Chicago's Latest Performing Arts News
Nominees for Non-Equity Jeff Awards Announced
The 40th Annual Non-Equity Jeff Awards ceremony is on Monday, June 3, at Park West, 322 W. Armitage, Chicago. Honoring excellence in professional theatre produced within the immediate Chicago area, there are 120 nominations in 25 categories for... (continue)
Chicago’s Storefront Theaters Are a Hotbed of Talent
By: Suzy Evans, Backstage.com
What is a storefront theater? Ask three artistic directors this question, and you’ll get three different answers. “Small, non-Equity house.” “Itinerant company.” “A theater in a storefront.” The only aspect that everyone can agree on? It’s a place... (continue)
'Glass Menagerie' will move to Theater Wit
By: Chris Jones, Theater Loop, Chicago Tribune
The hit Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is coming back in the late spring. (continue)
James Harms' portrayal of Don Quixote a highlight in 2012
By: Light Opera Works announcement
James Harms, star of the Light Opera Works production of Man of La Mancha last year, was named as one of Chicago's "Top 10 theater performances of 2012" by The Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones: (continue)
Showbiz Chicago Top 10 Plays & Musicals of 2012
By: Michael Roberts, Showbiz Chicago
As we close another fantastic year in Chicago theatre, here is our top 10 plays and musicals of 2012, including our favorite performance art piece. We at Showbiz Chicago wish you the happiest of holidays and a healthy New Year. (continue)
Kristin Larsen exits Remy Bumppo
By: Chris Jones, Theater critic, Theater Loop, Chicago Tribune
Kristin Larsen, the longtime executive director of the non-profit Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, has resigned her position at the small Equity company, which produces at the Greenhouse Theatre Center. She is to become executive director of Stage 773,... (continue)
Top 10: Best Chicago theater of 2012
By: Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, Theater Loop
Of the scores of shows I reviewed in Chicago during 2012, here are the select few that, upon further consideration, I liked best of all. As is our tradition, the top 10 shows of 2012 appear in order of wonderfulness. (continue)
First-ever Chicago Theater Week planned
By: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times
By any reckoning, EVERY week is “theater week” in Chicago. But now the League of Chicago Theatres, in partnership with ChooseChicago.com, has formally declared the first-ever such event, scheduled for Feb. 12-17, 2013. Designed to encourage... (continue)
Strawdog changes artistic director
By: Chris Jones, Theater critic, Chicago Tribune, Theater Loop
Strawdog Theatre Company, a long-lived storefront operation on Chiicago's North Side, has announced a change in artistic director. (continue)
ACT II: A second look at area stages
By: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times
Here are three shows — a play born, bred and set in Chicago, a drama about an Iraq War veteran who has just returned home to California, and an intimate musical that unspools in early 1960s West Virginia. None of them has anything to do with the... (continue)
