at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, the record-breaking Chicago company of Wicked will soon enable a new block of tickets for purchase. Tickets for performances July 31 – November 4, 2007 will go on-sale to the public on Friday, May 11.... Read More
Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, continues its 32nd season with Fire on the Mountain, a poignant musical with authentic dancing and live fiddles and banjo, about the lives of coal miners in the Appalachian Mountains. The production, co-created by Randal Myler and.... Read More
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee announced 109 nominations in 26 categories for Chicago's non-Equity theatrical productions that opened during the 2006-07 season (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007). The Jeff Awards Committee judged the opening nights of 127 productions offered by 55 non-Equity producing organizations, and recommended 55 productions for further .... Read More
TimeLine Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today’s social and political issues, has announced its four-play 2007-08 season, which will include a great American playwright’s favorite work, two Chicago premieres by award-winning contemporary playwrights, and a remount of one of the company’s most acclaimed productions.
“As a company devoted.... Read More
One Windy City “knight” will have the good fortune of joining the new, vibrant touring production of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot for one-night only while the show is in Chicago, May 1 -13, at the LaSalle Bank Theatre. The cast and crew of Camelot will auction off a walk-on role to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity.... Read More
