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The August Wilson Monologue Competition announces the Chicago winners of the 2021 August Wilson Monologue Competition and the new “Designing August” competition.

The Michael Merritt Award, a national award unique in its emphasis on excellence in both design and collaboration, is presented annually to professional theatrical designers.

The Ravinia Festival plans to reopen in July for the 2021 summer season, presenting its signature mix of genres: classical, popular, and chamber music.

The Arcada Theatre will reopen this July with Leonid & Friends Tribute To Chicago, taking place on July 10, 2021.

Chicago's 2021 Bach Week Festival will arrive as a virtual two-concert series of free-to-view webcasts May 16 and 21 featuring instrumental and vocal music of the festival's namesake, German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, plus a work by Bach contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann, in prerecord

Porchlight Music Theatre announces the slate of New Faces for its first live, in-person production of 2021, New Faces Sing Broadway 1979, with host multi-award winner Alexis J Roston*, directed by Brianna Borger* and music directed by Linda Madonia*.

Pivot Arts, a hub for adventurous, multidisciplinary performance, announces “Reimagining Utopia,” the ninth annual Pivot Arts Festival featuring almost entirely world premieres, May 21–June 6, 2021 at several indoor and outdoor performance spaces.

The Theatre School at DePaul University has announced the Creative Root summer theatre camp schedule for students ages 6-14.

Sponsored by the African American Arts Alliance (AAAA), several Black dance companies of Chicago will partner for a Black United Audition for dancers and choreographers.

Black Lives, Black Words is partnering with Writers Theatre to co-produce Ride Share, a timely story about an African-American living in corporate America that gets let go during the pandemic, becomes an Uber driver and struggles mentally with his sanity while trying to pay bills and keep up with

Oak Park Festival Theatre, in partnership with Kane Repertory Theatre, will present a virtual production of “The Venetians,” a new play by Matt Barbot that brings together various characters from several of Shakespeare’s best loved plays to address contemporary issues.

Today Steppenwolf Theatre Company unveiled its path to welcoming audiences back to the theater—and not the same one they left but a stunning new 50,000 sq.

High Concept Labs (HCL) is accelerating efforts to launch an ongoing artist commissioning program through the support of the Walder Foundation as one of ten organizations selected to be curating partners for Chicago Takes 10 — a new virtual series highlighting artists and arts organizations affect

The Lyric Opera of Chicago is currently presenting Twilight: Gods , running through May 2, 2021.

The Neo-Futurists present The Egg Wrench: 30 Egg Plays in 60 Egg Minutes, a live-streamed benefit for the Chicago Birthworks Collective, one afternoon only on Mother's Day Sunday, May 9th, 2021 at 3:00 PM CST.

Th MFA Acting Class of 2021 at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana premieres their digital showcase on May 5th!

The Auditorium Theatre concludes its video series from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - 'Behind-the-Scenes: Creation of 13 Tongues' - with the final three episodes premiering May 13 and running through May 23.

A year after its April 2020 announcement of nearly $3 million in expedited funding, the Chicago-based Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (the Foundation) will announce a second wave of support, expediting an additional $3 million that includes: $1.

Chicago's longest-running storytelling collective, 2nd Story, is expanding its groundbreaking training program under the new brand CultureBuilds.

PrideArts today announced the full cast for its upcoming reading of SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES, Del Shores’ comedy-drama that follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church as they look for love and acceptance in the church, and in the clubs of Dallas, Texas.

When I moved to Seattle in middle school, I never would have guessed that one of the city’s leading professional theatres would become an artistic home.

Ghostlight Ensemble will present the final play in its series on historically overlooked female playwrights, The Enchantment.

Chicago area Actors’ Equity members are now able to can register for vaccine appointments through Chicago Federation of Labor for Friday, April 30.

There will be bubbles.

Porchlight Music Theatre will announce that the Chicago streaming premiere with KB Productions of Call Me Elizabeth, a one-woman show about the early life of Elizabeth Taylor, written by and starring Kayla Boye and directed by Erin Kraft, has been extended through Sunday, May 9.