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Lifeline Theatre's KidSeries presents The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, a family musical based on the popular children's book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.

The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) announces its Winter 2014 programs: featuring critically acclaimed authors Gary Shteyngart, Karen Russell, and Mohsin Hamid.

Be Out Loud Theatre (BOLT) brings Michael Swinford's critically acclaimed one-man show, Rough Sex and Other Bad Words, to Chicago from Wednesday, December 4 through Saturday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 11 through Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 7:30 pm.

Fox Valley Rep, in residence at Pheasant Run Resort, announces their calendar-year 2014 season of nostalgic memoirs and memorable musicals, including the international musical hit, Nunsense, the coming-of-age comedy and memoir, Cheaper by the Dozen, followed by the story of the real Andrews Sisters,

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Bailiwick Chicago has announced casting for its 2013-14 Season, which features two stunning musicals in their Chicago premieres.

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center is pleased to continue its 2013-14 Season with a new production of the comedy STANDING IN MATTOON by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, the creators of the Chicago cult hit Leaving Iowa.

Short Story Theatre, a local storytelling troupe of writers and performers, will present an evening of storytelling tonight, November 14, 2013, at 7:00 p.

The Trap Door Theatre celebrates their 20th Anniversary Season by restaging their production of Blood on the Cat's Neck, written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, translated by Denis Calandra, directed by Beata Pilch, inspired by the original Trap Door production directed by Andrew Cooper Wasser.

NightBlue Performing Arts Company (RENT, AVENUE Q, Monty Python's SPAMALOT!) has announced its upcoming production of "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" by Tom Mula.

Writers Theatre has announced the On To A New Stage Campaign, a $31 million fundraising campaign that will establish the nationally-recognized company's new home - a theatre center designed by Chicago's internationally renowned Studio Gang Architects, led by principal Jeanne Gang.

Court Theatre's remount of Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's An Iliad, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell and featuring Timothy Edward Kane, will run tonight, November 13 - December 8, 2013 at Court Theatre, 5535 S.

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If a three-­year-­old theatre company can be said to have a tradition, Fine Print's "Christmas in Chicago" would certainly warrant the term.

Kick off the New Year with Ron Hawking's smash hit show His Way: A Tribute to The Man and His Music at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster, Indiana on Tuesday, December 31 through Sunday, January 5.

This December, Chicago's acclaimed Spectacle company Redmoon presents the 15th Annual Winter Pageant featuring collaborators The Happiness Club of Chicago, Kalapriya Dance, Indonesian Dance of Illinois, Pineapple Dance Studio, Mexican clown artist Fernando Cordova Hernandez, aerialist Helena Reynold

Court Theatre continues its 2013-2014 season with the revival of the OBIE Award-winning play An Iliad by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell and starring Timothy Edward Kane.

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Feherty's Troops First Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization co-founded by professional golfer and CBS Sports and Golf Channel writer and broadcaster David Feherty, will launch its inaugural Operation Warrior Call event on Sunday, November 24th.

Members of the National Touring Company of WICKED will host "THE WICKED NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS," a staged holiday performance at The Laugh Factory (3175 N.

After a record number of nominations and careful proofing by our local editors for eligibility, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Awards.

Light Opera Works will present the original 1946 Broadway version of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN with a full 28-piece pit orchestra, December 21 through 31, at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson in Evanston.

On November 20, Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja-Gramophone magazine's 2012 Artist of the Year-returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago to headline La traviata in an incisive new production from Princess Grace Award-winning director Arin Arbus (Nov 20-Dec 20).

What would Chicago's list of holiday shows be without Theater Wit's always popular revival of The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris at the top of the naughty column?