Schedule Announced for Physical Festival Chicago
Exploring the art of storytelling through physical and visual means, the third annual Physical Festival Chicago will play June 3rd-11th and will feature 5 companies and solo artists from Europe, Latin America, and The United States. In addition to performances by Cia de Teatro Manual (Brazil), Laura Simms (New York), Rough...
A PIECE OF MY HEART Full of Originality, Grace, and Depth
As a woman, telling your emotional story in a male dominated society is hard. This story is even harder to tell when you are a woman working in the US Army in Vietnam, and there are people dying all around you.
SPONGEBOB Extends at Oriental
Broadway In Chicago announced a one-week extension of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL through Sunday, July 10. Performances will begin on Tuesday, June 7 at Broadway In Chicago’s Oriental Theatre. The Broadway-bound musical is co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau, book by Kyle Jarrow, orchestrations, arrangements & music supervision by Tom Kitt,...
Kimberly Senior to Receive Special Jeff Award
“The theatre world is full of creative people with lots of conflicting ideas. When three agree on something, it’s a breakthrough. When 73 do, it’s almost a miracle,” says Jeff Awards Committee Chair David Liesse, “Yet 73 members of the Chicago theatre community co-signed a letter nominating Kimberly Senior to...
LITTLE SHOP Makes for A Delectable Evening on Skid Row
American Blues Theater’s triumphant LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS will have Chicago audiences clamoring to head downtown to Skid Row. This intimately staged production has a full sound (with music director Austin Cook leading a four-piece band, you can feel the vibrations of the bass in the floor) and provides an all-encompassing, fully entertaining spectacle.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME – A Masterclass at Strawdog
Kaufman & Hart’s 1930’s comedy ONCE IN A LIFETIME stands strong on its own and is also a wonderful tribute to the work that they’ve accomplished in that space.
DEATH OF A STREETCAR Is a Non-Stop Laugh Riot
However you get there, alone or in packs, get ye hence to Writers Theater before Blanche and that “rattle-trap street-car bangs through the Quarter…” for the last time.
Fourth Annual LitFest Takes on F. Scott Fitzgerald
First Floor Theater has announced its fourth annual literary festival, FITZFEST, a festival of eight world premiere plays, inspired by the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. FITZFEST will play August 5 – 13 at Collaboraction’s Pentagon Theatre in The Flat Iron Arts Building and will feature eight new short plays by Chicago and New York-based writers, marking the first time playwrights from both cities have participated in the festival.
Pivot Arts Finalizes Schedule for 2016 Arts Festival
Pivots Arts has finalized its schedule for the 4th annual Pivot Arts Festival June 2nd – 12th in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. The ten-day Festival will showcase some of Chicago’s top artistic innovators, feature live music, theater, dance, children’s performances, workshops, discussions, a community dinner, wine tastings and more....