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Cast Set For NATIVE SON at Lifeline Theatre


by Stephi Wild - March 29, 2024

Casting has been announced for Chicagoan Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s powerful introspection on race and justice like never before. Native Son runs at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. in Rogers Park, from May 10 – June 30, 2024....

Cast Set For BABY at the Citadel Theatre


by Stephi Wild - March 19, 2024

Citadel Theatre has announced the full cast and production team for its 2023-24 season-closing production of the musical BABY, which explores the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of the universal experience of pregnancy and upcoming parenthood through the stories of three expect...

Griffin Announces Concert Staging Of HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE


by A.A. Cristi - March 11, 2024

Get full details for the upcoming concert staging of THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE by Griffin Theatre Company. ...

Michael Shannon Will Lead TURRET at A Red Orchid Theatre


by Stephi Wild - March 08, 2024

A Red Orchid Theatre  has announced the cast and creative team behind the World Premiere of TURRET, written and directed by Ensemble Member Levi Holloway. ...

Cast Set for Rolling World Premiere of BROOKLYN LAUNDRY at Northlight Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 01, 2024

Northlight Theatre is continuing its 2023–2024 season with the rolling world premiere of Brooklyn Laundry by John Patrick Shanley. See performance dates and learn how to purchase tickets....

FRINDLE Comes to Griffin Theatre Company Next Month


by Stephi Wild - February 22, 2024

Chicago’s Griffin Theatre Company has announced a limited five-performance-only run of the company’s most popular touring show for young people, FRINDLE. ...

50th Anniversary Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony Reveals Production Team


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 21, 2024

At the milestone 50th Anniversary Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theater, more than 100 recognized artists and new emerging faces and voices will be honored. Learn more about the ceremony!...

Review: BROTHER SISTER CYBORG SPACE at Raven Theatre


by Zac Thriffiley - February 13, 2024

Paul Michael Thomson's newest dramedy BROTHER SISTER CYBORG SPACE, now receiving its world premiere at Raven Theatre, occasionally loses itself in a flood of introspection. But it's buoyed along by a cast of thoughtful and charismatic performers....

Raven Theatre Company Announces Cast And Production Team For THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER


by A.A. Cristi - February 01, 2024

Chicago's Raven Theatre Company has announced the cast and production team for the final show of its 41st season, THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER. ...

World Premiere & More Set for Jackalope Theatre 16th Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 25, 2024

Jackalope Theatre announces its 16th season, including two premieres at its new home in Edgewater. ...

Past Shows

Night Watch
Night Watch
10/5 - 11/12/2023


Synopsis: What’s more nightmarish: not being able to trust those around you… or not being able to trust yourself? Moonlit streets, a restless mind and ...

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
9/7 - 9/17/2023


The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a gripping and darkly comedic play by Martin McDonagh. Set in a remote Irish village, it follows the strained ...

Beggars and Bums
Beggars and Bums
8/18 - 8/19/2023


Beggars and Bums is a comical lighthearted stage play about the misconception that all beggars and bums are homeless. It's about a group of people ...

Raven Theatre: The October Storm by Joshua Allen


Raven Theatre presents 'The October Storm' by Joshua Allen, directed by Malkia Stampley. In 1960s South Side Chicago, the solitary landlady Mrs. Elkins oversees her ...

Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Sizwe Banzi is Dead
11/18 - 11/20/2022


From The Outer Loop Theater Experience, comes  "Sizwe Banzi is Dead"  by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.  Sizwe  tells the story of a ...

CHICAGO WRITERS’ BLOC 2022 NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL


Staged readings of 10 new works presented as part of its 2022 New Plays Festival, running May 23 to June 14 at the Raven Theater ...

Late, A Cowboy Song
6/18 - 6/28/2020


Svaha Theatre Collective...


Mlima is a magnificent elephant trapped by the underground international ivory market. As he follows a trail littered by a history of greed, Mlima takes ...

Marisol
Marisol
10/20 - 11/26/2017


An absurdist comedy in which a young New York City woman of Puerto Rican descent finds herself immersed in a battle led by angels to ...

Not About Nightingales
Not About Nightingales
4/19 - 6/3/2017


When rules are unjust, we need to break them. This early play by Tennessee Williams is the story, based on real events, of a prison ...

Sycamore
Sycamore
3/8 - 4/29/2017


Celia and Henry are teenaged siblings living in a Midwestern suburb who both become romantically interested in the same boy - their new next-door neighbor ...

The Assembled Parties
The Assembled Parties
1/25 - 3/25/2017


In 1980, the Bascov family gathers with relatives and friends in their sprawling Central Park West apartment to celebrate the holidays and the accomplishments of ...

Betrayal
Betrayal
10/26 - 12/17/2016


Pinter’s modern classic drama concerns the nine-year affair between a London writer and the wife of his publisher and best friend. A thoughtful, rich play ...

Red Velvet
Red Velvet
9/28 - 11/27/2016


The backstage story of African-American actor Ira Aldridge and how in 1833 he became the first black actor to perform on a London stage. The ...

Direct From Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys


Nine African-American teenagers falsely accused in 1931 of assaulting two white Alabama women spent decades in the legal system fighting for their lives. They return ...

Bang the Drum Slowly
3/15 - 7/14/2012


A moving look at life, loyalty and America's pastime, this touching drama unfolds during a season of baseball with the New York Mammoths, focusing on ...

The Price
2/28 - 4/14/2012


Two long estranged brothers - one a cop of limited means, the other a successful doctor - meet in the attic of a New York ...

Dating Walter Dante
2/7 - 3/24/2012


His first wife may or may not have died accidentally. His second wife is missing.The police watch him around the clock. Walter Dante isn't exactly ...

Port
Port
1/8 - 2/26/2011


Spanning 12 years, the American premiere of Simon Stephens powerful play looks at the life a young girl–Rachel Keats. Abandoned by her mother, she is ...

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Barefoot in the Park in Chicago Barefoot in the Park
Saint Sebastian Players (4/19 - 5/12)
Back in the Saddle in Chicago Back in the Saddle
Color Club (5/17 - 5/18)
Women Beware Women in Chicago Women Beware Women
Blue In The Right Way (4/17 - 5/12)
Jesus Christ Superstar in Chicago Jesus Christ Superstar
Theater at Meiley-Swallow Hall, North Central College (6/7 - 6/23)
All Shook Up in Chicago All Shook Up
Summer Place Theatre (6/21 - 6/30)
Warm on the Coolin' Board in Chicago Warm on the Coolin' Board
Greenhouse Theater Center (5/2 - 6/1)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson in Chicago Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
Goodman Theatre in the Albert (4/13 - 5/12)
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