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The Stratford Festival of Canada, a longtime summer favorite of Chicago theater fans, has announced its 2018 season, which will mark Robert Lepage's Stratford directorial debut with a social…
Victory Gardens Theater announced complete casting for four productions in its 2017-18 season Tuesday. As previously announced, "Fun Home" (Sept. 19-Nov. 12), featuring music by Jeanine Teso…
A Red Orchid Theatre announced a new associate artistic director, development director and audience services manager Friday. Ensemble member Shade Murray will serve as the theater's first as…
The Neo-Futurists' 2017-18 season will include three world premieres by Kirsten Riiber, Trevor Dawkins and Lily Mooney, the company announced Wednesday. The first Prime Time production will …
Dick Smothers, one part of the famous comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, will appear in iO Theater's Chicago Musical Improv Festival this weekend. Smothers will appear as the guest monologist…
Goodman Theatre announced the lineup of its 14th annual New Stages Festival Monday. Featuring three weeks of developmental productions and staged readings, the free fest runs Sept. 20-Oc…
On a sunny Monday afternoon in Lakeview, a man bikes by Chicago Bagel Authority and a woman walks into Walgreens. Someone wearing a tie-dye Lollapalooza T-shirt crosses the street. At 959 W.…
The Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour will make a Chicago stop this fall, it was announced Friday. The political-protest-as-comedy show features national television and talk radio host Stephanie …
This week's Showcase features a song from Disney's "Aladdin," now in its final weeks at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Jacob Dickey, who stars as the loveable street rat who wins the he…
No need to wait for it. The official "Hamilton" app is here. The HamApp, sure to please fans of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Founding Fathers phenomenon, is available now for iOS and Android devices…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced the all-woman cast of "The Taming of the Shrew" Thursday. Set in 1919 Chicago during the Suffragette movement and featuring additional dialogue by Ron W…
The complete lineup is set for the first Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, a month-long event opening in Chicago this fall. Presented by the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, the…
Congo Square Theatre Company announced its 18th season Wednesday. Opening the season is the return of the holiday concert "A Nativity Tribute," produced in partnership with Studio One Dance …
Goodman Theatre announced casting for its 2017-18 season openers Wednesday. Opening the season is Ivo van Hove's revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" (Sept. 9-Oct. 15) in the …
Casting is complete for the pre-Broadway tour and Broadway premiere of the new Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical "Escape to Margaritaville," it was announced Tuesday. Paul Alexander Nolan, who s…
Idina Menzel mooed as the performance artist Maureen in the original production of "Rent" in 1996 and, ever since, Broadway audiences have mooed back. Over the past decades, Menzel has won o…
"On Your Feet!" will conga its way back to Chicago next spring, Broadway in Chicago announced Monday. The Broadway musical based on the life, music and cultural phenomenon created by Gloria …
This week's Showcase features magician Brett Schneider, whose one-man show "Communion" opens this weekend at The Den Theatre. In the video, Schneider is joined by RedEye editor Sade Carpe…
Porchlight Music Theatre announced the cast of "Billy Elliot" Wednesday. The cast of the Tony-winning musical will be the largest in Porchlight's history. Jacob Kaiser and Lincoln Seymour w…
Following productions in London, Hong Kong and Edinburgh, the beatboxing show "Gobsmacked!" is coming to Chicago, Broadway in Chicago and producer and creator Nic Doodson announced Tuesday. …
American Theater Company announced complete casting for its 33rd season Tuesday. The cast of the premiere of Janine Nabers' "Welcome to Jesus" (Oct. 26-Dec. 3) will include Taylor Blim as Di…
This week's Showcase features a romantic duet from the Marriott Theatre's production of "The Bridges of Madison County," the Jason Robert Brown musical based on the 1992 best-selling novel. …
Drury Lane Theatre announced casting for the Chicago premiere of "Rock of Ages" Friday. Russell Mernagh and Cherry Torres will star as Drew and Sherrie, a couple fighting to save the Sunset …
Haven Theatre will produce the world premiere of Isaac Gomez's "The Displaced" and the Chicago premiere of Stew and Heidi Rodewald's "The Total Bent" in upcoming seasons, the company announc…
Shattered Globe Theatre announced its 2017-18 season Thursday. First up, Louis Contey will direct James Still's "The Heavens are Hung in Black" (Sept. 7-Oct. 21), an epic focusing on the …
