CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 245

Chicago Children's Theatre has postponed its presentation of Manual Cinema's Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster to fall 2022 for the health and safety of its audience, cast, crew and staff.

Award-winning female singers are centerstage for an International Women's Day (IWD) concert celebrating this year's IWD theme, “Break the Bias.

Raue Center For The Arts has announced the return of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to downtown Crystal Lake.

Congo Square Theatre Company has rescheduled two of its signature programs, the Festival on the Square and Vision Benefit, to now take place on Sunday, June 19, 2022, commemorating the Juneteenth holiday.

The Second City will bring audiences a new slate of programming in UP Comedy Club this year.

Shattered Globe Theatre today announced it will postpone its winter production of Rasheeda Speaking due to the current surge of the Omicron variant.

It has been said that a shared sense of humor is key to a happy relationship.

Former Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and former Live Bait Theater Artistic Director Sharon Evans announced the 25th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, presented by Lifeline Theatre and running virtually January 21–February 13, 2022.

TimeLine Theatre Company has officially launched its national search for a new Executive Director, tapping Chicago-based Arts Consulting Group (ACG) to lead its recruitment effort.

The Den Theatre has announced comedian River Butcher for two stand-up performances on Friday, March 11, 2022 at 7 pm & 9:15 pm on The Heath Mainstage, 1331 N.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s third show of the 2021-’22 season will be the hilarious musical comedy ONCE UPON A MATTRESS – a rowdy and mildly adult twist on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea.

BACHELOR: THE UNAUTHORIZED PARODY MUSICAL is exceedingly clever, legitimately funny, and far wittier than the ABC series itself.

A semi-finalist for the 2021 Blue Ink Playwright Awards, On The Greenbelt is a serio-comic play that jumps between past and the present, written by ensemble member Karissa Murrell Myers* and directed by Jonathan Berry.

 Porchlight Music Theatre announces new dates for Porchlight Revisits Passing Strange, Wednesday, May 18 at 7 p.

Porchlight Music Theatre announces new dates for Porchlight Revisits Passing Strange, Wednesday, May 18 at 7 p.

Chicago Humanities Festival announces its first program of 2022: a conversation between Bob Odenkirk and Tim Meadows.

Raue Center's diva in residence, Lynne Jordan, sings the love on February 12 @ 8p.

The Auditorium Theatre presents the first event in their National Geographic Live Series on February 27, 2022 with Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous, featuring National Geographic Explorer and paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim.

The Chicago Ensemble's 45th Anniversary season and return to live performances begins in February, featuring the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Tuesday, Feb.

Chicagoland singer Pascale M.

The Impostors Theatre Company (ITC) continues their third season with the Chicago premiere of Hertha Nova, by ITC Executive Director Rachel Borgo and directed by ITC Artistic Director Stefan Roseen.

BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, continues with their 10TH Anniversary Season – BrightSide is BACK  - with the farce Don't Dress for Dinner!

Raue Center For The Arts will welcome the Crystal Lake Strikers for “An Evening of Percussion” at 7 p.

GRAY, Congo Square Theatre Company, and Theaster Gates's Rebuild Foundation will jointly present the Chicago premiere of What to Send Up When It Goes Down, the critically acclaimed play by award-winning playwright, Aleshea B.

Goodman Theatre kicks off the new year with a major revival of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean—nearly two decades after the play premiered on the same stage.