Refuge Theatre Project's BARE: A POP OPERA Begins Performances October
Refuge Theatre Project will again perform in a non-traditional space for their production of bare: a pop opera, which will complete the company's second season with a five-week run from October 7 through November 6, 2016. The sanctuary of Epworth United Methodist Church at 5253 N. Kenmore will be the stage for this sung-through musical, set in a private co-educational Roman Catholic boarding school. bare, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2000 and was mounted off-Broadway in New York in 2004, follows gay and straight teenage characters who are dealing with their emerging sexuality. The pastoral guidance they receive from their teachers is not always affirming.
Photo Flash: First Look at New American Folk Theatre's TRASH at The Den Theatre
It's The Glass Menagerie meets Anna Nicole, in an episode of Hoarders! New American Folks Theatre opens its 2016 season with the Midwest premiere of the dark, twisted comedy TRASH by Johnny Drago, directed by Derek Van Barham, playing now through May 15, 2016 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. The press opening is tonight, April 11, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
New American Folk Theatre's TRASH Begins in April at The Den Theatre
It's The Glass Menagerie meets Anna Nicole, in an episode of Hoarders! New American Folks Theatre is pleased to open its 2016 season with the Midwest premiere of the dark, twisted comedy TRASH by Johnny Drago, directed by Derek Van Barham, playing April 9 - May 15, 2016 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Tickets are currently available at www.newamericanfolktheatre.org. The press opening is Monday, April 11 at 7:30 pm.
New American Folk Theatre's TRASH to Run 4/9-5/15
It's The Glass Menagerie meets Anna Nicole, in an episode of Hoarders! New American Folks Theatre is pleased to open its 2016 season with the Midwest premiere of the dark, twisted comedy TRASH by Johnny Drago, directed by Derek Van Barham, playing April 9 - May 15, 2016 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at www.newamericanfolktheatre.org. The press opening is Monday, April 11 at 7:30 pm.
Savoyaires Present Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. PINAFORE
Amy Uhl's most recent show was the new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, now playing at New York City's Nederlander Theatre. A member of the directing team for that production's Broadway in Chicago and Broadway companies, Uhl now returns to Evanston's Savoyaires - where in 2010 she choreographed The Gondoliers -- to direct Gilbert & Sullivan's ever-popular H.M.S. Pinafore.
Photo Flash: First Look at The New Colony's STANLEY IN THE NAME OF LOVE
The New Colony is pleased to continue its 2015 season with the pop-infused world premiere musical comedy STANLEY IN THE NAME OF LOVE by Mr. Margaret Svetlove, directed by Sean Kelly, with music by The Delicious Moons (Nickolas Blazina, Henry Riggs, Alex Kliner and Sean Kelly). STANLEY IN THE NAME OF LOVE will play July 30 - August 29, 2015 at The New Colony's resident home, The Den Theatre (Upstairs Mainstage), 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
The New Colony to Premiere STANLEY IN THE NAME OF LOVE This Summer
The New Colony is pleased to continue its 2015 season with the pop-infused world premiere musical comedy STANLEY IN THE NAME OF LOVE by Mr. Margaret Svetlove, directed by Sean Kelly, with music by The Delicious Moons (Nickolas Blazina, Henry Riggs, Alex Kliner and Sean Kelly). STANLEY IN THE NAME OF LOVE will play July 30 - August 29, 2015 at The New Colony's resident home, The Den Theatre (Upstairs Mainstage), 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.
Monty Python's SPAMALOT Opens 11/1 at Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre presents Monty Python's SPAMALOT, part of The Citizens Bank Performing Arts Series, opening Friday Nov 1st at 7:30 PM through Nov 16th. With 14 Tony Award nominations, MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT tells the legendary story of King Arthur and his Knight of the Round Table as they set out on their quest to find the Holy Grail. Lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail, stalwart Eric Idle and composer John Du Prez adapt the classic film while adding swipes at Vegas glitz and Broadway conventions to the film's anarchic spirit. MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT "raises silliness to an artform!" (The Sunday Times).
Ivoryton Playhouse 'Kicks Off Its Sunday Shoes' with FOOTLOOSE, Now thru 7/28
One of the most explosive movie musicals in recent memory bursts onto the Ivoryton Playhouse stage tonight, July 3rd. The movie was released in 1984 and the soundtrack reached #1 on the Billboard charts and sold over 17 million copies worldwide. Its journey to Broadway began in 1996 when director Walter Bobbie collaborated on a stage adaptation with Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow. FOOTLOOSE finally previewed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1998, and opened on Broadway on October 22nd. The next day, the show broke the box office record for the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it continued to thrill audiences into July, 2000.