After receiving rave reviews and overwhelmingly favorable feedback from Chicago audiences, Off-Broadway’s longest running and most popular musical comedy revue, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, has extended its Chicago run for a third time at the Royal George Cabaret Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted Street, through Sunday, November.... Read More
Performance Spotlight
Brendan Averett and Ian Novak are two of the 33 Chicago actors who have spent a year or more under the auspices of the Chicago Associates of the Stratford Festival (CASF), learning the craft of the classical actor at the renowned Stratford Festival in Ontario. This week on Talk Theatre in Chicago, Averett and Novak talk.... Read More
Famous for intense, emotionally searing performances that highlight the poetry of life on the edge, A Red Orchid Theatre is celebrating its landmark 15th year in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. This year, they have incorporated the theme “the decay of democracy” into their programming. They will examine three of humanity’s motivating forces.... Read More
Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre before moving to San Francisco. Tickets for a new block of performances from September 5 – 30, 2007 will go on sale Friday, July.... Read More
The Neo-Futurists open their 2007/08 season with The Fool (Returns To His Chair), conceived by John Pierson, opening Saturday, August 25 at 8:00pm at The Neo-Futurarium. Expect the unexpected… and 300 milk crates.
In The Fool, an ensemble cast presents a history of fools through the ages with physical performance, comedy, rhythm and music... and.... Read More
Theatre Building Chicago will present STAGES 2007, a festival of eight new musicals in progress on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 10-12, 2007. The three-day musical extravaganza performs each new work twice in concert style formats. Now in its fourteenth season, STAGES focuses on the development of the material, the craft of writing and the.... Read More
The Windy City will be "swinging" all summer long as Chicago’s Entertainer, Ron Hawking, announces plans to extend his new show The Men and Their Music by popular demand at Chicago’s Mercury Theatre (3745 N. Southport). The show is currently playing a limited four-week engagement June 21 through July 15, 2007. After a.... Read More
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