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Chicago Dramatists announced today that Resident Playwright Lydia Diamond's play Stick Fly was nominated for 5 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (including Best Production, Director, Ensemble, Lighting and Scenic) and Resident Playwright Keith Huff's play The Bird and Mr.

Rubicon Theatre Project is excited to open its fifth season with Becoming Ingrid, by New York playwright Liza Lentini, performing at Stage Left theatre located at 3408 N.

GayCo Productions, Chicago's gay and lesbian sketch comedy theater, has announced the opening of its 15th original revue, The Audacity of Nope or How I Fell for a Pansy Scheme, opening Sunday, November 8, with previews beginning November 6.

Zachary James opens his one man show, IMBECILE D'AMOUR, Sunday, October 25th.

Porchlight Music Theatre, Chicago's musical theatre leader, celebrates the company's 15th Anniversary with an updated version of one of the most popular hits in the company's history, Macabaret.

Animal Crackers runs through October 25, 2009 in the Goodman's Albert Theatre.

YEAR ZERO is by Michael Golamco and directed by Andrea J.

Northlight Theatre opens its 35th Season with the hit musical, The Marvelous Wonderettes.

Goodman Theatre launches its new 2009/2010 Season with tap dancing, acrobatics, tumbling, guitar- and ukulele-playing in an original take on the rarely-produced Marx Brothers classic musical Animal Crackers, written by George S.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J.

Northlight Theatre opens its 35th Season with the hit musical, The Marvelous Wonderettes.

Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys with special guest Buddy Miller come to DUPAC Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.

Porchlight Music Theatre, Chicago's musical theatre leader, celebrates the company's 15th Anniversary with an updated version of one of the most popular hits in the company's history, Macabaret.

Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys with special guest Buddy Miller come to DUPAC Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.

-A 32-person ensemble of 24 high school students and 8 teachers from Chicago Public Schools (CPS), led by a team of Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) artists, is preparing for a four-week intensive rehearsal, beginning on September 26, culminating in a 60-minute adaptation of William Shakespeare's p

Filament Theatre Ensemble picked the perfect month, performance space, & design team to present their new folk music adaptation of Washington Irving's 'THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.

Alright, I have to confess that I was prepared for a night of processed cheese melting under stage lights.

The Gift Theatre is conveniently located at 4802 N.

Tony Award-winning director and Northwestern alumnus Frank Galati will open the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University's 2009-10 Mainstage Season with Joseph Kesselring's 'Arsenic and Old Lace,' an entertainingly macabre play of murder and mayhem.

Porchlight Music Theatre will debut a live stage production of Miracle on 34th Street based on the holiday film classic at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont.

Adam Bock's new play, THE FLOWERS, will make its world premiere at the About Face CHICAGO XYZ Festival.

The Victory Gardens Theater will host their 28th Annual Casting Auction, one of Chicago's most unique benefit fundraisers on Saturday, November 14 at 6 pm at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater.

Porchlight Music Theatre, Chicago's musical theatre leader, celebrates the company's 15th Anniversary with an updated version of one of the most popular hits in the company's history, Macabaret.

To open their 29th season, the Saint Sebastian Players look to their Illinois roots through author Edgar Lee Masters and the yearlong celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday with Spoon River Anthology in an original adaptation by SSP company member Jonathan Hagloch, who also directs the prod