CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 1495

Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage is entering its final weeks in Chicago and is not to be missed this holiday season.

Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls and renowned actor Brian Dennehy bring their artistic partnership to new heights with Eugene O'Neill's haunting drama, Desire Under the Elms-marking their fifth collaboration on O'Neill's work over two decades.

Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce that Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage will extend its Chicago engagement to January 17, 2009.

Celebrating 35 years of bringing award-winning musical theater to Chicagoland, the Marriott Theatre will open its 2009 Season with the mega-hit musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT.

The wit and creativity of Steve Martin debuts on the Saint Sebastian Players' (SSP) stage when the company performs his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Desire Under the Elms By Eugene O'Neill will be directed by Robert Falls and run January 17-February 22.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, directed by ensemble member Randall Arney.

Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar and Managing Director Rick Dildine are pleased to announce About Face Theatre's second show of its 2008/2009 season, a dynamic, multimedia adaptation of 'Stupid Kids' by the late John C.

Living Green offers free Open Rehearsal Jan.

ATC breaks ground with unprecedented mid-run cast switch, offering audiences the rare chance to see two versions of each play

Due to popular demand, Steppenwolf Theatre Company is adding two additional weeks of performances to its critically-acclaimed production of The Seafarer, by Conor McPherson, directed by ensemble member Randall Arney.

The 2009 Dolphin Show is a modern re-telling of L.

THE QUIET MAN TALES, a riveting new play presented by Smock Alley Theater Co.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) will hold a panel discussion on Urwintore's presentation of Peter Weiss's The Investigation with writer Stephen Kinzer (A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It), scholar and educator Elliot Lefkovitz (Am Yisrael congregation and Spertus Institu

For the first time, Oscar? fans in Chicago will be able to hold an actual Oscar statuette and have their photo taken at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 'Meet the Oscars, Chicago.

A new version of the classic tale, Beauty and the Beast, will mark Winnetka Theatre's fifth season presenting popular, one-hour musicals for children ages 3-10.

Only two weeks remain for Chicagoans to see WICKED, the musical phenomenon that has changed Chicago for good.

THE BOWERY BOYS, the world premiere new musical which runs through February 15 Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive; is featuring a promotion to honor both the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and President's Day in February.

America's largest student-produced musical, The Dolphin Show at Northwestern University, celebrates its 67th year this January with a dynamic re-imagining of the timeless classic, The Wizard of Oz.

New Millennium Theatre Company is holding auditions for Police Academy: Insurgency Emergency

A helicopter very nearly lands on stage every night at the astounding, frequently breathtaking production of 'Miss Saigon' now on view at the Drury Lane theater in Chicago?s western suburb of Oakbrook Terrace.

You won?t fail with Lawry?s The Prime Rib (100 E.

On Monday, January 12, 2009 at 8 p.

Set in 1975 in the days before Saigon's fall to Communist forces at the end of the Vietnam War, Miss Saigon is the epic love-story of an American GI, Chris, played by Kevin Vortmann, and a young Vietnamese woman, Kim, played by Melinda Chua Smith

There's few magic changes, but Grease is still as automatic, systematic, and hydromantic as ever.