Three Oaks Theater Fest announces six-show season
The Three Oaks Theater Festival has announced its 2015 season. The six shows run throughout the summer in Three Oaks, Michigan, a popular getaway about 90 minutes from downtown Chicago...
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Victory Gardens adds four ensemble playwrights
Victory Gardens Theater has expanded its playwrights ensemble by four, a spokeswoman for the theater said on Tuesday. The new additions are Luis Alfaro ("Oedipus el Rey"), Ike Holter ("Exit...
Video: Chris Jones reviews Broadway musicals
Spring is the busiest time all year on Broadway. An avalanche of shows open leading up to the Tony Awards in June, making it nearly impossible for the average theatergoer...
Steppenwolf announces 2015-16 young adults season
Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced two shows on Monday for its Young Adults season, a literary adaptation and a new devised work. George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" (Oct. 21-Nov. 15), as...
Shoshana Bean will lead ‘Beaches’ at Drury Lane
"Beaches, A New Musical" has found the wind beneath its wings. Drury Lane Theatre's summer show that is being billed as a pre-Broadway production announced its cast on Monday. The...
Stage Left announces 2015-16 season
Stage Left Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Friday. All three politically charged productions will be performed at Theater Wit in Lakeview. The roll begins with "The Firestorm" (Oct. 24-Nov....
Lydia R. Diamond’s ‘Smart People’ goes off-Broadway
"Smart People," the new play by Lydia R. Diamond, a Chicago Dramatists resident playwright, will run off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in the winter, it was announced Thursday. In her...
Three plays in Sideshow’s 2015-16 season
Sideshow Theatre Company's new season will comprise three dramas, a spokesman for the company said on Wednesday. They'll all be performed at the Victory Gardens Richard Christiansen Theater, where Sideshow...
A new executive director for Raven Theatre
Raven Theatre has a new executive director. Brian Pastor, who's served as managing director at City Lit Theatre the past nine years, will take over the job at Raven beginning...
Irish Theatre announces 2015-16 season
Three local premieres will make up Irish Theatre of Chicago's 2015-16 season. A spokesman for the theatre announced the roster on Thursday. "My Brilliant Divorce" (Oct. 7-Nov. 1) by Irish...