Monday, March 13, 2017
Jim Gaffigan has added a third show at the Chicago Theatre in October, it was announced Monday. The Grammy-nominated comedian and New York Times best-selling author, who recently wrapped the…
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Dan Harmon and Scott Adsit will headline the 20th annual Chicago Improv Festival, coming up March 27 to April 2. Harmon, creator of the TV show "Community," will perform a live version of…
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Casting is complete for the world premiere of Charles Smith's "Objects in the Mirror," the Goodman Theatre announced Wednesday. "Objects" is inspired by Smith's real-life friendship with a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMRemy Bumppo announced a three-play slate for its 2017-18 season Wednesday. Opening the season is Thornton Wilder’s end-of-many-worlds epic "The Skin Of Our Teeth" (Oct. 4-Nov. 12), direct…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:06AMHave a little priest! This week's Showcase features a song from Paramount Theatre's "Sweeney Todd." Bri Sudia, as Mrs. Lovett, and Paul-Jordan Jansen, as Sweeney, serve up a piping-hot rendi…
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Mercury Theater Chicago has announced the cast of "Mary Poppins," which will be lead by Nicole Armold as the perfect nanny with Matthew Crowle as Bert. The production will also feature Kay…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00PMTickets for Lyric Opera's production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" go on sale Thursday, the company announced Tuesday. It's a significantly early release of tickets, coming more than a year i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMSix-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will perform at Steppenwolf Theatre as part of the LookOut Series, the company announced Tuesday. Presented by LookOut and Mark Cortale, the one…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:01PMTympanic Theatre announced Tuesday that after producing 10 seasons in Chicago, it will close following its current production of "Waiting for Godot." The company, founded in 2007 by alumni o…
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Claude Binder will be American Blues Theater's new managing director, the Equity theater company announced Monday. Binder, who will be the first managing director for the theater since 2009…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:18PMFour weeks have been added to the Chicago return of "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical," it was announced Monday. The jukebox musical charting the rise of King's career will now play the C…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:18PMBroadway veteran Destan Owens will lead the cast of Paramount Theatre's "Jesus Christ Superstar," the Aurora company announced Monday. Along with Owens as Jesus of Nazareth, the cast of Andr…
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Raven Theatre Company announced its 2017-18 season Friday. First up in the fall is "Choir Boy" (Sept. 27-Nov. 12), by recent "Moonlight" Academy Award-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney. A gay tee…
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Drury Lane Theatre has announced the cast of the Chicago-area return of "Chicago." Broadway veterans Kelly Felthous and Alena Watters will star as Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, respectively.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:38PMTimeLine Theatre Company announced its 2017-18 season Thursday, including the Chicago premiere of the play that inspired Peter Morgan's hit Netflix series "The Crown." Associate artistic dir…
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Fear, sex and self-loathing in Manhattan are all the rage in "The Scene," Theresa Rebeck's study in collapsed coastal morality that's sad, funny and, as the playwright-novelist-television wr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:09PMThe Chicago Neo-Futurists, along with The New York Neo-Futurists and The San Francisco Neo-Futurists, announced Tuesday their late-night show's new name: "The Infinite Wrench." After a mont…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:12PMPorchlight Music Theatre announced its 2017-18 season Tuesday, the first in its new home at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Opening the mainstage season is "Billy Elliot," the boxing-to-b…
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Time to break out those Hamiltons. The next block of "Hamilton" tickets goes on sale next week. Sixteen more weeks of performances at the PrivateBank Theatre, through Jan. 7, 2018, will go o…
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It was no surprise Wednesday that the PrivateBank Theatre had yet another sold-out crowd for "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop homage to our nation's Founding Fathers. What was differ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:03PMWriters Theatre in Glencoe announced the company’s 2017-18 six-show season Wednesday, including classic revivals, a Chicago premiere from Lydia Diamond and the previously announced pre-Br…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMCourt Theatre announced its 63rd season Wednesday, featuring a five-show lineup of family dramas, a musical tribute and looks into the lives of Emily Dickinson and Supreme Court Justice A…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMThe Joffrey Ballet has announced its 2017-18 season, including a world premiere by Joffrey ballet master Nicolas Blanc and Alexander Ekman's "Midsummer Night’s Dream." Beginning the compa…
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Northlight Theatre announced its 43rd season Tuesday, featuring a slate of five productions by playwrights familiar to the North Shore company's audience. The world premiere of Bruce Graha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:23PMCasting is complete for "Marry Me a Little," Porchlight Music Theatre's final mainstage production in its 2016-17 season, the company announced Tuesday. Featuring a collection of Stephen So…
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The Chicago Improv Festival will enter its 20th year of laughter this spring, it was announced Friday. Slated for March 27 to April 2 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., and St…
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Ten years after their collaboration on "King Lear," Robert Falls and celebrated film actor Stacy Keach will reunite for the world premiere play "Pamplona," the Goodman Theatre announced Thur…
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Still can't get tickets to "Hamilton" in Chicago? Prepare to join in the roast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical with an all-Chicago cast at the Royal George Theatre. "Spamilton," t…
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"Hamilton" stars Miguel Cervantes and Samantha Marie Ware sipped some wine and spilled some secrets Sunday on what it's like to be in the Chicago production of the hit show. Cervantes, wh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:45PMJess McLeod will be the recipient of the 2016-17 Michael Maggio Fellowship for Chicago-based directors, Goodman Theatre announced Tuesday. The fellowship includes assisting on a Goodman pro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMAfter 10 years at the helm of Hubbard Street Dance Company, Jason D. Palmquist will step down as executive director at the end of the company’s 39th season, HSDC announced Tuesday. Palmqui…
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