Thursday, November 21, 2013
As Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company enters its 28th season, currently unannounced, the storefront mainstay is making sweeping changes to its administration, the company announced Thursday. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Black Box Acting has moved into a new permanent headquarters in the Logan Square neighborhood designed by the Perimeter Architects firm, the school announced on Tuesday. The 3200-square-foot…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PM[SHARE]PigPen Theatre Co. and playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury will be participants in the 2013-14 Writer's Room, a new play development program with a focus on productions, Manhattan Theater Club …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:44PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2013
On Monday, The Second City announced the winter lineup for UP Comedy Club. Jo Koy, a frequent panelist on the late-night chat show "Chelsea Lately," returns to UP from Jan. 9 - 11, and Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:58PM[SHARE]The 102nd Second City Mainstage revue, yet untitled, will be directed by Annoyance Theatre founder Mick Napier, the theater announced on Monday. The Second City alumnus adds another directin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
The 13th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival lineup was announced on Thursday. Billed as the largest of its kind in the nation, the 2014 festival features more than 150 troupes spread out …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PM[SHARE]Actress Jessie Mueller, a former musical theater fixture in Chicago and present Broadway star, plays singer-songwriter Carole King in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," a new King bio-pie…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
The Actors Theatre of Louisville has announced the roster for the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays. The festival, entirely composed of world premieres, boasts six fully-staged prod…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:11PM[SHARE]Rivendell Theatre Company announced its 2014 season on Monday. Given the theme, "Stirring the Pot," the Edgewater theater's lineup includes two productions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2013
On Thursday, Collaboraction announced both its 18th season and what it says is a new mission. After the success of last season's "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology," the Wicker Park theater c…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:26PM[SHARE]Three members of legendary rock group The Rascals — Eddie Brigati, Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli — sat down with theater critic Chris Jones on Wednesday to discuss their new show…
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On Wednesday, the Goodman Theatre announced casting for the Chicago premiere of "Buzzer," Tracey Scott Wilson's ("The Good Negro") play about the shifting landscapes of an urban neighborhood…
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On October 26, an ornery puppet named Moses from Blind Summit Theatre’s “The Table,” which recently concluded an acclaimed stint at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, took to ano…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Albany Park Theater Project, the multi-ethnic, youth performing arts ensemble, will return to the Goodman Theatre next spring with "God's Work," the Goodman announced on Tuesday. Receiving a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PM[SHARE]World-renowned dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov will attend Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's annual Spotlight Ball in May, where he'll be honored with the 2014 Spotlight Award, the company…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:18PM[SHARE]It seems chef Rick Bayless has been by bitten the acting bug. In addition to next summer's Goodman Theatre remount of "Cascabel," the dining-entertainment fusion show that originated at Look…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2013
On Wednesday the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation named Charles Newell, artistic director of Court Theatre in Hyde Park, the recipient of the 2013 Zelda Fichandler Award. This $…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2013
American Theater Company announced on Tuesday the late addition of the touring one-man show "Mercy Killers" to the theater's new Town Hall Series. The show plays five performances from Oct. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05PM[SHARE]This Theater Loop Showcase video is playwright Brooke Allen’s "The Life and Death of Madam Barker," with music and lyrics by John Fournier, currently onstage at Red Tape Theatre. Molly…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:01AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2013
"Parks and Recreation" star and former Defiant Theatre actor, Nick Offerman, will appear alongside his wife, Megan Mullally of "Will & Grace," in "Annapurna" with the New Group off-Broadway,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:09PM[SHARE]The Light Opera Works in Evanston announced their 2014 season on Monday. In June, artistic director Rudy Hogenmiller will star in "Damn Yankees." Then, in August, is "Fiddler On The Roof." "…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AM[SHARE]Broadway legend Elaine Stritch delighted the Chicago International Film Festival audience of the new documentary, "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," at AMC River East on Sunday afternoon by part…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2013
In preparation for the annual Goodman vs. Steppenwolf flag football game next weekend, the Goodman Theatre's staff and artists wish to tell the world why they're all that and an intermission…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PM[SHARE]In "The North China Lover," Heidi Stillman's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' novel currently onstage at Lookingglass Theatre, a writer, M, recalls the early loves of her teenage years spent …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2013
On Thursday, Lookingglass Theatre and chef Rick Bayless announced, as expected, that the popular 'Rick Bayless in Cascabel: Dinner - Daring - Desire' will return in July for a month-long eng…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2013
As A Red Orchid Theatre begins its twenty-first season on Wells Street, the theater adds three members to its longstanding ensemble, the first such additions since playwright Craig Wright jo…
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Monday, October 14, 2013
This week’s Theater Loop Showcase video is a song from the national tour of "Once," the Tony Award-winning musical that currently plays the Oriental Theatre. Guy is a vacuum cleaner re…
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The Gift Theatre announced its 2014 season on Wednesday. Beginning with "Ten," the company's annual opener of new ten-minute plays, the season continues with three productions. &n…
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