CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 392

Blank Theatre Company Co-Artistic Director's Dustin Rothbart and Danny Kapinos announce their second season.

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Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce tickets for THE BAND'S VISIT will go on sale on Friday, June 7.

Raue Center For The Arts announces its newest fundraising initiative, the 6x6 Project, will culminate in a public reception on June 29, 2019.

Theater Wit's critically acclaimed Chicago premiere of Joshua Harmon's Admissions, a scathingly funny, scarily timely new satire about the college admissions process and racial diversity in private schools, has been extended a third time.

Williams Street Repertory, McHenry County's growing professional theatre company, is excited to announce its upcoming production of "All Shook Up" at Raue Center For The Arts.

Following a season of record-breaking audiences, an inaugural international music festival, and prestigious recognition and awards from the Illinois Council of Orchestras, the Chicago Philharmonic shines a light on family and celebrates 30 years of making beautiful music for Chicago.

Broadway In Chicago has announced the acclaimed national touring production of the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award-winner Dear Evan Hansen will now play its limited 12-week engagement, July 7 September 27, 2020, at Broadway In Chicago's CIBC Theatre (18 W.

Chicago Dancemakers Forum announces the four recipients of the 2019 Greenhouse Awards.

The Jeff Awards announced recipients of the 46 th Annual Non-Equity Jeff Awards on Monday, June 3, at the Athenaeum Theatre.

High Concept Laboratories NFP (HCL), a Chicago-based artist residency, invites fans of theater, dance, and multidisciplinary performances to Art Jam: South Fork Edition at Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S.

Raue Center For The Arts has shared that National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019.

The capital bill passed by the Illinois House and Illinois Senate yesterday includes a new $50 million funding source for arts and culture capital projects, nearly four times more than the last capital bill in 2009.

Ten strangers meet on a clandestine island.

The Music Institute of Chicago announces two concerts for its 31st Chicago Duo Piano Festival (CDPF), featuring performances by renowned Chicago piano duo performers and a mix of favorite repertoire for four hands at one and two pianos, as well as eight hand piano performances.

The Factory Theater is proud to announce five new members of its artistic ensemble: Brittney Brown, Jose M.

Hell in a Handbag Productions announces casting for its world premiere of THE DRAG SEED, an unauthorized parody of the 1956 psychological horror-thriller film The Bad Seed, inspired by our changing times, written by Artistic Director David Cerda,* with direction by Cheryl Snodgrass

Kokandy Productions presents the Chicago premiere of the bold new musical comedyHEAD OVER HEELS, featuring songs by The Go-Go's, based on The Arcadia by Sir Phillip Sidney, conceived and original book by Jeff Whitty and adapted by James Magruder.

French Canadian troupe Cirque du Soleil delivers a death-defying and dazzling array of acrobatic acts with VOLTA, now resident in a large tent occupying Soldier Field's South Parking Lot.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's world premiere of MS.

The Chicago Reader celebrates the city's rich and diverse 50 years of honoring LGBTQ+ community legacy at its first-ever all-day, all-ages block party in partnership with Marz Community Brewing Sunday, June 23, 1-9 p.

Known as El Caballero de la Salsa (the Gentleman of Salsa), the Grammy Award-winning salsa and tropical artist Gilberto Santa Rosa makes his Auditorium Theatre debut on Saturday, August 10, 2019.

The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie is pleased to present a three-week engagement of Renee Taylor's MY LIFE ON A DIET at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie in the Northlight Theatre space from Tuesday, July 16 through Sunday, August 4, 2019.

Music Theater Works presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston, June 8 through June 16, 2019.

With Lookingglass Theatre Company being the fourth Chicago theater to produce a Frankenstein adaptation over the past year in celebration of the novel's 200th anniversary, audiences may well ask what more can be said about this classic tale.