Caffeine, Dog & Pony, New Leaf, Steep and Theatre Seven are finalists for Emerging Theater Award

The League of Chicago Theatres has announced the five finalists for the fourth annual Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theater Award, and it’s quite the worthy crop.

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Win a voucher for two tickets to see NUMBER OF PEOPLE presented by Piven Theatre!

One lucky winner will win a voucher for two tickets to see NUMBER OF PEOPLE presented by Piven Theatre March 12 through April 4, 2010! (continue)

Great Balls of Fire! Million Dollar Quartet Gets Ready to Rock Broadway

Guess who’s coming to Broadway? Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins—actually, four super-talented young guys making their Broadway debuts portraying the musical icons in Million Dollar Quartet.  (continue)

Ellen Fairey, Playwright

“I’m a person who doesn’t like summer or sunshine,” said Ellen Fairey, playwright and self-proclaimed melancholic. Speaking with all the cautionary exuberance of Eeyore, she was discussing her play “Graceland,” which received rave reviews in Chicago... (continue)

'Billy Elliot' producers, musicians union at odds

CHICAGO UNION NEWS

With less than a month until the Chicago debut of Broadway's hit musical ''Billy Elliot,'' producers are still dancing on the final count of orchestra players, as the musicians union wrestles for more of its members in the pit. (continue)

Michael Shannon Will Be New "Stage Manager" of NYC's Our Town

Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, of "Revolutionary Road," will take over the role of the Stage Manager in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Our Town starting Feb. 23. (continue)

Wanted in Chicago: A few good, young producers

The Loop's stages are busy with tours and coming Broadway sit-downs such as “Billy Elliot.” And Chicago's unique collection of major resident theaters has unpacked some formidable, must-see work this winter — from “Awake and Sing” at Northlight... (continue)

American Blues has a new artistic director

The Chicago actress Gwendolyn Whiteside has taken over the artistic helm of the American Blues Theater.  (continue)

Audiences still eat up ‘August’ — but do we care about its people?

No question about it: Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County” — in all its 3½ hours, three acts and three generations’ worth of dysfunction — is a theatrical phenomenon. (continue)

‘Brother/Sister' writer Tarell Alvin McCraney is hot, young and more than partly Chicagoan

Meet Tarell Alvin McCraney, the author of “The Brother/Sister Plays” and, without question, the hottest young playwright in America. Although he is just 29 years old, McCraney is a product of many places and traditions. “I have no home,” he said in... (continue)

MacArthur genius still fights for ragtime, after the money runs out

Five years fly fast when you've got $500,000 to spend as you please. But now Chicagoan Reginald Robinson's five years are up: His prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant, dispensed in annual installments of $100,000 (with no strings... (continue)

'Million Dollar' plans: New cast for Chicago, current quartet heads to Broadway

The lead musicians of "Million Dollar Quartet" — Levi Kreis as Jerry Lee Lewis, Rob Lyons as Carl Perkins, Eddie Clendening as Elvis Presley and Lance Guest as Johnny Cash — are headed to Broadway to open the show at the Nederlander Theatre.  (continue)