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Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's most sophisticated theater, presents the Chicago premiere of Apartment 3A by Emmy award-winning, twice Tony award-nominated actor/musician Jeff Daniels.

As families are busily preparing for the new school year, Theatre at the Center is ready for its new season of Theatre for Young Audiences.

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (RTE), Chicago's only Equity theatre dedicated to producing new work with women at the core, announces Town Hall panel discussions in conjunction with its production of Grizzly Mama by George Brant.

"Thrones! The Musical Parody" and Apollo Theater Chicago (2540 N.

The Theatre School at DePaul University is pleased to present Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Michael E.

Teddy Pendergrass was considered to be soul music's number one sex symbol in the '70s with songs like "Turn Off The Lights," "If You Don't Know Me By Now," and "Wake Up Everybody.

Tympanic is excited to announce the cast and crew for the World Premiere of SWEET ANALYTICS, a dark comedy by Hayes Borkowski (Vacation, Area IV Theatre), directed by Joshua Ellison*.

Porchlight Music Theatre celebrated opening night of their revisited staging of The Rink last night.

Lookingglass Theatre Company will offer daily drama workshop programs, based on its renowned Arts Quest and Summergglass Camps, during the course of the upcoming CPS strike (scheduled to start Tuesday October 11).

Rehearsals are underway for the Steppenwolf-commissioned world premiere production of Erika Sheffer's The Fundamentals, directed by ensemble member Yasen Peyankov, who also directed Sheffer's Russian Transport at Steppenwolf in 2014.

Victory Gardens Theater announces the second extension of its critically-acclaimed production of Hand To God by Robert Askins, directed by Gary Griffin due to overwhelming ticket demand.

Joining its 2016 fall repertoire, Emerald City Theatre (ECT) will open its remount of the highly praised holiday comedy, Junie B.

Jettison, an End of the World Drama, Premieres at Gorilla Tango Theatre (1919 N.

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company opens its 20th Anniversary Season with the Midwest Premiere of Pirandello's Henry IV.

Due to popular demand, the Greenhouse Theater Center and Sideshow Theatre Company's hit world premiere of THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH, written and performed by Jeff Award-winning playwright and Sideshow Artistic Associate Philip Dawkins will extend performances through October 30, 2016.

Chicago's historic Studebaker Theater will become the home of live opera with a contemporary adaptation of Henry Purcell's 1692 "The Fairy Queen," a reimagining of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" presented by Chicago Opera Theater (COT) beginning November 5.

Porchlight Music Theatre (PMT) and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the initial production in the fourth season of Chicago's "lost" musicals in staged concert series, Porchlight Revisits The Rink, starring Hollis Resnik and Christine Mild, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred E

About Face Theatre is pleased to launch its 2016-17 Season with a reimagining of Doug Wright's I AM MY OWN WIFE, the Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Lambda Literary Award-winning play first developed at AFT back in 2003.

By turns terrifying, moving and wildly funny, The Room is Pinter's very first play.

Chicago's premier French-style pastry shop, Vanille Patisserie, presents a complimentary Children's Book Club and Interactive Kids' Concert with Bubbles Academy as new free monthly events in their three Chicagoland locations.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces the debut of a new collaboration with acclaimed artistic collective one step at a time like this entitled undreamed shores, a solo pedestrian micro-journey along Navy Pier.

The Neo-Futurists are proud to present the world premiere of Neo-Futurist Ensemble Member Tif Harrison's Saturn Returns, A Neo-Lab production, supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, October 13 - November 19, at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N.

Blue Man Group, celebrating 25 years of living in full color, will bring louder drummer boys and not so silent nights to audiences this holiday season with the announcement of an enhanced holiday performance schedule at the Briar Street Theatre (3133 N.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 7, 2016 for The National Theatre production of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, the Tony Award-winning new play by Simon Stephens, adapted from Mark Haddon's best-selling n

In response to the epidemic of shootings in Chicago, and the massacre of mostly LGBTQ, mostly Latino individuals at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Chicago-area LGBTQ, Latinx, community and gun violence prevention organizations are coming together for "Disarm Gun Violence: An LGBTQ Town Hall For A