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Stage 773 is turning its redesigned Box performance space into an actor's training and performing destination.

Step Up Productions is pleased to announce its full 2014-15 Season - its first Jeff Awards eligible season! The season kicks off this fall with the Chicago premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy DEAD ACCOUNTS directed by Jason Gerace (2014 Jeff Award, Best Director, Great Expectations).

Midsommer Flight announces its third summer season of Shakespeare in the Park with the delightful comedy Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and directed by Midsommer Flight's Founder and Producing Artistic Director Beth Wolf.

Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, continues its 30th anniversary season with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, now running through August 17, 2014.

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan ("Doctor Who,"), Katie Cassidy ("Arrow"), William Shatner ("Star Trek," "T.

This summer, it's 'almost like being in love!' Goodman Theatre produces the first large-scale, professional revival of Brigadoon -- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick's Loewe's legendary musical of Broadway's Golden Age -- in more than three decades.

The Neo-Futurists present their annual Pride Weekend benefit: 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, a special edition of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes that combines queer and gender binary-smashing plays from the past with new work to benefit and support local LGBTQ

The Lakeside Pavilion 2014 Inaugural Summer Season opens with the College of DuPage Summer Repertory Theater production of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Christopher Walsh, adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, directed by COD Director of Theater Connie Canaday Howard.

Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, continues its 30th anniversary season with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, now running through August 17, 2014.

By popular demand, Steppenwolf Theatre Company extends the celebrated summer revival of This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by ensemble member Anna D.

Casting is complete for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Chicago-premiere production of The Night Alive by Conor McPherson.

To accommodate extraordinary ticket demand, Lifeline Theatre announces ten added performances of its Jeff Recommended, critically-acclaimed world premiere adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, by ensemble member Chris Hainsworth, directed by Kevin Theis (two-time Non-Equity Jeff Award

Sting's heartfelt and emotional musical 'The Last Ship' is mostly sea-worthy in its pre-Broadway tryout.

Chicago, IL-The League of Chicago Theatres celebrated the Chicago theater industry and community during its elegant annual Gala on Monday, June 9, 2014.

Gorilla Tango Burlesque's (GTB) extremely popular Star Wars parody, 'A Nude Hope, A Star Wars Burlesque' celebrates its third anniversary this July 5 at 9pm! In honor of this momentous anniversary, GTB is offering 20% off to all Nude Hope performances through the month of July with the code: happybi

Whiskey Wry Productions presents an original sketch comedy show about advertising performing Saturdays July 19 and 26, Saturday August 2, 2014 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 5:30 pm.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Producers' Guild announced today CST's inaugural Family Gala, Seussapalooza on July 12, 2014, 11:00 a.

Uhry, the only American playwright to have won an Oscar, a Tony (two of them) and a Pulitzer Prize, will share similar stories on a more intimate stage at Harper College for 'An Evening with Playwright Alfred Uhry.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway.

The Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLLAW) is putting the 'sizzle' in summer at CLLAW XIX on Friday, July 25 at Logan Square Auditorium, 2539 N.

North Berwyn Park District's 16th Street Theater announces that Deborah Stewart has joined Artistic Director Ann Filmer in leading 16th Street as the theater's new Managing Director.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that the Tony Award winning Broadway Musical PIPPIN will play Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W Randolph) for two weeks only, July 28 - August 9, 2015.

What roles do we play throughout our lives? These folks step into the spotlight to share their wisdom and tell their stories.

Goodman Theatre introduces its "all-new fall," celebrating nine decades with new inspiration: three months of new American plays, each developed in the Goodman's new play programs.