Theater Thursday: The Tallest Man – Artistic Home

Thursday, July 1st The Tallest Man by Jim Lynch The Artistic Home, 3914 N. Clark (map)      Come before the show to enjoy a pint of Murphy’s Stout and live Irish music with playwright Jim Lynch. Then stay for the show the Sun-Times has called "forged in the tradition of such grand Irish writers as [...]

Theater Thursday: Fuerza Bruta – Look Up

Thursday, June 24 Fuerza Bruta: Look Up Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress (map) You’ve got to see it to believe it!  Come see Fuerza Bruta: Look Up (our review ★★★),  a theatrical experience that floods the senses.  Experience a 360-degree heart-pounding theatrical event, filled with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multi-dimensional [...]

Theater Thursday: The Ghost Sonata at Oracle Theatre

Thursday, May 20 The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg  Oracle Theatre, 3809 N. Broadway, Chicago   Join Oracle for wine and appetizers before the show and a post-show discussion on the direction of Oracle’s 2010-2011 season. Max Truax follows up his Oracle directorial debut – 2008′s stunning conceptual Termen Vox Machina – with an elegant, [...]

If what you really wanna do is produce… Here’s a chance to pick the brains of the industry’s elite

So you wanna be a producer? Here’s your chance to rub elbows with (and pick the brains of) a roster of heavy-hitting industry vets with blockbuster track records in Chicago, on Broadway and throughout the wide world of national tours.

Shows Opening/Closing this week

Show Openings   “Master Harold”…and the Boys – TimeLine Theatre The Alcyone Festival 2010 – Halcyon Theatre The Castle – Oracle Theatre Desperately Seeking – Chemically Imbalanced Theater Dreamgirls – Cadillac Palace Theatre (Broadway in Chicago) First Words – Greenhouse Theater Center (MPAACT) The Dames Storm Division – New Millenium Theatre Glitter in the Gutter [...]

Five last-minute gifts for your Chicago theater-loving friends

Five last-minute gifts for your Chicago theater-loving friends By Leah A. Zeldes Still wracking your brain for the perfect gift? Here are a few last minute ideas for the local theater fans on your list. Theater tour tickets Take your friends on a tour of a treasure of Chicago’s Theatre District. Modestly priced backstage tours [...]

Chicago theater openings/closings this week

show openings   1985 – The Factory Theater  All the Fame of Lofty Deeds – The House Theatre of Chicago  Becoming Ingrid – Rubicon Theatre Project Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet – Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Cooperstown – Theatre Seven of Chicago The David Bowie Hepzikat Funky Velvet Flarney Solstice Spectacular Live!…From Space (David Bowie’s [...]

Chicago theater openings/closings this week

show openings Abrose Bierce: Tales and Times – Lincoln Square Theatre Arsenic and Old Lace – Northwestern University Book of Days – EverGreen Theatre Ensemble Death Toll – Corn Productions Estranged Men at Seven – Gorilla Tango Theatre The Flowers – About Face Theatre Frankenstein – The Hypocrites Holes – Merle Reskin Theatre Hunchback – [...]

Chicago theater openings/closings this week

show openings Anna, in the Darkness: The Basement – Dream Theatre Bastards of Young – Tympanic Theatre Calls to Blood – The New Colony Cats – Cadillac Palace Theatre Dooby Dooby Moo – Lifeline Theatre Everyone’s Favorite Lobster – Gorilla Tango Theatre The Flaming Dames in Vamp II – New Millenium Theatre Heroes – Remy [...]

Show openings/closings this week

show openings 12 Ophelias – Trap Door Theatre Animal Crackers – Goodman Theatre An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Dr. John Faustus on this His Final Evening – Theater Oobleck Fear – The Neo Futurists Lights Out Alma – Annoyance Theatre Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Court Theatre The [...]

Chicago theater openings and closings this week

show openings Bonbs Away! – Bailiwick Repertory Boys Life – Gorilla Tango Theatre Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Circle Theatre Draft – Gorilla Tango Theatre Plaza Suite – Eclipse Theatre The Second City’s Girls Night Out – Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Visionfest 2009 – LiveWire Chicago Theatre   show closings Bye, Bye Birdie [...]

Opening and Closing this week

show openings The Adventures of Nervous Boy – Gorilla Tango Theatre Diva! Diva! Divas! – Northwestern University Theater Jinx – Appetite Theatre The Siren Song of Stephan Jay Gould – Gorilla Tango Theatre Juno and the Paycock – The Artistic Home Savage/Love – The Viaduct Theater A Walk in the Woods – Redtwist Theatre   [...]

This week’s Chicago theater show openings/closings

show openings The 9/11 Report – La Red Music Theatre Bikerman and the Jewish Avenger – Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Bye Bye Birdie – Northwestern University Theater Ching, Chong, Chinaman – Silk Road Theatre Project Fun O’Clock: A Very Special “That’s Weird Grandma” – Barrel of Monkeys Honest – Steppenwolf Theatre How to Succeed in [...]

This week’s Chicago theater openings/closings

  Opening This Week The Bucktown Stand-Up Showdown - Gorilla Tango Theatre Cloclo – Chicago Center for the Performing Arts Cyrano de Bergerac – Oak Park Festival Theatre El Grito del Bronx – Collaboraction Get Comfortable: A Night of Shorts – Gorilla Tango Theatre On Stage with Megon McDonough – Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University One [...]

This week’s show openings, closings, ticket specials

show openings Charlotte’s Web – Theatre-Hikes Consume – Gorilla Tango Theatre A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking – Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Earth: TTFN?! – WWS Productions Improvised Shakespeare Company – Theater on the Lake An Urban Home Companion – Gorilla Tango Theatre Wanted – Gorilla Tango Theatre What We May Be – Gorilla Tango [...]

Opening this week in Chicago

500 Clown and the Elephant Deal – 500 Clown Boleros for the Disenchanted – Goodman Theatre A Celebration of Hope and Peace – Chiesa Nuova A Celebration of Johnny Mercer - Northwestern University Theater Dead Wrong - The Factory Theater Earth: TTFN?! – WWS Productions The Hollow Lands – Steep Theatre In Your Facebook – Prop Thtr [...]

This week’s Chicago show openings and ticket specials

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE – Independent Stars Theatre CUSTER’S LAST STAND FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – Piccolo Theatre INTO THE WIND – Gorilla Tango Theatre JON – Collaboraction Theatre PAUL’S GLASSES – Gorilla Tango Theatre POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical – Hell in a Handbag Productions SKETCHTOPIA – Victory Gardens Biograph Theater SODOMITES!!! A [...]

Chicago theater openings and specials this week

show openings 5th of July – Oak Park Festival Theatre The Alcyone Festival 2009 – Halcyon Theatre Belmont Burlesque Revue – Gorilla Tango Theatre Follies – Actors Theatre Company Improv Children of the Corn 2 – Cornservatory Jesus Hopped the “A” Train – Village Players Performing Arts Center Little Brother – Griffin Theatre Nederlands Dans [...]

Opening This Week in Chicago

     $30,000 Bequest -  Organic Theater Cirque Shangai: Bright Spirit -  Navy Pier The Duck Variations – Theatre-Hikes Hope VI – Chicago Dramatists The K of D: An Urban Legend – A Red Orchid Theatre The Last Ninety Minutes in the Life of Nikola Tesla -  University Theater at University of Chicago Line – [...]

Chicago theater openings this week

BABY – Metropolis Performing Arts Centre BAD TOUCH AND GOOD LIARS – Annoyance Theatre A COUPLE OF POOR, POLISH SPEAKING ROMANIANS – Trap Door Theatre EURYDICE – University Theater at University of Chicago GHETTO – Northwestern University Theater LA CAGE AU FOLLES – Boho Theatre  THE PODCAST – Annoyance Theatre UNCLE VANYA – TUTA Theatre [...]