A new generation of Chicago theater producers is reaching out to younger audiences with a combination of Hollywood-style marketing formats and low-cost internet distribution channels.  This past January, for instance, Riddlemark Theatre adopted “The Making of” genre to market its original King Arthur epic, Pendragon.  Its three-minute documentary, The Pendragon Fight Week, intersperses footage.... Read More

Victory Gardens Theater is bringing movies back to Chicago's legendary Biograph Theater with the launch of Movie Night at the Biograph, a series of occasional movies tied to the themes of Victory Gardens' live theater productions.

Movie Night at the Biograph launches on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22 with Al Gore's Academy Award-winning.... Read More

Writers’ Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announced the company’s sixteenth season, which includes the world premiere of The Savannah Disputation by Evan Smith, author of Writers’ Theatre’s hit production of The Uneasy Chair, directed by Michael Halberstam; The Turn of the Screw adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the.... Read More

Pirates...fairy tales...flying carpet rides...an oversized peach...and a certain famous snowman.  Believing in each can make a child's imagination soar. Combine them, and you have the exciting ingredients for Emerald City Theatre Company's 2007/08 season.

Chicago's largest professional theater devoted entirely to families, Emerald City's 12th season boasts another creative line-up of five wildly innovative,.... Read More

Due to overwhelming demand, Broadway In Chicago and TheatreDreams announced Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys will add an additional 14 weeks of performances, extending its Chicago engagement to six months.  Edward Strong, a partner in Dodger Theatricals, the lead producer of Jersey Boys said, “We hope to be here for as long.... Read More

Signal Ensemble Theatre wraps up its fourth season with a grand-scale, classically themed staging of Shakespeare's seminal revenge tragedy, Hamlet, directed by Ronan Marra, running at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, April 19 – May 26, 2007.

Following the death of his father, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his uncle now.... Read More

CBS2 entertainment reporter, film critic and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker, retired Chicago Tribune chief theater critic Richard Christiansen, and the husband/wife duo Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, and Pat Byrnes, cartoonist for The New Yorker, are this year's celebrity playwrights for Victory Gardens Theater's Chicago Stories gala, Friday, May 4, 2007 at.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced a new touring stage version of High School Musical will play Chicago’s LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe), July 25 - September 2, 2007.  Presented by Disney Theatrical Productions, the division responsible for such smash Broadway hits as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Mary Poppins, High.... Read More

Yes, it’s staying!… Chicago’s company of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has formally announced it will continue performances at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place through the summer.  The widely acclaimed and Tony award-winning Broadway musical comedy will extend in a limited engagement from April 18 –.... Read More

Profiles Theatre will present the American Premiere of the award-winning drama Apple by Vern Thiessen, for a limited seven-week engagement from April 20, 2007 through June 3, 2007 at the Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway, Chicago.

Apple is a haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances.  Andy has just lost his job and.... Read More

Broadway In Chicago has announced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, will return to Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) this fall for a limited eight-week holiday engagement running Wednesday, October 31 through Saturday, January 5, 2008.  Tickets are currently on sale to.... Read More

Chicago actor-done-good Tom Amandes, a veteran of the city's Off-Loop stage scene lured away to play roles like Eliot Ness in TV's The Untouchables and Dr. Harold Abbott on the hit series Everwood, is coming home to star in Cynical Weathers, a new political drama by Douglas Post, and Victory Gardens Theater's next world premiere.... Read More

It's one of the most famous cries that have echoed in theaters for decades. And now, Arlington Heights' Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is sponsoring a "Stella!!!" yelling contest to kick off the run of its new production of Tennessee Williams' famous play A Streetcar Named Desire.
 
Metropolis is inviting.... Read More

Few shows have touched audiences like Riverdance, the Original International Phenomenon, now in its 12th phenomenal year.  This thunderous celebration of joyful music, song and dance that has thrilled millions of people around the world returns to Chicago for a limited two-week engagement from April 3 – 15, 2007 at the Auditorium Theatre .... Read More

Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders and the producing team of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple, along with Broadway In Chicago, have announced casting for the North American Tour, set to premiere at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph).  Stars of the Broadway production, Jeannette Bayardelle and Felicia P. Fields and Destiny’s.... Read More

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company prepares for the launch of Remy Bumppo's thinkTank, an annual theatrical exploration of an issue vital to Chicagoans. This year thinkTank explores the volatile issue of immigration and the project will include a world premiere play, a children’s show, three staged readings and moderated discussions nightly. thinkTank is.... Read More

Recording artist, concert star and Broadway sensation Linda Eder returns to Chicago for one night only, Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 8 p.m. at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.).  Ms. Eder will perform an eclectic evening of Broadway, jazz, pop hits and standards – including selections from her newest CD.... Read More