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Pazdernik has previously been producing associate and company manager with Porchlight Music Theatre.
Mark Kelly, Chicago's widely admired leader of the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), announces he will retire.
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, a 25-year-old Chicago company specializing in repertory works of literary merit, has announced new artistic leadership, though it is expected to remain dark in t…
Magic, mayhem, monsters, and romance are in the forecast as Oak Park Festival Theatre returns to Austin Gardens for "The Tempest." Artistic Director Barbara Zahoracq directs Shakespeare's ta…
This Fourth of July weekend was fireworks without the fireworks in Chicago, and that's an apt metaphor for our current moment. No one feels like celebrating the end of the pandemic.
Chicago Dancers United announced the full lineup on Thursday for the 30th anniversary of Dance for Life, coming to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in late August.
Chicago Latinx theater company Teatro Vista announced Thursday that Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo are the company's new co-artistic directors.
How to get Chicagoans to come back to the theater? Try a comedy show by chef Rick Bayless, with food, titled "Recipe for Disaster" and opening in the fall.
It's now the David Geffen Yale School of Drama, and free tuition will make life a lot easier for its students and graduates. But how will everyone else keep up?
Tickets for some shows are on sale now, but the Loop's Downtown Theatre District won't really be hopping until November and next spring.
Intermissions are back at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which had previously nixed them as a COVID-19 precaution.
Bruce Springsteen returned to Broadway Saturday, and ignored anti-vaccine protesters to put on a great show.
Victory Gardens, the Tony Award-winning Chicago theater company famous for its close relationship with playwrights, has announced a new group of affiliated writers: Marisa Carr, Keelay Gipso…
What is missing from the streets of Chicago this summer? People from other countries. And that's a problem.
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Tracy Letts' "The Minutes" is to open on Broadway " two years later than previously scheduled.
Live Chicago theater you've surely heard, will come roaring back in Chicago in the weeks after Labor Day. But summer 2021 also has possibilities.
'Hummingbird,' a new virtual-reality play designed for younger tech-savvy audiences, debuts at UIC with plans to move to the Goodman Theatre this fall.
The billionaire former wife of Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos picked out smaller Chicago arts organizations for her donations, and asked that the spotlight not be on her.
The theater in Chicago's Loop announces its upcoming International Dance Series, its Made in Chicago Dance Series and other events of the season.
Does Second City have a new pipeline to John Oliver and Stephen Colbert's shows, and what does that actually mean for the comedy theater on Wells Street?
Blue Man Group is returning to Chicago. A reopening, but without shared marshmallows.
Stephen Colbert is now on the board of the famed Chicago comedy theater The Second City. So are other powerful industry players.
Such was the career of Lyric's director of media relations and really its supremely confident problem solver for some 30 years.
The Goodman Theatre in Chicago has announced a 2021-22 season with many of the productions originally planned before the pandemic closed the theater for more than a year.
Comedians Hasan Minhaj, Randy Rainbow, Brian Regan and Patton Oswalt are all coming to the Chicago Theatre in the upcoming season.
