Chicago Shakespeare Theater Artistic Director Barbara Gaines kicks off the Theater’s 21st Season with her staging of Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s fairytale about love, fidelity and deception.  Performed in Chicago Shakespeare’s Courtyard Theater, Cymbeline inaugurates the Theater’s three-play subscription series and begins previews September 1, 2007 and runs through November 11, 2007

A magical fairytale adventure,.... Read More

The record-breaking Chicago company of Wicked – now the longest running Broadway show in Chicago history – will soon enable a new block of tickets for purchase.  Tickets for performances November 6, 2007 – January 27, 2008 will go on-sale to the public on Friday, August 10 at 10 a.m. 

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Starting August 9, Striding Lion InterArts Workshop will bring together an array of choreographers, dancers, theatre practitioners and musicians for its two-week festival, Reasons for Moving. Striding Lion’s Sixth Annual InterArts Festival, consisting of three multi-disciplinary pieces nightly, will also feature a workshop with Goat Island, a performance from the company’s apprentice program,.... Read More

With the audience as well as the cast in the buff, Bailiwick's Barenaked Lads will perform naked for a special ‘naked night’ audience on Friday, September 7 at 10:00pm, with a portion of $30 ticket price supporting the Great Lakes Area Natural Tans Society (GLANTS).

The audience for this performance is.... Read More

Join Victory Gardens Theater as Chicago's #1 presenter of new plays throws open the doors to its recently renovated Biograph Theater mainstage for its second annual Open House celebration, Saturday, August 11th from noon to 5pm. 
 
Enjoy a free day of family fun, backstage tours, sneak peek performances from the.... Read More

City Lit Theater will present its first festival of literary adaptations, The Art of Adaptation, August 17-19, 2007, Artistic Director Terry McCabe announced.  The festival will feature seven world premieres of stage adaptations of six pieces of fiction and one ancient mythic poem, chosen from 43 submissions to the festival.

"It's a fascinating assortment of.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre of Great Britain’s acclaimed new production of Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady will premiere in Chicago in a limited two-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre from January 22 – February 3, 2008. 

Christopher Cazenove, one of England’s most respected stage.... Read More

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

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