TV: Highlights from COMEDYSPORTZ World Championship in Chicago
July 23, 2012ComedySportz Chicago took the trophy at the 2012 ComedySportz World Championship this past Saturday, July 21. The annual event, held in Chicago for the first time since 2001, hosted 19 teams and 230 players from across the country and Europe, the largest gathering of participants in the 25 year Come...
STAGE TUBE: First Look at Scenes from THE VORTEX, Opening Tonight
July 20, 2012Dead Writers Theatre Collective presents its inaugural production, Noel Coward's The Vortex, directed by Jim Schneider, tonight, July 20 through August 26, at the Greenhouse Theater Complex. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the show. Click on the videos below....
STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes of Marriott Theatre's HERO World Premiere
July 09, 2012The Marriott Theatre presents HERO, a new musical written by Aaron Thielen with music and lyrics by Michael Mahler, running now through August 19, 2012. Eleven-time Jeff award-winner David H. Bell directs and choreographs. Erich Bergen (JERSEY BOYS, Nat'l Tour) stars as Hero Batowski. Click below to...
STAGE TUBE: MARY POPPINS' Ashley Brown Performs on Windy City Live
July 03, 2012The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's July 4th performance as part of the Ravinia Festival will feature vocalist Ashley Brown, who won rave reviews in the title role of Mary Poppins on Broadway and recently made her Lyric Opera debut in an acclaimed production of Show Boat. Brown appeared on Windy City L...
STAGE TUBE: Behind-the-Scenes with Director of CST's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
July 02, 2012Disney's Beauty and the Beast is now playing in Chicago Shakespeare's Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier through August 26, 2012. Director Rachel Rockwell shares her enthusiasm for Disney's Beauty and the Beast with the company on the first day of rehearsal. Get a glimpse inside the rehearsal room by w...
STAGE TUBE: Director Denis Jones Talks CHICAGO with Mike Isaacson at the Muny
June 25, 2012The Muny will present its second show of its 94th season, Chicago (June 25 - July 1), directed and choreographed by Denis Jones. Click below to watch videos of Director Denis Jones in discussions with Executive Producer, Mike Isaacson....
STAGE TUBE: Scenes from ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at the Coterie
June 24, 2012Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytale, "The Princess and the Pea," is now playing on stage as a musical comedy in Once Upon a Mattress through August 5 at the Coterie Theatre in Crown Center. Click below to watch a teaser of the show! ...
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at 30 QUEER PLAYS IN 60 STRAIGHT MINUTES in 73 Seconds!
June 20, 2012The 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 pulls favorite queer-sexuality and gender bending themed plays from the past year into one fabulous Pride show...
STAGE TUBE: ROCK OF AGES Visits Broadway Playhouse
June 18, 2012Broadway In Chicago presents the five-time Tony Award® nominated musical ROCK OF AGES, returning to Chicago this summer by popular demand through August 5, 2012, for a highly entertaining, intimate, rock concert experience at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 East Chestnut). The cast...
STAGE TUBE: JERSEY BOYS Cast Sings at White Sox Game
May 18, 2012The JERSEY BOYS Chicago cast recently sang a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem at a White Sox game at Cellular Field....
TV: Nathan Lane & Brian Dennehy in THE ICEMAN COMETH- Performance Highlights!
May 16, 2012Robert Falls' major revival of THE ICEMAN COMETH, O'Neill's towering portrait of hope and disillusionment, just opened on May 3 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. The production is led by Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Nathan Lane as Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman, the quintessential purveyor and sl...
TV: Ian McDiarmid in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's TIMON OF ATHENS - Show Highlights!
May 11, 2012Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is currently presenting, William Shakespeare's rarely produced Timon of Athens, directed by CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and featuring Tony Award winner Ian McDiarmid in the title role. Performed in CST's Courtyard Theater from through June 10, 2012, Gaines'...
TV Seattle Exclusive: Behind the Scenes of Kristin Chenoweth on Tour!
May 11, 2012BroadwayWorld Seattle was granted EXCLUSIVE access to Kristin Chenoweth's debut performance of her new (and first ever) tour, which opened in Seattle on Wednesday night ... and received a whopping NINE standing ovations for a show unlike we had ever seen. ...
STAGE TUBE: Opening Night Interviews at MAKING GOD LAUGH's Chicago Premiere
May 09, 2012Inspired by the Woody Allen joke, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans", Sean Grennan's newest work, MAKING GOD LAUGH, just made its Chicago Premiere at Theatre at the Center. Produced in association with First Folio Theatre, this heartwarming comedy runs through June 10 at 1040 Ridge...
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peak at Jeff Lynch's Combat Routines for BEOWULF
May 02, 2012This is Jeff Lynch performing a demonstration of the combat in his upcoming adaptation of 'Beowulf' May 31-June 10 at Studio BE in Chicago, IL. He also talks about his interpretation of the legend....
STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes at Drury Lane's HAIRSPRAY Opening Night
April 27, 2012Take a behind-the-scenes look at the actors after their opening night, April 19, performance of HAIRSPRAY, which recently opened at the Drury Lane Theatre in Chicago. Check out the video below!...
TV: Simon Callow in BEING SHAKESPEARE at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
April 20, 2012Simon Callow has brought his highly acclaimed show BEING SHAKESPEARE to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre at the Broadway Playhouse for a limited engagement through April 29, 2012. Performances began April, 18 2012. The Chicago engagement follows productions at BAM in New York and Trafalgar Studios 1...
STAGE TUBE: Team StarKid Premieres HOLY MUSICAL B@MAN!
April 14, 2012Team StarKid, a youth-led theater company best known for its Harry Potter musical theater parody A Very Potter Musical starring Darren Criss, released its latest spoof Holy Musical B@man! last night, April 13. Watch the video, now available on Team Starkid's website and Youtube, below!...
STAGE TUBE: Cast of FELA! Performs on ABC 7
April 10, 2012Currently playing at the Oriental Theatre, FELA! has entered its final week of performances with Broadway in Chicago. Two of the lead actors from the touring production of the Broadway musical stopped by at ABC 7's studios for a special performance. Watch the video of the performance below!...
STAGE TUBE: Opening Night Chats from Mark St. Germain's FREUD'S LAST SESSION in Chicago
April 02, 2012FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the play by Mark St. Germain now in its second successful year in New York opened at the Mercury Theater (3745 N. Southport, Chicago) 'for a session,' making its Midwest premiere, running through June 3....
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL
March 26, 2012In THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL, sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. Lucifer and his cast of singing carnies guide these lost souls through their wild, warped amusement park. Check out a video preview of the show below!...
STAGE TUBE: I Made America Present FOUNDING FATHERS PICK-UP LINES
March 14, 2012'I Made America' uses many media platforms--from weekly webisodes and social media to street performances and local bar sightings--to tell one story. Six Founding Fathers of the United States of America were kidnapped from the 18th Century and brought to 2012 to be used as props in the upcoming elec...
STAGE TUBE: First Trailer for Red Tape Theatre's XYLOPHONE WEST
March 08, 2012Check out this trailer for THE XYLOPHONE WEST, a new play by Alex Lubischer, directed by Josh Sobel, which is scheduled to play at the Red Tape Theatre, 621 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago from March 16 - April 4, 2012. The trailer features the videography of Jonah Rubash of Magnanimous Media....
STAGE TUBE: Team StarKid's HOLY MUSICAL B@MAN! Teaser
February 24, 2012Team StarKid, the creative team behind A VERY POTTER MUSICAL, have released a teaser trailer for their new musical HOLY MUSICAL B@MAN! The video below gives a glimpse of the original music and lyrics by Nick Gage, with additional music by Scott Lamps....
TV: Sneak Peek of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
February 21, 2012Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) 25th Anniversary Season production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by CST Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin (CST's Follies, Broadway's The Color Purple) is now playing through April 8, 2012, and features a celebrated company of ...
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