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Liliana Padilla's HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF offers a brilliant examination of collegiate life, and, more specifically, the ways in which rape culture and the entirely real possibility of sexual assault affect university students.

Shattered Globe Theatre is pleased to conclude its 2019-20 Season with Andrew Bovell's When The Rain Stops Falling, a stunning mystery of love and loss that reverberates through four generations, with direction and movement direction by Elizabeth Margolius.

First Floor Theater is pleased to conclude its eighth season with the world premiere of Noah Diaz's dark comedy The Juniors, directed by FFT Artistic Director Hutch Pimentel, playing April 18 a?" May 30, 2020 at FFT's resident home, The Den Theatre (Upstairs Mainstage), 1331 N.

Underscore Theatre Company is pleased to conclude its 2019-20 season with the world premiere of Notes & Letters featuring book, music and lyrics by Annabelle Revak, based on Revak's great-great grandfather's letters sent to his family upon his immigration to Chicago.

Pride Films and Plays will produce the American premiere of FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST, an Edinburgh Festival hit by the British playwright and actor Samuel Ward.

The Music Institute of Chicago's Chicago Duo Piano Festival (CDPF) celebrates the joy of two-piano and four-hand piano performance at the CDPF Winter Mini-fest March 6a?"8 at the Evanston East campus, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

Written, produced and performed by Derek Evans, Teddy Roosevelt: The Man In The Arena, is a one act celebration of Theodore a?oeTeddya?? Roosevelt's extraordinary impact on America.

Artists Lounge Live presents SILLY LOVE SONGS: MICHAEL MAHLER SINGS PAUL MCCARTNEY on Monday, March 9 at 7:30 pm and Tuesday, March 10 at 1:00 pm, at Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL 60069.

Paramount Theatre announces the addition of two principal cast members a?" Sydney Morton and Melody A.

Kokandy Productions is pleased to announce casting for the Chicago premiere of the bold new musical Hundred Days, featuring music and lyrics by The Bengsons, and book by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher.

Strawdog Theatre Company is pleased announce casting for its world premiere of Brian James Polak's topical drama Welcome to Keene, New Hampshire, directed by Artistic Director Leda Hoffmann.

Windy City Playhouse (3014 W.

Raue Center For The Arts has announced the return of one of the world's great blues harmonica masters, writer of unusual songs, composer and pioneer of music that takes audiences to places they have never been before! Blues, jazz and classical musical will mingle with Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues f

Broadway In Chicago, MagicSpace Entertainment and Producers Mark Swanhart and Guy Phillips have announced that Diggy Moreland has been named The Bachelor for The Bachelor Live on Stage which will play Broadway In Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W Randolph) on March 14, 2020.

For their first performance of the 2020 season in our new location, The Church of Beethoven, Oak Park is happy to introduce its audience to violinist Cara Schlecker, who is joined by pianist Paul Dykstra.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced complete casting for two productions today: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames, directed by Whitney White (April 2 a?" May 17, 2020); and Catch as Catch Can by Mia Chung, which also announced ensemble member Amy Mort

Porchlight Music Theatre's 25th Anniversary Mainstage season continues with Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies, January 24 a?" March 6, 2020 at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N.

DUKE ELLINGTON'S SOPHISTICATED LADIES is a classic Porchlight show: an ebullient musical revue showcasing both the esteemed song catalog of Duke Ellington and also the formidable talents of some of the city's finest musical theater performers.

a?oeOh, what a circus.

Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that due to an injury, Sir Bryn Terfel in Recital on Sunday, February 2 has been cancelled.

Chicago Magic Lounge, Chicago's home for close-up magic, continues its Artist-In-Residence series with Ross Johnson in Enigmas and Perplexities, a show that gives audiences a unique insight into the incredible power of the mind, Wednesdays at 7:30pm, April 1 a?" June 24, 2020.

The Joffrey closes its 2019-2020 season with the return of Yuri Possokhov's inspired Don Quixote, conceived and created for the Joffrey in 2011, which, at the time, became the first commission of an evening-length ballet by the Joffrey in over 60 years.

Northwestern University dedicated a blackbox theater at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts in the name of three trailblazing alumnae.

Interrobang Theatre Project will continue its tenth anniversary season, exploring the theme of 'No Man's Land,' with a revival of its very first production: Daniel MacIvor's one-man drama Here Lies Henry, newly staged by Artistic Producer Elana Elyce* and featuring Scott Sawa.