There’s just one place to be on Tuesday nights at 6 pm, especially if you love live music! Beginning June 7, Portage LIVE! presents a stellar line-up of musical entertainment at Oakwood Hall at Portage's Woodland Park, 2100 Willowcreek Road.
COME SLAY WITH US: BABES WITH BLADES THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM FOR RICHARD III, AUGUST 25 – OCTOBER 15, AT THE EDGE THEATER | Directed By Richard Costes, Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s Shakespeare Features Non-Traditional Casting and is Informed by a Collaboration with the University Of Illinois Chicago and their incubators for Disability Arts and Culture
WAIT WAIT... DON’T TELL ME!, NPR’S POPULAR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ, MOVES TO A NEW CHICAGO HOME: THE STUDEBAKER THEATER AT THE FINE ARTS BUILDING | TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR FIRST LIVE TAPING IN THE NEW VENUE, JUNE 16th | Momentous move takes place in advance of milestone 2023 year for both institutions: Fine Arts Building celebrates 125th Anniversary while Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! marks 25th
WHITE MONKEY BY CHARLIE OH, DIRECTED BY MIKAEL BURKE, IS THE NEXT FUTURE LABS READING ON MAY 28; FREE TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE | ***IN ADDITION, THE GOODMAN’S SEASON-LONG RESIDENCY PROGRAM, THE PLAYWRIGHTS UNIT, IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS (DEADLINE TO APPLY IS JUNE 14)***
First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook is looking for students who have just completed their junior or senior year of high school for a tech internship for the summer. This is a paid internship. Interns will focus on helping the theater’s tech coordinator prepare for the return of live theater in the fall. Internships are for 5 weeks in July/August. Dates of employment are flexible (see below).
American Blues Theater announces casting for August Wilson’s Fences, directed by Monty Cole | Cast includes Kamal Bolden, Manny Buckley, Shanésia Davis, Ajax Dontavius, Martel Manning, William Anthony Sebastian Rose II, and Riley Wells | July 1st-August 6th
REDTWIST THEATRE ANNOUNCES CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM FOR ANTIGONE, JUNE 23rd – JULY 31st | Sophocles’ Tragedy is Given a Modern Adaptation by Anne Carson, Directed by Christine Freije and Starring Retwist Company Members Brian Parry and Sarah Sapperstein
MCANINCH ARTS CENTER’S LAKESIDE PAVILION FREE OUTDOOR SUMMER SERIES RETURNS JULY 15-AUG. 5 | Programming Kicks off with “Through The Years” Featuring Don Gatlin with The Kenny Rogers Band | Other Series Highlights: Thursday Evening WDCB LIVE Jazz Series and New Sunday Family Series
AVENUE Q MEETS LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS IN HAND TO GOD, NEXT IN PARAMOUNT’S NEW BOLD SERIES, MAY 25-JULY 10, 2022 AT DOWNTOWN AURORA’S NEW COPLEY THEATRE
Two new feature films and a two-week festival of shorts announced for PrideArts summer streaming film schedule | Documentary on Liberace and a Swedish gay drama will stream in June, with shorts festival to follow in July
