Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre has announced its 2006-07 season. The troupe’s 16th slate opens in September with William Inge’s “Come Back, Little Sheba,” directed by David Cromer. The season continues in January with Arthur Miller’s “The Price,” directed by Todd Schmidt, executive producer of Door County’s Peninsula Players. Peter Parnell’s thriller “Hyde in Hollywood,” a drama set in 1930s Hollywood, completes the season in May. Shattered Globe rents space at the Victory Gardens Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. … The first show ofthe Bailiwick Repertory’s 2006-07 season will be the Chicago premiere of “Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story.” This musical treatment of the famed crime story by Stephen Dolginoff opens on Sept. 6 and will be followed by the annual holiday production of “The Christmas Schooner.” Bailiwick says this will be the final year for “Schooner.” … Tickets to the upcoming Gay Games events are available at Chicago-area Hot Tix locations through a partnership between Gay Games Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres. … The comedy “Leaving Iowa” at the Royal George Theatre’s cabaret space has extended through Aug. 27. At the end of June, actress Kirsten Fitzgerald will take over the role of Mom. … “Entourage” star Jeremy Piven appears Saturday as part of the “Annual Celebrity Master Class Day” at his mother’s Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston. You have to pay a fee to take part; call 847-866-6597 to enroll.
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Compiled by Chris Jones
