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Podcast with JIM SALTOUROS from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Emergent Theatre Company, Jim Saltouros discusses his role as Jim Brennen in Bruce Graham’…
Daniel Harding, awarded the Premio Abbiati by Italian music critics as best conductor of 2011, celebrates Wagner's centenary with the Prelude and Death of Isolde, the symphonic piece with wh…
Fifteen years ago, on the night of October 6, 1998, two men lured Matthew Shepard, a gay freshman at the University of Wyoming, from a bar in Laramie, WY. He was kidnapped and driven to a fi…
TimeLine Theatre Company announces a three-week extension of its acclaimed production of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Ron OJ Parson. Originally scheduled to c…
W.C. Turck, a Chicago-based activist and playwright, has announced the premiere of The People's Republic of Edward Snowden, a comedic poke at the security state and spy culture through…
Okay, so the older I am getting, the more of an emotional sap I tend to be.  It was last year after I saw Steve Kazee's Tony acceptance speech for winning Best Actor in the musical Once, …
 A Red Orchid Theatre kicks off its 21st season with the Midwest premiere of Trevor, written by Nick Jones (Netflix's "Orange is the New Black") and directed by Artistic Associat…
Amy Giordano from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. The legendary Gus Giordano Dance School celebrates its 60th Anniversary Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 at 5230 N. Clark St. in Chicago's Andersonville neighb…
It is not very often I am caught off guard by a production, but Pride Film and Play's World Premiere production of Martin Casella's Directions for Restoring The Apparently Dead did just that…
World-renowned Irish super-group Celtic Thunder performs MYTHOLOGY live at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, on Friday, Oct. 18 at 7:30pm, as  part of their Fall 2013 62-city Ca…
Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, celebrates 30 years of producing critically-acclaimed musicals and plays with its stellar 2014-2015 season. The internationally celebrated musical LES …
It is no secret that America's criminal justice system is horribly broken.  Massive cuts in rehabilitative programs coupled with the inherent public relations soundbite that our politicia…
Podcast with ‘Once The Musical’s’ ALEX NEE from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Catching up with one of Showbiz Chicago’s favorites, ALEX NEE, who discusses going from AMER…
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today the release of Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word, a collection of original essays that furthers the study of…
From the moment the first punch is delivered in the Chicago version of Old Jews Telling Jokes, you know that your life, at least for ninety minutes, is going to be a whole lot happier.  Å
The legendary Gus Giordano Dance School celebrates its 60th Anniversary Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 at 5230 N. Clark St. in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. The event kicks off Oct. 12 at 11 a.…
In response to the devastating floods and mudslides in Acapulco, Mexico that killed at least 55 people and caused thousands to be stranded and homeless, including 210 colleagues from Fairmon…
With the debut of their all-musical 2014 season, Kokandy Productions announces itself as Chicago's newest non-Equity musical theater company, dedicated to producing high-stakes musical theat…
The popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series continues with a screening of High Fidelity, the critically acclaimed story of a record store owner's heartache and love and the s…
Chicago's acclaimed Spectacle company Redmoon kicks off its new "Redmoon INDOORS" Spectacle Series this November with two multimedia events celebrating the ritual of Halloween in fresh…
Perry's Restaurants, a family-owned group of award-winning steakhouses, will open an 11,000-square-foot location of its award-winning Perry's Steakhouse & Grille in Oak Brook, Illinois t…
Using its trademark interactive style, The Agency Theater Collective will tell the story of Stuart Levine, the fallen Chicago power broker whose lurid testimony brought down some of Illinois…
Theater Wit and Chicago’s own Nora Dunn, actress, comedienne and writer, have announced that Dunn’s premiere of her one-woman show, Mythical Proportions, has been extended by …
Home Run Inn (HRI), Chicago's Premium Pizza and recently rated #1 as the best frozen pizza by Consumer Reports, shares economical and easy-to-make recipes with fresh toppings on frozen pi…
