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Anything Goes – Music Theatre Works

Can there be a better way to escape from the Chicago heat than with a bright, bubbly, laughed-filled, carefree Broadway

Treefall – Exit 63 Theatre

When the audience enters the intimate theatre space on W. Cortland, they may be surprised to discover three young boys

Hurricane Damage – Pride Films and Plays

Kevin Brofsky, a playwright with over 50 one-acts to his credit, makes his Chicago PF&P debut with

Holding the Man – Pride Films and Plays

After playing for several years at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in Australia, and eventually having its American premiere in

The Harvest – Griffin Theatre

When the lights rise on a mildewed, small-town Idaho church basement, created with detail by scenic designer Sotirios

Leave Me Alone! – Story Theatre

In 1887 Anton Chekov wrote a play called “Ivanov,” a tragic tale of a man at the end of his rope. When the playwright initially

Defacing Michael Jackson – Flying Elephant Productions

Nestled somewhere in Opa Locka City, Florida, a group of African American teenagers named Obadiah, and his friends Red and

Rick Stone the Blues Man

Jackie Taylor has changed up her usual formula for Black Ensemble Theater’s wonderful, toe-tapping musical revues this summer. Instead

Something in the Game: An All-American Musical – American Music Theatre

Ten years ago, the creative team of talented Chicago favorites Michael Mahler and David H. Bell composed a fine musical score that was

Pamplona – Goodman Theatre

Near the top of Jim McGrath’s biographic, one-man play about award-winning American author Ernest Hemingway, the writer calls down