Urinetown, Broadway’s Tony-Award winning musical phenomenon, created by Chicago’s own Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, will begin its first commercial Chicago run this spring beginning with previews on March 15 and opening on Sunday March 26, 2006 at The Mercury Theater.  

Tom Mullen directed the first U.S. regional production of the show.... Read More

The tradition and beauty of Natya Dance Theatre, the entrancing music of Grammy nominated Jai Uttal, the soaring voices of the Chicago Children's Choir, and Lookingglass Theatre Company's signature storytelling will unite this spring for the world premiere of Sita Ram.
 
Breathing new life into a key section of.... Read More

Chicago actor Jeff Dumas has landed a featured role in the National Touring company of "Spamalot."  Dumas will play Patsy in the Tony Award-winning musical, which is "lovingly ripped off from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail."  Chicago audiences saw the pre-Broadway tryout of "Spamalot" in December, 2004.  The original cast,.... Read More

Steep Theatre Company will continue its Fifth Season with their production of John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men which is being produced in repertory with Steep’s Midwest premiere of Jez Butterworth’s The Night Heron. Since its founding in March of 2001, Steep has grown by leaps and bounds, producing 20 shows.... Read More

The name Lois Weisberg has become synonymous for pioneering contributions that have enriched and improved Chicago's cultural arts scene over the past 2-½ decades.  Now the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs is being recognized by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois with its first ever Legendary Landmarks Award.  The.... Read More

Veteran Chicago actress Alene Robertson has suffered a brain aneurysm and is currently in a coma awaiting surgery on Tuesday, January 24.  Ms. Robertson was starring in the National Touring company of 'Annie," reprising the role of Miss Hannigan she has played in numerous productions, including at Drury Lane Oakbrook in 1990 and.... Read More

Barbara Gaines is already considered one of the top movers and shapers of Chicago theatre by industry watchers and insiders.  Now the Artistic Director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater is being honored by the Queen of England for her artistic leadership in strengthening ties between the United States and .... Read More

Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago's #1 presenter of new plays for more than 30 years, introduces Chicago to a beautifully written, inspiring new play about a survivor of the 1994 Rwanda massacres with the local premiere of I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given To Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda by Sonja.... Read More

Have you always wanted to try your hand at being a playwright? Now is your chance! As part of Goodman Theatre's upcoming David Mamet Festival, you are invited to walk a mile in this great Chicagoan's shoes by writing a Mamet play of your very own.

As part of Goodman Theatre’s seven-week David Mamet Festival,.... Read More

Legendary Chicago actor Tony Mockus will star in Northlight Theatre's season opening production of 'Inherit the Wind," opening in September, 2006 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.  Mr. Mockus, whose recent credits include starring roles in 'The Sunshine Boys,' 'Sleuth' and 'On Golden Pond,' will play Matthew.... Read More

Just three months after acclaimed playwright August Wilson’s death, Court Theatre is honoring his life and contributions to the American literary canon by putting on a production of one of his most celebrated works.

Fences, which opened Thursday, Jan. 12, was Wilson’s second play to go to Broadway.  His singular achievement and.... Read More

Emerald City Theatre Company, Chicago's largest professional theater company entirely dedicated to families, has corralled some of Chicago's top professional theater artists to create an entertaining, acrobatic new version of everyone's favorite barnyard story, Charlotte's Web, which will run from January 21 to April 1, 2006.

Chicago theater veteran Ann Filmer, founder of Estrogen Fest.... Read More

David Eigenberg, the popular actor of stage and screen best known as Miranda's boyfriend Steve on HBO's Sex and the City, will make his Chicago stage debut in Victory Gardens Theater's Midwest premiere of Cradle of Man, playing March 24-May 7, 2006.
 
Cradle of Man, a new dramatic comedy by Melanie.... Read More

Chicago favorite Renee Matthews has been much in demand since walking away from this year's "Jeff" Awards with Best Supporting Actress in a Musical honors.  Matthews parlayed her salty, chain-smoking, tough-talking pianist Jeanette in "The Full Monty" at Drury Lane Water Tower Theatre into a showstopping tour de force.  Next up for the.... Read More

Chicago actor Sean Allan Krill turned down an opportunity to recreate the same role in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" that he played on the National Tour for the Marriott Theatre's local regional premiere.  It seems he will be counting his "Money, Money, Money" by starring in the ABBA song and dance sensation "Mamma Mia."  Krill,.... Read More

Chicago's resident company of the blockbuster musical Wicked is booking tickets well into 2006, but look for a few changes over at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre.  Both Ana Gasteyer (Elphaba) and Kate Reinders (Glinda) will be exiting the Stephen Schwartz hit when their contracts end in late January. .... Read More

Little Women - The Musical based on the classic novel by Louise May Alcott, is coming to the Cadillac Palace Theatre where it will play from Tuesday, January 24th through Sunday, February 5th.  Recording, concert and theater start Maureen McGovern, who starred in the show on Broadway, will headline the tour.

Maureen McGovern, .... Read More

Chicago audiences may be able to talk to the animals after all.  The on-again, off-again touring stage production of the Leslie Bricusse musical 'Doctor Doolittle" 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

Chicago Jewish Theatre, the only professional theater in the Chicago area dedicated to celebrating and illuminating Jewish history, culture and identity, will be relocating to Skokie in July of 2006.
 
The theatre, which has occupied their own 50-seat storefront space in Andersonville, at 5123 N. Clark Street since 2003, will.... Read More

Chicago actor David New has been named as the new Associate Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company.  New replaces Curt Columbus, who left Chicago to become the new artistic director of Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. 

New's Steppenwolf acting credits include roles in 'The Royal Family," 'The Ballad of Little Jo," 'Valparaiso,".... Read More