‘SNL”s Katie Rich will perform at iO this month
"Saturday Night Live" writer Katie Rich will perform two shows at iO Chicago this month, the comedy theater said Wednesday. They'll take place on June 16 and 23. At both,...
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Theatre at the Center announces ‘All Shook Up’ cast
Theatre at the Center announced the cast of its upcoming production of "All Shook Up," the rock and roll riff on William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," on Tuesday. The show will...
Nice shirt? Steppenwolf Theatre partners with Paul Stuart
Here is an unlikely collaboration. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Paul Stuart, a Manhattan-based purveyor of luxury clothes. This month, the Chicago store at 208 S. LaSalle St. has...
‘Big Fish’ performance will be dedicated to Bernie Yvon
Wednesday night's performance of "Big Fish" at Theatre at the Center in Munster, Ind., will be dedicated to the late actor Bernie Yvon, the theater said Monday. Yvon had been...
Rarely seen ‘Blood Brothers’ in Theo Ubique’s new season
Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Monday. The season includes two musicals and two cabarets. "Blood Brothers," Willy Russell's musical drama about twin brothers separated at birth,...
Victory Gardens announces Ignition Festival plays
Victory Gardens Theater has announced the works that will be read as part of its Ignition Festival of New Plays. Victory Gardens also said that Ignition, which has been biennial...
Tutterow will receive a special Jeff Award
Russ Tutterow, the longtime artistic director of the playwrights collective Chicago Dramatists who died earlier this month, will receive a special Jeff Award at the non-Equity ceremony, the Joseph Jefferson...
Chicago theaters receive over $1 million from the Shubert Foundation
Chicago theaters will receive over $1 million in grants from the Shubert Foundation, it was announced on Thursday. The local theater receiving the most money is the Goodman Theatre, which...
Steppenwolf announces First Look plays
Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced the six new plays in the 10th Annual First Look series on Wednesday. For the first time the program will be made up of six staged...
‘Bad Jews’ will move to Skokie
Theater Wit's production of "Bad Jews," playwright Joshua Harmon's comedy of religious and cultural debate, will transfer to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie this summer,...