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CST presents SHREK THE MUSICAL, based on the Dreamworks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire | music by Jeanine Tesori, directed and choreographed by Rachel Rockwell in Chicago Shakespeare's Courtyard Theater, July 13-September 1, 2013.

CST presents SHREK THE MUSICAL, based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire | music by Jeanine Tesori, directed and choreographed by Rachel Rockwell in Chicago Shakespeare's Courtyard Theater, July 13-September 1, 2013.

DRUNK AND READY is part of Redtwist Theatre's late-night 'Luv Cycle' series from resident playwright, Scott Woldman.

Scott Weinstein, recent director of the acclaimed play SHE KILLS MONSTERS, tackles the game of football in Redtwist's tiny space as a part of the theatre's new off-night series called MORE RED.

Stage Left Theatre will present the upcoming world premiere of Warped written by Barbara Lhota and directed by ensemble member Jason A.

Midwest New Musicals presents NORTH SHORE B & B (BOATS AND BEACHES), the 2013 Mini-Musicals Project today, July 21, 3:00 PM at Light Opera Works Second Stage at McGaw YMCA Children's Center Auditorium, 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston.

Due to popular demand, About Face Theatre's critically acclaimed Chicago premiere of THE PRIDE by Alexi Kaye Campbell (Olivier Award) and directed by Bonnie Metzgar has added two additional weeks of performances - extending through Saturday, July 27, 2013.

Midwest New Musicals presents NORTH SHORE B & B (BOATS AND BEACHES), the 2013 Mini-Musicals Project today, July 21, 3:00 PM at Light Opera Works Second Stage at McGaw YMCA Children's Center Auditorium, 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston

'Come hear the music play.

When the Twist, the Pony and the Watusi replace the galliard and gavotte, and ruffs and farthingales give way to Aloha shirts and bikinis, one may well ask with Viola 'What country, friend, is this?' It is indeed Illyria, Lady but you fetched up in a groovy 1960's beach blanket bingo-ing incarnatio

Goodman Theatre presents four free staged readings of new plays developed in the Playwrights Unit, a season-long residency program for local writers who meet twice monthly with members of the theater's artistic staff to discuss their plays in progress.

We're off to see the Wizard! Director Lydia Milman Schmidt of Fox Valley Repertory and the Youth Ensemble take you to a place Somewhere Over the Rainbowwhen you Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Pheasant Run Mainstage from today, July 20-28, 2013.

In a world premiere production, Babes With Blades Theatre Company presents Bo Thomas and the Case of the Sky Pirates, by Eric Simon, at Raven Theatre West Stage, 6157 N.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre 'gets technical' at VisionFest 5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, ten short plays inspired by technology's influence on society (or what happens when things short circuit).

Performances begin in three weeks for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's upcoming eighth annual First Look Repertory of New Work, featuring three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory July 29 - August 25, 2013 in the Garage Theatre (1624 N Halsted St).

'Inventing Van Gogh' is the most recent project by Strange Bedfellows Theatre, and is the first with their new Artistic Director, Kristen Ahern at the helm.

Step Up Production is pleased to kick-off its 2013-14 season with Richard A.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) Board President, Gregory O'Leary, announces the appointment of Henry Fogel as the company's new President of the Board of Directors, effective July 16, 2013.

Broadway powerhouse and Glee favorite Idina Menzel - the Tony Award-winning Elphaba from Wicked - is gracing the RiverEdge Park stage during its inaugural season celebration.

Thodos Dance Chicago will celebrate 13 years of dance creation with its annual New Dances performance series, today, July 19-21, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N.

Eclipse Theatre Company, the only theatre company in the Midwest to feature the works of one playwright in one season, will continue their 2013 season featuring the works of Sir Alan Ayckbourn with his hilarious comedy Bedroom Farce, directed by Remy Bumppo Theatre Artistic Director Nick Sandys.

The Kiss Kiss Cabaret announces an extension of its summer blockbuster run 'FilmStrips: An Evening of Cinematic Burlesque' on Fridays at 11 p.

Due to overwhelming sales, the Chicago Premiere of THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE, starring internationally-acclaimed storyteller and pianist, Mona Golabek, today announced its final extension through Sept.

TimeLine Theatre Company, dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today's social and political issues, has finalized casting for three of the four productions of its 2013-14 season, as the company embarks upon its most ambitious season ever with major revivals (A Raisin in

Redmoon announces today Rebecca Rugg as Producer of the Great Chicago Fire Festival, a citywide event that will take place in neighborhoods throughout the summer in 2014, with the spectacle finale that October on the Chicago River.