CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1385

Northlight Theatre continues its 35th Anniversary Season with Hugh Leonard's A Life, directed by Artistic Director BJ Jones and featuring Tony Award winner John Mahoney with an all-Chicago cast.

Chicago Dramatists' Fireside Chat with Visiting Artist Arthur Kopit was a sold-out event on February 20th.

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre opens the first full production of their 2010 season dedicated to the topic Redemption with a revival of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE, directed by ICT's new Artistic Director, Chris Maher.

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.

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

Promethean Theatre Ensemble boldly steps out of its comfort zone with their upcoming production of The Fantasticks, with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones, directed by ensemble member and new Promethean Theatre Ensemble Artistic Director Beth Wolf.

The autobiographical production by James Anthony Zoccoli will close on February 22, 2010.

Escape the cold winter weather with the thrilling songs of Scott Alan in The Distance YouHave Come, performed at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's production of Chess, running March 7-April 25 at No Exit Café, combines cabaret theatre and concert concept styles.

'101 DALMATIANS' not baby enough to be considered children's theatre, nor polished or bulky enough to be a typical flashy Loop arrival, but BT McNicholl and Dennis DeYoung's show is a perfect family outing.

On view this weekend and next (through February 28, 2010) at the landmark Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt Unversity (in downtown Chicago) is an impressive, lovely, and sweetly moving mounting of Sir Frederick Ashton's 1948 choreography for Sergei Prokofiev's "Cinderella.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre proudly presents the world premiere production of "Lower Debt" developed by the LiveWire Collective, written by Executive Director Joshua Aaron Weinstein and directed by Rebekah Scallet.

Village Players Theater will be closing two shows this weekend.

Piven Theatre Workshop Educator and Ensemble Member Bernard Beck will perform excerpts from the World Premiere production of Number of People, written by his daughter Emilie Beck, during a discussion on memory, identity and loss among Holocaust survivors at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (CVE), conducted by Carmen Helena Téllez, will perform a free concert at the Art Institute of Chicago's Fullerton Hall Feb.

DePaul University's THE THREE MUSKETEERS Closes 2/21 at the Greenhouse Theater Center.

Teatro Luna's smash hit LUNATIC(a)S will play its final show on February 21, 2010 at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W.

Country Music Hall of Famers Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson will be appearing at the Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N.

John Patrick Shanley's provocative 'Savage in Limbo' will close on Feb.

Strawdog Theatre Company continues their 22nd Anniversary Season with Curt Columbus' translation of Anton Chekhov's classic Uncle Vanya.

Lifeline Theatre KidSeries' 'The Last of the Dragons,' based on the classic fantasy story by Edith Nesbit, adapted by David Bareford, will play its final show on February 21.

A Red Orchid Theatre (Wells St.

Three Cat Productions celebrates synthesizers and big hair with 'Endless Eighties' at Skokie Theatre Music Foundation on February 20th, 2010 at 8pm.

Don't miss the premiere of a new project from creative think tank The Idea Place.

FIRESIDE CHAT- February 20 at 2:00pm at Chicago Dramatists as part of the Saturday Series A FIRESIDE CHAT with major American playwright ARTHUR KOPIT Moderated by Artistic Director Russ Tutterow