CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 293

Porchlight Music Theatre is partnerning with Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence on its next live streaming production: Tchaikovsky starring Hershey Felder as famed composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and premiering Sunday, Dec.

Playwrights from across the country join together for an upcoming anthology of drama.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces today a line-up of exciting programs for the month of December, making the Theater a virtual holiday destination for entertaining delights and enchanting discoveries.

Three Evanston-based performing arts organizations - Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, and The Musical Offering – have joined forces to create the EVANSTON PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTIVE (EPAC), a consortium with the mission of “Celebrating Life, Community and the Arts.

Conceptualized and executive produced by Andy Lynn, this FREE one-day-only streaming event, with its heart in Chicago, stretches from coast to coast featuring artists, educators, streamers and mental health professionals from across the United States.

The producers of ELEANOR’S VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH - THE MUSICAL, the family-friendly holiday production available for streaming through December 27, 2020, and Gene & Georgetti, Chicago’s oldest steakhouse, have partnered this holiday season to launch a new Dinner and a Show at HOME expe

Before the introduction of phonographs and television, it was common for families to gather around the piano and make holiday music together.

An additional sixty-one Midwestern arts and culture organizations received COVID-19 relief grants today from Arts Midwest through Phase 2 of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund.

Hell in a Handbag Productions celebrates the holidays with the return of America's favorite funnyman, Rip Nelson (Ed Jones*), in the star-studded world premiere of The Rip Nelson Holiday Quarantine Special, streaming from December 4, 2020 – January 9, 2021 via Vimeo.

For over twenty years the Chicago Cabaret Professionals' (CCP) annual Gala has been a festive live event.

Tickets for each of the online events are available at PorchlightMusicTheatre.

This winter, Trap Door Theatre is collaborating with eight directors to create a series of episodes adapted from Matei Visniec's Decomposed Theatre Or The Human Trashcan.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will present Wally World, the second of six productions debuting on its Steppenwolf NOW virtual stage.

The producers of ELEANOR’S VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH - THE MUSICAL today announced the opening of the 2020 holiday streaming of ELEANOR’S VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH - THE MUSICAL.

The League of Chicago Theatres has awarded the first Samuel G.

On Friday, November 27 at 3 PM Central, Jacob Cohen and Holly Weis of Highland Park Players will be the guests on It's Showtime with Rikki Lee – a weekly half hour informational radio show focused on the entertainment industry that airs on suburban Chicago station 101.

Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, a new venue within Chicago’s recently renovated landmark Germania Club Building, will open Thursday, Feb.

For years, Chicagoan Vicki Quade has been telling stories as a journalist, playwright, theater producer, and performer.

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater with its “Deeply 25 Beyond Dance” 25th anniversary season in progress, is continuing its successful digital class program with a new term beginning in January 2021.

Lyric Opera of Chicago and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) have reached an agreement to modify their currently existing multi-year labor agreement that extends through the 2020/21 Season.

In conjunction with its free-and-on-demand production of A Christmas Carol—An Audio Play, Goodman Theatre opens a new online holiday home—GoodmanTheatre.

What happens when a bunch of performing artists are stuck at home because of a pandemic? They get creative! This holiday season, Highland Park Players, Big Noise Theatre, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS have teamed up to bring you Winter Wondergram: The Ultimate Holiday Card Experience.

Stage Left Theatre announces a change to the availability of the final showing of their acclaimed online production of The Project(s).

Victory Gardens Theater has announced that André De Shields will be the Keynote Speaker for the Voices of Tomorrow: Their World on Stage virtual showcase on December 9, 2020 at 7:00p.

Ghostlight Ensemble announced its Season 4 lineup, which brings back two popular offerings and introduces a new reading series of historically overlooked female playwrights.