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Sondheim on Sondheim – Porchlight Music Theatre

For the musical theatre aficionado and devoted fan of Stephen Sondheim, America’s premier composer and lyricist, Nick Bowling’s

The Importance of Being Earnest – Shaw Chicago Theatre Company

Can there be a more exquisite comedy in the English language? Populated by some of literature’s most delightfully self-absorbed

James and the Giant Peach – Filament Theatre Company

In 1961, a young British author named Roald Dahl burst onto the literary scene with a children’s novel that set the standard for inventive

First Date – Royal George Theatre

Just in time for Valentines Day, and poised to warm up those cold Chicago nights, this pocket-size, recycled sitcom-style musical is cute,

The Addams Family – Mercury Theatre

The sizzling sound you hear is all the artistry that burns within Mercury Theater’s creative team. This includes director, L. Walter Stearns,

La Cage aux Folles – Marriott Theatre

The glitz and glamor of St. Tropez, with all its sparkle and shine, stars in sequins and feather boas and talented chorines in drag, almost

Book of Merman – Pride Films and Plays

With the phenomenal success of Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez’s cleverly written, irreverent and infectious musical comedy,

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 – The Other Theatre Company

Following the unthinkably violent incidents that occurred in the aftermath of Rodney King’s sadistic beating in California, stage and

White Guy on the Bus – Northlight Theatre

Each Saturday Ray, an affluent, caucasian business man, shares a public bus with a single, African American mother named Shatique, in

Rapture, Blister, Burn – Goodman Theatre

At some point in life, often in one’s middle age years, a person begins considering the road not taken, the life one could’ve chosen…but