Chicago’s Court Theatre recently announced its newest production, Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway.
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This holiday season, Chicago theatres will present a wide variety of festive plays, musicals, dance, and comedy offerings. In support, the League of Chicago Theatres has again created a comprehensive Holiday Theatre Guide and announced the return of Half-Priced Holidays, via the League’s discount ticket program, Hot Tix.
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Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company recently announced two new Board members as it prepares to reopen January 30, 2025: founding ensemble member, actor and director David Schwimmer and Chicago employment and healthcare attorney James (Jimmy) Oh.
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Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, in association with The Actors Gymnasium, proudly announces the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Circus Quixote (January 30 – March 30, 2025). Simultaneously, the renovated lobby, bar, and café of the Lookingglass’ Joan and Paul Theatre at Water Tower Water Works will reopen on January 30, 2025, with menu and programming details to be announced in the coming months.
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This holiday season, Chicago’s PlayMakers Laboratory’s will perform its original sketch show That’s Weird, Grandma: A Holiday Spectacular!.
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Chicago’s Goodman Theatre recently announced five new works—four developmental plays plus one musical in free public readings—are on tap this December for the 2024 “New Stages” Festival, under Artistic Susan V. Booth and Director of New Works Kat Zukaitis.
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE), the professional Equity theater company in residence at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC), will present The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, directed by Managing Artistic Director Emerita Connie Canaday Howard from November 14 – December 15, 2024.
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Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment), Carolyn Rossi Copeland Productions, Inc. and Crossroads Live North America recently announced casting for the limited engagement of iconic Tony Award-winning musical ANNIE at The Chicago Theatre which will run from November 12, 2024, through December 1, 2024.
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Chicago’s Goodman Theatre recently announced the upcoming revival of the iconic Betrayal by Nobel Prize-winner Harold Pinter from February 8, 2025 to March 16, 2025. Slated to star in the production are Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard (as Jerry), Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner H
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The McAninch Arts Center (MAC) on the campus of the College of DuPage is welcoming Mandy Patinkin back to its stage.
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