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HAMLET is the summer production in Midsommer Flight's sixth season bringing free Shakespeare to Chicago's parks.

Broadway In Chicago has announced WAITRESS will play the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W.

 Idle Muse Theatre Company announced the cast and  production team for the Midwest premiere of The Veil written by playwright Conor McPherson.

AstonRep Theatre Company is pleased to announce its 2017-18 Season, kicking off this fall with 1984, a chilling view of a world controlled by a totalitarian government, based on George Orwell's classic novel, adapted for the stage by Robert Owens, Wilton E.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) announces its first ever city-wide education performance, "Growing Together," featuring student-written performances from Chicago-area schools.

Babes With Blades Theatre Company (BWBTC) launches its 20th Anniversary Season: "Origins" with its 20th world premiere The Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, playing at the Factory Theater, 1623 W.

Pulse Theatre Chicago, a non-Equity professional theatre, will feature a diverse cast in its upcoming production of Edward Albee's classic drama 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' The production runs August 4-20 at City Lit Theater, 1020 W.

The Chicago Park District today announced the five genre-defying productions comprising the 65th season of Theater on the Lake, the Chicago Park District summer theater festival.

The world premiere of Karen Zacarias's NATIVE GARDENS at Victory Gardens Theater provides ample humor and wit-even if the playwright's neighborly metaphor sometimes feels too on the nose.

Michael Washington Brown, in association with Athenaeum Theatre Productions, present 'BLACK!,' July 20 - 30, in Studio 2 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N.

A two-part musical collaboration exploring the nature of home, travel and identity will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival.

The first YIPPIE FEST, a continuous, live theater festival in the spirit of the Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Festival (which closed last year after 28 years at the Mary-Arrchie Theatre) will take place for three days/nights on two stages during the same traditional weekend celebrating the anniver

Chicago Dance Crash and Artistic Director Jessica Deahr will go big with The Bricklayers of Oz, fit for all ages, playing at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N.

The Jeff Awards has been approved for pro bono work from Taproot+ to conduct opinion research with Chicago area theatres this summer.

Singer songwriter Jackson Browne announces a benefit concert on Sunday, August 13 that the Copernicus Center in Chicago, IL to support Veterans For Peace (VFP).

Eclipse Theatre Company, the only Midwest ensemble to feature one playwright in one season, continues its 25th anniversary, 2017 Kia Corthron season with the world premiere of Megastasis, directed by Aaron Todd Douglas, which was workshopped by New Works Brooklyn at Brooklyn College and New York

Random Acts and Greenhouse Theater Center are pleased to announce $10 tickets for the 8pm performance on Monday, June 12th.

The Joan W.

Writers Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M.

Donica Lynn announces the fifth annual benefit concert Today's a Good Day-Walk With Me at 8:00pm on Monday, June 26, 2017 at The Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N.

Join Pride Films and Plays on June 12th at 7:30 pm in THE BROADWAY at Pride Arts Center, 4139 N.

Beginning last night, Broadway's Jacob Dickney has joined the cast of Aladdin in Chicago in the title role.

Michael Washington Brown, in association with Athenaeum Theatre Productions, present "BLACK!," July 20 - 30, in Studio 2 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N.

Vienna Juvenile, Chicago's acclaimed sketch comedy trio, is performing as part of Adirondack Theatre Festival's 23rd season of professional theater.

Kokandy Productions is pleased to present the Chicago premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's LITTLE FISH, an oblique parable for urban life after the attacks of September 11th, directed by Producing Artistic Director Allison Hendrix with music direction by Kory Danielson and choreography by K