CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1184

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

The Marriott Theatre, Chicago's longest running musical theatre announces its 2012 season.

When Big Noise Theatre Company's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opens this September 23, it will not only mark the theatre company's 10th season performing at Prairie Lakes Theatre in Des Plaines, but it also celebrates the 50th anniversary of the show itself!

American Theater Company (ATC) announces 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.

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

Teatro Vista welcomes nationally acclaimed Latino writer Cándido Tirado as the company's newest resident playwright by kicking off its 2011-2012 season with an updated version of Tirado's Momma's Boyz, a humorous, dark, but ultimately uplifting look at what happens when a young man turns back the h

The Joffrey Ballet's 2011-2012 subscription season, titled New Generation, launches this fall with the World Premiere of Yuri Possokhov's re-imagined Don Quixote.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the complete 2012 Spring Season Series.

On Sunday, September 18, Oak Park Festival Theatre will present a lecture by former Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic Richard Christiansen on the 1944 world premier of The Glass Menagerie and Claudia Cassidy's review of the play that launched Williams' career.

The Dramatists Guild of America and Northwestern University announce the selection of Nambi E.

Adventure Stage Chicago (ASC) makes its first foray into community-based performance with NEIGHBORHOOD PERSPECTIVES, a collaborative theatrical presentation based on stories collected from Northwestern University Settlement House community members.

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

Wicker Park upscale sports bar The Fifty/50 (2047 W Division St) will throw an NFL Kickoff Party starting at 7pm on Thursday, September 8 that will feature the New Orleans Saints vs the Green Bay Packers on its 18 flatscreens with sound, drink specials, giveaways, and more.

Court Theatre Artistic Director Charles Newell and Executive Director Stephen J.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its 2011/12 season with Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park directed by ensemble member Amy Morton, playing September 8 - November 6, 2011 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N.

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

Theater Wit's annual holiday classic The Santaland Diaries, based on David Sedaris's true, hilarious holiday tale, returns for its eighth consecutive outing in 2011 featuring a newly-enhanced set and once again starring Mitchell Fain who always plays to rave reviews and sold out houses.

The off-Loop company, set to kick off its second season in its new three-theater venue at 1229 W.

From the writers of Married Alive! and A Dog's Life comes the Chicago area premiere of Another Night Before Christmas, November 17 through December 18, 2011 at Theatre at the Center,1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN.

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.

BoHo Theatre kicks off its 2011/2012 Season with Pippin, Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked and Godspell) and Roger O.

The Ruckus Theater announces Season 3 in Chicago, following a successful year of sold-out performances on the storefront theater scene in Chicago.

Since 1973, The Abbey has been Chicago's home for live music, good food and great times.

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents The Great Fire, a Lookingglass Original written and directed by Ensemble Member John Musial.

Broadway In Chicago announces that the five-time Tony Award® nominated musical ROCK OF AGES is coming to Chicago's very own Oriental Theatre (24 W.