Thursday, April 25, 2019
FRIDAY “Sentimental Journey”: Chicago stage veteran Ross Lehman premieres his own solo show with music about his parents. Citadel Theatre, 300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest; 847-735-8554…
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Sept. 1789: Alexander Hamilton is first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, serving until 1795. March 2008: "In the Heights" opens on Broadway, a musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, directed …
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Saturday "Othello": Shakespeare through a nontraditional-casting lens. Babes With Blades Theatre Company at Factory Theater, 1623 Howard St.; www.babeswithblades.org Monday "Language Rooms":…
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Tickets for Teatro ZinZanni's "Love, Chaos, & Dinner" go on sale Friday, with first performances beginning July 18 in the newly opened Cambria Hotel Chicago Loop-Theatre District (32 W. …
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The Greenhouse Theater Center has announced the fall 2019 season for its history-filled space at 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. There's a "Sons and Lovers" U.…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:47PMThe movie titles are in for this summer’s Millennium Park Summer Film Series: "Black Panther," classics such as "Music Man," 14 movies in all according to the announcement Thursday from DC…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMFRIDAY "Cambodian Rock Band": A play by Lauren Yee with songs by Dengue Fever. A young woman tries to piece together her family history 30 years after her father fled Cambodia. Victory Garde…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWhat do you do if you're a Chicago storefront theater and want to stage a 1967 play about confessions? Especially now, when accusations and confessions have become, shall we say, topical? Yo…
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The Factory Theater has announced its 2019-2020 season, the 27th for the fun-loving Chicago theater company, which also welcomes Timothy C. Amos as managing director and Anthony Tournis as c…
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TimeLine Theatre Company on Thursday announced its 2019-2020 season, the 23rd for the North Side company — and beginning with J.T. Rogers’ Tony Award-winning "Oslo" at the Broadway Playh…
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Chicago playwright Spenser Davis, a company member of Broken Nose Theatre, is the winner of the American Theatre Critics Association's 2019 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMThursday, March 28, 2019
"The Simon & Garfunkel Story" is coming to Chicago in the fall, a touring jukebox musical about the singer-songwriter duo that hails from London’s West End. It will be at the Broadway …
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMThe Chicago dance community is losing a power couple, according to separate announcements Thursday by Dance for Life and See Chicago Dance. Dance for Life Chicago executive director Phil Rey…
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The Auditorium Theatre has announced its 2019-20 season in Chicago's Loop, including a visit from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet with "Swan Lake" and a live Chicago Sinfonietta presentation of Jo…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AMSATURDAY “The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963”: New adaptation of Christopher Paul Curtis’ book about a family of five from Flint, Mich., who heads to Birmingham, Ala., during the ci…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Lifeline Theatre has announced its 2019-20 season in Rodgers Park, a season of stories including a classic whodunit, an adaptation of National Book Award winner “Middle Passage” and a wo…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMDance for Life Chicago on Thursday announces the lineup for its 2019 performance at the Auditorium Theatre, including returning companies Giordano Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago…
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Victory Gardens Theater has released its upcoming 2019-20 season, the 45th for the Chicago theater and a lineup including the Chicago premiere of “Tiny Beautiful Things” by Nia Vardalos …
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:30PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie has added a lineup of three plays for June and July. The plays, all coming to the northern suburbs via off-Broadway, were announced T…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:40PMFriday, March 15, 2019
As the story of a night of Chicago theater, this one’s got everything: Heroics, villains, wrestling, cheap drinks and an audience that won't give up on the players. Last weekend on Lincoln…
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“Pride & Joy — The Marvin Gaye Musical” is coming to the Chicago Theatre in June for nearly a week’s worth of performances. “Pride & Joy” is described as a jukebox musica…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMSATURDAY "Herland": A young high-school grad helps her neighbor create a D.I.Y. retirement home in her garage. Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.; 773-728-7529 and www.redtwist.org SU…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMThe Pivot Arts Festival in Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods has announced its lineup of music, theater and dance for this summer's fest, running May 31 to June 9 in various ven…
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The Porchlight Music Theatre of Chicago has announced its 25th anniversary season, kicking off with Hollis Resnik in "Sunset Boulevard" and concluding with the local premiere of "Freaky Frid…
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Summer is coming: The first draft of a calendar of events for Millennium Park’s 2019 summer season is out now, including concerts, festivals and the Year of Chicago Theatre. The announceme…
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A Gary Griffin-directed musical (Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”), a new “Doll’s House,” Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly” and a work by Chicago’s Manual Cinema are among the si…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:40PMAmerican Blues Theater has announced its 2019-20 season, including "Five Presidents" by "West Wing" writer Rick Cleveland, a Nambi E. Kelley world premiere and the Green Day musical "America…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMFriday, March 1, 2019
Tickets for the coming 20th anniversary touring production of "Rent" go on sale next week. According to a Friday announcement from Broadway in Chicago, tickets for the two-week run (May 10-1…
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Performance artist David Cale's solo memoir play "We're Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time" will have a production at the Public Theater in New York this summer. According to an announcem…
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“Mean Girls,” the Broadway musical from last spring adapted from Tina Fey’s 2004 teen movie, is coming to Chicago at the end of this year. The first national tour will play the Nederla…
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The Joffrey Ballet announced its 2019-20 season Tuesday, with the Chicago premieres of Cathy Marston’s “Jane Eyre” and a work by Justin Peck, as well as the returns of “Don Quixote…
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