The world premiere of "Asphalt Beach" will be the third new musical to emerge from the recently launched American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University. The show features music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by T. C. Smith and Peter Spears and direction by Amanda Dehnert. Performances will be held from.... Read More
College-bound high school students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies in the areas of music, dance, theater, visual arts, graphic design, and other related disciplines can find out more about by attending the National Association for College Admission Counseling's (NACAC) Chicago Performing and Visual Arts College Fair.
The Chicago Performing and Visual Arts College Fair will be.... Read More
I watched theatrical designer Brian Sidney Bembridge at work during tech week at Writers’ Theatre as he finalized the lighting for The Duchess of Malfi. Even from afar, he was someone you couldn’t help liking -- relaxed (even in the crucible of tech), friendly, positive, focused, professional. Only after I asked.... Read More
Big Bang, the "unofficial" inaugural production of the new Downstairs theatre at the Chicago Theatre has closed its run early due to the inability to find a Chicago audience for the show.
The production, which was slated to run until August 20, had its last show on Sunday, July 23. This was the first.... Read More
Chicago comedy legend Del Close apparently did not, in fact, donate his skull to the Goodman Theatre, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. The human skull that was thought to be Close's has become a legendary prop in Chicago theater and a symbol of his eccentric and offbeat humor.
Close died at 64 in.... Read More
Every day, Victory Gardens Theater's dream of creating An American Center for New Plays inside Chicago's historic Biograph Theater comes closer to reality. Chicago's number one presenter of new work for more than 30 years, Victory Gardens will open its new Biograph mainstage in September 2006, becoming an important new addition to Chicago's live.... Read More
Lookingglass Theatre Company To Take "Lookingglass Alice" On A Tour Of East Coast Theatres
Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company will take its acclaimed 2005 smash hit Lookingglass Alice on a regional tour of major east coast theaters in 2007, starting in January at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, The New Victory Theater in New York City.... Read More
The Side Project will preview their 2006-2007 season this Saturday, July 22 at its annual SideFest Benefit. In the spring of 2006, the side project opened the doors to a new, larger, more comfortable space at 1439 W. Jarvis, equipped with 43 padded chairs, three restrooms and a large lobby. Sean Graney's controversial dark .... Read More
Christmas may still not be here for another five months or so but it is not too early to start planning for the Christmas season. Tickets to the timeless holiday tradition of Goodman Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol are now on sale.
The Goodman Theatre's A Christmas Carol, one of the most popular.... Read More
The production of The Pirate Queen is in final rehearsals and is getting ready for it’s world premiere later this year here in Chicago. Riverdance creators Moya Doherty and John McColgan are launching their follow-up to the Irish-themed stage show - The Pirate Queen, which is a big budget musical production based on.... Read More
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, the absurdly named theatrical venture co-founded by Artistic Director James Bohnen in 1996, begins its 10th year of talk-provoking plays performed by an ensemble of seasoned Chicago actors, in the intimate Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater Upstairs Mainstage at 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue. The 2006-2007 Season opens with Gore Vidal’s.... Read More
The National Tour of the Broadway smash hit musical is getting closer to making its Chicago debut. The Color Purple will begin the casting process in Chicago July 14 – 18 for the Tony Award nominated show, which will kick off at the Cadillac Palace Theatre April 17, 2007. This long-run engagement will have.... Read More
The GreyZelda Theatre Group will present their original adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, directed by co-artistic director, Rebecca Zellar beginning in August. A preview will be held on August 9th and performances will be August 10th - September 16th, Thursdays through Sundays at StageLeft Theatre, located at 3408 N. Sheffield .... Read More
Frances Limoncelli is Director of Marketing and an ensemble member with Lifeline Theater. She adapted Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective novel, Gaudy Night, for Lifeline’s current production, as well as two other Sayers novels previously produced by the company. Other adaptations for Lifeline include The Emperor's Groovy New Clothes and Somebody Loves You, Mr..... Read More
Chicago audiences will be able to talk to the animals soon. The on-again, off-again touring stage production of the Leslie Bricusse musical "Doctor Dolittle" is back on the schedule for Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre July 18-30, 2006. Legendary song and dance man Tommy Tune not only takes the lead but the directorial reins.... Read More
Profiles Theatre will kick off its 2006-2007 Season by presenting the Midwest Premiere of Neil LaBute's award-winning "Fat Pig". "Fat Pig" won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play in 2005 and will open at Profiles September 14, 2006. Profiles' production will mark only the third time "Fat Pig" has been produced since its MCC Premiere in 2004, and will.... Read More
Emerald City Theatre will cap its most successful season in its 10-year history with a brief summer remount of its 2005/06 season finale The Jungle Book, July 12-14. Performances of Emerald City's hit family musical will move from the company's regular home at the Apollo Theatre, to the Athenaeum Theatre Mainstage for three shows.... Read More
Critically acclaimed Chicago directors Shade Murray and Chuck Smith will be spending part of their summer mounting productions for Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, Illinois. This long established summer stock company is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year with a wide spectrum of adult and children shows. Murray, who was responsible.... Read More
So is it theatre or theater? Ok, so it isn't the most important question, but none the less it is one that people are really split on. But which one is correct? Theatres (or theaters) around Chicago are also split on this as well. For example, you can go to the Goodman Theatre or the.... Read More
There’s no place like home… Wicked remains the most ‘Popular’ show in all of Oz with nearly 1,000,000 audience members having attended since it landed permanently in the Windy City. Chicago’s open-ended production of Wicked celebrates one year where it continues sold-out performances at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental.... Read More
