Norm Lewis & Faith Prince to Star in Lyric’s “42nd Street”

Norm Lewis & Faith Prince to Star in Lyric’s “42nd Street”

Lyric Opera has announced Norm Lewis and Faith Prince will headline their summer production of “42nd Street.”

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Casting Announced for Goodman’s “Roe” and “graveyard shift”

Casting Announced for Goodman’s “Roe” and “graveyard shift”

Goodman Theatre has announced the casts for two upcoming new plays — the Chicago Premiere of “Roe,” by Lisa Loomer, and “graveyard shift” by korde arrington tuttle, a world premiere that was developed in the Goodman’s New Stages Festival last year. Conceived in a pizza parlor and argued in the...

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Metropolis Sets “Noises Off” Cast & Staff

Metropolis Sets “Noises Off” Cast & Staff

Arlington Heights’ Metropolis Performing Arts Centre has announced the cast and production staff for its upcoming mounting of the slapstick farce “Noises Off,” running January 30 – March 14. Michael Frayn’s comedy is a play within a play, plummeting off the rails. The actors’ personal lives, ego battles and passionate...

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Steep Announces Casting for “The Leopard Play” and “Ironbound”

Steep Announces Casting for “The Leopard Play” and “Ironbound”

Steep Theatre Company has announced the cast for its next two offerings, “The Leopard Play, or sad songs for lost boys” by Isaac Gomez, and “Ironbound” by Martyna Majok. Laura Alcalá Baker will direct “The Leopard Play,” Steep’s second commissioned work, opening January 24 and running through February 29, 2020....

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About Face Announces “The Gulf” Cast and Design Team

About Face Announces “The Gulf” Cast and Design Team

About Face Theatre has announced the cast and design team for “The Gulf.”

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Strawdog Has Its “Thirst” Cast and Designers

Strawdog Has Its “Thirst” Cast and Designers

Pictured: (top, l to r) Saniyah As-Salaam, Gregory J. Fields and Tamarus Harvell (bottom, l to r) Laura Resinger, Tracie Taylor and Johnard Washington. Strawdog Theatre Company has announced the cast and design team for its Midwest premiere of C.A. Johnson’s dystopian drama THIRST, directed by Andrea J. Dymond. The cast includes Saniyah As-Salaam, Gregory J. Fields, Tamarus Harvell,...

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Hero-Focused Valiant Theatre Launches

Hero-Focused Valiant Theatre Launches

A new theater company focused on true stories of courage, valor, and determination will begin operations in the spring. Valiant Theatre will launch with a new works festival at the end of January under the direction of Nich Radcliffe (Founding Artistic Director), David Heimann (General Manager), and M.K. Hughes (Director...

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Raven Announces “A Doll’s House” Cast & Production Team

Raven Announces “A Doll’s House” Cast & Production Team

Raven Theatre has announced casting and production staff for Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” in a new adaptation it calls “vibrant and progressive.”

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Haven Announces “Titus Andronicus” Company

Haven Announces “Titus Andronicus” Company

Photo: (top, l to r) Trevor Bates, Brian Bradford, Tarina Bradshaw, Jemima Charles, Charles Glenn and LaKecia Harris (middle, l to r), Gregory D. Hicks, Benjamin T. Jenkins, Christopher Wayland Jones, Colin Jones, Morgan Lavenstein and James Lewis (bottom, l to r), Gabrielle Lott-Rogers, Danyelle Monson, Andrew Neftalí Perez, Michaela...

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