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Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, 200 North Columbus Drive, offers a variety of packages that will allow guests to enjoy luxurious accommodations and explore the best of the Windy City all …
The troupe at Cirque Shanghai, returning once again to Navy Pier with their most thrilling show to date, has become a welcome Chicago tradition.  Cirque's latest show entitled Dragon'…
Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, presents the regional premiere of the recent Broadway sensation NEXT TO NORMAL, previewing August 15, opening August 22, and running throug…
Podcast with Australian Bee Gee’s MATT BALDONI from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Currently touring the world as Barry Gibb in the THE AUSTRALIAN BEE GEES SHOW, classical guitarist MATT BA…
Award-winning hip hop poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph's powerful Word Becomes Flesh returns to Chicago, re-invented with an ensemble cast from a new generation, in a one-night-only p…
Artistic Director Chay Yew and Board President Steve Miller announce the appointment of the theater's new Managing Director, Christopher Mannelli. Mannelli joined Victory Gardens as Gene…
Steppenwolf for Young Adults is pleased to announce casting for the upcoming production of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Halena Kays directs a cast featuring William Bu…
AstonRep Theatre Company is pleased to announce its 2013-14 season at its new, larger home at Chicago's Raven Theatre. The season kicks off this fall with the Chicago premiere of T…
Becker Entertainment is redefining Chicago's Division Street scene with their newest venture, FAME; an art-centric bar bringing nationally acclaimed artists' work to one of the city's mos…
Join a live studio audience on the set of a '70s-style sitcom as The Inconvenience, The New Colony and the University of Chicago's Theater and Performance St…
Join Academy Award® nominated actor and A Red Orchid Theatre co-founding ensemble member Michael Shannon on Monday, July 29 for a celebration of A Red Orchid Theatre's 20th…
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has added two weeks to its premiere i…
The chic wine lounge ENO, located at Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, 200 N. Columbus Drive, has launched a series of "ENOversity" education classes. Perfect for wine novices and aficio…
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents the Broadway musical THE COLOR PURPLE, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, previewing August 14, opening…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) presents Cyrano de Bergerac directed by Penny Metropulos September 24"November 10, 2013 inCST's Courtyard Theater. The stars have aligned to …
Sideshow Theatre Company is pleased to announce its full 2013/14 Season, beginning this fall with the Chicago premiere of Bill Cain's spellbinding drama 9 CIRCLES directed by Marti …
 Due to popular demand, About Face Theatre's critically acclaimed Chicago premiere of THE PRIDE by Alexi Kaye Campbell (Olivier Award) and directed by Bonnie MetzgarÅ
Eight exceptional educators from schools and performing arts centers around the country will work one-on-one with Broadway greats at the 4th Annual FREDDIE G BROADWAY EXPERIENCE Jul…
Escape the New York summer heat with "Christmas in July" at Joe's Pub at The Public where Chicago's About Face Theatre in association with John Sanders presents a concer…
A Red Orchid Theatre closes out its 20th Anniversary Season with Simpatico, written by Sam Shepard and directed by Ensemble Member Dado featuring Ensemble Members Michael Shannon…
Just how well you really now someone is turned on its ear with the Chicago premiere of Amy Herzog’s disturbing Belleville, which opened this weekend at Steppenwolf.   This four …
Podcast with Emerald City Theatre’s DANNY TAYLOR from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
Podcast with Emerald City Theatre’s DANNY TAYLOR from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Currently starring in Emerald City Theatre Company’s remount of THE CAT IN THE HAT (a co-productio…
 Chicagoans can experience the rare privilege of seeing Helen Mirren's acclaimed West End performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, which returns for an encore performance …
Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Jeff Garlin takes the director's chair with his youth baseball comedy Dealin' With Idiots from IFC Films, opening in Chicago July 12 at Music Box Theatre, 37…