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The Renaissance Society and University Theater are pleased to host Trap Door Theater's farewell production of A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanian by Dorota Maslowska.

The Noble Fool Theatricals Performing Arts Academy invites local youth ages 6 - 19 to audition for a role in the Youth Ensemble's summer full-length production of Wizard of Oz at Pheasant Run Resort.

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

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to present the ground-breaking hit show, Cirque Dreams Illumination.

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

More than 500 of Chicagoland's young professionals will gather for a spectacular evening of cocktails, food, music, dancing, a silent auction and raffle prizes at the Steppenwolf Auxiliary Council's eighth annual Red or White Ball on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 8:00 p.

Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning Sondheim classic Into the Woods at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont, from April 9 through May 30, 2010.

Created especially for the Grammy Award-winning sextet eighth blackbird is Rinde Eckert and Steve Mackey's new music-theater piece, Slide, which the group premiered last summer and to which it now devotes a U.

The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, presents the Chicago-area premiere of the smash hit Broadway musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE.

Three Cat Productions is proud to present the regional premiere of Eric Lane Barnes' 'The Stop' at Skokie Theatre Music Foundation.

"Air Guitar High" is a high-octane stage production about a group of teenagers determined to take their futures into their own hands -- literally -- by becoming "virtual virtuosos" in the competitive world of "air guitar.

The Chicago Park District's 58th annual Theater on the Lake season features reprisals of eight artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 16 - Aug.

American Theater Company (ATC) proudly announces the second year of American Mosaic, an arts outreach initiative that brings an American play into Chicago Public School ninth grade English classes each academic year.

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Bailiwick Chicago's Executive Director, Kevin Mayes, announced today that the company is producing a development workshop and subsequent concert performances of a new musical comedy, titled BLOOM, with music by Peter Foley, lyrics by Matthew Heimer, book by Andy Siegel, and story by Kevin Mayes.

Eric Bramlett, a founding member of Porchlight Music Theatre and wife Kristi, both of Naperville, Illinois attended Porchlight's Annual Spring Gala Benefit on March 13 at the Chicago Hilton.

Broadway In Chicago is proud to announce the international sensation STOMP will be making its triumphant return for a limited one-week engagement at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre (18 W.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 season, an exploration of the theme of belief, with The Brother/Sister Plays: In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau from January 21 - May 2

This Friday, April 9, singer/songwriter/pianist/composer, Elizabeth Doyle, will appear at at Little Bucharest Bistro for a Friday Night Cabaret.

New Millennium Theatre Company (NMTC) presents a special performance of The Flaming Dames, Chicago's premiere concept burlesque troupe, in ‘Nerdlesque' at Reggie's Rock Room.

TimeLine Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today's social and political issues, announces three of the four plays of its 2010-11 season, including the previously announced Chicago premiere of Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon, the world premiere of a new pla

Wicker Park sports bar and comfort food restaurant The Fifty/50 (2047 W Division St) will host a homecoming party for Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints running back and Lansing, IL native Pierre Thomas on Thursday, April 8.

Windy City Gay Idol, now in its 8th year, kicks off the year's search for the best amateur gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) singers in the Chicago area.

Gold Coast upscale sports bar and late-night party spot The Hunt Club (1100 N State St) will host an island-themed 15-Year Anniversary Party on Thursday, April 8 starting at 6pm.

On March 25, 2010, General Director Brian Dickie announced Chicago Opera Theater's (COT) 2011 Spring Festival Season: the Midwest Premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, the Chicago Premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea (Médée), and 'HE/SHE' featuring Leoš Janá?ek's The Diary of