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
Performance Spotlight
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
The Neo-Futurists create the plays that America most and least wants to see in their latest prime-time production, You Asked For It!, written and directed by founder Greg Allen, opening Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland.
Inspired by conceptual artists Komar and Melamid, whose book Paint by.... Read More
Take the whole family when Emerald City Theatre Company brings the world of Dr. Seuss magically to life with its fresh new staging of Seussical the Musical, a whimsical, wonderful musical for the whole family by Eric Idle, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, based on the collected works of Dr. Seuss.
Chicago's largest.... Read More
Dreamers, schemers and would-be lovers inhabit Brood, a miserable hamlet on an unspecified British coast, and the fantastical setting for Glen Berger's The Wooden Breeks, receiving its first Chicago production January 24-March 11, 2007 at Lookingglass Theatre Company.
"Breeks" is Scottish for "breeches," making "wooden breeks" vernacular for "wooden pants." Or,.... Read More
Following the massive success of Dora the Explorer Live!, Nickelodeon and Live Nation are launching an all new family theatrical live tour, based on the top preschool series Go, Diego, Go!. The national tour of Go, Diego, Go Live! The Great Jaguar Rescue will come to the Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N. River Rd. in Rosemont, Tuesday, Feb. 20.... Read More
Court-Martial at Fort Devens, a riveting new drama about U.S. military race relations during World War II by Victory Gardens ensemble playwright Jeffrey Sweet, will continue the theater's 2006/07 all-world premiere inaugural season in its beautiful new Biograph Theater mainstage, February 2-March 11, 2007.
Court-Martial at Fort Devens tells of a confrontation during WWII.... Read More
Celebrating its 30th Anniversary season, Theatre Building Chicago continues its mission to cultivate new American musical theatre, with musicals for kids. TBC shines the spotlight on the pint-sized patron (ages 3-8) with new shows created by members of its nationally recognized musical theatre writers workshop.
Theatre Building Chicago will present The Adventures of Anansi the Spider by.... Read More
Composer Stephen Flaherty will be honored in person at the Bailiwick Theater Mainstage, 1229 West Belmont, on Monday, March 19, 2007 with a musical revue of classic Broadway songs written by the team of Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens, including numbers from their renowned shows like My Favorite Year (which will run at Bailiwick.... Read More
Take your family on an amazing voyage complete with magic, monsters and feats of great bravery when the Lookingglass Young Ensemble - the new youth performing troupe of Lookingglass Theatre Company Education and Community Programs - makes its debut after the holidays with Mary Zimmerman's The Odyssey.
Performances are January 21-February 18, 2007, and.... Read More
The National Tour of the recent Broadway smash hit, Twelve Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose, directed by Scott Ellis, produced by New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, and starring Richard Thomas and George Wendt will play Chicago’s LaSalle Bank Theatre from January 30 - February 11, 2007.
Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of the searing.... Read More
The mischievous and magical musical Pippin is the imaginary coming-of-age story of legendary medieval King Charlemagne’s eldest son. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, the composer of the Broadway and Chicago hit musical Wicked, and book by Roger O. Hirson, Pippin will be performed from January 26 to February 4 at the Josephine Louis.... Read More
On Friday, January 12, 2007, there will be a special “for-mature-audiences-only” performance of Chicago’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the Tony Award-winning and critically acclaimed new musical comedy in an open-run. It will be parent/teacher night for this one performance only at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place – the.... Read More
Chicago’s record-breaking Wicked has announced that Dee Roscioli will assume the role of Elphaba full-time starting Tuesday, December 12. Dee joined the Chicago company as the Standby for Elphaba last January, and has performed in the role many times over the course of this past year.
As previously announced, original Broadway cast member, William .... Read More
The Color Purple is still a few months away from making it’s Chicago premiere but the buzz and excitement for the show is as high as ever. Native Chicagoan Felicia Fields, who currently stars as Sofia in the Broadway production and who will also star in the Chicago production, sat down with Theatre In.... Read More
Radio Golf is the centerpiece of Goodman Theatre’s August Wilson Celebration, a tribute to the late Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American playwright. Completed only months before his untimely death in 2005, Radio Golf is the final play in Wilson’s powerful decade-by-decade exploration of the 20th Century African American experience—and the only play.... Read More
Lukaba Productions has announced its performers and workshops for The 6th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. The festival will be held January 4th – 14th, 2007 at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 W. Belmont. The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival (Chicago SketchFest) is the largest sketch comedy festival in the nation. Similar to previous years, the festival will showcase performances.... Read More
Starting Wednesday, December 6, audience members at Chicago's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will get in on the buzz bumbling across the country by competing in "Game Night at the Bee," a pre-show board game competition held at 6 p.m. before Wednesday night performances of the critically acclaimed Broadway musical comedy.
Participants will gather in the.... Read More
Tony Award-winning Best Actress Cherry Jones stars in the National Touring production of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley. The production, directed by Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes, will make its Chicago premiere at the LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) for a limited three-week engagement beginning January.... Read More
Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls continues his 20th Anniversary Season with the world premiere of Frank’s Home by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson, a lyrical, heartbreaking story about one of Chicago’s greatest, if less than perfect, visionaries. Frank’s Home features stage and screen star Peter Weller—perhaps best known for his starring .... Read More