Steppenwolf Theatre Company is pleased to announce its 2010-2011 Subscription Season, exploring the theme of public/private self. Season subscriptions go on-sale to the public on Wednesday, March 10 at 11 a.m.

"Detroit"
a new play by Lisa D’Amour, featuring ensemble members Kate Arrington and Robert Breuler

Edward Albee’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
directed by Pam MacKinnon, featuring ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton

"Sex with Strangers"
by Laura Eason, directed by associate artist Jessica Thebus, featuring ensemble member Sally Murphy with Stephen Louis Grush

"The Hot L Baltimore"
by Lanford Wilson, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau, featuring ensemble members Alana Arenas, K. Todd Freeman and Yasen Peyankov

"Middletown"
a new play by Will Eno, directed by Les Waters, featuring ensemble member Alana Arenas

Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning Sondheim classic Into the Woods at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont, from April 9 through May 30, 2010. The Press Opening is Monday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is pleased to announce it has commissioned playwrights Lisa D’Amour and Tanya Saracho to create two new plays each for the Steppenwolf ensemble over the next two years. These commissions are funded by a three-year grant presented to Steppenwolf in 2008 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Footlight Players of Michigan City will hold auditions for its June production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” as Sat. Mar. 20th from 9-12 am and Sun. Mar. 21st from 1-4 pm.

Special appearances in March by internationally acclaimed LGBTQ performers Tim Miller and Holly Hughes continue to juice up Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed, the theater’s series of low priced offbeat performance-based events targeting younger and diverse audiences while celebrating alternative voices and approaches to creating new work.

THE LEGEND OF GINGER BRED; A STORY OF SEX, SALVATION & BAKED GOODS by COCK AND BULL THEATRE will perform Thursdays at 9:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm, March 11 – 20, 2010 at Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago 60647. Tickets are $15; to purchase tickets call 773-598-4549 or visit www.gorillatango.com.

Photo by Katarzyna Matwiejuk - Maggie Graham as Ginger Bred & Matt Olson as Gorilla

Provision Theater Company, a multi-Jeff nominated Equity theater company, will round out their 2009-10 season with the World Premiere of THE HIDING PLACE. THE HIDING PLACE previews April 7, opens April 10 at 8 p.m. and runs through May 23. Opening in conjunction with the beginning of National Holocaust Remembrance Day, Provision Theater Company will also be partnering with the Illinois Holocaust Museum to provide free tickets to survivors of The Holocaust.

Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the final show of its seventh season, the world premiere of “Aftermath,” written and directed by co-artistic director Ronan Marra. Opens Monday, May 10, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. - West Stage at the Raven Theatre Complex, 6157 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60660. Closes Sunday, June 6.