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WFMT's long-running weekly radio series, The Midnight Special, hosted by Rich Warren, has gotten the rights to broadcast and stream the original cast recording of the seven-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical COME FROM AWAY in its entirety on Saturday, May 27 during its weekly broadcast betwe

Can a humble Cheeto dismantle sadness? Katelyn and Audrey say yes, it can.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company Artistic Director Anna D.

Circle House, which opened Friday, April 27, is the newest production from The Plagiarists, a return to a group-writing style that is rather uniquely theirs.

Prop Thtr is debuting the comedy Alone, With Friends.

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Fresh off their sold-out production of PEERLESS, First Floor Theater is excited to conclude their fifth season with the Chicago premiere of Bess Wohl's AMERICAN HERO, directed by Cody Estle.

Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the final production in the fourth season of Chicago's hit "lost" musicals in staged concert series, Porchlight Revisits On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, music by Burton Lane, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Le

Join Ghostlight Ensemble as we celebrate the ongoing impact Luigi Pirandello has on theatre 150 years after his birth with Six Authors in Search of a Character.

The final production of Raven Theatre Company's 2017-18 season will be Tennessee Williams' stark and poetic Suddenly, Last Summer.

Victory Gardens Theater closes its 42nd season with the Chicago Premiere of Native Gardens, written by Karen Zacarias and directed by Marti Lyons.

Cabaret, one of the great Broadway musicals of all time, opened to a packed house at Theatre at the Center (TATC) in Munster on opening night on May 7.

Babes With Blades Theatre Company (BWBTC) proudly announces its 20th Anniversary Season, Origins, consisting of two full productions and three developing scripts, all reflecting how women define themselves and their places in their worlds - including 1940s Chicago, Edwardian London, medieval Scotla

The Music Institute of Chicago is thrilled to announce that the Commission on Presidential Scholars has named Andrew Guo, a piano student in the Music Institute's prestigious Academy for gifted pre-college musicians, a U.

 Pride Films and Plays will again host its annual Nominee Night cabaret showcasing many of the musical theater performers nominated in the Non-Equity Jeff Awards.

Improvised Jane Austen performs every Friday in June at the McKaw Theater in Rogers Park.

Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the final production in the fourth season of Chicago's hit "lost" musicals in staged concert series, Porchlight Revisits On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, music by Burton Lane, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Le

Theater Oobleck's "Baudelaire in a Box" project, a seven-year adaptation of Charles Baudelaire's scandalous 19th-century classic "Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)" as an epic illustrated song cycle, culminates this summer with "Closed Casket: The Complete, Final and Absolutely Last Baudelaire

Arts Alliance Illinois, under the leadership of Executive Director Claire Rice and Board Chair Brooke Flanagan, Director of Institutional Advancement at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, welcome artistic, business, creative, and philanthropic leaders from across Illinois to the organization's Fifth Annua

Chicago comedian and kates cast member Soli Santos hosts the all female comedy showcase at The Book Cellar.

???????Julian Wachner conducts NOVUS NY (photo: Peter Adamik) Continuing its tradition of providing the public with an exquisite and wide-ranging array of free musical offerings, many of which are professionally filmed and webcast live, Trinity Church Wall Street presents two performances of Philip

Hiball Events and the Palmer House Hilton present this special evening that will revisit the glitz and glamor of the historic Empire Room.

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Broadway In Chicago and the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour performed A SEASON OF LOVE BENEFIT CONCERT last night featuring cast members from the national tour of RENT playing Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a limited engagement May 9-14.