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
With the great summer months here in Chicago the lure of warm sunny days may pull some away from going to the theatre but that need not be the case. With “Theatre-Hikes” there is no need to sit on a hard seat in a dark theatre waiting for the scenes to change. Instead, as they.... Read More
Thirty-seven Jeff Citations Awards honoring excellence in non-Equity Chicago theatre were spread among 24 productions and 20 theatres at the 33rd Annual Citations Awards Ceremony held Monday, June 5 at Park West in Chicago. First-time nominee Infamous Commonwealth Theatre Company’s ambitious production of The Kentucky Cycle, Parts 1 and 2.... Read More
Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls announced a new carrot for subscribers with the final addition to his 20th Anniversary Season: the Tony Award-nominated play Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. Directed by Goodman Associate Producer Steve Scott, Rabbit Hole will run in the Goodman’s Albert Theatre March 10 through April 15, .... Read More
The success of Chicago’s open-ended Wicked continues not only at the box office, but also in the community at large as many members of the cast and crew work to better the lives of those in need. The Chicago company earned the top fundraising honor in the 20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, a.... Read More
Actors Elizabeth Rich and James Meredith describe some of the challenges they faced in creating the pivotal love scene in The Duchess of Malfi, currently playing at Writers Theatre.
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Light Opera Works has evolved over its 26 year history from an ambitious but largely amateur company specializing in obscure musicals and operettas to a professional operation boasting a mixture of Equity and talented non-Equity performers, lavish production values and opulent productions of established and popular musical theatre. The transition in the.... Read More
Rehearsing The Duchess: For The Duchess of Malfi costume designer, Tatjana Radisic, the challenge was to create a high-end fashion line for the rich and powerful inhabitants of a world that doesn’t exist.
This is the second in a series of articles documenting the production of John Webster’s tragedy directed by Michael.... Read More
Chicago can boast of yet another space for live theater this fall when Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside the historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 North Michigan Avenue, unveils its new Chase Studio Theatre with the American premiere of Clay.
Presented in a co-production with About Face Theatre, Clay.... Read More
A sign that summer is almost upon us is the announcement of the Theatre On The Lake Season. Well then it must almost be here as The Chicago Park District has announced the 54th Theater on the Lake Season, featuring nine artistically diverse Chicago theater companies reprising critically-acclaimed productions, June 14 – August.... Read More
How do director, designers and actors prepare to realize John Webster’s Jacobean blockbuster, The Duchess of Malfi, for a modern audience? What challenges do the artists face along the way? How does their vision evolve over the course of rehearsal?
This is the first in a series of articles documenting the upcoming production.... Read More
Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s (CST) 20th Anniversary year will be aptly inaugurated with a trans-Atlantic production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, currently running at Shakespeare’s heartland home on Chicago’s Navy Pier through June 18, 2006, and concluding at his birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, England at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), July 6-15, 2006..... Read More
Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls has announced the addition of Mirror of the Invisible World—a critical and popular success originally produced in the intimate Goodman Studio in 1997 and now re-imagined for the Albert stage—as a part of his dynamic 20th anniversary season. Adapted and directed by Goodman Manilow Resident.... Read More
Ina Marlowe has been resurrected, both professionally and perhaps more importantly artistically. The intrepid former Artistic Director of the Organic and Touchstone Theaters has a new venue to call home and a refined goal that has less to do with commercial success and all its messy red tape and everything to do with creating.... Read More
Following a multi-million dollar restoration and renovation, the LaSalle Bank Theatre is ready to entertain Chicago for another hundred years. The 100-year-old venue gloriously restored and newly named the LaSalle Bank Theatre, will now showcase previously hidden treasures including mosaic flooring and original gilded ceilings, all uncovered during the restoration process.
The 100-year-old.... Read More
First Folio Shakespeare Festival has announced its first subscription series: The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, adapted for the stage by David Rice and Alison C. Vesely, and Angel Street (Gaslight), by Patrick Hamilton. In addition, First Folio will present Chicago’s own Babes With Blades in.... Read More
After an unexpected permit process put the January move into their new home on hold, the side project has announced that it has completed the gamut of reviews and inspections needed to finally open at their new location, The Side Project Theatre, at 1439 W Jarvis Ave. Lucky for them, since Sean Graney has been.... Read More
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee has announced 112 nominations in 24 categories for Chicago's non-Equity theatrical productions which opened during the 2005-06 season (April 1, 2005-March 31, 2006). The Jeff Committee judged 129 opening night productions offered by 60 non-Equity producing organizations, and recommended 55 productions for further judging,.... Read More
