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
Performance Spotlight
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
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