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Recent Posts:
- All-everything star Seth Rudetsky cain’t say no ‘Deconstructing Broadway’ for Chicago Theatre Workshop, Oct. 28
- ‘Billy Elliot’ electrifies homecoming for Porchlight in its new digs inside the Ruth Page Center for the Arts
- Meet the cast and creatives bringing ‘Elf’ to the Paramount this holiday season
- Everything patrons need to know about Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of ‘The Pearl Fishers’
- Theo Ubique will replace ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ with Sondheim’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ in last season at No Exit Cafe
- Lyric Opera’s ‘Rigoletto’ elicits tears for the court jester in a breakout performance for Quinn Kelsey
- DeTogne leads Crouse-directed production of ‘Altar Boyz’ at Theo this December
- Jeff Awards to present Steve Scott with Special Jeff Award for outreach, creativity on Nov. 6
- Women-empowered Firebrand Theatre begins its history with Lizzie Bordon musical, all-star cast this November
- ‘Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding’ invites guests to special ‘Baby Shower’ performance to collect benefit Aid for Women, November 10
- Eric Anderson joins Broadway in Chicago’s pre-NY run of musical ‘Pretty Woman’
- Raven’s production of McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ is a suspenseful, a cappella lesson in leadership
- Hermosa’s Kelyvn Park is next stop for Collaboracation’s free Peacebook Festival, October 19 – 21
- Anything goes with pirates and Garland in the woods for Music Theater Works’ 2018 lineup
- Award-winning Met Opera soprano Patricia Racette returns to Chicago Opera Theatre in Nov. to star in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Consul’
- Northlight Theatre to honor actor Harry Lennix with Speak Up! Award at 2017 Gala: ‘Staging the Future Together,’ Nov. 4
- Music Theater Works’ ‘Duke Ellington’s Greatest Hits’ should use less spice when cooking with jazz
- New company, Flying Elephant, announces season beginning in Jan. with ‘Songs of the Resistance’
- Mitchell Fain returns to Theatre Wit for new production of ‘This Way Out of Santaland,’ beginning in Nov.
- Pride announces cast, creatives for ‘Yank! A WWII Love Story’
- Chicago Children’s Theatre wins prized National Theatre Company Grant honor from founder of the Tony Awards
- Sheri and Josh Flanders’ thoughts on Black Ensemble’s and Steppenwolf’s September forum on -isms
- Cirque du Soliel opens new ice show, ‘Crystal’ in November
- Marriott’s ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ production collecting for victims of Las Vegas tragedy
- Hell in a Handbag’s raucous ‘Bewildered’ is a bewitching treat for a beleaguered world
- ‘Pretty Woman’ announces addition of Tony nominee Orfeh to Chicago’s pre-Broadway cast
- Marc Robin’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ heading to Marriott’s TYA in November
- Broadway in Chicago announces details for a cappella show ‘Gobsmacked’
- Huggable Riot stages LGBTQ revue, ‘Queerly Beloved,’ at The Annoyance
- MCL announces production of’ Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Christmas Musical’
- Big talent makes Metropolis’ big wish come true with ‘Into the Woods’
- Lyric Opera and Joffrey Ballet team to provide a heady affair with ‘Orphée et Eurydice’
- Missimi to direct Highland Park Players’ ‘The Pajama Game,’ opening Oct. 20
- Annoyance’s ‘Striking Out’ shows rookie promise while falling short of a home run
- Chicago Humnanities Festival features debut of ‘Crowd Out’ at Millennium Park on Oct. 1
- Cher musical biopic to make pre-Broadway debut in Chicago in June 2018
- Victory Gardens’ ‘Fun Home’ outshines the Tony-winning version from the Big White Way
- All the information needed about ‘Die Walküre’ at Lyric Opera of Chicago, beginning Nov. 1
- Taylor Street location set for Chicago Music Hall of Fame
- International Centre for Women Playwrights honors Northlight, Victory gardens and Windy City Playhouse
- Northlight’s entertaining ‘Georgia McBride’ fails to use its premise for social conscious advancement, seems mired in the 1990s
- Alex Sanchez to direct, Rooney, Palasz star in ‘Newsies’ at Marriott for the holidays
- Broadway in Chicago brings pre-Broadway world premiere of musical ‘Pretty Woman,’ starring Samantha Barks, to Oriental Theatre in Spring 2018
- Collaboraction hires Dr. Marcus Robinson as new managing director
- Quest Theatre Ensemble’s ‘…Love…Perfect…Change’ is Chicagoland’s highest value-added musical
- Chicago Children’s Theatre’s ‘Frog and Toad:’ The best children’s show I know
- Lucky Plush Productions’ ‘Rooming House’ set for Steppenwolf’s new 1700 Theatre
- Details set for annual Chicago Theatre Week, Feb. 8-18, 2018
- St. Charles’ Nomad Theatre Company announces auditions for ‘Elf’ for grades 2-9 on Oct. 23 and 24
- Applications due September 25 for Goodman’s criticism boot camp for emerging theatre writers
- Evan Tyrone Martin returns to Aurora’s Paramount for one-man ‘Unforgettable’ show
- ‘A New Brain’ is the latest reason to support soaring Theo Ubique as it readies for its new home
- TATC puts the great American novel under the spotlight with its terrific production of ‘Big River’
- Tickets go on sale Sept. 22 for Broadway in Chicago’s ‘White Christmas’
- Broadway’s Nick Adams will headline PFP’s ‘Simply Sensational,’ Nov. 6
- Court Theatre’s “Five Guys Named Moe” offers a swanky tribute to a music legend
- Aurora’s Paramount announces one night of ‘STOMP,’ Nov. 1
- Paramount’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ brilliantly offers escape paired with poignancy
- MCL’s ‘Golden Girls’ musical delights fans with spot-on renditions of old favorite characters
- Permoveo/PRIDE’s ‘CiviliTy of Albert Cashier’ a near perfect storm of ingredients for a premiere
- Producers announce October 8 closing of ‘Spamilton’ at Royal George
- Stage 773 readies for October homecoming events
- Annoyance Theatre’s premiere of LGBTQ baseball musical ‘Striking Out’ set for Sept. 24
- David McDermott named new executive director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- See Broadway in Chicago’s f-bomb infused, hilarious ‘90210: The Musical,’ through Sept. 17 only
- Jackie Taylor’s world premiere, ‘Living the Black Renaissance,’ begins Oct. 14 at BET
- Broadway and TV star Kristin Chenoweth comes to Paramount, Nov. 4
- Night Blue’s ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ fires one wild gun but still hits the mark
- Meet the cast of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ at Raven Theatre beginning Sept. 27
- Quality impersonations can’t overcome arrogance and sexism in Hawking’s, ‘The Men & Their Music’
- Windy City Playhouse to present immersive theatrical production ‘Southern Gothic,’ Feb. through April
- Cast announced for Broadway in Chicago’s ‘School of Rock,’ set to open
- BrightSide announces cast and creative details for ‘Bridges of Madison County,’ opening
- Writers Theatre announces final extension for ‘Trevor,’ must close Oct. 8
- Theatre Faction’s too-convoluted ‘One Thousand Words’ will be a better read at 500
- Black Ensemble and Steppenwolf theatres team to fight -isms with Sept. 25 event
- Chicago Shakes opens new theatre, The Yard, on Sept. 12
- Goodman to honor life of Howard Wit with ceremony, Oct. 2
- Drury Lane’s over the top ‘Rock of Ages’ is nothin’ but a good time
- Broadway in Chicago brings Tony-winning ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ tour to the Windy City
- Refuge Theatre Project announces cast, creatives for fall production of ‘Lysistrata Jones’
- Spain’s ‘Las Minas Puerto Flamenco’ in Chicago for just one night, Sept. 25makes Chicago
- Chicago Shakes announces return of ‘Q Brothers Christmas Carol,’ beginning Nov. 21 at The Yard
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- Take it to the bank, Kokandy’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ celebrates fast living and hard loving
- Hypocrites announces cast for fall production of ‘Dracula’ at Mercury
- Tickets for BiC’s next ‘Beautiful’ run this winter go on sale Sept. 10
- Palatine’s Fremont Street celebrates year six with Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ Sept. 8-17
- MCL Chicago to cease operations in March, end productions 1/1/18
- Multi-disciplinary artist Natalja Aicardi performs ‘The Selkie’ at Chicago Fringe Festival Sept. 8-10
- Marriott markets to young baby boomers with Broadway-infused, locally sung and acted production of ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’
- Huggable Riot to open ‘Panic! at the Honky Tonk,’ Sept. 6, at The Annoyance
- Chicago Theatre Works rotates Chicagoland’s favorite wake and wedding this fall
- Lyric hosts sing-along ‘Choir! Choir! Choir!’ on Oct. 21
- Illinois Theatre association lauds Paramount’s AD Jim Corti with 2017 Award of Honor
- ‘South Pacific,’ ‘Little Shop…,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Mamma Mia!’ are Drury Lane’s 2018-19 musicals
- Lyric Opera stars invade Millennium Park, Sept. 8
- Victory Gardens hosts evening with Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori ahead of ‘Fun Home’ production
- Everything one needs to know about ‘Rigoletto’ at Lyric Opera of Chicago, October 7 – November 3
- Hell in a Handbag parodies ‘Bewitched’ with musical ‘Bewildered’ beginning in Oct.
