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Farmers Alley Theatre will open its holiday season with A Very Kalamazoo Christmas, a new comedy by Michigan playwright Robert Hawlmark, beginning November 20, 2025.

City Lit Theater has announced a cohort of Artistic Associates for the first time in its 45-year history. Learn more about the full lineup for this first cohort here!

The Oak Park Festival Theatre is presenting its 50th Anniversary production of one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, TWELFTH NIGHT. See photos!

Farmers Alley Theatre is presenting the Kalamazoo premiere of A Jukebox for the Algonquin by Paul Stroili. See photos here and learn more about the extended production.

The Oak Park Festival Theatre has announced the cast and production team of its Summer 2025 production, one of William Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL.

City Lit Theater has announced its programming for the 2025-26 season, the company’s 45th. The season will have a strong focus on new works by Chicago-area writers.

Farmers Alley Theatre will present the Kalamazoo premiere of A Jukebox for the Algonquin by Paul Stroili: a brand new comedy with heart. Learn more about the show here!

The Purple Rose Theatre Company has announced the second production of their 32nd season, “Human Error” a Michigan Premiere comedy by Eric Pfeffinger. Tickets are on sale now.

Dateline: (Indianapolis, September 26, 2022) Nevermore - Indianapolis' newest 'eatertainment' venue located in historic Union Station - is proud to host a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience: Edgar Allan Poe LIVE, to be performed on Friday November 4, 2022.

The Oak Park Festival Theatre today announced its summer show, William Shakespeare's THE WINTER'S TALE, opening July 16 and running through August 20 at Austin Gardens.

Oak Park Festival Theatre returns to its Austin Gardens outdoor performance space this summer to present 21 in-person performances of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest.”

Oak Park Festival Theatre triumphantly returns to its beloved Austin Gardens outdoor performance space this summer to present 21 in-person performances of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest.”

Betrayed and overthrown, Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, and his only child Miranda have lived for years in exile on an island of refuse and waste. Now the time has come for a reckoning as Prospero conjures a mighty and catastrophic storm to deliver his enemies to him and begin their torment.

Announcing casting the world premiere of a?oeA Dickens Carola??.  An all-new holiday tradition that re-imagines the story of Scrooge from Dickens' point of view and real-life events.

Timber Lake Playhouse (TLP), the premier professional summer theatre of northwest Illinois, opens its 58th consecutive summer season for 2019 on May 11 with the ABBA Tribute Band, Dancing Queen. Artistic Director Paul Stancato and Executive Director Dan Danielowski are busily making preparations for the opening.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces the cast and creative team for Short Shakespeare! Macbeth, a 75-minute abridged production of William Shakespeare's tale of political intrigue and personal ambition. Adapted and directed by Marti Lyons and featuring a dynamic ensemble cast, the production will be performed for the public on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m., February 16-March 16, 2019. After each performance, the actors remain on stage for a question-and-answer session, before joining the audience in the Lobby for one-on-one conversations and photo opportunities. 

Before Scrooge.  Before Jacob Marley.  Charles Dickens had his own ghosts to contend with.

Before Scrooge. Before Jacob Marley. Charles Dickens had his own ghosts to contend with.

Shakespeare's most famous couples face off! Half a millennium before Lucy had some splainin' to do for Ricky, Sam butted heads with Diane and Harry met Sally, Shakespeare had already perfected one of the cornerstones of relationship comedies: the bickering couple. From the hilariously sharp-witted (and sharp-tongued) Katherine going toe to toe with husband-to-be Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, to the befuddled lovers quartet in A Midsummer Night's Dream, these love spats feature some of the funniest, cleverest and nastiest barbs Shakespeare ever put to parchment.

Before Scrooge. Before Jacob Marley. Charles Dickens had his own ghosts to contend with. Announcing the world premiere of 'A Dickens Carol,' an all-new holiday tradition that re-imagines the story of Scrooge from Dickens' point of view and real-life events.