Kokandy Season Includes Chicago Premiere of BONNIE & CLYDE

Kokandy Season Includes Chicago Premiere of BONNIE & CLYDE

Kokandy Productions announced its fifth season, with an expanded line-up from previous years, featuring four musicals, including two Chicago premieres. The 2017/18 Season will also include numerous readings and workshops as a part of Kokandy’s “New Works Initiative.” The new season also marks the company’s transition to a not-for-profit organization.

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Columbia Theater Chair to Step Down, Department Combining With Dance

Columbia Theater Chair to Step Down, Department Combining With Dance

Theater Department Chair John Green will be stepping down at the end of the summer, and the administrative staffs of the Theater and Dance departments will be combining.

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Actors’ Equity Rolls Out Major Changes to Audition Process

Actors’ Equity Rolls Out Major Changes to Audition Process

In an email to its members, Actor’s Equity Association announced that effective immediately, the process will be handled online through the re-vamped member portal

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Spiel Chicago Episode Three: Eileen Tull

Spiel Chicago Episode Three: Eileen Tull

Eileen Tull  Welcome to Spiel Chicago, the podcast taking you behind the scenes of storefront theatre in Chicago.  My name is Smyra Yawn and my guest this week is Eileen Tull, comedian, writer, solo performer, and producer.  I spoke with Eileen after I saw her latest one-woman show Bad Dates,...

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Harding/Kerrigan Ice Skating Scandal Musical Coming to Underscore Theatre

Harding/Kerrigan Ice Skating Scandal Musical Coming to Underscore Theatre

(left to right) Amanda Horvath and Courtney Mack will play the title roles of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, respectively, in Underscore Theatre Company’s Chicago premiere of TONYA AND NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA. Underscore Theatre Company, in association with Harborside Films, will present the Chicago premiere of TONYA AND NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA, a dark musical comedy based...

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MAC to Host ‘National Theatre Live’ Encores

MAC to Host ‘National Theatre Live’ Encores

The McAninch Arts Center (MAC) at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn will present encore broadcasts of National Theatre Live’s International Series starting in August. The raucous comedy ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS starring James Corden in his Tony Award-winning performance kicks of the series, followed in September by Hellen...

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Paramount Announces Casting for MAMMA MIA!

Paramount Announces Casting for MAMMA MIA!

Pictured: Sara Sevigny Paramount has announced casting for its season opener MAMMA MIA!, directed by Artistic Director Jim Corti with musical direction by Tom Vendafreddo and choreography by William Carlos Angulo. MAMMA MIA! will feature Amy Montgomery as Donna Sheridan, Kiersten Frumkin as Sophie Sheridan, Sara Sevigny as Rosie, Jennifer Knox...

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Shattered Globe Announces TRUE WEST Cast

Shattered Globe Announces TRUE WEST Cast

Shattered Globe announced casting for the revival of TRUE WEST the first show of their 16/17 season. The four-person Sam Shephard play will feature Joseph Wiens, Kevin Viol, Rebecca Jordan and Rob Frankel. Directed by Jason Yost TRUE WEST will run September 8 – October 22, 2016 at Theatre Witt where Shattered Globe is...

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Writers Announces Casting for Most of 25th Season

Writers Announces Casting for Most of 25th Season

Writers Theatre has announced casting for the first five plays of the company’s 25th Anniversary Season. The season opens with a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR, directed and adapted by Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Scott Parkinson, featuring Kareem Bandealy, Christine Bunuan, Arya Daire, Sydney Germaine, Matthew Hawkins, Thomas Vincent...

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Halcyon Announces Casting for FEFU AND HER FRIENDS

Halcyon Announces Casting for FEFU AND HER FRIENDS

Halcyon Theatre has announced casting for FEFU AND HER FRIENDS by María Irene Fornés, the first show of the company’s 11th season. Directed by Artistic Director Tony Adams, FEFU AND HER FRIENDS features Ashley Agbay, Mary Ann de la Cruz, Eleanor Katz, Tamika Lechée Morales, Maren Rosenberg, Sarah Rachel Schol,...

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