COURT THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2021 SOUTHSIDE YOUTH FEST AND PLATFORM FOR TEENS TO IMAGINE RADICAL FUTURES THROUGH DIGITAL ART CONTEST

 The Chesterton Art Center is offering monthly children's art classes taught by Jennifer Aitchison throughout the school year.  The Art Center will be zooming live virtual classes in March.  (On-site classes may be added later when it is safe to do so.)  

PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE PRESENTS THE LATEST WORLD PREMIERE FROM HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS – LIVE FROM FLORENCE, HERSHEY FELDER, PUCCINI, LIVE STREAMED SUNDAY, MARCH 14 AT 7 P.M. CDT | Hershey Felder Portrays Italian Opera Composer Giacomo Puccini in the Live from Florence Performance that Celebrates the LIfe and Music of the Renowned Composer and Features Opera Stars Nathan Gunn, Gianna Corbisiero, and Charles Castronovo

Art on theMART to Present Hope is a Light, Featuring Select Work by Graduating Chicago Public School Seniors Beginning May 20th | Hope is a Light: Select Works from the Chicago Public School Class of 2021 to Run Nightly Through June 26th

Art on theMART to Present Hope is a Light, Featuring Select Work by Graduating Chicago Public School Seniors Beginning May 20th | Hope is a Light: Select Works from the Chicago Public School Class of 2021 to Run Nightly Through June 26th

Court Theatre, under the continuing leadership of Charles Newell, Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, and Executive Director Angel Ysaguirre, announces the online premiere of its Spotlight Podcast. A key component of Court’s community engagement work, the Spotlight Series—which has in the past brought staged readings from BIPOC playwrights to local communities on Chicago’s South and West sides—has been reimagined for 2021 as a series of four audio podcast episodes directed and performed by local theatre artists.

THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2021 DATES FOR THEIR 17TH ANNUAL SUMMER CAMP, HEARTS TO ART, A Performing Arts Camp for Young People Who Have Experienced the Death of a Parent | Camp Is Offered at No Cost to Families!
Session 1 (ages 7-10/entering grades 2-5): July 12-23
Session 2 (ages 11-14/entering grades 6-9): July 26-August 6

THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2021 DATES FOR THEIR 17TH ANNUAL SUMMER CAMP, HEARTS TO ART, A Performing Arts Camp for Young People Who Have Experienced the Death of a Parent | Camp Is Offered at No Cost to Families!
Session 1 (ages 7-10/entering grades 2-5): July 12-23
Session 2 (ages 11-14/entering grades 6-9): July 26-August 6

Due to the ongoing challenges created by the pandemic, Paramount Theatre announced today the reschedule of its June 2021 non-Broadway shows to March of 2022.

We don't know exactly how William Shakespeare died. One theory is that he died after contracting a fever following a drinking binge with fellow playwrights Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton. Another is that he was ill for over a month before he died, indicated by the fact that Shakespeare dictated his will just 4 weeks before his death in April 1616.*