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New Philharmonic and Maestro Kirk Muspratt invites local youth instrumentalists and vocalists to audition for the sixth annual New Philharmonic Young People's Competition Auditions.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the City of Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Boeing partner to present the annual citywide summer tradition, Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks.

Williams Street Repertory, McHenry County's only professional theatre company, is excited to announce the 2019 - 2020 season of its newly rebranded Reading Series at Raue Center For The Arts.

WildClaw Theatre Company proudly presents The Brood: An Evening of the Horror Variety on Wednesday, May 29, at 8:00pm.

Firebrand Theatre will present the Chicago premiere of QUEEN OF THE MIST, based on the sensational true story of Anna (Annie) Edson Taylor, the first woman to go over Niagara Falls.

A preliminary list of performers for Pride Films and Plays annual NOMINEE NIGHT concert has been announced by PFP Artistic Associate Robert Ollis, presenting music director for the event.

Millikin University's School of Theatre & Dance will cap its 2018-19 production season with the world premiere of 'Miss Me' on Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10 at 7:30 p.

Sideshow sensation Saartjie Baartman, ("The Hottentot Venus"), and the professor writing her story are the subjects of "Voyeurs de Venus," Lydia R.

Fresh off their Jeff Award nomination for Little Women the Musical, Brown Paper Box Co.

Marriott Theatre's FOOTLOOSE is a fun-filled throwback to the '80s, with a strong ensemble cast that does full justice to the original film's chart-topping hits.

Goodman Theatre concludes its 2018/2019 Season on a high note with Mary Zimmerman's major revival of The Music Man-Meredith Willson's joyous musical masterpiece, hailed as "one of the sunniest musicals ever" that "glows with enjoyment" with "tunes [that] are full of gusto" (The New York Times), base

Black Ensemble Theater Founder and Executive Director Jackie Taylor announces the 6th year of Soul of a Powerful Woman, a performance to help raise funds for the Black Ensemble Theater to support its mission of eradicating racism through the theater arts.

BroadwayWorld had a sneak peek at the newly opened HAMILTON: THE EXHIBITION on Northerly Island.

Haven Theatre announces casting for its Chicago premiere of KISS by Guillermo Calderon, Chile's most acclaimed playwright-director.

The Music Forward Foundation will present a free music showcase featuring emerging Chicago musicians chosen for the 2019 'Bringing Down the House' artist development program on May 19 at the House of Blues Chicago.

HAMLET opened at Chicago Shakespeare on April 17 and is running through June 9, 2019.

Rising hip-hop star Kweku Collins will headline Manifest, Chicago's iconic South Loop arts festival, on Friday, May 10 at 6 p.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Artistic Director Barbara Gaines has staged a HAMLET that captures both the universality of Shakespeare's language and the equally universal-but also profoundly personal-experience of grief for the title character.

Adventure Stage Chicago (ASC), a program of the Northwestern Settlement, opens its world premiere of ASC Artistic Associate Andrew Marikis' Fast Food Chain tonight, Friday, April 26, at the Vittum Theater, 1012 N.

Chicago's geriatric "Fab Four" return in Hell in a Handbag Productions' THE GOLDEN GIRLS: The Lost Episodes - Vol.

The Chicago Humanities Festival is pleased to announce that Chicago's Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot will introduce former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams at Abrams' sold-out Springfest event tonight at 6 p.

NOW AND THEN, a new musical about a long-term loving relationship between two gay men, will be mounted in a commercial production by Now and Then Productions in the Broadway Theatre at the Pride Arts Center from July 12 - August 11.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced today the full casting for its revival production of Sam Shepard's True West.

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 through May 26.