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Citadel Theatre Announces Cast And Production Team For SILENT SKY, Playing February 14- March 17

Full cast and crew have been announced for Citadel Theatre's upcoming production of SILENT SKY by Lauren Gunderson.
A TOWN CALLED PROGRESS World Premiere to be Presented by Promethean Theatre Ensemble in March

 Promethean Theatre Ensemble has announced dates and casting for its world premiere production of A TOWN CALLED PROGRESS, by Chicago playwright Trina Kakacek.
Promethean Theatre Ensemble To Return With Shakespeare's RICHARD III At The Factory, May 12 â€" June 25

Promethean Theatre Ensemble will return from its pandemic hiatus with a modern dress storefront production of Shakespeare's epic RICHARD III. The play will be directed by Steve Scott, an Artistic Associate with the Goodman Theatre, where he most recently directed VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE.
City Lit Re-Announces Four-Show Season, to Begin in January 2022

City Lit Theater has re-announced programming for its 41st year of production, according to Producer and Artistic Director Terry McCabe. The 2021-22 subscription season will open with a world premiere adaptation – THE VIRGINIAN: A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS.
All-Female Cast to Play the Men of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in City Lit's THIRTEEN DAYS

The October 1962 days in which the world appeared to be on the brink of nuclear war will be revisited in a world premiere adaptation of Robert F. Kennedy's THIRTEEN DAYS: A MEMOIR OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. Brian Pastor, the Chicago writer-director-actor who serves as Artistic Director of Promethean Theatre Ensemble and Executive Director of Sideshow Theatre Company, has adapted Kennedy's account of the administration of President John F. Kennedy to the discovery that the Soviet Union was installing missile sites in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S.. As with City Lit's acclaimed 2017 production of Archibald MacLeish's J.B., which Pastor also directed, the powerful men of THIRTEEN DAYS will be played by a diverse ensemble of women. All the characters in the book are white males; none of the actors onstage will be. THIRTEEN DAYS will open to the press on March 15 at 3 pm, following previews from March 6, and will play through April 19.
Promethean Theatre Ensemble Announces Cast for Chicago Premiere of BLUE STOCKINGS

Promethean Theatre Ensemble will open its new season with the Chicago premiere of BLUE STOCKINGS a?" a drama of the first female students to seek degrees at Britain's Cambridge University in 1896 and the obstacles they faced in that pursuit.
Redtwist Announces Cast of KING LEAR

Redtwist Theatre presents William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, directed by Steve Scott. The show opens Saturday, July 6, 2019, at 3pm and runs Thu, Fri, Sat at 7:30pm; Sun at 3pm, through Sunday, August 4, 3:00pm.
KING LEAR Comes to Redtwist Theatre

Redtwist Theatre presents William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, directed by Steve Scott. The show opens Saturday, July 6, 2019, at 3pm and runs Thu, Fri, Sat at 7:30pm; Sun at 3pm, through Sunday, August 4, 3:00pm.
Cast Announced For Promethean's GROSS INDECENCY: THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Promethean's critically-acclaimed production of Moises Kaufman's historical drama GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE, which enjoyed a two-week run in December 2016, will be remounted from February 15 through March 24, 2019 at Strawdog Theatre, 1809 W. Berenice. GROSS INDECENCY, which Promethean Artistic Director Brian Pastor will again direct, will be performed with cross-gender casting in some roles, as it was in the company's earlier production. Promethean Ensemble Member Jamie Bragg will reprise her leading role as Oscar Wilde.
Promethean Announces Cast of ARCADIA

Casting has been announced for Promethean Theatre Ensemble's 13th season opener - Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA. Stoppard's play - which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named one of the best science-related works ever written - follows two groups of people who were residents and guests of an English country house some 200 years apart. The action alternates between the early 19th Century (1809 and 1812) and the present-day, as the play's modern characters explore the actions of the earlier-era characters to improve their understanding of the present.
Casting for Announced for LONDON ASSURANCE

City Lit Theatre Artistic Director Terry McCabe has announced the cast for the company's season finale, the British comedy London Assurance. First produced in London in 1841 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and shortly thereafter in New York City, London Assurance is considered a transitional play between the 18th century comedies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith and the late 19th Century plays of Oscar Wilde. It has been one of Great Britain's most popular comedies of the standard classical repertoire and in recent decades has been performed by some of Britain's leading actors. 
Gender-Blind Casting Announced for GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Moises Kaufman's enduring drama of Oscar Wilde's three trials for homosexual behavior in late 19th Century England will be presented through a new lens with the casting of female actors in some of the roles traditionally played by men. Promethean's Artistic Director Brian Pastor, will who direct the production, made the announcement today.
The Factory Theater Announces Opening Night for ZOMBIE BROADS

This Fall, The Factory Theater will open its second season at its home in Rogers Park with the world premiere comedy Zombie Broads.
Gender-Blind Casting Announced for GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

Moises Kaufman's enduring drama of Oscar Wilde's three trials for homosexual behavior in late 19th Century England will be presented through a new lens with the casting of female actors in some of the roles traditionally played by men. Promethean's Artistic Director Brian Pastor, will who direct the production, made the announcement today.
The Factory Theater Announces Opening Night for ZOMBIE BROADS

This Fall, The Factory Theater will open its second season at its home in Rogers Park with the world premiere comedy Zombie Broads.
PSMITH, SUNDIAL, FORTY-TWO STORIES and More Set for City Lit's 2016-17 Season

City Lit Theater's 37th season will honor its traditions while bringing Chicago audiences four plays that will be new to nearly all audience members. The season lineup announced today by City Lit artistic director Terry McCabe includes a mix of three world premieres (two of them adaptations of novels and one original new comedy), plus a classic comedy of the 19th Century that has not been seen in Chicago in 120 years.
Promethean Theatre Ensemble's THE WINTER'S TALE Opens Tomorrow

Promethean Theatre Ensemble has announced the first play of our ninth season, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. One of Shakespeare's final plays, The Winter's Tale has been labeled many things: a romance, a "Problem Play," or as we like to call it, a Greek Tragedy with a happy ending. But at its core, this play is about things we witness every day as 21st Century Americans: pride, jealousy, penance and forgiveness. The heart of The Winter's Tale is Leontes' journey from blind rage to ultimate redemption. To bring that journey to life, director Brian Pastor and his crew will draw on images and ideas from diverse periods of history, utilizing elements both ancient and modern.
Promethean Theatre Ensemble's THE WINTER'S TALE Begins Tonight

Promethean Theatre Ensemble has announced the first play of our ninth season, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
Promethean Theatre Ensemble to Present THE WINTER'S TALE, Begin. 11/7

Promethean Theatre Ensemble has announced the first play of our ninth season, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
Photo Flash: First Look at Promethean Theatre Ensemble's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Promethean Theatre Ensemble presents the second play of their 2013/2014 season, Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN features PTE ensemble member Nick Lake and Special Guest Artist Tom McGrath. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

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