Lookingglass Theatre Company announces its 25th Anniversary Season

Directors include Lookingglass Ensemble Members Mary Zimmerman, Heidi Stillman, Christine Mary Dunford, and David Schwimmer

Chicago, IL—Lookingglass Theatre Company proudly announces its 25th Anniversary Season, kicking off with the return of Metamorphoses written and directed by Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Broadway run. The season continues with the Chicago premiere of the Tony award-nominated Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Heidi Stillman. Ensemble Member Christine Mary Dunford will direct the world premiere of her adaptation of the bestselling novel Still Alice. In the final show of Lookingglass’ 25th Season, David Schwimmer will direct the world premiere of Big Lake Big City by Keith Huff, the award-winning playwright of the Broadway cop drama A Steady Rain.  Read the rest of this entry »

COURT THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2012-13 SEASON

COURT THEATRE’S 58TH SEASON TO FEATURE AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY, JAMES JOYCE’S “THE DEAD,”
DAVID HARE’S SKYLIGHT, DAVID AUBURN’S PROOF,
AND MOLIERE’S THE MISANTHROPE & TARTUFFE

Chicago, IL – Court Theatre proudly announces its 2012/13 season under the continuing leadership of Artistic Director Charles Newell, Executive Director Stephen J. Albert, Board Chair Virginia Gerst and Deputy Provost of the Arts Larry Norman. The company’s 58th season will feature August Wilson’s Jitney, directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson; a reimagining of James Joyce’s The Dead directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell with Musical Direction by Doug Peck; David Hare’s Skylight directed by William Brown in his Court Theatre debut; and University of Chicago alumnus David Auburn’s Proof, also directed by Charles Newell. Newell will close the season by returning to the world of French Baroque with Moliere’s The Misanthrope, followed by Tartuffe.  Read the rest of this entry »

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces 2012/13 Season

Chicago—March 12, 2012—Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Hendersonannounced today CST’s 2012/13 Season, which begins with a major new production of Sunday in the Park with George by musical team Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, and also includes the Chicago premiere of The School for Lies by playwright David Ives and productions of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Henry VIII. The Theater’s extensive World’s Stage lineup of international programming for 2012/13 ranges from the American premiere of A History of Everything by Belgian company Ontroerend Goed to the return of the National Theatre of Scotland’s internationally acclaimed Black Watch and its inventive, supernatural The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. CST’s annual CST Family programming kicks off this summer with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Additional productions will be announced for the 2012/13 Season later this summer, including an ongoing collaboration between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Australia’s one step at a time like this (en route) creating for the City of Chicago a world premiere pedestrian-based live art event inspired by Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and set in the city’s urban landscape. Read the rest of this entry »

Writers’ Theatre announces 2012/13 Season to feature Hamlet, Sweet Charity, Corneille’s The Liar adapted by David Ives and Midwest premieres by John W. Lowell and David Greig

Michael Halberstam, Stuart Carden, William Brown and Kimberly Senior slated to direct

Glencoe, IL—Writers’ Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce the 2012/13 Season, which includes Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Michael Halberstam with Scott Parkinson in the title role; the Midwest premiere of John W. Lowell’s play The Letters, directed by Kimberly Senior; Sweet Charity, directed by Michael Halberstam with Musical Direction by Doug Peck and choreography by Jessica Redish; the Midwest premiere of David Greig’s Yellow Moon directed by Stuart Carden; and David Ives’ modern adaptation of Corneille’s The Liar, directed by William Brown.  Read the rest of this entry »

STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2012/13 SUBSCRIPTION SEASON

CHICAGO (March 7, 2012) – Steppenwolf Theatre Company Artistic Director Martha Lavey announced today the 2012/13 Subscription Season, including a Steppenwolf-commissioned world premiere and the work of fifteen ensemble members. The season begins in Steppenwolf’s Downstairs Theatre with David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, directed by ensemble member K. Todd Freeman. Up next, ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro directs The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis. In the Upstairs Theatre, ensemble member Austin Pendleton directs The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. In April 2013, ensemble member Tina Landau directs the Steppenwolf-commissioned world premiere of Head of Passes by ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney, their first collaboration since the widely-praised The Brother/Sister Plays (2010). The season concludes with Belleville by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Kauffmann.  Read the rest of this entry »

INTERROBANG THEATRE PROJECT ANNOUNCES 2012-2013 SEASON

Interrobang Theatre Project Will Produce Paula Vogel’s Explosive Hot ’N’ Throbbing and the Chicago Premiere of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues

Chicago, IL – Interrobang Theatre Project (ITP), under the leadership of Artistic Director Jeffry Stanton and Managing Director Gregory Owen-Boger, announces its 2012-2013 season. The company’s 3rd season will feature Paula Vogel’s Hot ’N’ Throbbing and the Chicago premiere of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues. Both plays will be directed by Jeffry Stanton.

Artistic Director Jeffry Stanton said, “I’m thrilled for Interrobang to bring together the work of Paula Vogel and Andrew Bovell—two extraordinarily clever playwrights who share idiosyncratic theatricality, a dark sense of humor, and a cellular-level understanding of the complexity and capriciousness of human nature.  Read the rest of this entry »

THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE OF ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 2012 – 2013 SEASON

World-Class Dance Takes Center Stage with an Eclectic Lineup Including Ballet Folklórico de México, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, River North Dance Chicago with Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Eisenhower Dance Ensemble and the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg

Music Fills the Auditorium’s Legendary Theatre with Susan Werner, Michael Feinstein and Jeff Lindberg’s Chicago Jazz Orchestra and the Annual Production of “Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz Gospel Messiah”

CHICAGO, IL — Executive Director of The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (ATRU) Brett Batterson announces the Auditorium Theatre’s 2012-2013 season featuring six world-class dance productions, an annual favorite and musical treats for Chicago audiences. In keeping with its commitment to showcase and celebrate the diverse talents and cultural treasures of the local, regional and international creative landscape, the Auditorium will present a treasure trove of spectacular performances all season long. Subscription packages and group tickets go on sale May 1, 2012 by calling (312) 431-2357. Visit www.auditoriumtheatre.org for more information.  Read the rest of this entry »

PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 18th SEASON

The 2012 – 2013 Season Includes Two Chicago Premieres Including A New Holiday Production and Two Classics of American Musical Theatre.

CHICAGO – Michael Weber, Artistic Director of Porchlight Music Theatre, is proud to announce Porchlight’s18th season. The season includes the Chicago premiere of A Class Act, September 1 – October 14; a new to Chicago holiday production of The Gifts of the Magi, November 17 – December 30 and two classics of the American musical canon: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, February 2 – March 17, 2013 and Pal Joey, April 20 – June 2, 2013. Weber described Porchlight’s 2012 – 2013 18th season as “Continuing the path we began in 2011, by presenting Chicago’s audiences with incomparable productions that not only entertain but also challenge audiences to see music theatre in a new way.” “Early Bird” Season Membership Renewals are on sale March 6 – April 1. New Season Memberships go on sale Monday, April 2 and single tickets to the 2012-2013 season go on sale Monday, April 23. All memberships are available at porchlightmusictheatre.org or by phone at 773.777.9884.  Read the rest of this entry »

REMY BUMPPO ANNOUNCES 16TH SEASON AND FIRST UNDER ARTISTIC DIRECTOR NICK SANDYS
2012/2013 Season Theme is The Marriage Game: Truth and Consequence?
CHICAGO–Remy Bumppo Theatre Company announces its 16th season, the first under the new leadership of longtime company member Nick Sandys. The 2012/2013 season is replete with the type of plays that the group has become renowned for producing, modern classics full of thought-provoking ideas, passionate debates, and sophisticated wit. The season kicks off with the company’s third foray into the works of Edward Albee, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Seascape (rights pending), directed by Nick Sandys. Remy Bumppo returns for the holiday season to the dazzling wit and social critique of George Bernard Shaw and his delightful romantic comedy of mis-matched parents and children, You Never Can Tell. The production will be directed by Artistic Associate Shawn Douglass, who also helmed the company’s 2010 box-office hit, The Importance of Being Earnest. The season concludes with the Midwest premiere of David Greig’s critically-acclaimed new adaptation of the savagely witty “comedy,” Creditors, by August Strindberg. A smash hit in both London and New York, this taut psychosexual thriller will be directed by one of Chicago’s finest directors, Kimberly Senior. All shows will be presented at the Greenhouse Theater Center at 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. Subscriptions go on sale March 28, 2012 at www.remybumppo.org or by calling the box office at 773-404-7336. Single tickets go on sale Aug. 1, 2012.  Read the rest of this entry »

TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2012-13 SEASON

Chicago, IL — TimeLine Theatre Company, named one of the nation’s top 10 emerging theatre companies (American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards®, 2011) and Chicago’s “Best Theatre” (Chicago magazine, 2011), announces its four-play 2012-13 season. TimeLine is dedicated to presenting plays inspired by history that connect to today’s social and political issues, and its upcoming season includes one world premiere and three Chicago premieres.  Read the rest of this entry »