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"Come hear the music play…" this summer at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (50 E Congress Pkwy) and the Katten/Landau studio (425 S Wabash, 4th Floor) when both spaces are t…
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce a 3:00 p.m. performance of ALTON BROWN LIVE! THE EDIBLE INEVITABLE TOUR will be added on February 8, 2014 at the Oriental …
The New York Daily News is reporting that James Gandolfini has suffered a massive heart attack and has died. A press-shy celeb who got his start as a character actor and became famous relati…
This summer, Steppenwolf ensemble member"and former artistic director"Randall Arney returns to Chicago to stage Greg Pierce's hit play, Slowgirl, which premiered at Lincoln Center Thea…
 Chicago native Bernie Sahlins (1922-2013), a true champion and icon for the Chicago theatre community, was a prolific Chicago producer. Mr. Sahlins was Co-Founder of The Playwrights…
"Cirque Shanghai: Dragon's Thunder" will feature an additional performance on Thursday, July 4, with performances at 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Navy Pier July 4 firew…
 Broadway In Chicago, Emerald City Theatre and First Stage are thrilled to announce their partnership for the holiday classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER®. RUDOLPH THE RED…
"We all are, to some degree, in a state of being halfway. Between birth and death, sanity and insanity, sober independence and complete, falling down addiction. We are neither moral nor immo…
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that fiveâ€time Tony Award® winning PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, written by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice and directed by TonyÂ…
Podcast with Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’s KURT JENKINS from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Actor/musician Kurt Jenkins discusses playing rock & roll legend Buddy Holly in the new nati…
Performances of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's season-concluding, Chicago-premiere production of Belleville by Amy Herzog begin June 27. Obie Award-winning director Anne Kau…
Spectrum Fine Art Gallery is pleased to premier Still in the night, a new series of photographs by award-winning Chicago fine art photographer and community leader, Lou Raizin. The sho…
Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces the appointment of Artistic Associate Kimberly Senior.…
Musical relevancy is a hard notion to determine. What was considered groundbreaking fifty years ago now maybe considered superfluous for today's audience.  Not so with the 2009 re…
First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83), will present the rollicking World Premiere of SHAKESPEARE'S CYMBELINE: A FOLK TALE WITH MUSIC, previewing June …
Strawdog Theatre Company and Interim Artistic Director Hank Boland are proud to announce their 2013 – 2014 season. The 26th Strawdog season includes Conversations on a Homecoming…
THE BOOK OF MORMON stars, Nic Rouleau and Ben Platt, performed the Chicago Cubs Seventh Inning Stretch at Wrigley Field yesterday evening, June 10, 2013. THE BOOK OF MORMON has announced tha…
Speech & Debate, American Theater Company’s remount of Stephen Karam’s topical play, succeeds on several levels. Â First, under the direction of P.J. Paparelli, the story …
cash loans Podcast with Comedian TODD GLASS from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Comedian Todd Glass discusses his career, including coming out as a gay man, his heart attack and the importance of…
Kinky Boots, the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical adaptation of the film of the same name, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the comedy by Christopher Duran…
About Face Theatre is pleased to kick-off LGBTQ Pride Month with the Chicago premiere of the Olivier Award-winning drama THE PRIDE by Alexi Kaye Campbell, directed by Artistic Di…
Music Box Theatre and WBEZ Chicago's Sound Opinions present the third annual Music Box Summer Music Film Festival with the best new documentary and concert films available abo…
Sideshow Theatre Company concludes its 2012/13 season with the world premiere of THE BURDEN OF NOT HAVING A TAIL, by Carrie Barrett, directed by ensemble member Megan A. Smith, playing…
Bailiwick Chicago Theater concludes its 2012/13 season with the world premiere of the family drama MAHAL by Resident Playwright Danny Bernardo, directed by Erica Weiss, playin…
Jackalope Theatre Company, in association with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, is pleased to present the world premiere of THE CASUALS, co-written by …