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Susan Merdinger of Highland Park, Illinois is the winner of The American Prize in Piano, 2021, The Lorin Hollander Award, in the professional piano concerto division.

The Music Institute of Chicago has announced that its 33rd annual Chicago Duo Piano Festival will take place July 9-18, featuring a combination of in-person and online coaching and performances by renowned piano duos.

In this unprecedented merger of COVID-19 and post-graduate life, you have nothing but time to search and prepare for a job opening.

This special global streaming event - an 'in-studio concert & documentary special' - is a combination of recently recorded live footage (including TTG classics such as '40/80'' and 'Fred Astaire'), new interviews with the band members, and unearthed archival footage from the recording of the album,

The Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) has invited popular Puerto Rican actor and comedian Marian Pabón to bring some much-needed comic relief to Chicago with Sola en la Pandemia está Cañón (Being Alone in a Pandemic is Hard), her new one-woman show about how she survived the pandemic

Northwestern University's The Dolphin Show has announced its 78th Annual Show: Pippin! Directed by Mary Tomei, choreographed by Sammi Tapper, music directed by Ezri Killeen & Lorenzo Pipino, and produced by Rachel Khutorsky, Paia Amelio, and Emma Flanders.

Celebrating 90 years of innovation, access, and excellence in music education, the Music Institute of Chicago welcomed more than 450 viewers to its 90th Anniversary Virtual Gala on Monday, May 10.

Nearly 14 months after dimming its lights, Aurora’s Paramount Theatre announced today it plans to welcome audiences back for live performances in August with Chicago’s first regional production of Kinky Boots.

The Champaign Park District has teamed up with Equilusion Theatre to present a special summer program, titled Theatre For Everyone.

Jeff Award-winning director and HIV+ activist Christopher Pazdernik presents the 6th annual Belting for Life (formerly known as Chris’ Birthday Belt Fest), an annual benefit concert for Howard Brown Health, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ organizations.

Broadcast live from Goodman Theatre’s intimate Owen Theatre, THE SOUND INSIDE intrigues because of the twists and turns in Adam Rapp’s script, but also because it combines cinematic-quality streaming with the thrill of live theater.

Chicago's kids need a chance to reflect on what the past year has meant for them.

Through an intimate conversation with a biographer, Call Me Elizabeth examines the movie star's early life, career and loves as she grapples with the culture of celebrity and her place as Hollywood's brightest star.

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Technology, videography and stage production come together for the new Live series, Goodman Theatre's next step towards resuming in-person performances.

Technology, videography and stage production come together for the new Live series, Goodman Theatre’s next step towards resuming in-person performances.

Black Lives, Black Words co-founders Reginald Edmund and Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway and Writers Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M.

The Art Institute of Chicago announced today that the museum is nearing completion of the conservation and installation of an extraordinary memorial window, attributed to Agnes F.

Northlight Theatre will present a special 20th Anniversary reunion event for Northlight Theatre’s world premiere of The Last Five Years.

On June 5, 2021, Chicago Philharmonic will collaborate for the first time with Adrian Dunn for a performance of Redemption, a new collection of spirituals and gospel songs that reimagine and modernize the genre's historical roots, celebrate African American history, and honor victims of systemic inj

An Up-Close, Life-Sized, Never-Before-Seen Perspective.

Victory Gardens Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Ken-Matt Martin and Acting Managing Director Roxanna Conner, joins with Victory Gardens Resident Director Jess McLeod and the Chicago-based Blu Rhythm Collective to present a series of events this spring on The Redline Project, conti

TCG Entertainment, leaders in live tour productions, and Endemol Shine North America, producers of the hit culinary competition series MASTERCHEF, premiering Wednesday, June 2 (8:00-9:00PM ET/PT) on FOX, and MASTERCHEF JUNIOR, jointly announce that the popular tour of 2019, MasterChef Junior Live!,

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American Blues Theater, under the continued leadership of Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside, presents a live, online reading of There's A Clown in My Bubble, written and performed by Ensemble Member Philip Earl Johnson on May 14 at 7pm Central, as part of “The Room” series.