Gift Announces 2019 Season and Artistic Promotions

Gift Announces 2019 Season and Artistic Promotions

(left to right) Gift Ensemble Members Jennifer Glasse, Maryann Thebus and Michael Patrick Thornton. The Gift Theatre has announced two of the three productions that will make up its 2019 season: a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning drama DOUBT: A PARABLE, and the Chicago premiere of Hansol Jung’s WOLF PLAY....

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Underscore Announces Season and Chicago Musical Theatre Festival Lineup

Underscore Announces Season and Chicago Musical Theatre Festival Lineup

Pictured: Jamie Shriner | Photo by Chris Popio Underscore Theatre Company has announced its full 2018-19 season, featuring two fully-produced musicals, along with the 5th annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. The mainstage shows are Jamie Shriner’s one-woman musical comedy WIFE MATERIAL — directed by Dana Anderson, with music direction by...

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Broken Nose Announces 7th Season

Broken Nose Announces 7th Season

Pictured: Kaiser Zaki Ahmed Broken Nose Theatre has announced its seventh season, featuring a world premiere and two Chicago premieres to presented at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee. The 2018-19 season kicks off this fall with a new dark comedy entitled PLAINCLOTHES, written by company member Spenser Davis and...

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Three Premieres Make Up Sideshow Theatre’s 18–19 Season

Three Premieres Make Up Sideshow Theatre’s 18–19 Season

Sideshow Theatre Company has announced the lineup for its 2018-19 season.

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Drury Lane Announces 2019-20 Season, Regional Premieres of MATILDA and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

Drury Lane Announces 2019-20 Season, Regional Premieres of MATILDA and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

Pictured: Lili-Anne Brown, director of Drury Lane’s THE COLOR PURPLE Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook has announced the lineup for its 2019/2020 season, which includes the regional premieres of MATILDA, based on the novel by Roald Dahl, and the Gershwin musical AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. The season is rounded out with productions...

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Steep Theatre Announces 18-19 Season

Steep Theatre Announces 18-19 Season

Steep Theatre has announced the plays and directors that make up its 18th season, featuring a world premiere from Chicago playwright Ike Holter (the sixth in his Chicago-set series) a production of Alistair McDowall’s 2015 London hit PAMONA, and Chicago debut productions from acclaimed writers Amelia Roper and Rita Kalnejais.

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Neo-Futurists Celebrate 30 Years with 2018-19 Season

Neo-Futurists Celebrate 30 Years with 2018-19 Season

The Neo-Futurists have announced their 30th season, featuring the company’s signature style fusing sport, poetry and living newspaper.

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The Factory Theater Announces 18-19 Season

The Factory Theater Announces 18-19 Season

The Factory Theater has announced its 26th anniversary season of world premiers at its Rogers Park home, including a home invasion-turned-noir murder mystery by a Jeff Award-winning playwright, a young musician’s desperate trip back to his hometown and a shamelessly comedic religious con story. Pictured: Manny Tamayo, Anthony Tournis, and...

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First Floor Sets Next Season

First Floor Sets Next Season

MIKE PENCE SEX DREAM is a romantic travesty exploring the depths to which one man’s self-loathing can drag him.

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Barrel of Monkeys Announces 18th Season of THAT’S WEIRD, GRANDMA

Barrel of Monkeys Announces 18th Season of THAT’S WEIRD, GRANDMA

Barrel of Monkeys company members perform THAT’S WEIRD, GRANDMA. Photo by Evan Hanover. Barrel of Monkeys has announced the 2018-19 season of its long-running original sketch show THAT’S WEIRD, GRANDMA. Now in its eighteenth year, the production features adaptations of stories written during Barrel of Monkeys’ creative writing residencies in Chicago elementary...

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