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500 Clown Theater presents '500 Clown and the Elephant Deal' - a musical missile aimed at the tenuous border between fiction and reality - as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Visiting Company Initiative.

Signal Ensemble Theatre continues its sixth season with the Scottish drama 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' by Jay Presson Allen, based on the novel by Muriel Spark, directed by Co-Artistic Director Ronan Marra.

Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.

16th Street Theater announces the second annual WORDS IN MOTION festival curated by Artistic Director Ann Filmer at the Berwyn Cultural Center April 2 - 25, 2009.

TALK RADIO by Eric Bogosian will be directed by Gift ensemble member Maureen Payne Hahner, and assistant directed by Gift ensemble member Alexandra Main from April 2nd - May 30th, 2009.

Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is thrilled to present a benefit staged reading featuring Hollywood's legendary eye-popping, scenery chewing film divas of all time Miss Joan Crawford and Miss Gloria Swanson in the roles that made them fabulous! See Handbag Artistic Director David Cerda and acclaimed a

The Boss requests your presence at a swanky soiree to fund his new legitimate and fully legal business enterprise: Hobo Junction Theatre.

Luna Negra Dance Theater, a Chicago-based dance company that serves as a springboard for Latino contemporary choreographers, will launch an international search for a new Artistic Director to succeed Founding Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro, who today accepted the position of Artistic Director of B

Steppenwolf for Young Adults continues its 2008-2009 season with Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton.

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (ATRU), 50 E.

The exuberant Broadway musical, SEUSSICAL will open on April Fool's Day and run through May 16th at Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre for Young Audiences, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

Schadenfreude, Chicago's long-running, critically acclaimed comedy ensemble, returns to celebrate the current Depression with their vaudeville-style ?Schadenfreude Rent Party,? a five-Friday run from April 10 ? May 8, 2009; doors open at 8 p.

In conjunction with her Goodman Theatre world-premiere production of Magnolia, playwright Regina Taylor announces Eyes on Chicago, a competition of 'cell short takes'-films that are 5-10 minutes in length and filmed entirely on cell phone cameras-for Chicago students aged 15-30.

Porchlight Music Theatre is growing-up.

Due to popular demand, The House Theatre of Chicago is adding four weeks of performances of ROSE AND THE RIME.

Big Noise Theatre Company promises an hour of fun, fantasy and giggles as it presents its first area Especially for Kids production of Cinderella, directed by professional director/choreographer Stacey Flaster (Evanston).

Chicago Cabaret Professionals (CCP) and Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place, 175 E.

Steppenwolf is co-hosting a party with Country Club Chicago featuring Joan of Arc Country Club Chicago is a local collective of young artists who run a creative, energetic gallery space that fuels the city's contemporary art scene.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to present the Chicago engagement of RENT, produced by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, and Allan S.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with The Tempest by William Shakespeare, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau ? playing March 26 ? May 31, 2009 in Steppenwolf?s Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with The Tempest by William Shakespeare, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau - playing March 26 - May 31, 2009 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N.

From the producers of the current smash hit The Screwtape Letters, Fellowship for the Performing Arts presents the Chicago Premiere of Mark's Gospel at The Mercury Theater, 3745 N.

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity for die hard fans to break bread with rock and roll icon FRANKIE VALLI and cast members from the Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS! Saturday, April 18 marks the date of 'Lunch with FRANKIE and JERSEY BOYS at Frankie's Scallopine & 5th Floor Pizzeria in The 900 Shop

With a cast that has close to 200 collegiate credit hours, but not one graduate amongst them, this NOSH production instead majors in funny with a minor in dangerously good looks.