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Open Space Arts extends its British hit show COCK to May 11th due to popular demand. Catch the production that has received rave reviews and a Jeff recommendation for an additional three weekends.

Open Space Arts has announced the fourth production of its inaugural season, the comedy COCK, by British playwright Mike Bartlett.

Live theater returns to Raue Center in 2024 with a hilarious comedy of manners “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarias and directed by company member Michele Vazquez.

The Conspirators present The Conspirators’ 125th Anniversary Jubilee, Feat. “The Ineptidemic,” written by Sid Feldman, Octave Mirbeau, and friends and directed by Artistic Director Wm. Bullion, at Otherworld Theatre.

The Conspirators present The Conspirators' 125th Anniversary Jubilee, Feat. “The Ineptidemic,” written by Sid Feldman, Octave Mirbeau, and friends and directed by Artistic Director Wm. Bullion, at Otherworld Theatre, 3914 N. Clark St., November 3 - 19.

The Resident Theatre at Edge of the Wood is will welcome actors and patrons back to in-person performances with a new production of The Book of Will, by Lauren Gunderson, in their space at the Edgebrook Community Church, April 22 through May 1.

Executive and Artistic Director Keith Gerth and Associate Artistic Director Stephen Smith of the Oil Lamp Theater in Glenview announce their next production, Neil Simon's dramatic comedy Jake's Women. This production is directed by Josh Johnson and will be performed from January 16th through March 1st 2020 at 1723 Glenview Road in Glenview.

The Conspirators are pleased to announce the full cast of the World Premiere adaptation of Accidental Death of a Black Motorist, adapted from Dario Fo by Sid Feldman and directed by Wm. Bullion, to be performed at the Athenaeum Theatre, Studio 1, 2936 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago. There will be a preview on Thursday, October 24th, and the opening is Friday October 25th. The show will run Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM through November 23rd.

Fresh from the success of their World Premiere of The Deckchairs (or, Make the Titanic Great Again), written by Sid Feldman and directed by Wm. Bullion, the Conspirators are thrilled to announce a new, raucous evening of frenetic, irreverent misbehavior. Yankee Doodles: Let Treason Ring! will open at 8PM on Thursday, October 25 and run for two weeks only (right up until the election), Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM through November 3 at The Conspiratorium, 755 N Ashland in Chicago.

The Conspirators are proud to present the World Premiere of The Deckchairs (or, Make the Titanic Great Again), written by Sid Feldman and directed by Wm. Bullion, to be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago. There will be a preview on Thursday, June 7th, and the opening is Today June 8th. The show will run Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM from June 8th - June 30th, with a special Flag Day performance on June 14th. 

The Conspirators are pleased to announce the full cast and production team of the World Premiere of The Deckchairs (or, Make the Titanic Great Again), written by Sid Feldman and directed by Wm. Bullion, to be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago.

The Conspirators are proud to present the World Premiere of The Deckchairs (or, Make the Titanic Great Again), written by Sid Feldman and directed by Wm. Bullion, to be performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago. There will be a preview on Thursday, June 7th, and the opening is Friday June 8th. The show will run Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM from June 8th - June 30th, with a special Flag Day performance on June 14th. 

Set one hundred years ago in Paris, The Radiant centers on the true, tempestuous, and love-torn life of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie. Widowed at thirty-nine, with two young children to raise and support, she becomes involved in a scandalous affair with her young married assistant, an affair which rocks Paris and nearly costs her her career - and her life. But, she survives this and the great bias against women scientists throughout Europe then and goes on to discover and isolate radium, earn two Nobel Prizes, and revolutionize the world of science forever, ushering in "The Atomic Age" and the first cure for cancer.

Thicker Than Water looks at the tragic case of Andrea Yates who admitted to drowning her 5 children in the bathtub. 

Playwright Douglas Parker is known for his plays BESSIE:  The Life and Music of Bessie Smith, Life on the Mississippi, a play about young Samuel Clemens and Declarations, a one act play drawn from the letters of John and Abigail Adams.Thicker Than Water looks at the tragic case of Andrea Yates who admitted to drowning her 5 children in the bathtub. 

Redtwist Theatre presents the Chicago Premiere of Scarcity by Lucy Thurber. Directed by Cody Estle, the play opens Saturday, Sept 10, 2016, at 3pm.

ShPIeL-Performing Identity proudly announces the world premiere of Angina Pectoris, written by Michal Aharoni and directed by ShPIeL Producing Artistic Director David Y. Chack, November 19 - January 3, 2016 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Check out photos below!