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Ghostlight Ensemble will continue its series on historically overlooked female playwrights with two one act plays - Mine Eyes Have Seen by Alice Dunbar Nelson and War Brides by Marion Craig Wentworth - that deal with wars and the battles families are forced to fight amongst themselves when someone

Today, Collaboraction announced the full schedule of show topics and guests for its two Together Network live, monthly online talk shows, Crucial Connections and Becoming: Unlearning White Supremacy, for the remainder of 2021.

The Auditorium Theatre, designed by famed architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, opened on December 9, 1889, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

The Art Institute of Chicago announced today the election of Denise Gardner as the organization's new chairperson of the Board of Trustees.

After 13 years as an essential resource for Chicago's arts community, Visceral Dance Center is opening a new building that will triple its available space for dance education, community rentals and rehearsals for its acclaimed company, Visceral Dance Chicago.

Oak Park Festival Theatre, in partnership with Kane Repertory Theatre, presents 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.

It seems most fitting that Goodman Theatre's current encore streaming production of SMOKEFALL exists both in and out of time.

Definition Theatre announces the recipients of its Amplify new play commissions.

Northlight Theatre announces plans for outdoor musical events this summer, including Felicia P.

Porchlight Music Theatre announces its first live, in-person concert this year with the latestNew Faces Sing Broadway series production, New Faces Sing Broadway 1979.

See Chicago Dance, the dance industry's nonprofit service organization, is proud to announce that this June will see the return of its popular annual offering, Chicago Dance Month.

Athenaeum Theatre Productions, the managers of the operations at the Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago’s oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre, and the award-winning Skyline Studios have announced a new partnership bringing musical theatre camps to the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N.

Broadway's lights went out three hundred and ninety-six days ago.

This spring, one Midwestern University workshopped and produced the new musical, Still.

Quincy Symphony Orchestra will return to in-person performances with New Beginnings, presented on April 17, 2021.

Chicago-based Working In Concert premieres the world’s first full-length virtual opera, On Call: COVID-19 on Saturday, April 17 at 7 PM (CDT) followed by 8 PM Artist Meet-and-Greet and Sunday, April 18 at 2:30 PM (CDT) followed by 3:30 PM Artist Meet-and-Greet.

Chicago Children's Theatre announces the appointment of Sam Mauceri (they/them/theirs) to a new full-time staff position: Inclusive Education and Programs Manager.

Smokefall is streaming free and on demand, April 12 – 25, 2021 at Goodman Theatre.

Chicago Fringe Opera has announced the lineup for the first half of its upcoming season, titled A City of Works.

Uptown Music Theater of Highland Park is accepting video vocal performance audition submissions for Freckleface Strawberry, The Musical.

Now in its 20th year, That's Weird, Grandma features adaptations of stories written during PlayMakers Laboratory's creative writing residencies.

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.

Raven Theatre will present Take Flight Summer Camp 2021: Running Wild with Roald Dahl, two virtual training sessions in theatre arts for kids ages 8 – 14 running August 2 – 13 and August 16 – 27, 2021.

This heartwarming and touching autobiographical tribute to Garcia's mother Maria begins streaming on Mother's Day – Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 7 pm.

The Board of Directors of Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles has announced that Manic Maxxie will be the Artistic Director of the newly formed LPME Pops Ensemble.