The 2005 Joseph Jefferson Awards, which celebrate excellence in the Chicago area’s Equity theatre community, were presented on November 7 at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place. A total of 29 theatre companies received nominations at the 37th annual event.

A total of 120 Equity productions by 51 Chicago producing companies were judged during.... Read More

Legendary stage director Sir Peter Hall has withdrawn from Lyric Opera of Chicago's premiere production of Sir Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage that he was to have directed, William Mason, the Lyric's general director announced in a press release. The company has attributed Hall's departure from the production as stemming.... Read More

"The Pirate Queen," an epic musical tale from the writers of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," will open in Chicago next year on its way to Broadway.

The show, which will begin performances Oct. 3, 2006, at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, features a book and score by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg..... Read More

Edmund De Santis is a celebrated playwright and a founding member of the celebrated Harbor Theatre Company in New York City. De Santis has written many plays, including the award-winning Recensio, Thinking and Other Positions and American Subways to name a few. He is also coming to Chicago in November to see the Chicago.... Read More

The company of the sit-down production of Wicked at Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts have organized a benefit evening to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity/Operation Home Delivery, which will aid the recently displaced hurricane victims around the country.

The Nov. 14 evening, entitled There's No Place Like Home, will.... Read More

Chicago's Curt Columbus, head of the summer Theatre on the Lake and associate artisitc director at Steppenwolf Theatre is leaving the Chicago Theatre scene to become the artisitic director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island.

The artistic director of the Drury Lane Theatre at Water Tower Place, Michael Weber, has been released from his position.  Weber had only been in the job for five months and was in the midst of directing "Grand Hotel," which closes November 6.

The theatre, which is located near the heart of the Magnificent.... Read More

The Chicago Theatre, located in the loop at 175 N. State street, is expanding by going down.

The owner of the Chicago Theatre, TheatreDreams Chicago, is building a new 250 seat black-box style performance space in the currently unused space beneath the theater's main lobby. The new theatre space, which should be complete by March .... Read More