CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1366

The House Theatre of Chicago proudly announces the company's eighth season, which will open with Damon Kiely's Thieves Like Us, based on the novel by Edward Anderson, directed by Kimberly Senior and developed in partnership with DePaul University.

The 17th Annual Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration program, posthumously honoring and celebrating the work of lighting and set designer Michael Philippi (Desire Under the Elms, Death of a Salesman), 'an esteemed longtime collaborator and friend', will take place on Monday, May

Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson rips through the pages of history in The Good Negro, a 'powerfully moving' (The New York Times) and 'thunderous new play' (Variety) about the drive for racial equality-and the clash between private ethics and public good.

In response to high ticket demand, First Folio Theatre has added two performances to the run of WILL ROGERS: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL.

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment are thrilled to announce, with Broadway In Chicago that Billy Elliot the Musical, currently playing at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W.

GayCo Productions Presents BREAST IN SHOW, A Subversive New All-Woman Sketch Comedy Revue opening Saturday, April 17 @ 10:30pm.

Evanston's Next Theatre Company continues its 29th season with the third offering in their Dark Night Series.

The CakeWalk Midnight Extravaganza! is a variety show featuring a live band every week with a rotating cast of some of Chicago's best sketch, improv and stand-up comedians, as well as tap and burlesque dancers, magicians, jugglers, fire breathers, and other novelty acts.

Piven Theatre Workshop will host a pre-show event in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11, 2010 at 1:15PM, prior to the matinee performance of Number of People.

Bailiwick Chicago is hosting an Open Mic Night, to benefit BLOOM, a concert reading of a new musical comedy (performing April 16-17 at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts.

Billy Elliot the Musical's Chicago opening night will take place April 11th.

Profiles Theatre will end the run of its hit production Killer Joe by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder on April 11th.

Caffeine Theatre will end its production of Wild Nights With Emily, by Madeleine Olnek, directed by Meghan Beals McCarthy on April 11th.

Piven Theatre Workshop will end the world premiere of Number of People, written and directed by Emilie Beck on April 11th.

Silk Road Theatre Project will end the first production of its 2010 season on April 11th.

Big Noise Theatre Company presents All Shook Up April 23 through May 16 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.

The Theatre School at DePaul University is pleased to announce that FRED WILLARD (actor, For Your Consideration, Best in Show, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) will join BEN VEREEN (actor, Roots, Sweet Charity, Pippin) and 2010 Pulitzer Prize nominee TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY (playwright, The Brot

The Abbey Pub of Chicago has annouced their music schedule for the next three months.

Provision Theater Company, a multi-Jeff nominated Equity theater company, will round out their 2009-10 season with the World Premiere of THE HIDING PLACE.

Adventure Stage Chicago (ASC) presents the final production of their 2009-2010 season: the Midwest Premiere of THE GHOSTS OF TREASURE ISLAND, adapted by Eric Schmiedl from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 adventure novel Treasure Island.

The Musical Of Musicals (The Musical!) plays the DUPAC April 16, 17, and 18, 2010.

Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W.

Meet Mary Dwight, a dame that knows the score and then some.

Spend an evening with America's favorite bachelors at The Odd Couple, directed by Michael Menendian.

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh extends again through May 14, 2010.