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Connect with Gary Sinese and other artists at Steppenwolf’s GALA 2011 fundraising event
CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s star-studded ensemble will join 600 members of Chicago’s corporate, civic and cultural communities for GALA 2011 on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company,1650 N. Halsted St….
UIC Hosts Chicago Round of National Acting Competition
About 60 Chicago-area high school students will test their acting skills at the University of Illinois at Chicago Theatre Feb. 28, aiming for three slots in the Broadway finals of the third annual August Wilson Monologue Competition.
Words from the Vets: Griffin Theatre Stages ‘Letters Home’
(Photo courtesy of Griffin Theatre Co.) Chicago’s Griffin Theatre presents a special Veterans Day performance of Letters Home. In 2007, Chicago’s Griffin Theatre Company premiered Letters Home , dramatic readings of actual letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Chicago Tribune Partners With The Second City to Create Stage and Radio Show
Tickets on Sale Thursday, September 30 CHICAGO, Sept. 21 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — On Oct.
Steppenwolf kicks off its 2010-2011 season with “Detroit” Sept. 9 through Nov. 7
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its 2010-2011 season with Detroit, a new play by Lisa D’Amour, directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton. Detroit features an all-ensemble cast including Kevin Anderson, Kate Arrington, Ian Barford, Robert Breuler and…
Theaters adapt, stage ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’
ATLANTA – Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit is taking advantage of an opportunity to stage “A Confederacy of Dunces” with a new adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that opens Saturday. The Louisiana State University Press, which owns the rights, rarely permits more than staged readings of adaptations of John Kennedy Toole’s comic novel, published in 1980, about life in New Orleans in the early 1960s.
George Wendt plays Santa on Broadway (AP)
NEW YORK – George Wendt returns to Broadway as Santa Claus in the holiday comedy “Elf.” The six-time Emmy nominee, who played Norm on “Cheers,” is joined in the musical by Beth Leavel, who won a best actress Tony for “The Drowsy Chaperone,” Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures announced Wednesday.
Wicked Wins Best of Noughties
LONDON, April 29 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Theatre fans have crowned Wicked the best musical of the last 10 years, in a poll by London theatre breaks website Show-and-Stay.co.uk A prequel to The Wizard of Oz, and cleverly adapted from the book by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is the musical tale of Glinda the Good Witch of the North and Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West, and how they came to be the witches that we have come to know and love. Wicked came top of the list with 32% of the votes, while Spring Awakening, based on a controversial German play of the same name, came second with 21%, despite only running for two months.
Chicago Opera Theater presents Gioachino Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt”
The Opening Production of the 2010 Spring Festival Season! April 17, 21, 23, 25, 2010 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the opening production…
‘Peter Pan’ to dance across the Tivoli stage
Children don’t need words to understand Midwest Ballet’s portrayal of the boy who never grows up. Costumes, vigorous dancing and some silent acting has been more than enough in past performances for even the littlest kids to engage in the performance of “Peter Pan,” which runs this weekend at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove.