Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:04
Steppenwolf Theatre Announces 2024/25 Season
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company, under the leadership of Artistic Directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis and Executive Director Brooke Flanagan, today announced its 2024/25 Season, featuring a dynamic line-up of modern masterpieces, Chicago and world premieres. The 49th Season includes five Steppenwolf Membership Series productions that invite audiences to experience the next chapter of Steppenwolf's bold, visceral and muscular…
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Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:49
Pretty Woman is now playing at CIBC Theatre
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Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is now playing at Broadway In Chicago's CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.). PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is playing for a limited engagement through March 17. PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, based on one of Hollywood's most beloved romantic stories of all springs to…
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Tuesday, 05 March 2024 15:55
Pre-Broadway World Premiere DEATH BECOMES HER Announces Complete Casting
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Broadway In Chicago and Universal Theatrical Group announced today complete casting for the world-premiere Chicago production of the drop-dead hilarious new musical comedy, DEATH BECOMES HER. Starring alongside the previously announced Tony Award nominee Megan Hilty as "Madeline Ashton," and Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard as "Helen Sharp" are Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber as "Ernest Menville," and Grammy Award…
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Sunday, 03 March 2024 13:21
Skokie Theatre Cast and Creatives for The Lightning Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical
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MadKap Productions is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for The Lightning Thief: a Percy Jackson Musical, a special Theatre for Young Audience presentation which will run for 10 live performances between June 7 and July 28 at the Skokie Theatre, 7924 Lincoln Ave in Downtown Skokie. The Lightning Thief: A…
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Thursday, 29 February 2024 12:30
Tickets go on Sale March 1 for Music Theater Works' 2024 Producers Gala ALL THAT JAZZ, May 11
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Music Theater Works is proud to announce its annual gala, the Producers Gala, All that Jazz, Saturday, May 11 at 6 p.m. All That Jazz, at the Kenilworth Club at 410 Kenilworth Ave., begins at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour and is followed by a sit-down dinner, the presentation of the third annual Joyce Ruth…
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Thursday, 29 February 2024 12:06
Chicago Theatres celebrate Women's History Month
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Throughout Women's History Month this March, many Chicago theatres are presenting productions that encourage and celebrate the vital role of women in American history. Additional details about each of the Women's History Month offerings are available at ChicagoPlays.com and HotTix.org, Chicago's local, discounted ticketing service. "We invite Chicagoans to celebrate women this month by taking in…
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Thursday, 29 February 2024 11:02
Local artists join UK all-stars in the cast of international smash-hit The Choir of Man
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The gang's all here! International smash hit The Choir of Man is thrilled to announce its Chicago cast, featuring a mix of Chicago area natives and all-star The Choir of Man veterans direct from the UK. A critically acclaimed theatrical sensation, known across the globe as "the ultimate feel-good show," The Choir of Man is 90 minutes of indisputable…
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Thursday, 29 February 2024 12:58
MAMMA MIA! TO PLAY BROADWAY IN CHICAGO'S JAMES M. NEDERLANDER THEATRE
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Broadway In Chicago is ecstatic to announce that individual tickets for the 25th Anniversary Tour of MAMMA MIA! will go on sale on Friday, March 1. The ultimate feel-good show based on the songs of ABBA, will play Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.) for a limited…
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Wednesday, 21 February 2024 12:14
Auditorium Theatre announces programming for highly anticipated return of ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER in six performances only, April 17-21, 2024
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World renowned ambassadors of Dance and Culture, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to its Chicago home – the landmark Auditorium Theatre at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive – for its 55th engagement here, with six dynamic performances, April 17-21, 2024. Celebrating its 65th Anniversary season in 2023-24, the company will perform three distinct programs certain…
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Saturday, 17 February 2024 12:07
'SHORT SHAKESPEARE! ROMEO AND JULIET' now being performed
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents a perfect introduction to Shakespeare's work for young audiences with a 75-minute abridgement of Romeo and Juliet, adapted and directed by Mikael Burke. This production reimagines Shakespeare's tale of young love found—and tragically lost—in the 1980s. During a four-week run of weekday matinees, Chicago Shakespeare welcomes thousands of middle and…
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Tuesday, 27 February 2024 12:03
Court Theatre Announces 70th Anniversary Season
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Court Theatre, under the leadership of Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Angel Ysaguirre, is proud to announce its 70th season. The 2024/25 season will feature Eugene Lee's searing and rhythmic East Texas Hot Links, directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson; the groundbreaking musical Falsettos, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by William Finn…
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Wednesday, 28 February 2024 10:00
Message In A Bottle is now playing at Cadillac Palace
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Audiences can now see Message In A Bottle, a new dance theatre production choregraphed by Sadler's Wells' Associate Artist Kate Prince at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited run, from February 28, 2024 to March 3, 2024. Produced by Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK, Message In A Bottle is a dance…
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Monday, 26 February 2024 12:01
Sweetback Productions Presents HAMBURGERS AND DISAPPOINTMENT: PLAYS ABOUT ENOUGHNESS, a Barrie Cole play festival, May 2 - 19, at Labyrinth Club
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Sweetback Productions, in collaboration with Labyrinth Arts, is proud to announce Hamburgers and Disappointment: Plays about Enoughness, a festival of works by Barrie Cole playing in repertory, May 2 - 19 at 7:30 p.m., at Labyrinth Club, 3658 N. Pulaski Road. Performances of Schedule 1 includes I Love You Permanently and Fruit Tree Backpack runs on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and…
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