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Chicago TheatreWelcome to Steadstyle Chicago!  Chicago has long been renowned for its innovations in the arts and architecture.  While it has earned its nickname as the Second City, within the past two decades it has also become one of the most vital and important theatre cities in America.  Our downtown Loop is bustling with over a dozen major venues hosting a wide array of theatre and performing arts.  Broadway in Chicago brings the cream of Broadway plays and musicals to beautiful and historic venues, including the Auditorium, Cadillac Palace, LaSalle Bank (formerly Shubert) and Ford Center Oriental Theatres. 

Chicago now hosts four Tony Award winning regional companies.  The Goodman, Steppenwolf and Victory Gardens Theatres all specialize in top quality, nationally recognized work, while the internationally acclaimed Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier draws an eclectic audience to its beautiful courtyard style theatre and superb mountings of Shakespeare and eclectic family friendly fare.  Suburban enterprises such as the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and Light Opera Works specialize in presenting the best musicals in the Chicagoland area. 

And, of course, the lifeblood of Chicago theatre is the Off Loop storefront companies that constantly introduce the gutsiest, most provocative and edgy work any serious theatre devotee could wish to see.  Read about them all at Steadstyle Chicago, and please visit our affiliate site Theatre in Chicago for complete listings, news, reviews and restaurant recommendations.  This site is intended to be both functional and aesthetically appealing.  You can now click on any photo on the site to get more information on the show! 

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Broadway veteran Evan D'Angeles is Quasimodo in Dennis DeYoung's musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Bailiwick through August 31

The Lion in Winter through August 3 at Writers Theatre

Oracle Productions presents the Midwest Premiere of Termen Vox Machina June 28-August 3

Rubicon Theatre Project presents the Chicago Premiere of Noah Haidle's Rag and Bone, June 28-July 27 at Profiles Theatre

Blue Heron Theatre's presents Hurt McDermott’s one-act, hour-long comedy, repeat w/Madeline through August 14

MidTangent Productions presents their twisted retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale July 3-August 3 at National Pastime Theatre

Ouroboros Theatre Company presents Cyrano Translated through August 3 at Theatre Building Chicago

Not Waiting Productions presents the world premier play, Ruby Wilder by Brooke Allen, July 18-August 10, 2008 at Chemically Imbalanced Theatre

Timberlake Playhouse presents Larry Shue's hit comedy The Foreigner July 17-26

First Folio Shakespeare Festival presents Much Ado About Nothing July 11-August 17

Dream Theatre Company Presents, Meda, a world premiere by Jeremy Menekseoglu, July 24-August 24

Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa July 25-August 23

Theatre Seven presents the World Premiere of Yes, This Really Happened to Me July 25-August 3 at Chicago Dramatists

The Mill presents Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief, Paula Vogel's satiric look at the last days of the Shakespearean heroine, July 27-August 23, 2008  at Stage Left Theatre

Light Opera Works presents Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe August 16-24 at Cahn Auditorium

Broadway in Chicago presents the musical sensation Mamma Mia! September 17-28 at the Auditorium Theatre

 

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Eclipse Theatre Company presents Neil Simon's comedy Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite

Theatre at the Center presents the musical Phantom by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit

Phantom

Azusa Productions presents Onto Infinity by David Alex at Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theatre

Onto Infinity

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Lookingglass Alice, an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Lookingglass

Lookingglass Alice

Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents the family musical Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka

The Journeymen present the musical tick...tick..Boom June 26-August 2 in the Coach House Theater located in the Berger Park District.

tick, Tick...BOOM!

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts

Superior Donuts

Cirque Du Soleil Kooza at the United Center

Cirque Du Soleil Kooza

The Goodman Theatre presents the Fats Waller musical Ain't Misbehavin'

Ain't Misbehavin'

Circle Theatre presents Noel Coward's comedy Hay Fever

Hay Fever

Gutenberg the Musical at Royal George Theatre

Gutenberg! the Musical

Theo Ubique presents Jacques Brel's Lonesome Losers of the Night at No Exit Cafe

Lonesome Losers of the Night

Chicago playwright James Sherman's newest family comedy Relatively Close, playing June 6-July 13, 2008 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.

Relatively Close

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Nelson Algren: For Keeps in a Single Day June 4-29

Nelson Algren

Gift Theatre presents Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play W;t

W;t

The Kid from Brooklyn at the Mercury Theatre through August 24

The Kid from Brooklyn

Cirque Shanghai Gold

Bohermian Theatre Ensemble presents the musical Jekyll and Hyde at Theatre Building Chicago

Jekyll and Hyde

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at Drury Lane Oakbrook

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story

Lifeline Theatre presents The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro

Campaign Supernova at Second City

Campaign Supernova

Noble Fool Theatricals presents the musical revue I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

TimeLine Theatre presents a remount of the hit musical Fiorello April 19-June 15

Fiorello!

Black Ensemble Theatre presents I Am Who I Am (The Story of Teddy Pendergrass)

I Am Who I Am

A Steady Rain at the Royal George Theatre

A Steady Rain

Broadway in Chicago presents the musical Jersey Boys at the LaSalle Bank Theatre

Jersey Boys

Hizzoner at Prop Thtr

Hizzoner

Broadway in Chicago presents the blockbuster musical Wicked at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre

Wicked

 

Broadway in Chicago announces the U.S. Premiere of Dirty Dancing the musical, coming to the Cadillac Palace Theatre fall 2008