Prop Thtr News Today

Also around the area this first June weekend, Tim McGraw plays the United Center, John Cusack talks movies and butterflies galore.

Red Theater will open its 23/24 season with Savannah Reich's Caveman Play, directed by co-Artistic Director Clare Brennan, running December 1 - 30, 2023 at The Edge Off Broadway in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.

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Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation is a history lesson through choreopoem of the women in Black Liberation movements.

At the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, Prop Thtr’s 41st season return to in-person programming is the eagerly stale The Cleanup. For Prop Thtr, which bills itself as “Chicago’s home for radical art,” The Cleanup is disappointingly familiar. This is a play about parenting during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, where two parents in crumbling...

The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre celebrates legends of soul music with actor/vocalist Chester Gregory and BrightSide Theatre revisits its pandemic-delayed 10th anniversary season, this week in Chicago-area theater.

Refracted Theatre Company has announced the cohort chosen for its 2022 RefrAction Lab, an eight-month playwriting lab for emerging Chicago playwrights.

The New Coordinates (TNC), formerly The New Colony, has announced its 2022 season, to presented at its resident home, The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.

Winnetka native stars in Drury Lanes "The King and I;" Steel Beam presents and evening of one-act comedies; and improviser Colin Mochrie and hypnotist Asad Mecci bring their "HYPROV" show to Elgin Community College this week.

The star of ‘Better Call Saul’ looks back on his early days in Chicago and tells us why the city has amazing audiences.