League receives $500,000 MacArthur grant
The League of Chicago Theatres announced on Monday that it's received a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The trade organization representing more than 200 local theaters intends to use...
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Second City and NBCUniversal team up for comedy fest
The Second City announced the lineup of its performance collaboration with NBCUniversal on Monday: the NBCUniversal Second City Break Out Comedy Festival. The two-day festival was created to showcase some...
Tim Kazurinsky will go to Broadway this spring
Tim Kazurinsky, the Chicago actor and Second City alum best known for his years spent on "Saturday Night Live" and his role in the "Police Academy" films, will perform on...
A strange trip through airport security in ‘Title and Deed’
This week's Showcase is "Title and Deed," the play by Will Eno at Lookingglass Theatre Company. In Eno's darkly funny play, Michael Patrick Thornton is The Traveler, a man who...
‘Edward Tulane’ will begin Children’s Theatre’s new season
Chicago Children's Theatre announced its 2015-16 season opener on Thursday. The play is "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane." Adapted from Kate Di Camillo's book by Dwayne Hartford, the story...
Sondheim will receive Sandburg Award
Stephen Sondheim will receive the Carl Sandburg Literary Award this year, a spokesman for the Chicago Public Library said on Monday. This is the 16th Carl Sandburg Award, given out...
‘Fancy Nancy’ moves downtown
The family theater company Emerald City Theatre will bring "Fancy Nancy The Musical" to the Broadway Playhouse this summer, a spokesperson for Broadway in Chicago said on Monday. The musical...
A four-play 2015-16 season for Route 66
Route 66 Theatre Company announced its 2015-16 season on Friday night. All four shows are new-to-Chicago, and one is a brand new play. First up, in the summer, is the...
‘Adding Machine’ and ‘Menagerie’ for The Hypocrites in 2015-16
The Hypocrites announced its 2015-16 season on Friday. A longer-than-usual lineup for this theater company, it features remounts of three popular productions of the past four years, plus a play...
Griffin will stage ‘The Birds’
Griffin Theatre Company's next show will be playwright Conor McPherson's adaptation of "The Birds," a spokesman for the theater said on Wednesday. That is British writer Daphne du Maurier's short...