CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1182

After a sold-out run at 16th Street in January, The Beats, due to popular demand, are back with the original cast starting September 15.

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Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards with Emmy® Award-winning stage and screen actress Holland Taylor is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe Street) for a limited three-week engagement, Nov.

Fox Valley Repertory will celebrate the Halloween season with one of the longest-running suspense thrillers in history, The Woman in Black.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today casting for its 25th Anniversary Season production of Elizabeth Rex, directed by CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines from November 29, 2011 to January 22, 2012.

Lyric Opera of Chicago Creative Consultant - and star soprano - Renée Fleming revealed details of a new collaboration between the world-renowned opera company and Chicago's Merit School of Music in a media conference at the school on Monday, September 12.

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Broadway In Chicago has announced that MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony® Award Winner for Best Musical, and the show that's currently blowing the roof off Broadway, opens in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W.

Chicago announces their wide range of fall programming, featuring everything from the latest musicals to international work, is enjoying record ticket sales, with many hit productions enjoying record extensions, as well.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway.

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Profiles Theatre opens its 2011-2012 Season with the Midwest premiere of A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonagh, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder.

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Canamac Productions will present a riveting new courtroom drama 'Defamation,' which explores the timely issues of race, class and religion, in a play in which Regina Wade, an African American businesswoman from Chicago's south side sues Arthur Golden, a Jewish real estate developer from Winnetka, fo

Steppenwolf for Young Adults launches its 2011/12 season with The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter adapted by Rebecca Gilman, based on the novel by Carson McCullers and directed by Hallie Gordon, playing October 11 - November 4, 2011 in Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre, 1650 N.

Strawdog Theatre Company begins their 24th anniversary season with Harold Pinter's Old Times, directed by Kimberly Senior, October 6 - November 12, at the Strawdog Theatre, 3829 N Broadway.

American Theater Company (ATC) announces the Chicago Premiere of The Amish Project written by Jessica Dickey and directed by Artistic Director PJ Paparelli, featuring ATC Ensemble member Sadieh Rifai.

Big Noise Theatre Company, a division of Winnetka Theatre, announces auditions for Butterflies Are Free Tuesday, November 1 between 7pm and 9pm.

The Glass Menagerie holds in its shadowed fragility the stamina of success.

Re-discover both new and classic musical theatre numbers as they are turned upside down in Un-Type Cast: A Broadway Backwards Cabaret, performed at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret from October 3-24, 2011.

The DePaul Humanities Center will present 2011-2012 Faculty Fellow Rachel Shteir reading from her new book THE STEAL on Monday, September 26, 2011.

NPR radio personality, author and performance artist Joe Frank returns to Steppenwolf Theatre for one night only with his new show Too Close To Home featuring noted guitarist James Harrah and directed by ensemble member Terry Kinney on Monday, October 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm in the Steppenwolf Downstair

As Factory Theater prepares to open our 2012 20th Anniversary Season, the company announces three milestones

The 2011 NAOMI WALLACE Season presents THE FEVER CHART Four visions of the Middle East Co-directed by Steven Fedoruk & Sarah Moeller September 15 - October 30, 2011.

Chicago Dramatists and About Face Theatre are proud to co-produce the world premiere of THE KID THING by Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright and About Face Theatre Artistic Associate Sarah Gubbins.