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The Jeff Awards 47th annual ceremony has been postponed.

When playwright Rachel Lynett moved to Madison a few months ago, she had no idea that she would be front row center for protests on State Street, as protests around the country erupted following the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Wayward Sisters Theatre Ensemble is pleased to announce their 2nd Annual Work-shopping Women's Voices, a new play festival.

Fun, Silly, Unexpected.

Starlight Theatre, which recently had to cancel its production of The Little Mermaid due to the pandemic, is getting to talk with Ariel herself!

Learn more about all the streaming offerings, podcasts, classes, and more streaming from Chicago arts orgs this month.

A Red Orchid Theatre and Porchlight Music Theatre announce the collaboration WAR OF THE WELL(e)S, an audio drama adaptation of the stage play written by Porchlight Artistic Director Michael Weber and directed by A Red Orchid Ensemble Member Lawrence Grimm.

Sideshow Theatre Company is pleased to present a one-night-only streaming revival of its 2018 hit Tilikum on Friday, June 19 at 7 pm CDT, a benefit for the #LetUsBreathe Collective in honor of Juneteenth and the Black Lives Matter movement, and in solidarity with the protests in Chicago and around

Manual Cinema, the Chicago-based performance collective, design studio, and film/video production company founded by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter, will celebrate the company's 10th Anniversary with a four-week virtual celebration launching Monday, July 27 at N

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TimeLine Theatre Company has announced that four new playwrights have joined its Playwrights Collective, the company's new play incubator.

Following their long-standing tradition of performing a weekend of spectacularly glitter-filled, loud-and-proud, queer plays for Pride month, The Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench Gets Prideful: 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes.

Chicago Children's Theatre is encouraging a summer of fun and creative learning with this week's launch of its summer 2020 education session, starting with two dozen virtual performing arts camps and classes for ages 2 to 13, all taught remotely.

ABC7/WLS-TV Chicago and ABC's Localish digital network to broadcast and exclusively produce a?oeGraduation 2020: For Chicago.

Pivot Arts, which celebrates adventurous, multidisciplinary performance, is a?oepivotinga?? in the presentation of its eighth annual Pivot Arts Festival, in response to restrictions due to COVID-19.

Otherworld Theatre is adapting to life during a pandemic by innovating how Live Action Role Play (LARP) games are played and bringing their newest LARP events to digital mediums.

Artemisia, the Chicago theatre company dedicated to the development of new plays featuring women characters who have agency, independence, and are the focal point of their own narratives, is now producing a weekly series of free podcasts.

In response to COVID-19, Broadway In Chicago announced today that the upcoming engagement of COME FROM AWAY, originally scheduled for August 25 - September 6, 2020, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, will now play April 21 - May 2, 2021 at the same theatre.

Chicago-based Brickworld LEGO Expo, which regularly hosts LEGO conventions throughout the Midwest, announces the Brickworld LEGO Fireworks Virtual Con on Saturday, June 27, 2020, 11 a.

Acknowledging the cataclysmic financial situation that small, regionally-focused museums, libraries and other collecting organizations are facing, the Chicago-based Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (the Foundation) has awarded $200,000 in general operating funds to 19 collecting organization

Mandala South Asian Performing Arts offers children a passport to Indian classical arts June 23a?"August 13 with a?oeArts Exploration: India,a?? a range of summer camps and programs for ages 4a?"10.

 The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) is honored to announce the 2020 Artist Fellowship Award (AFA) recipients.

In Chicago, over 100 members of the theatre community gathered at the Victory Gardens Theater to protest.

The Second City announced Saturday that the company's new Interim Executive Producer is Anthony LeBlanc, effective immediately.