Friday, 02 February 2024 15:07
Dana Delaney shines in true-life tale of computer love in Goodman's 'Highway Patrol'
Written by Kimberly Katz
I thoroughly enjoyed this modern and timely play on both the issues of Hollywood stars whose lives are constantly scrutinized by complete strangers and how easily it is for any person now to be fed false information online in ways that can affect their lives either positively or negatively regardless of the…
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Friday, 02 February 2024 19:34
A Cut Above; 'In The Heights' flies high at Marriot Theatre
Written by Kendall Royzen
On any given day, when I walk out my front door, I’d see a quiet suburban street. Most families stay within their, rarely venturing out unless the temperature is a cool-but-warm 70 degrees, content with their healthy skepticism of their neighbors, keeping to surface level ‘how-do-you dos’ or ‘how-is-the-family?’ There’s…
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Thursday, 01 February 2024 12:38
A Champion’s Struggle: Sexuality and Power Collide in Terence Blanchard’s Opera
Written by Wesley David
Terence Blanchard's "Champion" delivers a powerful blow to the stage, not through physical force but with its emotional resonance. Based on the life of boxer, Emile Griffith, the opera is told through the memories of an older Griffith, (played by Reginald Smith, Jr.) Suffering from dementia and a lifetime of…
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Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:13
Porchlight announces Cast and Creative Teams for PORCHLIGHT IN CONCERT: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, May 11 and 12
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Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the cast and production team for Porchlight in Concert: Sunday in the Park with George, starring Tony Award-nominated Sean Allan Krill and Broadway’s Kathy Voytko, Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 12 at 2 p.m., at the Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave. This concert performance includes music and lyrics by Stephen…
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Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:10
Lifeline Theatre’s retelling of Chicagoan Nambi E. Kelley’s “Native Son” adaptation, May 10 - June 30
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Lifeline Theatre continues their 2023-24 season of Big Stories, Up Close with a retelling of Native Son. Spearheaded by Lifeline Artistic Director ILesa Duncan (Middle Passage, Neverwhere,) audiences will experience Chicagoan Nambi E. Kelley's "gutsy, powerful, and relentless" adaptation of Richard Wright's powerful introspection on race and justice like never before. Set in Chicago's South Side during the 1930's, the…
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Monday, 29 January 2024 14:08
Trap Door Theatre Open Series Presents: The Delivery
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Trap Door Theatre is thrilled to continue its Trap Open Series with the show The Delivery. Written by Charlotte Jung, The Delivery will play February 12-20, 2024 at Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W Cortland St. in Chicago. Tickets are now on sale at trapdoortheatre.com or by calling (773)-384-0494. Full press release attached. The cast includes Amy Jean Johnson, Juliana Liscio…
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Thursday, 25 January 2024 14:04
Jackalope Theatre Announces its 16th Season
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Jackalope Theatre Company is proud to announce its 16th season to be performed at its new home in Edgewater, Berger Park, 6205 N. Broadway Ave. The 2024 season includes the previously announced one-man thriller in rhyme, The Smuggler, February 16 – March 16, by Ronán Noone, directed by Gus Menary and starring Andrew Burden…
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Monday, 29 January 2024 15:53
Pinteresque Playwright Deen is a Revelation with ‘Flood,’ a Comedy for the End of the World
Written by Bill Esler
Shattered Globe did its dramaturgy research very well, in bringing us the Chicago premiere of “Flood,” Mashuq Mushtaq Deen’s very funny, very fresh and highly relevant script. And boy does he have a gift for dialog. It is good, complex, and funny, and charged with barrels of meaning below that…
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From the sunny shores of St. Thomas to the gritty streets of New York, from the violent brutality of the boxing ring to the raucous gay bar scene in the mid-1960s, Lyric Opera’s Champion is a sweeping saga of one man’s search for redemption and his true sexual identity. With…
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Friday, 26 January 2024 12:07
Ronnie Marmo Returns to Chicago to Direct and Star in Critically Acclaimed “Bill W. and Dr. Bob”
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Ronnie Marmo and Theatre 68 today announced two plays coming to the Richard Christiansen Theater of the Biograph Theater in Lincoln Park (2433 N. Lincoln Ave.). The critically acclaimed "Bill W. and Dr. Bob," the gripping true story spotlighting the two founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, is written by Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey. Marmo will be directing and starring in…
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Emery Entertainment, Inc. and Broadway In Chicago are excited to announce that CHURCHILL, starring acclaimed actor David Payne, will play a strictly limited engagement at Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St) from April 3 to April 7, 2024. Tickets for all shows are now…
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Thursday, 25 January 2024 13:02
Peter Pan coming to Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre
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Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce that individual tickets for the all-new production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway Classic, PETER PAN will go on sale on Friday, January 26. PETER PAN takes flight at Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.) for a limited two-week engagement, March 26 –…
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Thursday, 25 January 2024 13:00
DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to Open North American Tour in Chicago
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Disney Theatrical Group, under the direction of Andrew Flatt, Anne Quart and Thomas Schumacher, announced today that a newly-reimagined North American tour of Beauty and the Beast will officially open at Broadway In Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in July 2025. Tickets are now available for groups of 10 or more by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at (312) 977-1710 or emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The show…
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