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Recent Posts:
- Paramount announces production team for world premiere of ‘August Rush: The Musical,’ opening April 24
- Production team of band ‘7th Heaven’ announces open casting call for ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ worldwide audience
- Refuge Theatre Project’s brilliant creatives shine in ‘Hands on a Hardbody,’ though acoustics in the pop-up space detract
- Broadway in Chicago new season tickets go on sale April 7, featuring ‘Mean Girls,’ ‘Once on this Island,’ ‘Summer,’ ‘Frozen’ and more
- Full casting announced for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s ‘West Side Story,’ opening May 3
- Silk Road Rising’s ‘Detour Guide’ offers a trip through the Arab world
- BiC’s Illinois High School Theatre Awards set for May 6
- Broadway in Chicago’s familiar ‘A Bronx Tale’ dwells on the choices we make
- Facility Theatre’s ‘The Ruse of Medusa’ provides some monkeying around in the salon
- World Premiere of Ross Lehman’s one-man show, ‘Sentimental Journey,’ comes to Citadel in April
- Brown Paper Box announces its new season, including a duo of cabarets
- NEA grant supports Chicago Children’s Theatre production of ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963’
- Raise a glass to Broadway in Chicago’s stirring, stupendous ‘Choir of Man’
- Theo’s ‘Bridges of Madison County’ gorgeously allows patrons to revel in a mindful experience
- Strawdog Theatre announces casing for world premiere of ‘Take Me,’ opening in May
- Black Ensemble Theater’s ‘Mahalia Jackson’ makes a joyful noise unto the Lord
- ‘Hamilton’ star Miguel Cervantes hosts TATC’s final ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ performance for a special cause
- ‘PJ Masks Live: Save theDay’ will play at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace for three days in June
- Chicago to host Britney Spears-scored jukebox musical ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ in world premiere, pre-Broadway run beginning in November
- Mercury’s magnificent (though redundant) ‘Little Shop’ production increases the volume from this site for area creatives to understand and respect their shared Chicagoland audience
- Brett and Mahler’s Cubs’ musical ‘Miracle’ is heading for a May world premiere at Royal George
- Chicago Inclusion Project announces professional performance training series with Jackalope, Steppenwolf, Black Box Academy and Steep
- Digital lottery and rush ticket details announced for ‘A Bronx Tale’ engagement beginning March 12
- ‘Into the Woods’ comes to Writers Theatre in August as part of the Glencoe company’s 2019-20 season
- Broadway in Chicago sets ‘Choir of Man’ digital lottery for performances March 12 to 17
- The authenticity of Pride Films & Plays’ ‘Southern Comfort’ may just make humans better
- Four Chicago actors cast in ‘Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical,’ coming to Broadway Playhouse in April
- Victory Gardens Theater Presents, with City Theatre Company and Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the Chicago premiere of Cambodian Rock Band, April 5 – May 5
- ‘American Idiot’ among the titles as American Blues Theater announces its new season
- Chicago Opera Theater receives grants from NEA and Opera America, names Chris Thoren as GM
- Lyric’s restaging of Handel’s seldom-sung ‘Ariodante’ explores the dismissal of women’s’ agency
- Broadway in Chicago to bring Disney’s ‘Frozen’ to the Cadillac Palace in 2020
- Broadway in Chicago begins ticket sales March 6 for return of ‘RENT’ 25th anniversary tour in May
- Northlight’s 45th season includes ‘Songs for Nobodies’ by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Rob Lindley, featuring Bethany Thomas
- ‘Falsettos’ tickets go on sale March 1 for May-June Chicago engagement at Nederlander Theatre
- Broadway in Chicago announces five-week engagement with ‘Mean Girls,’ beginning on Christmas
- Haven/About Face’s joint production of ‘The Total Bent’ extends through March 17
- Goodman Theatre announces five schools selected for 2019’s ‘Disney Musicals in Schools’ program
- Underscore Theatre Company names Whitney Rhodes new artistic director
- Sarah Siddons Society will award Tracy Letts as Actor of the Year for 2019, celebration set for April 7
- Broadway in Chicago announces ticket sales for Spring production of ‘American Girl Live’
- Here we go again: Drury Lane’s oft-sung ‘Mamma Mia’ is a lovely, sun-soaked getaway from winter
- Mercury Theater announces cast, creatives who will bring ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ to Southport skid row in March
- New Paramount School of the Arts, with Paul-Jordan Jansen leading the musical theatre program, opens in Aurora this June
- Second City in partnership with Theatre Development Fund announces accessible performance schedule for the year
- Court Theatre’s new season includes one musical: ‘The Gospel at Colonus,’ a reimagining of the story of Oedipus, conceived by Lee Breuer with music by Bob Telson, directed by Charles Newell
- Giordano Dance Chicago debuts new full-company work by Amanda Davis at Harris Theater on March 22 and 23
- Jonathan Zeng brings ‘Songs That Speak’ to Mary’s Attic on March 23
- It’s Cerda’s Bawdway at sea in Hell in a Handbag’s, ‘Poseidon! An Upside Down Musical’ parody, opening March 15
- Theatre at the Center’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ is worth all that and more
- Writers Theatre’s take on ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ highlights the music of words
- Soprano Albina Shagimuratova gorgeously leads Lyric Opera of Chicago’s wonderfully designed ‘La Traviata’
- Chicago Opera Theater’s ‘Scarlet Ibis’ spectacularly transcends tragedy with laughter, song and dance
- Broadway in Chicago announces ticket sales beginning Feb. 22 for 10th anniversary ‘Rock of Ages’ tour, coming in April
- Be lucky enough to grab tickets for Marriott’s stellar YA production of ‘Seussical’
- Musical masterpiece ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ wows in Chicago debut (here through March 10) and already announces a 12-week return in 2020
- Cast announced here for nine-time Tony winner ‘A Chorus Line,’ coming to Porchlight in April, directed by Brenda Didier
- Ensemble Español fetes founder, Dame Libby Komaiko, with performances on April 27
- Broadway star Megan Hilty headlines Goodman’s ‘Starstruck’ spring gala, May 18
- During current sold out Chicago run, ‘Evan Hansen’ return to Windy City is booked
- Corti, Didier and Morrissy reinvent Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers’ to delight first-time or long-time patrons
- Jeff Awards panel on Latinx theatre, originally slated for January, will be held Fe. 18
- Music Theater Works celebrates its 2019 season with “A Technicolor Celebration” gala benefit on April 6
- Broadway in Chicago announces ticket sales begin Feb. 15 for April’s run of ‘Tap Dogs’
- Refuge Theatre Project announces cast for its production of ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ opening in March
- The Oriental no more—Broadway in Chicago lights the newly renamed James M. Nederlander Theatre
- BoHo Theatre launches 15th season in March with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s ‘Bright Star’
- BiC announces digital lottery for its ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ sold out run, beginning Feb. 12
- Broadway in Chicago announces digital lottery and rush tickets for ‘Friends! The Musical Parody,’ opening Feb. 12
- Underscore, doing what it does best, highlights new works with its Fifth Annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, in two locations through Feb. 24
- Tickets now available online for Chicago Theatre Week, Feb. 7 -17
- Broadway in Chicago brings Beatles tribute ‘Rain’ to town April 14, tickets on sale Feb. 12
- New ‘Success’ musical from Mahler joins ‘Newsies,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and the regional theatre premiere of ‘Kinky Boots’ in Paramount’s 2019-20 season
- Northlight’s ‘Four Women’ are the strong, gifted, black voices needing to be heard today
- Porchlight’s regional premiere of Best Musical Tony-winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is simply smashing
- Freezing temperatures and leading lady’s injury can’t stop Lyric’s ‘Elektra’
- Here is everything potential patrons need to know about Lyric Opera of Chicago’s March 2-17 production of ‘Ariodante’
- Greenhouse Theater Center seeks aspiring and established lyricists and composers to develop new musical
- They’re coming back: BiC announces tickets available for one-week return of ‘Jersey Boys’ in April
- Broadway in Chicago announces ‘Hamilton: The Exhibition’ tickets to go on sale Feb. 15
- Zegree and Savage lead a whole lotta shakin’ in Lincolnshire as Marriott’s dynamic production of ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ sizzles away some winter cold
- Broadway in Chicago lands pre-Broadway premiere of Michael-Jackson biopic ‘Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough,’ opening in October
- Three takeaways from Brown Paper Box’s ‘Little Women’ add up to make this the first not-to-be-missed production of the new year
- Interactive ‘Djembe! the Show’ makes U.S. debut at Apollo Theater, March 19
- Broadway in Chicago announces ticket sales for March touring production of ‘Anastasia’
- Citadel sets February musical production of ‘Junie B. Jones’ for new Theatre for Young Audiences
- Being evil never seemed more fun than taking in Black Button Eyes’ ‘Evil Dead: The Musical’
- Chicago premiere of ‘Hunchback,’ leads Music Theater Works’ 2019 season
- Hell in a Handbag parodies ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ in March
- Firebrand announces cast and creatives for ‘Queen of the Mist’ production in May
- Former general manager Ashley Magnus named GM of Chicago Opera theater
- Broadway in Chicago announces digital lottery for ‘Kinky Boots’
- Chicagoland favorite Heidi Kettenring sings the songs of Karen Carpenter at Marriott, March 17
- Garrett Allain returns as ‘Gayerbear’ in new musical ‘visual album’
- Marriott for Young Audiences’ ‘Seussical’ is just what the doctor ordered this winter
- Theatre at the Center opens 2019 season with ‘M$Q,’ beginning in February
- Jeff Awards presents panel on Latinx theatre in Chicago, Jan. 28
- Here we go again…Drury Lane announces casting for ‘Mamma Mia,’ opening Feb. 21
- ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ goes LGBTQ for one-night CTW benefit
- Overshadowed Productions presents ‘Seussical,’ beginning Jan. 25
