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Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences Presents HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES Rushdie's Award-Winning Children's Novel Comes to the Stage in Chicago

Chicago Fusion Theatre (CFT) closes its 2009-2010 season with Archibald MacLeish's verse play, J.

Trap Door Theatre's 'A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians' has been invited to perform in Romania! We need your help to get there!! Please show your support and come to our benefit:

Novelist Margaret Atwood's acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" will be brought to life in a premiere staging at the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University March 5 to 14.

Gay sketch comedy group White Rainbows debuts its second show, IN GAGA WE TRUST March 5th- March 27th, Fridays at 9 PM at Hydrate nightclub, 3458 North Halsted Street, Chicago IL 60657.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in association with Michael James presents Chess at the intimate, 50-seat setting of No Exit Café, 6970 N.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre proudly presents the world premiere production of 'Lower Debt' developed by the LiveWire Collective and written by Executive Director Joshua Aaron Weinstein.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the return of AVENUE Q.

Village Players Theater is excited to host the national award-winning 'Fire in Boomtown' on their Mainstage Saturday April, 24th at 2pm.

Was it natural disaster or man-made greed that led to the loss of 2,200 lives in 1889? Playwright Rebecca Gilman teams up with Tony Award-winning Director Robert Falls for the world premiere of A True History of the Johnstown Flood, an epic theatrical event set against the backdrop of the 1889 flood

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.

Bailiwick Chicago's Executive Director, Kevin Mayes, announced that performances of their musical revue titled SHOW US YOUR LOVE, will extend at Mary's Attic through the month of March, every Sunday evening at 7:30pm.

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.

As Adventure Stage Chicago (ASC) prepares to end their sixth season with the Midwest premiere of the pirate musical The Ghosts of Treasure Island, ASC announces the formation of a new artistic ensemble.

The Ruckus Theater is making some noise with its upcoming world-premiere production of The Gay American by Kristian O'Hare, directed by Ruckus Artistic Director Allison Shoemaker.

DANCING AT LUGHNASA is Brian Friel's joyous memory piece recounting the yearnings and sublimation of love by the five Mundy sisters.

Neil Berg's "100 Years of Broadway" comes to The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University to perform classic Broadway hits Sunday, March 14 at 4 p.

Theater Mir, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, presents the Chicago professional premiere of Beautiful City.

This March the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park will present its inaugural Broadway Luminaries series as part of the Harris Theater Presents 2009-2010 season of world-renowned national and international artists and ensembles.

Silk Road Theatre Project will begin its 2010 season with the World Premiere of THE DNA TRAIL: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion, conceived by SRTP's artistic director Jamil Khoury, commissioned by Silk Road Theatre Project, directed by Steve Scott, and featuri

With the help of the likes of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, Harburg, and Kander & Ebb, 'An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin' is a master class in staying on the top of one's game.

Chicago Public Schools proudly announces the fifth annual Having a Ball final ballroom dance competitions.

Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the final show of its seventh season, the world premiere of 'Aftermath,' written and directed by co-artistic director Ronan Marra.

Novelist Margaret Atwood's acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" will be brought to life in a premiere staging at the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University March 5 to 14.

Lookingglass Theatre Company proudly announces its 2010-2011 season, featuring three new productions by Ensemble Members Laura Eason and David Kersnar and Northwestern University's Amanda Dehnert.