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Paramount School of the Arts in Aurora, Illinois is commissioning a new play for young audiences that it intends to tour to schools throughout the greater Fox Valley area.

In signature Manual Cinema fashion, hundreds of paper puppets, live actors, miniatures, silhouettes, and an original score, will come together in a live performance to tell an imaginative re-invention of this cherished holiday classic.

The Chicago theatre community will produce a wide variety of online festive plays, musicals, dance and comedy offerings this Holiday season.

Music of the Baroque today announced that due to the current pandemic, the difficulty for travel for international conductors and soloists, and the need to maintain safety for musicians and audience, the repertoire for the 2020-21 season-the ensemble's 50th-will be revised.

In its 52nd annual celebration of theater excellence, the Jeff Awards has recognized 39 recipients for the 2020 awards, selected from among 142 theater artist nominees across 30 artistic and technical categories.

From Christmas to Hanukkah to New Year's, PlayMakers Laboratory rings in the holidays with all new performances of its popular online revue That's Weird, Grandma: House Par-Tay, a creative series of stories written by elementary school students, adapted and performed by PML's professional actors and

About Face Theatre kicks off its landmark 25th season with KICKBACK, an online festival of newly commissioned short plays and performances by Black LGBTQ+ artists, inspired by the Rebuild Foundation's collections at the Stony Island Arts Bank.

A Red Orchid Theatre has announced the appointments of Ensemble Member Travis Knight as Associate Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Sadieh Rifai as Artistic Development Coordinator.

After an extensive search, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre has hired Sabrina Odigie in the newly created role of Associate Artistic Director.

Silk Road Rising has announced Black Teen Lives Matter, written by students in Silk Road Rising's Empathic Playwriting Intensive Course (EPIC) program, and directed by Jarrett King.

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its 2021 spring classes for ages 7 - 17 years old with top Chicago teaching artists on music theatre fundamentals and skills, in-person or via Zoom.

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra presents the Midwest premiere of The Bowmakers, a film by Ward Serrill, in an online screening from November 26– December 6.

Porchlight Music Theatre announces its newest virtual offering, the first online production of its New Faces Sing Broadway series, New Faces Sing Broadway 1987, hosted by Larry Adams, directed by Christopher Pazdernik and with music direction and arrangements by David Fiorello.

EVERY WAITING HEART, the full-length play by Lauren Ferebee that was planned pre-COVID for a fully staged production in June 2020, will be produced as an audio drama streaming for an open-ended run and premiering on Tuesday, November 10.

Full casting has been announced for Theatre in the Dark's original audio drama adaptation of H.

While the Lyric Opera House in Chicago may be closed to the public due to the health crisis, it is experiencing a major renovation behind the scenes.

The African American Arts Alliance (AAAA) will host the 20th annual Black Excellence Awards, an evening celebrating Black artists, Black voices, and Black stories across artistic disciplines, on November 10, 2020 at 7pm.

On Friday, November 6, 2020, Nicole Cooper and Russell Hoke of Heart of Singing Music School will be guests on It's Showtime with Rikki Lee, a popular weekly radio program originating from Chicago's Huntley suburb that provides an intimate look at the entertainment world.

Mandala South Asian Performing Arts has announced plans to expand its education programming to the western suburbs-at the Umang and Paragi Patel Center, which is planned for an opening in early 2021 at the National Indo-American Museum, 805 Main Street in Lombard.

Join Collaboraction Theatre Company at its 19th annual gala, The Utopian Ball, Saturday, November 14 at 7 p.

Casting has been announced for A PAIR OF LUNATICS, the third production of PrideArts' four-show virtual fall season called REIGNITE! Chicago director/producer/choreographer Zoe Lesser will direct her own new adaptation of the comedy by W.

The new 'Eighth Blackbird Presents: The Chicago Artists Workshop' (CAW) live stream concert series continues with Rebecca Rego in a concert inspired by Lucia Berlin's book, 'Songs for Cleaning Women,' 7 p.

The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), 2320 W.

Theatre Rhinoceros presents a FREE Zoom presentation: AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN by TERRY GUEST | Directed by TANIKA BAPTISTE on NOVEMBER 10, 2020 at 7pm for FREE!

A brand new video offering a look into SoloChicago Theatre's next production HELLO KITTY MUST DIE made its debut today on YouTube.