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Lookingglass Theatre Company Shares 2025 Performances, Post-show Discussion, Events, and More
by Stephi Wild - Jan 24, 2025

Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced its current 2025 season including two mainstage productions, events, and more.

Review: RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA at Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire IL
by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - Nov 24, 2024

This is the crucial moment in the current childrens’ theatre production at Marriott Lincolnshire of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical, Cinderella. The cast of ten, under the direction of Laura Rook, brings delight and joy to the littlest members of the audience, many of the girls dressed as Cinderella and other Disney princesses.

Video: Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA at Marriott Theatre
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 23, 2024

Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences concluding its 2024 children’s theatre season with the beloved fairy tale adventure, RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA. Check out video footage from the production here!

Photos: Steppenwolf Celebrates Opening Night of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
by Nicole Rosky - May 14, 2024

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 48th season with the Chicago premiere of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, a biting comedy about everything right, wrong and woke in America, directed by Jess McLeod. Check out photos from inside opening night here!

Review: IN THE HEIGHTS at Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire IL
by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - Feb 1, 2024

The new production at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire is In The Heights. The music and lyrics are by Lin-Manuel Miranda (pre-Hamilton) and the book is by Quiara Alegria Hudes.  Washington Heights in New York City is the setting. This is a story about hope, love but mostly family.

Review: South Coast Repertory Brings LA HAVANA MADRID to Mission San Juan Capistrano
by Michael Quintos - Jul 28, 2023

While the play-with-music has its fair share of interesting and even poignant moments, SCR's overall production feels surprisingly low-stakes, and only really becomes much more lively when it reaches its celebratory music-filled finalé. With its stories delivered via monologues, it becomes difficult to really be connected to the play's characters.

Outside SCR Returns To Mission San Juan Capistrano With LA HAVANA MADRID
by Stephi Wild - Jun 22, 2023

South Coast Repertory  returns for a third summer to the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano with the Outside SCR production of La Havana Madrid by Sandra Delgado.

FEN by Caryl Churchill to be Presented at Court Theatre in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 5, 2023

Court Theatre is set to present the third production in its 2022/23 season: Fen by Caryl Churchill; directed by Vanessa Stalling. Fen runs February 10 – March 5, 2023.

Teatro Vista Welcomes Five New Board Members
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 10, 2022

Teatro Vista has announced the appointment of five new board members, expanding support, oversight and important new visibility for Chicago’s only Equity-affiliated Latine theater company.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater to Present 'L is for Libertad: Exploring Cuba's San Isidro Movement'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 10, 2022

Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present a post-show panel conversation titled 'L is for Libertad: Exploring Cuba’s San Isidrio Movement alongside Measure for Measure,' following the projected Spanish translation performance of Measure for Measure on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Photos: First Look at Teatro Vista's ENOUGH TO LET THE LIGHT IN at Steppenwolf
by Blair Ingenthron - Sep 24, 2022

Teatro Vista has released production photos from Enough to Let the Light In, a world premiere drama about love, truth, and the ghosts that won't let us go by Mexican-American actor/playwright/ filmmaker/director Paloma Nozicka.

Cast and Creative Team Announced For MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 16, 2022

​​​​​​​Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces the cast and creative team for the upcoming production of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, staged by celebrated director Henry Godinez in the Courtyard Theater, October 21–November 27, 2022.

Teatro Vista to Open 2022-23 Season With ENOUGH TO LET THE LIGHT IN World Premiere
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 8, 2022

Teatro Vista will open its 2022-23 season with Enough to Let the Light In, a world premiere drama about love, truth, and the ghosts that won't let us go by Mexican-American actor/playwright/ filmmaker/director Paloma Nozicka.

Teatro Vista's 2022-23 'Shadow Work' Season Will Include Debuts of Two World Premiere Live Shows and Two New Digital Works
by Stephi Wild - Aug 25, 2022

Chicago's leading Latine theater company, Teatro Vista, has announced its 2022-23 season, the second under Co-Artistic Directors Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo. 

BWW Review: THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI at Goodman Theatre
by Rachel Weinberg - Feb 23, 2022

Rarely do I see theater that feels truly unique, but Mary Zimmerman's THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI at Goodman Theater is indeed unlike any other piece of theater.

THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI Opens Tonight
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 22, 2022

Nearly 30 years after its acclaimed premiere, one of the most popular works in Goodman Theatre history opens tonight in the Owen Theatre in a major revival—and will be available to view online next month!

Photos: First Look at THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI at Goodman Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 18, 2022

Goodman Theatre is now presenting their major revival of Mary Zimmerman’s The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci—three decades after the play premiered in the Goodman’s Studio Series (at the Art Institute of Chicago). Movement and music unite to deliver a poetic glimpse into the mind of history’s ultimate Renaissance man.

Casting Announced for THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI at Goodman Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 25, 2022

 Movement and music unite to deliver a poetic glimpse into the mind of history’s ultimate Renaissance man in Mary Zimmerman’s The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci—one of the most popular works in Goodman Theatre history—in a major revival nearly 30 years after its premiere.

Court Theatre Extends OTHELLO Due To Popular Demand
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 6, 2021

Due to popular demand, Court Theatre, under the continuing leadership of Charles Newell, Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, and Executive Director Angel Ysaguirre, extends the first show of its 2021/2022 Season, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by William Shakespeare. Specifically conceived for a smaller audience and co-directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell and Gabrielle Randle-Bent, Othello features Kelvin Roston Jr., in the titular role. 

Chicago Shakespeare Announces 2021/22 Productions & Programs
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 28, 2021

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces the return of in-person performances at the Theater’s home on Navy Pier with the much-awaited debut of As You Like It infused with the hit songs of The Beatles, beginning October 6, 2021.