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The Cunningham Commission for Youth Theatre was established at The Theatre School to honor the memory of the Rev.

As the holiday season approaches in Chicago amid a global pandemic, Goodman Theatre is partnering with public media stations WBEZ 91.

Chicago Dramatists has announced its winter line up of writing courses!  All classes this session will be held online, via Zoom, and we are offering an array of new classes.

Random Acts has announced an extension for SCARY STORIES: DARK WEB.

This election cycle, more than 25 different Illinois musicians from a wide range of genres will provide socially-distant outdoor performances for voters at polling places across the state, with two performance “previews” on Friday October 30 at early voting locations and 15 different election da

It was my sophomore year of college, and it felt like my journey as a choreographer was really taking off.

Halloween is right around the corner, and while this year is unfortunately not the eventful weekend of costume parties and trick-o-treating that we know and love, that doesn’t mean that you still can’t dress up.

Interrobang Theatre Project is launching its eleventh season with The Spin, a virtual dark comedy ripped from the headlines, written and directed by Spenser Davis and commissioned by ITP.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) and Chicago Dancemakers Forum (CDF) are partnering on a special collaboration which pairs 20 artists with one another for a project dubbed “10x10| Crossbody Collaborations.

In November, Lifeline Theatre will be re-releasing their virtual production of Pride & Prejudice from Nov.

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.

The Auditorium Theatre Presents A Four-episode Video Series From Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Of Taiwan

With the cancellation of The Joffrey Ballet's annual engagement of Christopher Wheeldon's critically acclaimed version of The Nutcracker in 2020, the Joffrey is pleased to announce a myriad of festive, interactive virtual offerings throughout the holiday season, including the debut of a newly animat

This is your LAST CHANCE to submit nominations for the BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards - which are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade!

​​​​​​​Chicago Philharmonic and Visceral Dance Chicago's striking collaboration,The Dream, returns on Sunday, November 1 as part of the Philharmonic's “Hear it Together” series.

Following a successful return to the stage in October, The Orion Ensemble performs again this fall for a limited in-person and unlimited virtual audience on Thursday, November 12 at 7 p.

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Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to partner again with Hershey Felder Presents for their latest offering: Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy in A Paris Love Story - Live from Florence, Italy, Sunday, Nov.

Award-winning actress and singer Michelle Lauto is host of this year's Jeff Awards celebrating Equity theater in a virtual program scheduled to stream Monday, November 9, 2020.

The Music Institute of Chicago announces that Lisa Brown will join the institution as Senior Director of Development, effective November 2, 2020.

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced Bisa Butler: Portraits, on view from November 16-April 19, 2021.

The AA Arts Incubator Program of Asian Improv Arts Midwest has announced that its historic series 'Our Perspective: Asian American Plays' continues in 2020 with Fragmented, written by Karissa Murrell Myers, directed by Spencer Ryan Diedrick and assistant directed by Daniella Wheelock, beginning Mond

BAMtheatre is re-upping and and adding to their line up of socially distant, in person programming.

Deerfield High School Theatre in Deerfield, Illinois, has announced that they will be the first high school in the world to produce Making Gay History: Before Stonewall, created by Joe Salvatore, adapted from Eric Marcus's Making Gay History.