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Shattered Globe Theatre continues its 2012/13 Season with the Midwest premiere of HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Artistic Director Roger Smart, playing January 24 " March 3, 2013 a…
Stage 773 Artistic Director Brian Posen proudly announces the dates for the 12th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, an annual event that c…
In the inaugural Storefront Playwright Project, the League of Chicago Theatres will provide window space at Expo 72 for emerging and established playwrights to work on a current writing proj…
Back by popular demand, the critically acclaimed Jim Post returns to the Theatre at the Center, where he delighted audiences last holiday season with his show MARK TWAIN AND THE LAUGHING RIV…
The Filament Theatre Ensemble is pleased to announce a festive holiday party, celebrating a successful year of critically acclaimed productions, and raising funds towards outfitting their ne…
Lifeline Theatre presents a world premiere adaptation of China Miéville's The City & The City, by Lifeline Theatre ensemble member Christopher M. Walsh, and directed by Lifeline Theatre…
REVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBOLT Husband and wife duo Alfreda Burke and Roderick Dixon brought their self-developed cabaret piece to the Roosevelt Auditorium Theater's Katten/Landau Studio o…
James Joyce was a very complicated man.   Watching Court Theatre's re-mounting of the musical version of his complex short story "The Dead" only cements that notion. Taking pla…
American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, is proud to announce a special festivities in conjunction with their production of  It's a Wonderful Life: Liv…
Casting is complete for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's season-closing production of Belleville by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Kauffman. Chris Boykin and Cliff ChamberlainÂ…
Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces a one-week extension of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, featuring …
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Kyle Thomas from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. Hesperidian Production’s President and Director of the film department, Kyle Thomas, discusses the mission of this new multi-media company. Ã…
The Harry Potter movie franchise may have come to an end (though there are rumblings to the contrary) but followers of the Hogwarts tribe need not worry because Potted Potter, The Unauthoriz…
The Den Theatre is thrilled to present a remount of TurnAround Theatre's original hit production of Brian Friel's FAITH HEALER, 17 years after the critically acclaimed show…
REVIEWED BY RUSSELL GOELTENBODT: Before the beginning of the millennium the music industry has been filled with computerized enhancements. American Idol-esque vocal acrobatics, and techno mu…
Podcast With My One & Only’s ANDREW LUPP ANDREW LUPP  most recently appeared here at the Marriott Theater as the Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance and as Phil Davis …
REVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT A Gershwin musical set in the 1920's, a fun story, great music, singing, and tap dancing, what more can anyone want for an enjoyable evening of musical theat…
Executive Director Walter Stearns announced today that he will launch a subscription series at the Mercury Theater including four full productions, which will transform the Mercury into the …
Goodman Theatre announces a special staged reading of Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666"co-adapted for the stage and co-directed by Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls and new Goodma…
Director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice) along with screenwriter and master playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has created the most accessible adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel R…
Haul out the holly and break out the Christmas decorations! Broadway's award-winning Karen Mason, from the smash hit musicals Mamma Mia, Hairspay!, Sunset Boulevard and most recently Wonderl…
If you and your family are looking for two fantastic hours of comedy, joy and some of the best disco music written since the 1970's, well then, get thee to the nunnery because Sister Act has…
Acclaimed jazz saxophonist Steve Wilson will headline a week at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City, December 4th through 9th, 2012. Wilson will be joined by pianist Ren…
The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has shattered sales records around the globe with more than 32 million copies sold in the United States alone and a 2013 Universal Pictures feature fil…