CHICAGO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 993

Eighty-Eight Entertainment announces that the Chicago Premiere of THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE, starring internationally-acclaimed storyteller and pianist, Mona Golabek, is extending through July 7 due to popular demand at The Royal George Theatre, 1641 North Halsted Street .

Co-founders John Stoops, Tim Evans, and Marc Grapey announce the inaugural season of Three Oaks Theater Festival, a new summer theater festival that will bring three limited-engagement runs of highly-acclaimed, professional Chicago-based productions and a World Premiere to audiences in Harbor Countr

Gorilla Tango Skokie Young Artists Program is proud to announce its first ever musical revue to be held at Gorilla Tango's Skokie Theatre (7924 Lincoln Avenue, Skokie, IL).

In celebration of its one-year anniversary, Zanies Comedy Club will host Chicago area comedians, television and radio personalities, business and civic leaders as they roast Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens, tonight, July 6, 2013.

Performances are: Todays - July 6, 13, 20, 27 @ 8PM; Sundays - July 7, 14, 21, 28 @ 3PM; Friday, July 26 @ Midnight

'Loose Chicks' will be at Uncharted Books, 2630 N Milwaukee Ave, in July! Jillian Erickson, the original 'Loose Chick' will be starring in and presenting an hour long performance based on her experiences through life.

Haven Theatre Chicago presents the company's inaugural production, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, beginning tonight, July 5 - August 11, at Theater Wit, 1229 W.

Chicago's Music Box Theatre (3733 N.

Internet sensation Team StarKid will present its newest Chicago production, TWISTED: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, an original musical comedy parody from the creative team behind the viral hits A Very Potter Musical, Starship, and Holy Musical B@man.

'Cirque Shanghai: Dragon's Thunder' will feature an additional performance today, July 4, with performances at 2 p.

Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Jeff Garlin takes the director's chair with his youth baseball comedy Dealin' With Idiots from IFC Films, opening in Chicago July 12 at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N.

That was the decision which inmates in the concentration camp at Terezin had to make before agreeing to appear in The Last Cyclist, a bitter satire on their life in the camp as well as on the Nazis who guarded them.

Performances of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's season-concluding, Chicago-premiere production of Belleville by Amy Herzog began June 27, directed by the Obie Award-winning Anne Kauffman - who staged the play's acclaimed world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2011 and earlier this season Off-Broa

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced yesterday the opening of productions developed at CST on four continents over the next several months, bringing new work from Chicago to theaters and festivals around the world.

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 League of Chicago Theatres announces the expansion of its Hot Tix half-price ticket program with a new walk-up location in Block Thirty Seven, Shops at 108 N.

Broadway In Chicago has announced WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will be flying its own WICKED Hot Air Balloon, to Lisle, Illinois, for the 'Eyes to the Skies Festival.

'Cafe Cabaret' Cafe Cabaret is an eclectic variety/cabaret show with a rotating cast of performers.

Blue Man Group, announces the judging team for the 2013 Blue Man-themed Art Competition.

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).

Chicagoans can experience the rare privilege of seeing Helen Mirren's acclaimed West End performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, bowing today, July 3 at the Music Box Theatre.

After seven years and 20 productions, Chicago Children's Theatre (CCT) is kicking off its 8th season with a new production of one of the shows it still gets the most requests to bring back - the company's inaugural smash hit, A Year with Frog and Toad.

Signal Ensemble Theatre begins their 2013-2014 and 11th Season with the U.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's hit cabaret of over 30 songs by songwriter Cole Porter will be extended for an additional six weeks, running the rest of the summer.

Internet sensation Team StarKid proudly presents it's newest Chicago production, TWISTED: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, an original musical comedy parody from the creative team behind the viral hits A Very Potter Musical, Starship and Holy Musical B@man.