Raven Theatre presents The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov in a translation by Jean-Claude van Itallie, directed by Michael Menendian, opening Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark Street.  Chekhov’s dark yet comedic masterpiece, depicting the quintessential dysfunctional family, explores situations that today’s American audiences can easily relate.... Read More

Massacre (Sing to Your Children), a darkly comic thriller by Academy Award-nominee José Rivera, makes its world premiere in a Teatro Vista production in association with Goodman Theatre. Chuck Smith directs the play Chicago audiences first heard as a staged reading as part of Teatro Vista’s Tapas Reading Series in Pilsen and then at.... Read More

The record-breaking Chicago company of Wicked will soon offer an opportunity to take a rare glimpse “into the wings” of the blockbuster Broadway musical.  “Behind the Emerald Curtain,” an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Wicked, hosted by cast members in Chicago, will be offered to the public starting March 6 on Tuesday evenings at.... Read More

Five years after Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses took New York by storm, Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company returns to debut its second production in New York this week with its 2005 smash hit Lookingglass Alice at The New Victory Theater, New York's premier theater for kids and families, February 9th through 25th.
 
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Individual tickets for the highly-anticipated Chicago premiere of Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will go on sale Friday, February 23, 2007 for performances beginning October 6 through January 6, 2008 at Chicago’s LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.).

Tickets for Jersey Boys will go on sale at 8:00.... Read More

Northwestern University has announced that award-winning Broadway director Michael Greif has replaced Oskar Eustis as the director of the American Music Theatre Project’s (AMTP) fourth new musical, “The Boy in the Bubble” which is scheduled for production on the University’s Evanston campus in late July 2007 at the Ethel M. Barber Theatre.

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Pegasus Players continues its 28th season with the world premiere of Black Ceasar by David Barr III. This world premiere production of acclaimed Chicago playwright David Barr’s Black Caesar is an African-American adaptation of the Orson Wells film classic Citizen Kane. Black Ceasar chronicles the life of C.J. Caesar; a black newspaper mogul.... Read More

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced six new ensemble members: Alana Arenas, Kate Arrington, Ian Barford, Jon Hill, Ora Jones and James Vincent Meredith. The Steppenwolf ensemble, the longest-existing theater ensemble in the United States, now totals 41 members.

“The greatest honor with which I am entrusted is that of naming new members.... Read More

Edward Albee’s beloved classic Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin will appear in Chicago for a limited engagement as part of its five-city, five-month national tour.  The award-winning and critically acclaimed production will play the LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) from March 27.... Read More

Chicago’s company of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will host the final competition at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place on Sunday, March 25.  The widely acclaimed and Tony award-winning musical comedy will end its run after over 400 performances spanning a year in the Windy City.

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Tony Award-winning Best Actress Cherry Jones who is currently starring in the National Touring production of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, sat down with Theatre In Chicago’s Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about the show and her role as Sister Aloysius, a role she originated in 2005. Along with the Tony.... Read More

Writers’ Theatre is set to continue its 15th season with Itamar Moses’ highly acclaimed, Bach at Leipzig, which will be directed by Nick Bowling. Already extended, the production is set to run at Writers’ Theatre, 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe from January 23 to April 1.

The play takes place in Germany in 1722, where seven.... Read More

Mary Zimmerman, renowned Tony Award-winning director, Goodman Theatre Artistic Associate, Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member and Northwestern University faculty member, will  return to the Northwestern stage this winter for the first time since the 1996 production of Six Myths (which became Metamorphosis on Broadway) to direct William Shakespeare’s comedy Cymbeline.
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Black Ensemble Theater Company Founder and Executive Director Jackie Taylor has announced the schedule for the company's 31st season, offering an ambitious lineup of five new productions which pay tribute to the lives, music and history of great African American male artists. The 2007 season of excellence, "Dedicated to the Men," begins in February - Black History Month.... Read More

The Victory Gardens Theater Access Project announces the return of Crip Slam Sundays - the innovative new series of Sunday night readings, presentations and live performances by and about persons with disabilities, formerly known as Disability Culture Sundays.

Victory Gardens' 2007 Crip Slam Sundays series kicks off January 28 at 7:30 pm with Clothing.... Read More