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
Performance Spotlight
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
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.
Eustis, director.... Read More
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.
"The Chicago .... Read More
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.