DESIRE IN A TINIER HOUSE, by Chicago playwright Ryan Oliveira, is a genre-defying two-character drama examining the challenges of maintaining loving gay relationships amidst threats ranging from family and workplace trauma to technology's encroachment on privacy and government suppression of individuality.
Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce that tickets for Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES are on now. LES MISÉRABLES will play Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W Randolph) for a limited three-week engagement July 9th-27th.
BoHo Theatre continues its 2019 season with THE RIVER, a haunting and complex new play by playwright Jez Butterworth, directed by Jerrell L. Henderson. THE RIVER was called “a magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama” by TIME OUT LONDON.
Griffin Theatre Company is pleased to continue its 31st season with W. Somerset Maugham’s classic war drama FOR SERVICES RENDERED, directed by ensemble member Robin Witt*, playing May 19 – July 6, 2019 at The Den Theatre (Upstairs Main Stage), 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 1 at www.griffintheatre.com or by calling (773) 697-3830. The press opening is Sunday, May 26 at 7 pm.
Cast, director and designers have been announced for HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the thoughtfully funny and hard-rocking musical by Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell that will close out Theo Ubique’s first season in its new home on Howard Street in Evanston. Artistic Director Fred Anzevino said today the leading role of Hedwig Schmidt, a genderqueer glam punk rock artist, will be taken by Will Lidke. Lidke won praise for his leading role of Seymour in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS last fall at Drury Lane Theatre, where he most recently played Snoopy in YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the City of Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Boeing partner to present the annual citywide summer tradition, Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks. Made possible by production sponsor BMO Harris Bank, 25 performances of Shakespeare’s hilarious classic The Comedy of Errors, directed by David H. Bell, will tour free for all to 19 neighborhood parks across Chicago in the city’s most expansive arts-in-communities initiative, July 18–August 18, 2019.
Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE), the professional Equity company in residence at the McAninch Arts Center, is pleased to announce its 2019-2020 Three-Play Season. It includes Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Holmes and Watson,” Bekah Brunstetter’s “The Cake” and Mat Smart’s “Naperville.”
Dunes Summer Theatre announces its 2019 Spring and Summer Season offering award-winning titles and award-winning directors. The Season runs from the end of April through September.
Season to kick off in November with THE SUFFRAGE PLAYS by Shaw and Evelyn Glover and conclude in June 2020 with World Premiere of Lauren Ferebee’s EVERY WAITING HEART
Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce that its final production in the 2018 – 2019 “lost” musicals in staged concert series Porchlight Revisits Minnie’s Boys will now include a special event with Minnie’s Boys composer Larry Grossman, “A Conversation with Larry Grossman,” Thursday, May 23 at 4:45 p.m. and feature a new song added to this Chicago premiere.
