Ghostlight Ensemble has revealed the details, including the cast, of their spring mainstage show, The Dover Road by A.A. Milne. The Dover Road is a dissection of romantic love with hints at the homosocial instinct of English upper-class men.
City Lit will celebrate the holidays with the world premiere production of John Weagly's SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS CLOWNS, a mystery adapted from the short story “The Flying Stars” by G.K. Chesterton and the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Oil Lamp Theater’s 2025 season is continuing with its next production, Gaslight (Angel Street), by Patrick Hamilton and directed by Susan Gorman. Get a first look at photos here!
Oil Lamp Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for its next production, Gaslight (Angel Street). See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!
Celebrating its 51st anniversary awarding recognition for Non-Equity theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards revealed its nominations for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2024 season. Learn more about the nominations.
Full cast and production team have been announced for City Lit’s season-closing production of MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL by T.S. Eliot, the Nobel Prize winner considered to be one of the 20th Century’s greatest poets.
City Lit will return from the holidays with THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Harold Pinter’s first produced full-length play. Artistic Director Terry McCabe, who will direct this dark comedy, has announced the cast and creative team.
Ghostlight Ensemble will present its original adaptation of The Woman of Colour: A Tale - the story of a biracial heiress on her travels from Jamaica to England to marry as a condition of her father's will - at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 at the Berger Park Cultural Center.
City Lit Theater's Artistic Director Terry McCabe today announced his full cast for the company's new staging of its 2007 Jeff Award-nominated production of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.
Redtwist Theatre presents the World Premiere Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS. Adapted and Directed by new Redtwist Company Member, Erin Murray.
Redtwist Theatre presents the World Premiere Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's GHOSTS. Adapted and Directed by new Redtwist Company Member, Erin Murray.
Casting was announced today for THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA - Midsommer Flight's seventh summer of free Shakespeare performances as an Arts Partner in Chicago Park District parks. The company's Founding Artistic Director Beth Wolf, who will direct Shakespeare's comedy, made the announcement today. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA will play two weekends each in four different Chicago parks.
City Lit Theatre Artistic Director Terry McCabe has announced the cast for the company's season finale, the British comedy London Assurance. First produced in London in 1841 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and shortly thereafter in New York City, London Assurance is considered a transitional play between the 18th century comedies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith and the late 19th Century plays of Oscar Wilde. It has been one of Great Britain's most popular comedies of the standard classical repertoire and in recent decades has been performed by some of Britain's leading actors.
Theatre at the Center's production of Annie Warbucks, the sequel to Annie, the 1977 Tony Award-winning smash Broadway hit, opened to a packed house Sunday, November 20. Based on Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip, the book is by Thomas Meehan with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. Annie Warbucks opened Off Broadway in 1993 and broke records for the time with 200 performances. The Jeff Recommended production will continue through December 18. BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening festivities below!
Midsommer Flight kicks off its fifth season this summer with the delightful comedy As You Like It, presented outdoors in four Chicago parks. Dedicated to presenting high quality, accessible productions of Shakespeare's plays, Midsommer Flight is a proud arts partner with the Chicago Park District.
? Midsommer Flight kicks off its fifth season this summer with the delightful comedy As You Like It, presented outdoors in four Chicago parks. Dedicated to presenting high quality, accessible productions of Shakespeare's plays, Midsommer Flight is a proud arts partner with the Chicago Park District.
Midsommer Flight kicks off its fifth season this summer with the delightful comedy As You Like It, presented outdoors in four Chicago parks. Dedicated to presenting high quality, accessible productions of Shakespeare's plays, Midsommer Flight is a proud arts partner with the Chicago Park District.
Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, in a world premiere adaptation by City Lit Artistic Director Terry McCabe and directed by Warner Crocker, will open City Lit Theater's thirty-sixth season, McCabe announced today.
Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn Lipuma announce the extension of the critically acclaimed and box office hit The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman and directed Kimberly Senior. The show, which was originally on sale through June 28, has extended in response to overwhelming demand, adding additional weeks of performances at the Theatre's Books on Vernon location, 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe.
Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn Lipuma announce the extension of the critically acclaimed and box office hit The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman and directed Kimberly Senior. The show, which was originally on sale through June 28, has extended in response to overwhelming demand, adding additional weeks of performances at the Theatre's Books on Vernon location, 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe.
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