Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Porchlight Music Theatre [29] Raven Theater [30] A Red Orchid Theatre [31] Red Tape Theatre [32] Red Theater Chicago [33] Remy Bumppo Theatre Company [34] The Second City [35] Shattered Globe Theatre Company; Silk Road Rising [36] Steep Theatre Company [37] Steppenwolf Theatre Company [38] Strawdog Theatre Company [39] Theatre-Hikes; Theo ...
Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) is a resident professional not-for-profit musical theatre company in Illinois founded in 1980 by Philip Kraus, Bridget McDonough, and Ellen Dubinsky. The company presented over 75 productions of operetta and musical theatre at Northwestern University 's 1,000-seat Cahn Auditorium.
An ensemble-based company is formed of a group of artists (actors, directors, designers, playwrights, etc.) who work collaboratively to create each production. Chicago theater has a long record of introducing new plays and playwrights. Many of the theaters in Chicago have new play workshop programs to cultivate work from current playwrights.
Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age , the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported.
This next era for the 549-seat Drury Lane Water Tower began with performances of The Full Monty. [1] This was followed by Broadway In Chicago productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, SHOUT! The Mod Musical and Xanadu. [4] The rebranded Broadway Playhouse opened next to the Water Tower shopping center in September 2010.
The Cadillac Palace Theatre (originally the New Palace Theatre) is operated by Broadway In Chicago, a Nederlander company and seats 2,344. It is located at 151 West Randolph Street in the Chicago Loop area.
The city of Chicago pledged $13.5 million toward the restoration and Ford Motor Company entered into a sponsorship agreement with Livent for a reported $1 million annual fee. [ 12 ] In November 1998, Livent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and the Bankruptcy Court approved the sale of its assets to SFX Entertainment.
The name Steppenwolf Theatre Company was first used [6] in 1974 at a Unitarian church [7] [8] on Half Day Road in Deerfield. [1] The company presented And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, [9] with Rick Argosh directing, [10] [11] and Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, [12] with ...