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Steppenwolf has just announced that Emmy®, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Julianna Margulies will be the guest of honor at the third annual Steppenwolf Salutes WOMEN IN THE ARTS fundraising luncheon on Monday, March 12, 2012 at Noon at The Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E.

Victory Gardens Crip Slam and the University of Notre Dame present John Milton's Samson Agonistes.

American Theater Company (ATC) presents the tenth anniversary year of the beloved holiday classic, It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play adapted from Frank Capra's film and directed by Jason W.

Launching the highly anticipated Season Two of Public Access Theatre, Oracle Productions is proud to announce the opening of IRONMISTRESS by April De Angelis, directed by Karen Yates.

Stage 773 Artistic Director Brian Posen announces the launch of a new musical theatre company, Street Tempo Theatre, debuting at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont Ave.

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The Music Institute of Chicago honors the extraordinary legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The League of Chicago Theatres announces the launch of ChicagoSpaces.

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Returning for a third season to Millennium Park is the theater lab series, In the Works, where audiences have a chance to sit on the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in a climate controlled environment and experience works in development by local theater artists.

THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER brings holiday cheer to the Mercury Theater (3745 N.

SALOMEE SPEELT, in their Chicago debut, and co-producer ShPIeL-Performing Identity are proud to announce the Chicago premieres of two productions, Jean Cocteau's The Sound Of Silence and Noémi Schlosser's DATE ME! at Theater Wit, 1229 W.

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16th Street Theater announces its Season Five 2012: Love, Faith and the Unknown at its Sneak Peek Season Preview on Saturday, December 3 from 5:00 - 6:30 PM at Berwyn Cultural Center, 6420 16th Street in Berwyn.

Drury Lane, 100 Drury Lane, will host a festive Thanksgiving Buffet on Thursday, November 24 from noon until 5 p.

Raven Theatre announces the cancellation of the four-week extension of William Inge's Bus Stop as rights cannot be secured beyond the original closing date of December 11.

Off Off Broadzway, the burlesque-parody all-female sketch comedy troupe, presents Let it Ho!, their gleefully inappropriate holiday revue!

On Monday, December 19 and Tuesday, December 20, the Do-It-Yourself Messiah, presented by the International Music Foundation, will take place at the Harris Theater.

Steep Theatre Company and the New York-based Naked Angels will be teaming up this fall to workshop a new play by playwright Sarah Burgess titled Earthsiege: Commence.

Polarity Ensemble Theatre, in association with the DCA Theater, presents the Chicago premiere of Peer Gynt, a zany, high-energy translation by prolific poet Robert Bly of this rarely-produced Henrik Ibsen classic.

Court Theatre and The Classical Entertainment Society present The Homerathon, a 24-hour marathon reading of Homer's Iliad.

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Mr.

While many companies in corporate America have significantly cut back their community giving, Fox Valley Repertory, a local non-profit, has made a strategic priority to increase its giving to other community non-profits in a major way.

Award-winning actor and musician Hershey Felder (George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin, Beethoven As I Knew Him) returns to Chicago with Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein.

Hell in a Handbag Productions presents A Very Special Rudolph, a benefit performance of their classic holiday show, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, now in its 14th year! The evening includes A special performance of Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, Open Bar, Special Guest Stars, The World's Greatest