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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Performance Spotlight
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.
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
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