CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1175

Focal Point Theatre Company (FPTC) begins its first season with a show dubbed The Against Type Project.

Filled with magic, mystery and live music, The Strange Tree Group brings Chicago's ghosts to life this Halloween season with The Spirit Play.

Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, will extend THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the Tony Award and Academy Award-winning musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, through January 8, 2012 due to popular demand.

Chicago's All Latina Theatre Company comes back onto the scene with a brand new play, CROSSED, which opens for a main-stage run this fall.

lonesome road productions, in association with Jim Jensen and Lisselan Productions, announces the Chicago arrival of the critically acclaimed the Doyle & Debbie show

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Follies opens today on Navy Pier.

Abbey Pub announces their upcoming monthly events.

LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE cast members featuring Nora Dunn, Felicia Fields, Roni Geva, Katie O'Brien and Barbara Robertson perform at Petterino's (150 N.

Damian Arnold of The British Stage Company announced the commercial engagement of the popular late-night production The Game Show Show.

Join Alice as she follows the White Rabbit to Wonderland, where she meets such memorable characters as the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Cheshire Cat and more in the FVR Performing Arts Academy's Kid's Ensemble production (ages 6-11) of Alice in Wonderland.

Broadway luminary, Seth Rudetsky, returns to Chicago with his hilarious one-man-show Deconstructing Broadway, featuring video and audio clips of memorable and hilarious musical theater moments.

Celebrate the holidays in Millennium Park, when Caroling at Cloud Gate returns on Friday evenings from November 25 through December 16, 2011 at 6 p.

Hot on the heels of My Fair Lady, the critically acclaimed, smash hit musical which launched the Paramount Theatre's new Broadway series just last month, the Aurora-based theater is ready to GO, GO, GO, GO to it again.

Goodnight Moon The Musical, a new version of the beloved children's book Goodnight Moon like you've never seen before, will launch the 2011-2012 season for Chicago Children's Theatre (CCT), running October 27 through December 23 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N.

Hollywood film star, best-selling novelist, acclaimed screenwriter and newest Jenny Craig spokesperson Carrie Fisher is bringing her award-winning WISHFUL DRINKING to the Bank of America Theatre (18 W.

Gary Griffin is directing Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's first production of the 2011-12 season, FOLLIES.

The Champaign Urbana Theatre Company along with Dr.

Raven Theatre invites the community to BOO HAHA!, their first Annual Fall Family Festival! BOO HAHA! is Saturday, October 29 from 2-5:00 p.

Wexford Institute and the Irish American Heritage Center present Anthony Kearns in a solo concert of favorite songs from Ireland to Broadway to popular classics on Saturday, October 15 at 7:30 pm.

Victory Gardens will present beatbox harmonica virtuoso Yuri Lane in MeTube, written and directed by Rachel Havrelock, with live visuals by Sharif Ezzat.

Lifeline Theatre's KidSeries presents a world premiere stage adaptation of The 13 Clocks, based on the irreverent fairy tale by James Thurber.

Stage 773 Artistic Director Brian Posen announced plans to showcase the newly renovated Stage 773, 1225 W.

Mei-Ann Chen, new Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, leads the second concert of the 2011-2012 season with Under the Night Sky, a concert that examines our place in the cosmos.

The House Theatre of Chicago has announced the return of THE NUTCRACKER, a re-imagining of the classic E.

This October Underscore Theatre Company, a new musical theatre company dedicated to exploring the use of music in theatre through original work and re-imagined productions of established plays, has announced the first annual fundraiser performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show' at Chicago's Underground