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American
Theatre Company - Features new
and classic works have contemporary relevance and engage the imagination
of the audience. Includes current season, internships and employment,
mailing list, and contacts.
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Appetite
Theatre Company - Presents contemporary plays that stimulate the
palates of theatergoers. Features a mailing list, staff biographies,
contact form, and season schedule.
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Arie
Crown Theater - Located near McCormick Place, the theater has been
acoustically and architecturally rebuilt. Offers information services,
seating charts, ticket and scheduling, contacts and history.
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Bailiwick
Repertory Theatre - Challenges audiences artistically, builds cultural
bridges and stages diverse productions that often feature works with deaf
and hearing-impaired themes, and gay and lesbian themes. Schedule,
tickets, archives, and contacts featured.
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Beverly
Theatre Guild - Offer information and program schedule for this
community theatre group providing entertainment on the southwest side.
Performs at the Beverly Art Center.
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Broadway
in Chicago - As presented at the Shubert Theatre, Cadillac Palace
Theatre and the Ford Center. Site includes group and ticket ordering and
information, show schedule, and directions and parking.
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The
Cabinet Theatre - Provides information about Cabinet Theatre, creating
and producing new works for stage, media, and print.
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Chicago
Dramatists - A playwrights' theatre that offers class schedules, an
events calendar, opportunities, donation information, and contact details.
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Chicago
Shakespeare Theatre - A professional theater venue/company located on
Navy Pier and features 510 seats on three levels around the courtyard
theater's thrust stage. Also features a flexible 180-seat theater, a
teacher resource center, an English pub, a Shakespearean bookstall, and a
special events room.
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City
Lit Theatre Company - Focused on adaptation of literature to the
stage. Includes current season, its Joseph Jefferson awards, and past
seasons since 1980.
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Classics
On Stage - Classic children's theatre plays and youth theater scripts
professionally developed for young audiences.
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CollaborAction
- A mixed-media theatre and arts company featuring information on its
productions, history and awards. Offers current schedule, biographies, and
contacts. Mixes live theatre with visual arts, film, video, the Internet
and its audiences.
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Cornservatory
- Corn Productions stages wicked cultural satire and the raunchy comedy
stylings of Tiff and Mom. And if you can't find a babysitter, there are
shows for the kids as well.
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Court
Theatre - Hyde Park-based theatre company offers classical theatre in
an intimate setting.
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Defiant
Theatre - Award-winning theatre company founded in 1993. Features
history, current season and contacts. Defies fear and strives to subvert
the social, moral, and aesthetic expectations of mainstream artistic
expression.
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Eclipse
Theatre Company - One playwright-one season format that focuses on the
works of that playwright only. Includes current and past seasons, the
ensemble, history, reviews, ticket information for Atheaneum Studio 3
Theatre box office, subscriptions, and contacts.
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Emerald
City Theatre - Theatre company solely dedicated to producing live
theatre aimed at the entire family. Includes overview of shows and season,
subscriptions, ticket information for its Apollo Theatre shows, and
opportunities for birthday parties and schools.
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Emergency
Theatre Company Chicago - Seeks to produce theatre that is relevant on
a personal level and to share the power of creating with the communities.
Site features request for photos and talent.
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Ephrata
Playhouse in the Park - Information on upcoming shows, show dates and
the various programs created by the Ephrata Performing Arts Center.
Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
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Famous
Door Theatre - Ensemble of actors, directors and designers producing
soulful, provocative, entertaining premiere and seldom-produced plays in
an intimate environment. Features its annual Women at the Door new play
development series, history, season schedule, and contacts.
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Free
Associates Theatre Company, The - Non-profit arts organization that
celebrates the styles and standards of great theatre, literature, film,
television and music through parody. Performs at the Royal George Theatre
Center.
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Greasy
Joan & Co. - Classical and contemporary theatre: includes
calendar, contact information.
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HealthWorks
Theatre - Offers character, HIV/AIDS education, and violence
prevention plays appropriate for elementary through high school-age
students as well as adult audiences. Details of this season's productions.
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Hell
in a Handbag Productions - Non-profit theater company dedicated to the
preservation and exploration of pop culture/cult/camp treasures that have
influenced life on the planet as we know it. Production schedule, history,
links and contacts provided.
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Hypocrites,
The - Award winning theater company that presents its staff resumes,
upcoming season, and history.
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Imagination
Theater - An educational touring theater company founded to present
participatory theater programs to children -- primarily disadvantaged
children in the Chicago public schools, adults, senior citizens and
persons with disabilities.
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Irish
Repertory of Chicago - Irish theatre company that offers information
on its show schedule, tickets, directions and parking, merchandise,
touring shows, links, and contacts.
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Jeff
Awards - Given annually by The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee to
honor excellence in professional theatre produced in the immediate Chicago
area. Features current and previous recipients and nominees, FAQs,
committee members, and news.
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Journeymen,
The - Award-winning theatre company that focuses on aspects of social
concern from a multicultural cast and crew. Offers current production
schedule, community outreach, and news.
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Key
Hole Players - Features shows with focused on the human contemporary
experience. Highlights include photo gallery and contact information for
the company. Participates in outdoor mobile theatre productions.
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Lifeline
Theatre - Offers current and past performance schedule, educational
and community programs, ticket information, and driving directions and
maps.
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Live
Bait Theatre - Wrigleyville-based company that features current
production calendar, fundraising event information, staff biographies, and
driving directions.
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Mammals,
The - Explores new performance works embracing the genres of science
fiction, horror, and phantasmagoria. Highlights include show schedule,
biographies, downloadable video clips, and contact details.
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Midnight
Circus - Combines the elements of circus, theater, and the variety
arts into a unique and exciting style of performance. Site features
include history, mailing list, and performance schedule.
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National
Pastime Theater - Learn about current and past productions, reviews,
playwrights, troop members and reviews.
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New
Millennium Theatre Company - Focuses on new, innovative or
non-traditional approaches to theatre.
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Organic
Theater Company - Ground-breaking theater company presents new works
and classics examining the heart of humanity through performance,
outreach, and education.
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Pegasus
Players - Features current show schedule of this long standing
company.
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Profiles
Theatre Company - An award winning, not-for-profit professional
non-Equity theatre company. Founded in 1988, features productions of
national and city premieres that illuminate the determination and
resiliency of the human spirit. Show schedule is featured.
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Raven
Theatre Company - A grass-roots, community-oriented, professional
theatre company that is housed in a 70-seat space in the Rogers Park
neighborhood. Includes details on its current productions, children's
theatre and tour, and news.
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Red
Hen Productions - A not-for-profit equity theatre company preserving
and presenting neglected theatrical works as well as premiering new works,
especially but not limited to, Chicago playwrights. Specializing in
neglected works.
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Red
Orchid Theatre, A - Offers works from local playwrights in the Old
Town area and includes show schedule, staff biographies, and links.
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Redmoon
Theater - Using masks, physical performance, and an international
range of puppetry styles to create productions for both indoor and outdoor
performance spaces. Also, provides a children's art program.
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Roadworks
Productions - Theatre company's innovative productions appeal to young
adult audiences.
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Running
with Scissors - Offers production schedule, reviews, volunteer and
professional opportunities and mailing list.
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Scrap
Mettle Soul - Community theatre committed to creating professionally
produced plays based on locally gathered stories about the experiences of
the people of the Edgewater and Uptown community. Show schedule, notices,
events and contacts are featured.
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Seanachai
Theatre - Irish ensemble that produces a variety of works including
comedy. Features show schedule, mailing list, and past productions.
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Serendipity
Theatre Company Ensemble - A young, not-for-profit theatre company
dedicated to creating a thought-provoking, intensely theatrical
experience.
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Single
File Solo Performance Festival - An annual performance festival of
solo artists from around North America, with performances ranging from
comedic to experimental, the character driven alongside the monologue
focused. Includes downloadable application form, schedule, mailing list,
workshops, and contacts.
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Stage
Left Theatre - Offers plays that raise the level of debate on social
and political issues. Site includes history, schedule, newsletter and
mailing list.
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Steppenwolf
Theatre Company - Founded in 1974, the company seeks to advance the
vitality and diversity of American theatre at its permanent Halstead
street location.
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The
Stockyards Theatre Project - A collaborative, ongoing theatre project
whose mission is to help support and promote women as theatre artists.
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Straw
Dog Theatre Company - Exists to inspire and provoke through ensemble
based works. Site include information on history, show schedule and
archive, reviews, and theatre rental information.
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Sweat
Girls - Women writers-performers that offer a distinctive monologue
style with live music, dance, and side show freak characters. Show
schedule, reviews, cast and contact details provided.
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Teatro
Luna - Showcases Latino and Hispanic women in a creative forum of
social, political and educational outreach. Features biographies, show
schedule, and background.
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Teatro
Vista - Celebrates the riches of Latino culture through its
performances. Includes show schedule, archives, history, and ticket
information.
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Theater
Oobleck - Committed to original, cheap and "free if you're
broke" theater. Includes current season, directions to Square One
Cafe Loft, and mailing list.
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Theatre
Building Chicago - Offers newsletter and performance calendar, along
with information on its musical theatre writers' workshop (formerly called
New Tuners Theatre) and the Stages Festival of New Musicals.
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TimeLine
Theatre Company - Artistic team that produces provocative theatre
which illuminates the impact of history in society. Includes current
season, ticket information, location and directions, volunteer and
donation information.
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TinFish
- Lincoln Square-area theater company dedicated to staging works by
European writers, as well as unproduced plays.
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Trap
Door Theatre - Focuses on challenging and obscure works. Production
schedule, cast biographies, archives, photo gallery, and contact
information and directions to this Bucktown area theatre company are
featured.
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TUTA -
The Utopian Theatre Asylum - Presenting atypical scripts and political
theatre. Offers production schedule and ticket information along with
training workshops and biographies of members.
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Vittum
Theater - Hosts performances for young audiences and offers
interactive workshops. Class details, calendar and contact information.
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Wanderlust
Arts Ensemble - An ensemble of theater artists providing process
oriented support for play development, especially projects with political
themes. Features dates and overview of workshops, members, its mailing
list, and contacts. Founded by University of Chicago graduates in 2002.
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Will
Act for Food - WAFF offers a discount on tickets to audience members
who choose to donate non-perishable food items. Features current season,
mailing list, archives, and audition information for its upcoming
productions.
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Will
and Testiment - A one-person Shakespeare theater performance. Site
includes reviews, synopsis, workshop and seminars, and performance
schedule.
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Wing
and Groove - Resident theatre company that produces original works by
presenting provocative plays by visionary playwrights. Includes company
profiles, space rental opportunities for its Wicker Park-based hall,
upcoming and past seasons.
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WNEP
Theatre Foundation, Inc. - Offers productions and classes to the area;
site includes performance schedule, patrons and supporters, and artistic
musings.
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Yahoo!
Groups: chicago-theatre - Chicago Theatre mailing list and discussion
forum of local plays, musicals, stagecraft, and classes.
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Anatomical
Theatre - Presents innovative dance-theatre works locally, nationally
and internationally on a range of socially pertinent, if sometimes
controversial, subjects. Booking information, performance calendar, and
background are provided.
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Chicago
Moving Company (CMC) - Performs regularly throughout the city, and has
toured nationally and internationally to acclaim. Includes workshops and
classes, biographies, student, teacher and community programs and
services, photos and contact details.
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Dance
Center of Columbia College - Presenter of contemporary dance of
national and international significance. Outreach programs, class schedule
and admissions, and performances are showcased.
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DanceLoop
Chicago - A not-for-profit dance company founded by Paula Frasz and
Dmitri Peskov providing theatrical modern dance.
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Dance2XS
- International dance troupe that offers young, energetic
performance-based dance shows and programs.
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Gennaration
Friedance - Multi-generational modern dance company that features a
photo gallery, upcoming events calendar, biographies, and a contact form.
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Hedwig
Dances - Contemporary dance company that features performances,
educational and training programs with international teachers and
community outreach programs.
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Instruments
of Movement (IOM) - A non-profit, multi-cultural contemporary dance
company that features professional training, public performances, and
educational workshops.
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Mad Shak
Dance Company - Modern dance company that features information on
performance and show schedule, reservations, testimonials and reviews,
company history and biographies.
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Melissa
Thodos & Dancers - Contemporary dance company featuring a
athletic, vibrant style. Tours nationally and internationally, and
performs in the city's dance festivals. Summer workshop, events calendar,
history, and contact details are provided.
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Mordine
& Company - Focuses on the tradition of American contemporary
dance through performances, teaching residency programs, and classes and
outreach programs.
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Perceptual
Motion, Inc. - PMI is led by choreographer Lin Shook and offers
contemporary dance performances and educational programs for adults and
children of all ages.
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River
North Chicago Dance Company - Mixes modern and jazz dance. Sultry
Spanish influenced dance is some of their most distinctive work.
Performance schedule, history, workshops and auditions, and contacts are
provided.
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TDC
- The Dance COLEctive - Offers contemporary dance technique classes
and performances. Features a newsletter, community sponsors and contact
form. Led by Margi Cole, Artistic Director.
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Winifred
Haun and Dancers - Features photos, videos, performance schedule for
dance performances choreographed by Winifred Haun, which offer an
emotionally charged, compelling fusing of the elements of modern, ballet,
and jazz.
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Zephyr
Dance - An all-female contemporary dance company that tours and
teaches to colleges and universities across the nation. Performance
calendar, educational programs, sponsorship opportunities, and repertoire.
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Apollo
Theater Chicago - Located in Lincoln Park theatre district. Its
repertoire includes a fresh blend of comedies, musicals and special
events.
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Goodman
Theatre, The - Located in the North Loop Theatre and features drama
and musical performances. Current and past season information and tickets
can be purchased online.
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League
of Chicago Theaters, The - A trade and marketing association formed by
an alliance of theaters to support, promote and advocate for the city's
theater industry locally, nationally and internationally. Includes gift
certificates, links and current productions, and contacts.
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Viaduct
Theatre - A facility designed for production and presention. Site
features news, schedule, layout and location.
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Victory
Gardens Theater - Not-for-profit professional developmental theater
features Chicago artists and their works.
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