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Audiences will have eight more opportunities to catch Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s summer hit. The cabaret of over 30 songs by songwriter Cole Porter, which had already extended fo…
Barrel of Monkeys is pleased to kick-off its 16th season with the 12th year of its long-running, critically acclaimed revue THAT'S WEIRD, GRANDMA, conceived and written by Chicag…
"50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL," the critically-hailed parody of the phenomenally popular books, will release an Original Cast Album Tuesday, Aug. 13. The album is being released by Theat…
Check out these great videos from About Face Theatre and their fantastic KEEP IT GAY campaign showing the relevancy of this groundbreaking theatre company.  For more information visit abo…
 Four weeks after having the Village of Brookfield unexpectedly decide they no longer wanted to host the 2013 Chicago tour stop for the BADASS Dashâ„¢ Obstacle Course Challenge & …
When Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, a musical about the uprise of Nazi Germany, premiered on Broadway in 1966, it was saluted (and vilified)  as being edgy, transformational and groundbr…
Punch Me If I'm Dreaming, a two-person musical sketch show starring Matthew Van Colton and Nicole C. Hastings, opens Monday, August 12th at StudioBe. Punch Me If I'm Dreaming looks to …
The final program line-up is set for the 7th annual Chicago Dancing Festival, taking place at venues across downtown Chicago August 20 " 24. Co-produced by internationally renow…
JASON STUART, PAUL ELIA and ALEXANDRA PAUL star in the new web series MENTOR JASON STUART, a veteran character actor and comedian with lots of credits, feels like this is …
THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE, starring internationally-acclaimed storyteller and pianist, Mona Golabek, which was recently extended due to popular demand through September 1, will host a…
Doug Vincent's autobiographical play,  A Day for Grace will open in Chicago on September 11th for a three-night engagement from September 11 thru 13  at Stage 773, 1225 …
Without a doubt, Jason Robert Brown has become one of our most prolific and admired musical theatre composers of the last fifteen years. His melodic structure always comes with an edge t…
JAMES VAN PRAAGH Returns To Chicago For Two Days Only!!!  Thursday, August 15th & Friday August 16th   7pm-10pm Unity Church in Chicago, 1925 W. Thome Ave. (S. of Devon, W…
Kristine W (Kristine Weitz) is an American Dance-pop, House music and Hi-NRG singer/songwriter. She has released seven albums, three of them through major labels, plus an early rec…
Chicago Opera Theater's Chicago Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Joan of Arc places the audience directly in the midst of a play within a play in a newly conceived production by "ava…
Rehearsals begin next week at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the American premiere of The Wheel by Zinnie Harris. Ensemble member Tina Landau directs Harris's epic, a work of ma…
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that individual tickets for ONCE,winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theate…
When the film of Flashdance was unveiled in the early 1980′s, it was considered somewhat revolutionary as it was the first of its genre to incorporate an MTV music video vibe into cine…
Podcast with recording sensation SHARA STRAND from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
Podcast with recording sensation SHARA STRAND from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Recording sensation Shara Strand discusses her incredible career. Shara will be performing at North Halsted Stree…
Acclaimed comedians Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah lead a group of Muslim-American standup comedians as they go on the road to counter Islamophobia using the only weapon they have: jokes.Ã…
Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the city's leader in new art music and inventive collaborations, in partnership with Build the Peace Chicago, The Peace School, the Internatio…
 Court Theatre and American Blues Theater jointly announce the development of a new adaptation of Richard Wright's classic novel, Native Son, adapted by Nambi E. Kell…
Podcast with First Stage Theatre’s JEFF FRANK from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Director Jeff Frank has been First Stage's artistic director since February 2003. Previously he ha…