"Opened in 1920 as a silent film nickelodeon, the movie theater would undergo several retail business incarnations in the decades that followed. … It 'reopened' in 2011 under the current o…
A SAD DAY FOR THEATER Executive Director, L. Walter Stearns and partner Business Manager Eugene Dizon announced today the permanent closure of Mercury Theater Chicago after ten years and 25 …
The Mercury Theater Chicago in the Southport Corridor, known for musicals such as "Avenue Q" and "Spamalot," announced Tuesday it is closing at the end of June.
Based on guidance from the city, state, and federal agencies regarding the ongoing health crisis, Lyric Opera of Chicago's general director, president, and CEO, Anthony Freud, has made the d…
The company aims to reopen in January 2021 with Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's Blue.
And it's a voice the rest of the world needs to hear. Comedian, writer, and actor Dwayne Kennedy is truly a comedian's comedian. He has appeared on screens and s…
Muralists use boarded-up storefronts as their new canvas as part of Paint the City. I biked from McKinley Park to Humboldt Park last Friday to deliver a package …
A petition posted on change.org has charged the Chicago comedy venue iO Theater with racism. Co-founder and owner Charna Halpern has responded.
In the summer of 1975, Chicago made its Broadway premiere on the 3rd of June at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers). In honor of the show opening 45 years ago this June (!) we …
CDHP has conducted over 130 video interviews and conversations, and currently has over 120 edited clips available on their website.
Donna Marie Asbury has revealed that she is now in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest career playing the same role in a Broadway show!
By Douglas Mayo Chicago the musical UK Tour returns in 2021. Kander and Ebb's musical vaudeville starts at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre in March 2021. This post Chicago the musical UK Tour…
Exactly one year following her exit from the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, Donna Marie Asbury received some "whoopee"-worthy news. According to a post she shared on Instagram, Asbury h…
Chicago will embark on a 2021 UK tour, opening at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre on 12 March 2021.
Peer into the near future and there is reason to fear for America's great cities.
"I hope to see us take a breath, to rest, to unlearn grind culture, to seek to be with each other in meaningful ways and not self-serving ones."
Chicago theaters say they stand in solidarity with protesters
The Stephen Schwartz-John Caird musical will play the Arcada Theatre in 2021.
Arcada Theatre has announced that Deborah Cox will be taking on the role of Eve/Mama in the upcoming production of Children of Eden, set to open in the summer of 2021.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has partnered with Second City for a weekly video series, titled "The Second City's Phased & Confused."
The safety and health of our patrons, staff and theatrical companies is our top priority. [...]
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. BOSTON, MA - Lori Loughlin fled a federal court in Boston today in hysterics after pleading guilty of bri...
by Brendan Leonard. @brennylen. BOSTON, MA - Lori Loughlin fled a federal court in Boston today in hysterics after pleading guilty of bribery over the highly...
Will the lively pop-diva musical "Six" play at the Broadway Playhouse in November and be the test case for how touring stage musicals return?