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The great Chicago actress Hollis Resnik passed away this past Sunday at the age of 67. 

Read the reviews for Steppenwolf's production of Tracy Letts' new play THE MINUTES which opened on Broadway at Studio 54, starring Ian Barford, Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K. Todd Freeman, Tracy Letts, Danny McCarthy, Jessie Mueller, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Noah Reid, Jeff Still.

Jamaica Moon Productions presents three short plays by two great 20th Century American playwrights. All three plays are love stories, and one is a comedy.

Read all the reviews of Roundabout Theatre Company's New York premiere of Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle, starring Emmy Award winner Debra Messing, directed by Vivienne Benesch including the New York Times and more.

After 'reconnecting' with audiences this spring at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) has announced the program for the company's return to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance (205 E Randolph St) to wrap up its 2021/22 season.

Second Stage Theater production of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, Take Me Out, officially opened at the Hayes Theater! Read all the reviews from the New York Times and more!

New York City. 1863. The Civil War raged on. An extraordinary thing occurred amid the dangerous streets and crumbling tenement houses of the Five Points, the notorious 19th-century Lower Manhattan slum. For many years, Irish immigrants escaping the devastation of the Great Famine settled alongside free-born Black Americans and those who escaped slavery, arriving by means of the Underground Railroad. The Irish, relegated at that time to the lowest rung of America's social status, received a sympathetic welcome from their Black neighbors (who enjoyed only slightly better treatment in the burgeoning industrial-era city). The two communities co-existed, intermarried, raised families, and shared their cultures in this unlikeliest of neighborhoods.

 The Neo-Futurists announce the first live full-length show since the COVID shutdown. Created by Ensemble Members Ida Cuttler and Nick Hart, WILDCATS is a multimedia drag spectacle exploring themes of loneliness and isolation via the true story of Lucille Ball's disastrous Broadway debut in 1960. Directed by Halena Kays, WILDCATS is jam packed with live stage spectacle, personal narrative, audience interaction and bizarre-o filmed I Love Lucy episode recreations.

Back with another confessional tale, LA born and Oxford based singer-songwriter Madison Margot lays bare her brand of autobiographical pop on the sweet, sugary new release “All My Wishes” – following up November’s enchanting single “If We Fall”. 

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced that it will begin accepting applications for a limited number of open John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowships in its 2022 National Critics Institute cohort.

MJ is the new Broadway musical that takes audiences inside the creative process of one of the greatest entertainers in history.

The College of Fellows of the American Theatre has announced the investiture of the 2022 class during April at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The third year of the record-breaking North American Tour of Dear Evan Hansen relaunched on December 7, 2021 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The tour will stop by more than 30 cities across the US and Canada in the 2021/2022 season.

Via Madison’s innate ability to hit right at the heart with her descriptive lyrics whilst making you feel like her tales are yours, “If We Fall” continues to underline Madison’s unique talent with plenty more in the pipeline for 2022. Watch the new music video now!

The revival of Company, starring Tony winner Katrina Lenk and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre tonight, December 9. Read the reviews below!

Sean Patrick Flanery (Boondock Saints, The Boys), Jordan Belfi (Entourage, All American), Stelio Savante (Infidel, Running For Grace) , Tom Ohmer (NCIS: Los Angeles, I Am That Man) and Cameron Arnett (Tulsa, Star Trek: The Next Generation) will lead the cast of the new supernatural thriller.

Mrs. Doubtfire, the new musical comedy, officially opened on Broadway tonight, December 5, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St). Check out what the critics are saying!

Roundabout Theatre Company has released a first look portrait of the cast of the Broadway premiere of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, starring Tony & Emmy Award-winner LaChanze and directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.

Paradise Square began its pre-Broadway engagement on November 2, at Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 West Randolph Street). The production plays five weeks only through December 5, 2021.

Diana, The Musical celebrates official opening night tonight, Wednesday, November 17 at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). Diana, The Musical stars Jeanna de Waal as Diana, Roe Hartrampf as Prince Charles, Erin Davie as Camilla Parker Bowles and Judy Kaye as Queen Elizabeth.