CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 40

Broadway In Chicago has announced the return of the interactive hit DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Twenty-Sided Tavern to the Windy City, kicking off the production’s North American Tour with a limited seven-week engagement at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, August 12 – September 28, 2025.

Red Clay Dance Company has announced programming for its 17th season, featuring a world premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the return of its celebrated La Femme Dance Festival at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

TUTA Theatre has announced a change in its two-play summer repertory.

Chicago's Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company has revealed its 2025 - 2026 season taking place in The Joan and Paul Theatre at Water Tower Water Works.

Ghostlight Ensemble has revealed its Season 9 lineup, which includes the fall production of Angry Fags by Topher Payne.

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IRAQ, BUT FUNNY serves not only as a masterful satire of British and American colonialism in the Middle East but also as a moving, multigenerational family drama.

The World Premiere musical! Always Something There…, by Sandy Rustin (The Cottage, Clue, Mystic Pizza) is currently in rehearsals at Marriott Theatre.

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The Music Institute of Chicago, which aims to lead people to a lifelong engagement with music, announces Shalisa Kline Ugaz as its next President and CEO, effective July 7, 2025.

KIMBERLY AKIMBO is as oddball of a musical as its name.

Otherworld Theatre Company will bring its hit original production TWIHARD! A Twilight Musical Parody to Chicago’s Apollo Theater (2550 N Lincoln Ave) for a limited six-week run beginning Saturday, July 26.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the cast and creative team of the world premiere play Billie Jean, about sports icon and equality champion Billie Jean King.

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the return of its free summer concert series Broadway in your Backyard, which will take place next month.

Due to demand, Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced one additional week of performances of Noah Diaz’s Chicago premiere of You Will Get Sick.

“What makes a man try to fly in a lawn chair?” is 42 BALLOONS most repeated lyric.

A Red Orchid Theatre has announced a one-week extension of its world premiere production of SIX MEN DRESSED LIKE JOSEPH STALIN, written by Dianne Nora and directed by Ensemble Member dado.

Griffin Theatre Company will present the Midwest premiere of Girls & Boys, a solo play by Dennis Kelly, directed by Robin Witt.

Broadway In Chicago has announced Chicago's acclaimed TimeLine Theatre Company is returning to the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place with this sharply funny Tony Award-winning hit satire of progressivism, parenting, and public health.

Music Theater Works has announced the cast and creative team for the second production of its 2025 season, Fiddler on the Roof, in the George Van Dusen Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.

Hell in a Handbag Productions will conclude its 2024/25 Season with the world premiere of QUEEN FOR A DAY written by ensemble member Tyler Anthony Smith and directed by Stephanie Shaw.

CPA Theatricals and Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre announced casting for their co-production of the play with music SENTINELS, which imagines a secret society of women that supports and promotes each other’s talents.

Trap Door Theatre will close its 31st season of repertory and mainstage combined work with a remount of the Trap Door’s hit Mother Courage and her Children.