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The Goodman Theatre series "Statesville Voices," shut down in April, is back with three online performances July 3.
The Chicago-area Zanies comedy clubs have announced they will reopen in July, with Vince Carone in Chicago and Pat McGann in Rosemont.
The longtime iO Theater Chicago is shutting down and the building it moved to in 2014 will be sold. Photos from the past decade.
Chicago's theater awards for the community's non-union theaters have been rescheduled for June 22 in a free, live-streaming ceremony.
Chicago's long-lived iO Theater will shut down and the theater building at 1501 N. Kingsbury St. will be put up for sale.
The building on Berwyn Street has been sold and Steep Theatre Co. must move out in September. But the change was not caused by the current shutdown.
The Mercury Theater Chicago in the Southport Corridor, known for musicals such as "Avenue Q" and "Spamalot," announced Tuesday it is closing at the end of June.
Chicago's TimeLine Theatre Company on Thursday announced four new playwrights have joined its Playwrights Collective, the company's new-play incubator.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has partnered with Second City for a weekly video series, titled "The Second City's Phased & Confused."
The touring Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" has been put off to 2022, presenter Broadway in Chicago announced Wednesday.
Florence Pugh, Brandon Flynn and Margaret Qualley part of Brando Crawford's Acting for a Cause livestream plays
Chicago's Pivot Arts Festival announces June 5-11 schedule, as the North Side performance fest pivots to online for summer 2020.
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FRIDAY "Sweet Texas Reckoning": Kate comes home to Texas with her African American wife. Artemisia Theatre at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; www. artemisiatheatre.org SATURDAY "Get…
The House Theatre of Chicago has announced its 2019-20 season, the 18th for the Chicago company. All mainstage shows will be performed in the Chopin Upstairs Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.; s…
MONDAY "Ms. Blakk For President": Steppenwolf ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney stars in this play based on the true story of Joan Jett Blakk, the radical drag persona of Terence Smith w…
SUNDAY "For Services Rendered": Unearthing W. Somerset Maugham's 1933 play about the aftermath of war and its effect on survivors. Griffin Theatre Company at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwauk…
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on Wednesday announced its 2019-20 season, including world premieres by Kyle Abraham and Robyn Mineko Williams and a return of "Decadance." Subscriptions to the …
Comedian Patton Oswalt is coming to the Den Theatre in Wicker Park for three performances Aug. 15-16. According to the announcement Tuesday, tickets ($35 general admission, $55 VIP table sea…
The New York cast has been announced for Tracy Letts' "Linda Vista," and it's a lot of Chicago faces. The Broadway production of the play, which premiered at Letts' home stage at Steppenwolf…
Newly announced for the Mercury Theater Chicago on Southport, the musical "Spamalot," coming this fall to the theater's mainstage from Aug. 30 to Nov. 3, 2019. 'Tis but a scratch. The musica…
FRIDAY "La Havana Madrid": Sandra Delgado's play with music about a legendary Chicago nightclub in the 1960s is back for another run. Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; www.thedentheatre.c…
Cut a rug, hit the floor, dance like nobody's watching " never mind that you're on an open-air dance floor in downtown Chicago, surrounded by a gazillion people on a summer night in Grant Pa…
FRIDAY "Rent": The non-Equity cast has changed, but this 20th anniversary touring production of Jonathan Larson's musical was last in Chicago at the then-Oriental Theatre in 2017. Nederlande…
Call it advertising or call it art. Three Chicago installations with nighttime projections are coming this month to three different city locations, thanks to the new Cirque du Soleil show "V…
