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SJCChicago LLC is proud to announce the extension of Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's production of Smokey Joe's Café " The Songs of Leiber and Stoller at the Royal George Cabaret Theatr…
As part of its 2013 season exploring CHOICES, Pegasus will produce the world premiere of IF YOU SPLIT A SECOND by award-winning Chicago playwright Dana Lynn Formby. The play will run Thursda…
Cirque Shanghai returns to Chicago's Navy Pier this summer with a magnificent new show "Cirque Shanghai: Dragon's Thunder" beginning Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The production will run through …
With hundreds of antique phonographs, high quality music boxes, and vintage radios, thousands of rare records from the 1890's to the 1950's and more, the 38th Annual Phonograph and Music …
Iconic entertainer Pat Boone will perform two concerts only at Drury Lane Theatre on Monday, May 13 at 1:30 p.m. and Tuesday, May 14 at 1:30 p.m. Celebrating 75 years in show business, Boone…
Black Ensemble Theater Founder and Executive Director Jackie Taylor announces a special Mother's Day concert, To Mother " With Love (A Concert Just For Her), featuring the stars …
Be forewarned that prior to viewing playwright Adam Pasen's intellectually intricate new work Tea with Edie & Fitz, it will behoove you to do some basic research on the characters involv…
Music Theatre International (MTI) will bring a musical flair to the Scene Partner e-Script library, thanks to a new Distribution Agreement between the world's premier musical theatre licenso…
The producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical, including Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the original 1983 film, are holding open auditions to find exceptionally talente…
PBS today unveiled a summer line-up that features a diverse array of new programming. A summer of intrigue presents new episodes of MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! productions: "Inspector Lewi…
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 40th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards. The Daytime Entertainment Emmy® …
Date: May 17th, 2013 Day & Time: Friday, 7pm Location: Cafe Ballou, 939 N Western, Chicago, IL “Cafe Cabaret” Cafe Cabaret is an eclectic variety/cabaret show with a rotating…
Members of the cast of Chicago’s Book of Mormon performed a sold out cabaret benefit for BC/EFA and Chicago House. Â The event, which included Nic Rouleau, Ben Platt, Syesha Mercado,…
Kathryn Gauthier, award-winning visual and performing artist, will enthrallChicago audiences on Thursday, May 23 from 6 " 8 PM with a musical performance of 20 songs along with a 20 year …
Oracle Productions continues Season 3 of Public Access Theatre with its first musical, THE MOTHER by Bertolt Brecht. This bold production is directed by Max Truax, Artistic Director of Oracl…
The 67th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from Radio City Music Hall, on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 9, 2013. BEST PLAY The Assembled P…
Court Theatre Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J. Albert presentThe Molière Festival:Â The Misanthrope & Tartuffe, written by Molière with a translatio…
TimeLine Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today’s social and political issues, announces that The How and the Why by Sarah Treem (Netf…
Rush Hour Concerts presents its 14th annual Summer Concert Series featuring free concerts of "great music for busy lives" at River North’s historic St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron Str…
Summer 2013 will bring a wealth of new works to Chicago stages, closing out this season with some of the most exciting theater in the country, and holding Chicago's place as a leader on the …
The New York premiere of SURVIVING MOMMIE DEAREST an empowering and inspirational new production starring Christina Crawford – actress, activist and author of the 1978 best-se…
REVIEWED BY: JOSEPH HILLENMETER "Ploughed Under: An American Songbook," is The House Theatre of Chicago’s most recent forte into "amazing feats of storytelling," the mission of the com…
There certainly seems to be a plethora of “Father” centric shows making their way around Chicago. Â Within the past two weeks, more than half of the productions that have opene…
There is an old joke with musical theatre composers when they are asked what comes first, the music or the lyrics. Â The answer is neither. Â First comes the contract!!! Â I have been …
REVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT Pal Joey first appeared on stage on Christmas Day 1940.  This wonderful musical creation by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart  features one of the gre…
