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Michael Weber, artistic director of Porchlight Music Theatre, is proud to announce Porchlight Music Theatre's 24th season that includes the 2018 - 2019 Mainstage, Porchlight Revisits and New Faces Sing Broadway seasons.

Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) will mark 150 years of its music conservatory and the 20th anniversary of its theatre conservatory on March 14 at the University's Auditorium Theatre.

Twenty-one Chicago high school students will once again compete in the finals of the August Wilson Monologue Competition for a chance to represent Chicago in the National Competition at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City.

The Greenhouse Theater Center is seeking local theatre companies and artists to partner on co-productions during its 2018-19 Season.

With her Pulitzer Prize finalist THE WOLVES, young playwright Sarah DeLappe has beautifully, movingly, and realistically captured the tenuousness that comes with being a teenage girl navigating the thorny terrain of high school.

Visceral Dance Chicago will continue its season with a presentation of  SPRINGFIVE on April 7, 2018 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, the second mainstage Chicago performance of the company's fifth year.

Hi, everyone! I hope you all are doing well so far this season.

First produced in 1945, Jean Giraudoux's satiric comedy THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT reveals a plot by a group of corrupt business executives to dig up the streets of Paris, so they can pump oil that they believe lies beneath.

The Den Theatre is pleased to present three-time world champion spoken word artist BUDDY WAKEFIELD for one night only on Tuesday, March 20 at 8 pm (doors open at 7 pm) on The Heath Mainstage, 1331 N.

Broadway In Chicago and the producers of A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME are delighted to announce the full casting for A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME, a slice-of-life original musical comedy that makes its Chicago debut at Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E.

Akvavit Theatre is pleased to announce casting for the U.

The 2018 Chicago Fringe Festival, August 30 - September 3, is proud to announce the 9th Annual Lottery Party, Sunday, March 11, 1 - 3 p.

MERCHANT ON VENICE explores empathy and grace, as well as blame and internalized and externalized religious bigotry, while mixing it up with the clash/mash of South Asian culture in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Berry returns this spring to Steep to direct the U.

Court Theatre, under the continuing leadership of Marilyn F.

Transgressive Theatre-Opera announces the Finale to its 2017/2018 season, The School for Lovers!

Winifred Haun & Dancers will present the 6th annual Spring Open Rehearsal on March 25 at Hubbard St.

Chicago dance is in the spotlight this spring when See Chicago Dance, the dance industry's nonprofit service organization founded as Audience Architects, presents a robust Chicago Dance Month, showcasing the city's numerous, vibrant, and diverse opportunities to enjoy professional dance in Chicago

Facility Theatre is proud to announce casting for David Lang's 2008 Pulitzer Award winning 'The Little Match Girl Passion' to be directed by dado as part of winning the prestigious 2017 Edes Award.

Otherworld Theatre's next mainstage production, Down the Rocky Road and All the Way to Bedlam, by Chicago playwright D.

This coming Tuesday, March 13, the Clarence Darrow Commemorative Committee marks two contributions by famed "attorney for the damned" Clarence Darrow: marking the 80th anniversary of the death of Darrow-the question "How does Darrow's work and legacy influence you?' will be answered by three Chicago

A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, SHE KILLS MONSTERS tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly.

Falls directs his adaptation, based on a translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, with a cast featuring Philip Earl Johnson as Thomas Stockmann, doctor and chief medical officer of the baths; Scott Jaeck as Peter Stockmann, Thomas' older brother and town mayor; Lanise Antoine Shelley as Katherine, Thoma

Interrobang Theatre Project is pleased to announce casting for its revival of Craig Wright's darkly funny and deadly serious Broadway hit GRACE, directed by Co-Artistic Director Georgette Verdin.

Walkabout Theater Company and Links Hall, in association with the National Performance Network, is pleased to present the U.