FRIDAY | "My Soul's Shadow": Manual Cinema presents a shadow puppet installation based on the life and poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. Through Nov. 8 at Mana Contemporary, 2233 S. Throop St…
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events today announced the 2016 dates for festivals ...
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The World Premiere of Unspeakable, a dramatic fantasia inspired by the life of comedic legend Richard Pryor, will play its final performance on November 8, 2015 at the Broadway Playhouse at …
Disney Theatrical Productions has announced an open casting call across North America for its current and future productions of the award-winning musicals Aladdin and The Lion King. Casting …
Olympian Caitlyn Jenner will serve as the keynote speaker for the 7th annual Chicago House Speaker Series luncheon, being held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan…
BroadwayWorld is excited to report thatDisney Theatrical Productions will be holding an open casting call across North America for its current and future productions of the award-winning mus…
WHAT'S UP WITH WOZZECK? Alban Berg's Wozzeck must have been quite shocking in 1925 at its first public performance in Berlin. Why? Musically, it's regarded as the first opera in the 20th-cen…
RECOMMENDED Lyric Opera of Chicago launched its season with two confections"cakes appeared on stage in both"and now moves on to meat. If "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Cenerentola" focused on the…
A ROM-COM TO RELISH AND REGRET Taking a chance at love–that's the germ and gist of Neil Simon's mating comedy. Chapter Two remains a quasi-autobiographical depiction of the natio…
Charlotte Kate Fox, who can be seen in the NHK TV series “Massan,” makes her Broadway debut Nov. 2 in the long-running, Tony-winning revival of Chicago at the Amb…
Oracle's mission of "public access theater" means that tickets to R+J: The Vineyard are free. All the more reason to step into the company's small Lakeview venue and enter a whole new world.…
FUTURE SHOCK FROM A PAST PRANK In less than 90 minutes this new one-act by Meridith Friedman plays hard: By show's end we get an absorbing case history in situational ethics. Cautionary scen…
In the original Broadway cast of Chicago the Musical, Chita Rivera played Velma Kelly and Gwen Verdon played Roxie Hart. The production opened in 1975 and both performers were nominated for …
Beware: You might just fall in love with that elegant, somewhat self-satisfied white porcelain rabbit with the tall tapering ears, enigmatic face and fashion forward style who is catapulted …
The Chicago Tribune reports that Grease co-creator Jim Jacobs will offer a $50,000 gift to the American Theater Company to support its productions of new works. The theatre has …
When it comes to doing impersonations, Frank Caliendo said it's not so much about the voice, but the cadence.
For example, "William Shatner … pauses a lot," he said.
Doing a good impersona…
This just in BroadwayWorld is excited to report that Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions LFP will welcome John O'Hurley 'Seinfeld,' Broadway's Chicago, 'Dancing With The Stars,…
Comedian John Cleese, the former Python (Monty), former Fawlty ("Towers"), former defense minister in British Prime Minister John Major's cabinet (according to press materials; must verify),…
FRIDAY | "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin": Hershey Felder plays the iconic composer in this American tale featuring hits like "God Bless America" and "There's No Business Like Show Business…
