Gift Announces New Ensemble Members and 2018 Season

Gift Announces New Ensemble Members and 2018 Season

During last night’s Season Release Bash at Old Irving Brewery Co., artistic director and co-founder Michael Patrick Thornton announced The Gift Theatre’s 2018 season will include: Stacy Amma Osei-Kuffour’s world premiere of HANG MAN, directed by ensemble member Erica Weiss; Shakespeare’s HAMLET, directed by Monty Cole, and the Midwest premiere...

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Lifeline Announces Cast and Production Team for SYLVESTER

Lifeline Announces Cast and Production Team for SYLVESTER

Lifeline Theatre has announced the cast and production team for the world premiere of SYLVESTER.

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Eclectic Announces Line-Up for 17/18 Season

Eclectic Announces Line-Up for 17/18 Season

Eclectic Full Contact Theater has announced the line-up for their 17/18 season entitled “Enemies and Empathies.”

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Cast and Production Team set for TimeLine’s THE AUDIENCE

Cast and Production Team set for TimeLine’s THE AUDIENCE

TimeLine Theatre Company has announced the cast and creatives for the first production of their 17/18 season, the Chicago premiere of THE AUDIENCE by Peter Morgan.

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City Lit’s THE ART OF ADAPTATION Festival Line-Up Announced

City Lit’s THE ART OF ADAPTATION Festival Line-Up Announced

The tenth annual festival of world-premiere adaptations of non-dramatic literary texts will include an eclectic array of source materials.

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Mercury Announces HAIR Cast and Staff

Mercury Announces HAIR Cast and Staff

The cast features Matt Keffer as Berger and Liam Quealy as Claude.

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Felicia Fields and E. Faye Butler Headline Free Navy Pier Anniversary Event

Felicia Fields and E. Faye Butler Headline Free Navy Pier Anniversary Event

The duo join Grammy-nominated trumpeter Victor Garcia in a celebration of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena Horne, directed by Aretha Franklin’s music director Fred Nelson III.

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Hell in a Handbag Announces Cast and Creatives for BEWILDERED

Hell in a Handbag Announces Cast and Creatives for BEWILDERED

Pictured: David Cerda, Kira Gaudynski, and Caitlin Jackson. Hell in a Handbag Productions has announced casting for the world premiere of BEWILDERED, a musical parody of the classic TV sitcom Bewitched, told from the perspective of Gladys Kravitz, Samantha Stephens’ iconic nosy neighbor. Directed and choreographed by Brigitte Ditmars, the...

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ATC to Workshop 12 New Projects throughout Upcoming Season

ATC to Workshop 12 New Projects throughout Upcoming Season

American Theater Company’s Chicago Open Residency Experiment (CORE) program, a series of week-long residencies for artists of all disciplines, continues its second year with 25 artists workshopping 12 new projects throughout Season 33. “At ATC, we are invested in exploring unique ways of making new plays for the American theater,”...

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Cast and Creatives Set for THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Cast and Creatives Set for THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Surging Films & Theatrics in association with Chicago’s Prop Thtr, has announced casting for their summer production of THE ADAMS FAMILY with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and based on characters by Charles Addams.

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