David Zak News

The final staged readings in our series The Great Plays of Terrence McNally will be held at Mary's Attic this Sunday and next. Make sure to purchase your tickets today!

Seventeen screenplays with GLBT themes or characters have been named semifinalists in the first Great Gay Screenplay Contest sponsored by Pride Films and Plays.

Pride Films & Plays is proud to announce the Great Gay Play Contest held in conjunction with Center on Halsted. This contest seeks new works dealing with GLBTQ history, characters or themes that are important to the community and relevant to the world.

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

Pride Films and Plays Presents TAKE ME OUT Reading 6/20

Pride Films and Plays Presents TAKE ME OUT Reading 6/20

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

The Bricklayers Theatre Co. announces our 2010 season of plays, at its center the Chicago Premiere of Tony Kushner's translation of Mother Courage and HerChildren by Bertolt Brecht.

Executive Director Kevin Mayes announced the official launch of the new Bailiwick Chicago, including the company's revised artistic mission and core values, new organizational structure and initial plans for their premiere season under the new name.

Bailiwick Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director, David Zak, and its Board President, Don Cortelyou, announced today that Artistic Associate Kevin Mayes has assumed management of the company as Executive Director.

Bailiwick's Jeff Recommended musical homage to Broadway Musicals BOMBS AWAY! will return for three weekends August 7 to 23 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted. The original cast of Kate Garassino, Anna Stevens, Eric Martin, and Rus Rainear again are featured.

Bailiwick's Jeff Recommended musical homage to Broadway Musicals BOMBS AWAY! will return for three weekends August 7 to 23 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted. The original cast of Kate Garassino, Anna Stevens, Eric Martin, and Rus Rainear again are featured.

Bailiwick Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director David Zak recently announced that a delightful new musical of GLTB fairy tales, The Cousins Grimm, will be featured in Bailiwick's 2009 Pride Series, playing July 10 to August 23 at Hoover-Leppen Theater at Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted, Chicago, Illinois.

Five years ago, Larry Bortniker and Sally Deering's hilarious new musical DR. SEX about the life of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey became a Jeff Award winning hit for Bailiwick Repertory in the old Bailiwick Arts Center. Now Bailiwick is back and on the road with BOMBS AWAY! Deering and Bortniker's crazily comic depiction of Dr. Barry Mishkin, America's foremost Broadway musicologist who has amassed an amazing collection of scenes and numbers cut from Broadway's classic musicals.

Bailiwick's Jeff Recommended musical homage to Broadway Musicals BOMBS AWAY! will return for three weekends through August 23rd at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted. The original cast of Kate Garassino, Anna Stevens, Eric Martin, and Rus Rainear again are featured.

Bailiwick's Jeff Recommended musical homage to Broadway Musicals BOMBS AWAY! will return for three weekends August 7 to 23 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted. The original cast of Kate Garassino, Anna Stevens, Eric Martin, and Rus Rainear again are featured.