The Second City Training Center in Chicago proudly presents The Mary Scruggs Works By Women Festival 2018. Back for its seventh consecutive year, the annual showcase features a two-day lineup of world premiere sketches and songs written by women of the Second City Training Center, performances by some of the best and brightest up-and-coming female … Read more
Cory Goodrich, in the role of M’Lynn, Landree Fleming, as Shelby, and Heidi Kettenring as Truvy, lead the cast of Theatre at the Center’s Steel Magnolias with Joslyn Yvonne Jones as Ouiser, Jeannie Affelder as Clairee and Myesha-Tiara as Annelle. Previews begin February 22 with Opening Night on February 25 for the run through March … Read more
(Evanston, IL) Fresh off the Chicago Reader recommended, The Trojan Women, Three Crows ends their season with OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD. Written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keanally (Schindler’s List), it won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988. Directed by Kristin Davis, OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD … Read more
Sean Masterson’s Timeless Magic is a magic show interwoven with the story of the souvenir coin that Sean’s great uncle received from a magician at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Sean takes his audience on a journey through the “golden age of magic” in his quest to uncover the identity of that anonymous magician. The … Read more
Chicago, IL – The iO Comedy Network is proudly premiering their first ever original series, Kill Me. The 5-episode series follows fictional Chicago actors who specialize in playing dead bodies on TV procedurals. You know those extras that get wheeled away on a gurney in the first scene of an episode of Law & Order? … Read more
A new web series, “Super Narcoleptic Girl” (#SNG), announced today a live show and full screening of the 8-episode (28 min), SAG New Media web series in Chicago on February 5th, 2018 at 7:30pm at Annoyance Theater, 851 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets are free and can be reserved via the Annoyance Website. The brainchild of … Read more
The 29th Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, co-produced by Curious Theatre Branch and Prop Thtr, opens Saturday, Jan. 13 and runs Wednesdays through Mondays until Sunday, February 25. This year, the Rhino features 32 shows, 6 nights a week, for 6 weeks. Rhino opens on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 pm with Full Moon Vaudeville, hosted by The Crooked Mouth with special guest performer Ian Belknap. … Read more
TimeLine’s Chicago premiere production of BOY by Anna Ziegler, directed by Damon Kiely, running through March 18, 2018 at TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago. A moving and poignant story, inspired by true events, about a search for personal identity and acceptance. In the 1960s, a surgical accident causes a well-intentioned doctor to convince … Read more
The Agency Theater Collective is pleased to announce its spring production of the world premiere of I’m Falling In Love All The Time, written and performed by Jack Schultz and directed by Cordie Nelson, March 2 – March 31, at The Pendulum Space, 1803 W Byron St #216. Opening night is Friday, March 2 at 10:00 p.m. The performance schedule is every Friday … Read more
Arlington Heights, Ill., October 5, 2017 – Ben Tedder returns to Metropolis Performing Arts Centre with Broadway’s longest running solo play Defending the Caveman November 17 and 18, 2017. Defending the Caveman is a hilariously insightful play about the ways men and women relate. It has both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition. Lots of … Read more