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
Michael Montenegro has been making extraordinary puppet theater in Chicago for more than 15 years, but only recently has his work been turning up on the stages of some of Chicago’s major companies. Two seasons ago he created what the Chicago Sun-Times called the “heart-breakingly tender” puppet-children in the back seat of the.... Read More
Direct from Broadway, the romantic new musical The Light In The Piazza returns to Chicago for a limited, two-week engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 10 through 22, 2007. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 11 at 10 am.
Principal casting for the North American Tour of
Hats! The Red Hat Society Musical, starring Grammy Award-winner Melissa Manchester in the role of MaryAnne and featuring the songs of a variety of acclaimed composers and lyricists, will receive its Chicago premiere at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m.
Inspired by The Red Hat Society,
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
