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Broadway In Chicago and The PrivateBank today announced a new long-run strategic partnership that will rename what many refer to as a crown jewel of the Chicago Theatre District, at 18 W.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), the nation's premier presenter of American tap dance and international contemporary percussive arts, is among the arts organizations nationwide receiving awards totaling more than $27.

Griffin Theatre Company is pleased to launch its 2015-16 season with the Midwest premiere of Samuel D.

Blue Man Group will bring overjoy to the world this holiday season with the announcement of additional performances, including four special New Year's Eve shows, to its ongoing run at Chicago's Briar Street Theatre (3133 N.

?The Palmer House Hilton is proud to announce that it will once again host one of Chicago's premier New Year's Eve events Big Night America's Chicago New Year's Eve Party: Big Night Chicago, Thursday, Dec.

Dynamic singer Cathy Glickman makes her Skokie Theatre debut in an autobiographical romp -- LIFE OF THE PARTY INTERRUPTED -- through Glickman's life as she follows her heart, giving up the microscope for the microphone midway through life.

Michael Menendian, Producing Artistic Director of Raven Theatre, has announced casting for A Loss of Roses, the infrequently produced drama by William Inge that premiered on Broadway in 1959 and launched the career of a young Warren Beatty.

Broadway In Chicago has announced Original Broadway Cast member Jackie Burns (If/Then, Wicked, Hair), Tamyra Gray (American Idol Season One Finalist, Rent), and Matthew Hydzik (Side Show, West Side Story, Grease), will join Chicago native and Original Broadway Cast member Anthony Rapp (Rent, Six Deg

Casting has been announced for the highly anticipated world premiere production of Mary Page Marlowe, written by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright and ensemble member Tracy Letts.

The Board of Directors of Arts Alliance Illinois today announced that Ra Joy, who has served as the organization's executive director since 2007, will step down in January 2016.

The Chicago engagement of the first national tour of BEAUTIFUL--THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL rightfully earns the show's title.

After 15 years, 240 world premiere theater pieces, and being hailed 'the premiere short play festival in the Midwest' by the Chicago Reader, Collaboraction will stage its 15th and final SKETCHBOOK Festival at the place where it all started, the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W.

LORCA IN AMERICA, a project by Robert Eric Shoemaker and POETRY IS, presents the world premiere of BERNARDA ALBA AND HER HOUSE, from the play by Federico Garcia Lorca.

After acclaimed performance with his sold out concerts Let's Hear it For the Goy, and My Goyfriend's Back, your favorite 'goyfriend,' Chicago gay vocalist Russ Goeltenbodt returns with more music, mishigas, and mayhem in the holiday musical celebration Oy To The World.

Idle Muse Theatre Company will produce new festival celebrating plays written and directed by women entitled Athena Festival to be curated by ensemble member Sara Robinson.

Porchlight Music Theatre welcomes the return of its multi award-winning hit AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', now through December 20.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) presents David Ives' uproarious comedy THE HEIR APPARENT, staged by award-winning director John Rando and featuring a stellar cast, led by heralded actor, Paxton Whitehead as Geronte.

The EEK! Theatre Company brings you the Christmas comedy showcase "A Very Merry Mother-F@#$ing Christmas", a collection of sketches and comedy acts to celebrate the ha-ha-ha-lidays.

Kokandy Productions invites you to pour yourself some eggnog and make yourself at home for a family-sized portion of holiday cheer at A KOKANDY CHRISTMAS, an evening of festive stories and songs old and new.

To accommodate demand for tickets, The Gift Theatre has added performances and extended the run of its critically acclaimed new play for the second time, Good for Otto, written by Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe and directed by Gift artistic director Michael Patrick Thornton.

Voting has opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Chicago Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of November 27th.

The Chicago Philharmonic Society has been awarded a three- year, $90,000 grant from the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince for general operating support.

The prince of Chicago Camp, David Cedra is back with a laugh-out-loud homage to Charles Dickens' immortal A Christmas Carol, CHRISTMAS DEAREST.

Everybody's favorite holiday bitch is back and she's meaner then ever in the return of CHRISTMAS DEAREST, Hell in a Handbag Productions' Joan Crawford-infused parody of A Christmas Carol by David Cerda, directed by Steve Love.

Midsommer Flight continues its fourth season of free Shakespeare programming, presenting for the first time a free indoor production of Shakespeare's delightful comedy Twelfth Night in partnership with the Lincoln Park Conservatory.