Photo Flash: First Look at The Goodman's TWILIGHT BOWL
by Julie Musbach - February 13, 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Goodman Artistic Associate Rebecca Gilman marks her ninth production (and seventh world premiere) with Twilight Bowl-featuring an all-female company. Set in a rural Wisconsin bowling alley, the coming-of-age story focuses on six women struggling to define their own versio...
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents ACT(S) OF GOD By Ensemble Member Kareem Bandealy
by BWW News Desk - February 13, 2019 Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Act(s) of God, by Ensemble Member Kareem Bandealy, directed by Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman. Act(s) of God runs February 13 April 7, 2019 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. M...
Photo Flash: First Look at CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION at Redtwist Theatre
by BWW News Desk - April 14, 2017 Redtwist Theatre presents CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION by Annie Baker, directed by Scott Weinstein. The production opens Saturday, April 15, 2017, at 3pm (this is also the press opening) and runs through Sun, May 14, featuring Redtwist company members Adam Bitterman and Michael Sherwin, with Redtwis...
Redtwist Theatre Announces 2017-18 Season
by BWW News Desk - August 09, 2017 Redtwist Theatre has just announced its 14th Season! 'The Way We Are' is a season-long snapshot with today's faces. It's about familiar people who navigate timeless challenges. What we do informs who we are...in our growing up, and in our living, and in our dying....
DEATH OF A SALESMAN Opens Next Month
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2017 Redtwist's uniquely intimate space fixes the microscope squarely into Willy's soul as he fights for the dream while living a lie....
Redtwist Theatre's FROST/NIXON Opens April 21
by Stephi Wild - April 04, 2018 Redtwist Theatre presents Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan, and directed by Scott Weinstein, featuring Redtwist company member & Jeff Award-winner Brian Parry as Richard Nixon. The show opens Saturday, April 21, 2018, at 3pm (this is also the press opening) and runs Thu, Fri, Sat at 7:30pm; Sun at 3pm, t...
Redtwist Theatre Presents OUR TOWN
by Julie Musbach - August 13, 2017 A Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of the 20th century is brought lovingly into the 21st century with a diverse cast. Redtwist Associate Artistic Director James Fleming directs an intimate production of this American classic as a love letter to Chicago's many communities and a reminder that life's...
Deviated Theatre Celebrates 10 Years and Premieres New Work
by Julie Musbach - May 16, 2018 DEVIATED THEATRE, whose mesmerizing dance operas are heralded for their spellbindingly compelling choreography, celebrates its 10thAnniversary performance with the world premiere of Beyond, presented by Dance Place (DC) on July 7th and 8th, 2018. With an all-heroine cast, Beyond follows Luna the ast...
Redtwist Theatre's SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA Opens Today
by BWW News Desk - June 30, 2018 Redtwist Theatre presents A Chicago Premiere, Sagittarius Ponderosa, by MJ Kaufman. Directed by James Fleming...
AIRMW Announces Second Reading In 2019 And Playwright Workshop
by A.A. Cristi - March 14, 2019 The AA Arts Incubator Program of Asian Improv Arts Midwest (AIRMW) is pleased to announce that its historic series, 'Our Perspective: Asian American Play Readings,' continues with its second reading in 2019. The next reading is the comedic full length play Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon by Matthew C. ...
Redtwist Theatre Presents SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY
by Stephi Wild - January 03, 2018 Redtwist Theatre presents the National New Play Network rolling world premiere Surely Goodness and Mercy by Chisa Hutchinson, Directed by Wardell Julius Clark. The show opens Saturday, February 17, 2018, at 3pm and runs Thu, Fri, Sat at 7:30pm; Sun at 3pm, through Sun, March 18...
'I SAW MY NEIGHBOR ON THE TRAIN' to Make Chicago Premiere at Redtwist Theatre
by BWW News Desk - November 18, 2017 Redtwist Theatre presents the Chicago Premiere I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile by Suzanne Heathcote....
Redtwist Theatre Announces OUR TOWN Extension to 10/29
by BWW News Desk - September 22, 2017 Due to numerous SOLD OUT performances, Redtwist Theatre announces the extension of the Jeff Recommended play OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder, directed by Redtwist's Associate Artistic Director, James Fleming....
Redtwist Theatre's OUR TOWN Opens Tonight
by Julie Musbach - September 09, 2017 A Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of the 20th century is brought lovingly into the 21st century. Redtwist Associate Artistic Director James Fleming directs an intimate production of this American classic as a love letter to Chicago's many communities and a reminder that life's most ordinary momen...
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents ACT(S) OF GOD By Ensemble Member Kareem Bandealy
by Julie Musbach - January 22, 2019 Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Act(s) of God, by Ensemble Member Kareem Bandealy, directed by Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman. Act(s) of God runs February 13 April 7, 2019 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. M...
Deviated Theatre Celebrates 10th Anniversary With World Premiere Of BEYOND
by A.A. Cristi - June 22, 2018 DEVIATED THEATRE, whose mesmerizing dance operas are heralded for their spellbindingly compelling choreography, celebrates its 10th Anniversary performance with the world premiere of Beyond, presented by Dance Place (DC) on July 7th and 8th, 2018. With an all-heroine cast, Beyond follows Luna the as...
Hundo4u Productions Announces Dark Comedy BELOW THE BELT By Richard Dresser Directed By Jon Dambacher
by A.A. Cristi - April 04, 2019 Redtwist Theatre announces an upcoming production of Richard Dresser's bizarre dark comedy BELOW THE BELT, running May 17 through June 16. This Off-Broadway hit has been compared to NBC's The Office as if written by Samuel Beckett and was named "Best American Play of 1996" by the Wall Street Journal...
THE RED LINE, THE CODE Get Midseason Premiere Dates On CBS
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 15, 2019 CBS today announced spring 2019 scheduling plans for the new eight-episode event series THE RED LINE, which will air in two-hour installments on four Sundays, and the new drama THE CODE....
Schimmel Center at Pace University Presents Battery Dance, World Premiere of The Red Line
by Tori Hartshorn - February 13, 2019 Schimmel Center at Pace University continues its 2018-19 Dance Series with the return of Battery Dance on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 7:30pm. The evening's repertoire is characterized by choreography and music inspired by worldwide sources, reflecting American society and its multiplicity of cult...
Boston Calling Shares New Details About Arena Stage
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 21, 2019 Boston Calling, celebrating its 10th edition this year on Memorial Day Weekend, May 24 - 26, and headlined by Twenty One Pilots (Friday), Tame Impala (Saturday), and Travis Scott (Sunday), reveals more exciting details about the bevy of artists set to take over the festival's Arena stage. Fans will ...
BWW Review/Excerpt/Giveaway: MY OXFORD YEAR by Julia Whelan
by Bonnie Lynn Wagner - May 02, 2018 Don't let the sweet, easy cover fool you: If you're a fan of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes, you're going to LOVE Julia Whelan's MY OXFORD YEAR!...
A Red Orchid Theatre Announces New Members To Its Artistic Ensemble
by Stephi Wild - May 24, 2019 A Red Orchid Theatre announces the addition of eight new members to the Artistic Ensemble: Karen Aldridge, Myron Elliott-Cisneros, Levi Holloway, Travis A. Knight, Jess McLeod, Sadieh Rifai, Grant Sabin, and Steve Schine. A Red Orchid also welcomes two Resident Stage Managers Stephanie Heller and Ch...
Dan Blakeslee and The Calabash Club Announce New Album 'The Alley Walker'
by Caryn Robbins - July 06, 2017 Recorded by a waterfall near the railroad tracks in Rollinsford, NH, The Alley Walker, the newest album by Dan Blakeslee and the Calabash Club, is a bluesy, rock-and-roll twist on the beautifully-composed folk style that has become Blakeslee's signature....
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION Comes to Redtwist Theatre
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2018 What happens when a total stranger enters your life and changes it forever? Based on a true story, this Olivier Award winner for Best Play examines the impact of a charming young con man on a mature wealthy woman when she suddenly begins to care for his well-being. (Note: The play includes a brief s...
Casting Announced for Broken Nose Theatre's GIRL IN THE RED CORNER
by Julie Musbach - December 03, 2018 Broken Nose Theatre is pleased to announce casting for its Midwest premiere of Stephen Spotswood's drama GIRL IN THE RED CORNER, directed by Elizabeth Laidlaw.... |