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A Red Orchid Theatre opens its 2011-2012 Season with the Chicago Premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, directed by Damon Kiely.

Loyola University Chicago English professor Terence Boyle will present his play Oh, What a Bloody Good Friday: A Playful Mystery* as the first outdoor summer theatre production held at Cuneo Mansion and Gardens.

The Marriott Theatre has long been known for fostering new works and bringing thrilling world premiere musicals to its stage.

In response to unprecedented demand, The New Colony's FRAT by Evan Linder, the hit comedy that played to sold-out audiences in 2009, will be re-mounted in a commercial production at The Apartment Lounge in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

First Folio Theatre, at Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St.

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The Music Theatre Company will present The 48 Hour Musicals: Bizarre Book Titles, four fifteen-minute musicals written and rehearsed in 48 hours.

TimeLine Theatre Company, named the nation's theater 'Company of the Year' for 2010 by Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal and 'one of the Chicago theater's most impressive growth stories' by Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune, announces its four-play 2011-12 season

TimeLine Theatre Company starts the most ambitious season in its 15-year history with two productions presented at two locations, opening within three weeks of each other.

The Original Grease, the highest grossing show in American Theater Company's 26-year history, must close August 21, 2011.

threesixty° entertainment is thrilled to announce the spectacular stage production of J M Barrie's PETER PAN is extending for the third time through Aug.

The Paramount Theatre has announced its upcoming events.

What: The Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest (GAAF) is a free, weekend-long event, drawing approximately 10,000 visitors per day, celebrating its 10th Anniversary.

Babes With Blades, Chicago's all-female stage combat theater company, will present the world premiere of "The Double" by BWB ensemble member Barbara Lhota .

Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Shakespeare's Henry V, directed by Kevin Theis, to be performed in Austin Gardens in the 100 block of N.

The Scooty & JoJo Show and Metro will present a special Halloween performance of the comic rock spectacle, Alien Queen: The Concert, on Friday, October 28, at Metro with returning crowd favorite, Battlestar Fantastica.

Rising Stars series, this year featuring six concerts in the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012, bringing the brightest stars of the next generation of professional classical musiciansto Ravinia.

The Music Theatre Company will present The 48 Hour Musicals: Bizarre Book Titles, four fifteen-minute musicals written and rehearsed in 48 hours.

Twelve new screenplays with LGBT themes or characters have been named semi-finalists in the 2011 Great Gay Screenplay Contest sponsored by Pride Films and Plays.

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.

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

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Caffeine Theatre has announced that founding company member Jason Beck has been named Producing Artistic Director, after having served as Managing Director for the last two seasons.

Chicago's avant-garde director, Max Truax, helms Henrik Ibsen's forgotten epic Brand.

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.