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Porchlight Announces Cast and Creative Team for ANYTHING GOES

November 06, 2023

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its 90th Anniversary production of Cole Porter's crown jewel musical comedy, Anything Goes, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and a new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman, January 13 – February 25, 2024, at the Ruth Page Center.

Cast and Creative Team Set for ANYTHING GOES at Porchlight Music Theatre

November 06, 2023

Porchlight has revealed the cast and creative team for ANYTHING GOES starring Meghan Murphy. Get all the details for this upcoming production.

Streams of Shorts, a Feature from Israel & More Set for Pride Film Fest Programming for June and July 2023

May 19, 2023

Pride Film Fest will celebrate the Pride month of June with three programs of short LGBT films from around the world and an in-person screening of the Argentine film HORSEPLAY at  Chicago’s Facets on June 22.

Refracted Theatre Co. Presents REFRACTION LAB SHOWCASE This December

November 11, 2022

Refracted Theatre Company will present its 2022 RefrAction Lab Showcase, featuring excerpts from five new works developed during its eight-month playwriting lab for emerging Chicago playwrights.

Pride Film Fest Announces Six Slates of International LGBTQ Films to Stream October

September 15, 2022

Pride Film Fest has announced its first schedule of LGBTQ-themed films since spinning off as a separate entity from PrideArts (previously Pride Films and Plays), where it began in 2012 as the in-person Queer Bits Film Fest.

Refracted Theatre Company Announces Refraction Lab 2022 Cohort

July 08, 2022

Refracted Theatre Company has announced the cohort chosen for its 2022 RefrAction Lab, an eight-month playwriting lab for emerging Chicago playwrights.

Chicago Premiere of Zoe Kazan's AFTER THE BLAST to be Presented by Broken Nose Theatre

April 20, 2022

Broken Nose Theatre, one of Chicago’s premier Pay-What-You-Can theatre companies, will continue its tenth season with the Chicago premiere of Zoe Kazan’s smart and incisive sci-fi drama After The Blast, directed by ensemble member JD Caudill.

PrideArts Announces Four-Show Virtual Fall Season, REIGNITE!

September 02, 2020

PrideArts Artistic Director Donterrio Johnson today announced a four - show virtual fall season called REIGNITE! that will look to the 17th and 19th Centuries for inspiration. T

What's Streaming In Chicago This Month

June 12, 2020

Learn more about all the streaming offerings, podcasts, classes, and more streaming from Chicago arts orgs this month.:

Premiere Of Pride Films and Plays' NOMINEE NIGHT Rescheduled To Wednesday, June 3

June 03, 2020

The premiere of Pride Films and Plays' annual NOMINEE NIGHT concert featuring performers nominated for Non-Equity Jeff awards in musical theatre categories, originally planned for Monday, June 1, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, June 3.

Pride Films and Plays Presents Virtual Reading of A LATE SNOW

May 27, 2020

Continuing Pride Films and Plays' 'Pride in Place' series of live online readings, A LATE SNOW by Jane Chambers will be performed on Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m.