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The Chicago Dancing Festival is proud to announce the 9th annual program will take place August 25-29, 2015. Co-produced by renowned choreographer Lar Lubovitch and highly esteemed Chicag…
Presented by Rush Hour Concerts, Make Music Chicago, a completely free musical celebration across Chicago, returns for its fifth annual event on the first day of summer and longest day of…
In this rebroadcast, CHRIS LEMMON discusses his critically acclaimed one man show A TWIST OF LEMMON: A TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER JACK (formerly Jack Lemmon Returns), written and directed by Hersh…
The Broadway smash sensation makes its Chicago premiere! Christopher Durang’s “deliriously funny” (The New York Times) Tony Award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and S…
About Face Theatre is pleased to present the world premiere of 15 BREATHS, written by and featuring members of the the About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble and directed by AFT Educa…
After an extremely successful third season, which presented a smash-hit comedy by Mindy Kaling, the explosive Chicago premiere of a work by an up-and-coming playwright, and a topical world p…
The Grant Park Music Festival, the nation's only free, summer-long outdoor classical music series of its kind, announces the world premiere performances of composer/violist Kenji Bunch's Nat…
A Red Orchid Theatre announces additional Ensemble casting for its 2015-2016 season. Founding Ensemble Member and Oscar Nominee Michael Shannon joins Artistic Director Kirsten Fitzgerald on …
Trust Us/Screw You Created by Dan Kerr-Hobert and Phil Ridarelli Regular performances continue through June 13: Thurs/Fri/Sat at 7:30 p.m. One extension performance on Wednesday, June 17 at …
Steppenwolf Theatre Company celebrates 40 years as America's longest running, most distinguished ensemble theater with a remarkable lineup of plays in the 2015/16 Subscription Season, all by…
Closing out the celebration of the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University's 125thAnniversary Season, the Auditorium's Creative Engagement Department announces community initiatives that …
Showbiz Nation LIVE! Interview with I LOVE LUCY, LIVE ON STAGE’S Thea Brooks and Euriamis Losada from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. I LOVE LUCY® LIVE ON STAGE comes to the Dr. Phi…
“Honky Tonk Angels was last seen on the Hipp stage about a dozen years ago. And if that seems like an eternity in theater years, it was worth the wait. These new angels are fun and fun…
Summer in Chicago begins next week with the Opening Night of the Grant Park Music Festival on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Opening N…
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce Starvox Entertainment and Potted Productions' hit off-Broadway show, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience " A Parody by Dan and Jeff, …
Crispin Hellion Glover will make a special appearance at the Hippodrome to present the first and second parts of the “It” trilogy, “What is it?” and “It is fine…
New Series: Chefs at the Dr. Phillips Center Emeril Lagasse " December 1, 2015, Walt Disney Theater, 8:00 p.m. As a national TV personality, Emeril Lagasse has hosted more than 2,000 shows o…
Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce the extension of Writers Theatre production of Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Wi…
Bill Collins, the producer of the hilarious, interactive dinner theater experience "We Gotta Bingo," has announced the cast of the production, which will officially open in Chicago Monday, A…
Theo Ubique's 2015-16 season will have a decidedly Anglo-American flavor, featuring two of the longest-running musicals from each side of the Atlantic along with cabarets saluting America's …
Underscore Theatre Company is pleased to announce the line-up and full casting for its second annual CHICAGO MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, featuring an unprecedented 13 world-premiere m…
In celebration of outstanding achievement in high school musical theater performances, Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the award recipients of the Fourth Annual Illinois High Sch…
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announces upcoming shows and series confirmed to date for the 2015-2016 season. The Dr. Phillips Center's anchor season of Broadway Across America…
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announced today that with a new lead gift of $12 million from Chuck Steinmetz and Margery Pabst Steinmetz the planned third theater will be named …
Joffrey Ballet Artistic Director Ashley Wheater will be awarded the prestigious University of Chicago Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal at UChicago's 523rd Convocation, Saturday, June 13. Wheater i…