Red Theater Adds TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard to Sixth Season
by A.A. Cristi - August 01, 2017 To honor the work of deceased playwright Sam Shepard, Red Theater Chicago will add to their sixth season: TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard, directed by Aaron Sawyer. Currently appearing as a recurring character on Lena Waithe's new Showtime Series, The Chi - Mickey O'Sullivan will portray Lee. Jeff Kurysz w...
Angela Ingersoll Stars In JUDY GARLAND: COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
by Stephi Wild - February 05, 2018 Artists Lounge Live and Emery Entertainment present JUDY GARLAND: COME RAIN OR COME SHINE starring Angela Ingersoll at the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza April 12-15. Tickets are on sale now, and may be purchased through MetroTix at www.metrotix.com or by calling (314) 534-1111. Additionally, tickets wi...
Photo Flash: First Look at Geva's World Premiere of THE AGITATORS
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2017 Geva Theatre Center's 2017-2018 Season continues with the World Premiere of The Agitators by Mat Smart, directed by Logan Vaughn in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage, now through November 12. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!...
Angela Ingersoll Will Film Judy Garland Concert for Public Television
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2017 Artists Lounge Live presents Angela Ingersoll (acclaimed star of End of the Rainbow) in her breathtaking concert Judy Garland: Come Rain Or Come Shine. For one night only, the performance will be filmed before a live audience for Public Television....
Denee Benton Steps in for Phillipa Soo in MasterVoices' OF THEE I SING at Carnegie Hall; More Cast Announced!
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2017 MasterVoices announces additional casting for its season opening presentation of George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing on Thursday, November 2 at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. Tony Award nominee Den e Benton (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) joins the ...
Richard Esteras to Star in New CW Drama Pilot SKINNY DIP
by A.A. Cristi - March 16, 2018 According to Deadline, actor Richard Esteras has signed on as a series regular in a new drama pilot for the CW titled Skinny Dip, based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen....
Peninsula Players Announces Cast Of A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
by Stephi Wild - February 23, 2018 Peninsula Players Theatre presents a reading of "A Trick of the Light," a new comedy by Peter Moore, Monday, March 5 at 7 p.m., at Bjorklunden, located at 7590 Boynton Lane, Baileys Harbor. "A Trick of the Light" is the second of the three play reading series, The Play's the Thing. The series is fun...
City of Chicago Film Announces Groundbreaking Year for 2017 for Film, TV, Media Production
by Tori Hartshorn - January 25, 2018 Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Film Office at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) today announced that local film and media production have yet again reached record levels in 2017. Last year, 580 individual film and media projects recorded an all-time high combined tota...
BWW Review: The Intense Two-Hander A STEADY RAIN is a Brilliantly Written Play that's Impeccably Executed by the Team at Gremlin Theatre
by Jill Schafer - January 20, 2018 For their second show in their new space, Gremlin Theatre is presenting the intense two-hander A STEADY RAIN. Buckle up, friends, this is a tough one. But so beautifully done. In what's basically a treatise on toxic masculinity and the damage it can do, playwright Keith Huff has created two complex ...
Monica Barbaro Joins Tony Danza and Josh Groban in Netflix's Dramedy THE GOOD COP
by Emily Bruno - November 09, 2017 Monica Barabaro has joined Tony Danza and Josh Groban in Netflix's new dramedy THE GOOD COP, as reported by Deadline. The show has been ordered for 10 episodes straight-to-series. MONK creator and executive producer Andy Breckman, Randy Zisk and Howard Klein will executive produce the show along w...
Other Theatre's BARNEY THE ELF Musical to Return for the Holidays
by BWW News Desk - November 25, 2017 Other Theatre will continue its 4th season with the third revival of its holiday hit BARNEY THE ELF, a campy and irreverent musical comedy, written by Bryan Renaud with lyrics by Renaud and Emily Schmidt. After helming the 2016 production, Tommy Rivera-Vega returns to direct and choreograph. ...
=East West Players Honors Tzi Ma, Lily Mariye, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund At 52nd Anniversary Visionary Awards
by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2018 East West Players (EWP), the nation's longest-running professional theater of color and the largest producing organization of Asian Pacific American artistic work, celebrates THE COMPANY WE KEEP, its 52nd Anniversary season with the Annual Visionary Awards Dinner & Silent Auction. Recognizing the ac...
The New Colony's Co-Artistic Directors Andrew Hobgood & Evan Linder to Step Down
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2017 The New Colony announced today that Founding Members and Co-Artistic Directors Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder will step down in January 2018 at the conclusion of the company's ninth season. TNC's Board of Directors has launched a search for a new Artistic Director and a replacement is expecte...
The Revival Announces THE MISEDUCATION OF 55TH STREET
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2017 Within the context of today's racial and political climate, THE MISEDUCATION OF 55TH STREET uses humor, poetry and music to examine where we've been…and where we're going. From parent/teacher relationships in CPS classrooms, to backyard barbecues on Chicago's South Side, THE MISEDUCATION OF 55TH STR...
Photo Flash: Court Theatre continues 63rd Season with GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
by A.A. Cristi - March 21, 2018 Court Theatre, under the continuing leadership of Charles Newell, Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, continues its 2017/18 season with Guess Who's Coming to Dinner by Todd Kreidler (based on the screenplay by William Rose), directed by Marti Lyons with Associate Director Wardell Julius Clark. Gues...
More Than 50 Actors Set to Participate in The Blank Theatre's 25th Anniversary
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2017 More than 50 actors have been set to participate in The Blank Theatre's 25th Anniversary Young Playwrights Festival, including Michael Grant Terry (Bones, NCIS, Grimm, CSI), Janina Gavankar (The Mysteries of Laura, The Vampire Diaries, Grey's Anatomy), Lenny Jacobson (Nurse Jackie, Frequency, Big Ti...
Barrel Of Monkeys' THAT'S WEIRD, GRANDMA: Stories That Groove Leads March and April
by Julie Musbach - January 03, 2018 Barrel of Monkeys is pleased to present THAT'S WEIRD, GRANDMA: Stories That Groove, the company's annual all-musical revue, directed Eunice Woods, with music direction by Jon Schneidman, playing Mondays at 8 pm from March 12 April 9, 2018 at the Neo-Futurist Theater, 5153 N. Ashland Ave. in Chicag...
NBC Shares Primetime Schedule For 2/19-3/18
by Tori Hartshorn - February 21, 2018 NBC Shares Primetime Schedule For 2/19-3/18...
Geva Theatre to Continue 2017-18 Season 'THE AGITATORS' World Premiere
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2017 Geva Theatre Center's 2017-2018 Season continues with the World Premiere of The Agitators, by Mat Smart and directed by Logan Vaughn in the Elaine P. Wilson Stage from October 17 through November 12....
Silk Road Rising presents THE PLURALITY OF PRIVACY PROJECT
by A.A. Cristi - December 01, 2017 Silk Road Rising (Chief Programming Officer & Mission Trustee, Jamil Khoury, and Executive Director, Malik Gillani) is proud to announce P3M5: The Plurality of Privacy Project in 5-Minute Plays, the first in a pairing of staged readings in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut....
Other Theatre's BARNEY THE ELF Musical to Return for the Holidays
by BWW News Desk - August 16, 2017 Other Theatre will continue its 4th season with the third revival of its holiday hit BARNEY THE ELF, a campy and irreverent musical comedy, written by Bryan Renaud with lyrics by Renaud and Emily Schmidt. After helming the 2016 production, Tommy Rivera-Vega returns to direct and choreograph. ...
The New Colony's Co-Artistic Directors Andrew Hobgood & Evan Linder to Step Down
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2017 The New Colony announced today that Founding Members and Co-Artistic Directors Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder will step down in January 2018 at the conclusion of the company's ninth season. TNC's Board of Directors has launched a search for a new Artistic Director and a replacement is expecte...
HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC Extends at Steppenwolf
by Julie Musbach - July 15, 2017 By popular demand Steppenwolf's LookOut Series extends its rock 'n' roll production of the solo play, How To Be A Rock Critic (Based on the Writings of Lester Bangs) by award-winning theatre artists Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, starring Erik Jensen (The Walking Dead, Mr. Robot) as Lester Bangs and...
Angela Ingersoll Will Film Judy Garland Concert for Public Television
by Julie Musbach - October 01, 2017 Artists Lounge Live presents Angela Ingersoll (acclaimed star of End of the Rainbow) in her breathtaking concert Judy Garland: Come Rain Or Come Shine. For one night only, the performance will be filmed before a live audience for Public Television.... |