Thursday, September 8, 2016
Jackalope Theatre Company has announced casting for "Octagon," the first show in the company's 2016-17 season. The cast features Ayinde Cartman, Sydney Charles, Travis Delgado, Eric Gerard, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:56PMPorchlight Music Theatre has announced the latest production in its "lost"musical series Porchlight Revisits: "The Rink." Featuring music by John Kander, lyrics by Fredd Ebb and a book by Te…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMAlbany Park Theater Project and Third Rail Projects' "Learning Curve" will extend again. The hit immersive production, which takes place in a former school building and leads 40 audience m…
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Quest Theatre Ensemble has announced its 15th season. Opening in the fall is "The People’s History of the United States" (Sept. 30-Nov. 6), a trip through American history featuring 100 …
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"Jersey Boys" has reached its final season of Broadway performances. The Tony-winning jukebox musical, now in its 11th year of bringing Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons' music to the stag…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:36PMThe Gift Theatre has announced casting for the world premiere of Melissa Ross’ "A Life Extra Ordinary." Ensemble member John Gawlik will direct a cast including ensemble members Cyd Blake…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:53PMComedian Craig Ferguson will return to The Chicago Theatre this fall, it was announced Tuesday. Ferguson, known from "The Drew Carey Show" and as the 10-year host of CBS’s "The Late Late S…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:14PMScott McPherson's "Marvin's Room" will premiere on Broadway in June 2017, Roundabout Theatre Company announced Tuesday. The heartstring-pulling comedy follows estranged sisters reunited af…
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"Bleacher Bums" will open in Chicago, a few blocks away from Wrigley Field, just in time for the Cubs' post-season schedule. The classic comedy, conceived by Joe Mantegna and produced by the…
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TimeLine Theatre has announced the cast of "The Last Wife," Kate Hennig's 2015 play about the politically-savvy sixth wife of King Henry VIII. AnJi White will star in the title role with Ste…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:05PMThe Defiant Thomas Brothers will bring their sketch comedy act to Stage 773 this fall. The Chicago-based duo comprised of Seth Thomas and Paul Thomas, not actually brothers, split up in 200…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMGriffin Theatre Company announced its 29th season Wednesday, featuring a rarely-seen revival, a world premiere and a reimagined Tony-winning musical. The season begins with Maxwell Anderson…
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Steep Theatre announced casting for "Bobbie Clearly," a world premiere from Alex Lubischer, on Tuesday. The cast includes ensemble members Melissa Riemer, Nick Horst and Joel Reitsma, along…
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Route 66 Theatre Company announced its 2017 season on Monday. Opening the season in February is Gabe McKinley's world premiere "The Source," a drama about two journalists contacted by a gove…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:02PMLin-Manuel Miranda will offer Chicagoans a chance to be in the room where it happens, to borrow a song from his Tony-winning musical, this September as part of a one-night-only event present…
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Pride Films and Plays has announced its 2016-17 season, the first under new artistic director Nelson Rodriguez and the first to take place in the company's new home at the former Profiles Th…
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The Harris Theater for Music and Dance has announced the lineup of "An Evening of Dance with MacArthur Fellows," a free concert featuring works by some MacArthur genius-grant recipients. The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PMCity Lit Theatre, a theater company now in its 37th year, announced its 2016-17 season on Monday. First on the four-play slate is "Psmith, Journalist" (Sept. 23-Nov. 6), adapted by artistic …
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Theater Wit announced the remainder of its 2016-17 season Friday, a three-play slate that will follow the previously announced production of Mat Smart's Caribou Coffee-set "Naperville" open…
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A staged reading of an American Sign Language interpretation of Yasmina Reza's "Art" has been added to Steppenwolf's LookOut multi-genre performance series, the company announced Thursday. T…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PM"The Second City Guide to the Symphony" will premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the National Symphony Orchestra Pops announced Thursday. Colin Mochrie, a Second City alum of …
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The waiter does a double take when he gets to our table at the Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park and sees a 20-something guy with Ray-Bans nestled in his untamed, wavy hair. "Have you been here …
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Windy City Playhouse announced its 2017 season Wednesday, which will mark the company's third year in Irving Park. Opening the season in January is Robert O'Hara's "Bootycandy," a coming-of…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:36PMPivot Arts will produce a site-specific interactive production titled "The Memory Tour," the North Side company announced Tuesday. Structured as a 90-minute indoor and outdoor walking tour …
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The Chicago Musical Improv Festival will return to iO Chicago this month with a 4-day lineup featuring everything from an improvised rock opera to a puppet musical. Closing out the festival …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:28PMJackalope Theatre Company has announced the lineup of its 7th Annual Living Newspaper Festival, featuring a collection of 10-minute plays inspired by recent headlines. The slate of performa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:05PMTeatro Vista has announced casting for "Parachute Men," the first production in the company's 2016-17 season. The family drama by Mando Alvarado, about three brothers reunited on the eve of…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMThe Agency Theater Collective announced that it will produce Mia McCullough's "Chagrin Falls" this fall. In McCullough's play, a journalism grad student comes to a town in Oklahoma to writ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:32AMTheatre Y will present a production of "Macbeth" this fall, directed by French actor Georges Bigot. Starring in the Shakespearean tragedy about the demise of the politically hungry Scotsman�…
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Who has the right to tell whose story? Enough people to fill every seat at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater gathered Tuesday night for more than three hours to debate that very question …
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Goodman Theatre announced Wednesday the lineup of its 13th annual New Stages festival, featuring a slate of six new plays to be performed for free over a three-week period. The first of th…
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