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Theatre:
Offers classes and seminars for beginners and professionals, a hotline, and booklets for getting started in film, television, and commercials.
http://www.actorsworkshop.org/
Non-profit group's purpose is to expose audiences to Spanish and Latino theatre. Lists current production, company history, and map. [English, Spanish]
http://www.aguijontheater.org/
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.
http://www.atcweb.org/
Presents contemporary plays that stimulate the palates of theatergoers. Features a mailing list, staff biographies, contact form, and season schedule.
http://www.appetitetheatre.com/
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.
http://www.bailiwick.org/
Offer information and program schedule for this community theatre group providing entertainment on the southwest side. Performs at the Beverly Art Center.
http://www.beverlytheatreguild.org/
Produces a variety of pieces, from new works by up-and-coming playwrights, to classics retold. Provides information about coming performances.
http://www.bohotheatre.com/
As presented at the Shubert Theatre, Cadillac Palace Theatre and the Ford Center. Group and ticket ordering and information, show schedule, and directions and parking.
http://www.broadwayinchicago.com/
Provides information about Cabinet Theatre, creating and producing new works for stage, media, and print.
http://www.cabinettheatre.com/
Offers classes in camera technique, commercials, industrials, and stage. Includes application, history and links.
http://www.actors-studio.net/
A playwrights' theatre that offers class schedules, an events calendar, opportunities, donation information, and contact details.
http://www.chicagodramatists.org/
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.
http://www.chicagoshakes.com/
Classic children's theatre plays and youth theater scripts professionally developed for young audiences.
http://www.classicsonstage.com/
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.
http://www.collaboraction.org/
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.
http://www.cornservatory.org/
Hyde Park-based theatre company offers classical theatre in an intimate setting.
http://www.courttheatre.org
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.
http://www.defianttheatre.org/
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.
http://www.eclipsetheatre.com/
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.
http://www.emeraldcitytheatre.com/
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.
http://www.angelfire.com/art/emergency/
Classical and contemporary theatre: includes calendar, contact information.
http://www.greasyjoan.org
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.
http://healthworkstheatre.org/
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.
http://www.handbagproductions.org/
Award winning theater company that presents its staff resumes, upcoming season, and history.
http://www.the-hypocrites.com/
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.
http://www.imaginationtheater.org/
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.
http://www.jeffawards.org/
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.
http://www.thejourneymen.org/
Offers current and past performance schedule, educational and community programs, ticket information, and driving directions and maps.
http://www.lifelinetheatre.com/
Wrigleyville-based company that features current production calendar, fundraising event information, staff biographies, and driving directions.
http://www.livebaittheater.org/
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.
http://www.midnightcircus.net/
Learn about current and past productions, reviews, playwrights, troop members and reviews.
http://www.npt2.com/
Focuses on new, innovative or non-traditional approaches to theatre.
http://www.nmtchicago.org/
Ground-breaking theater company presents new works and classics examining the heart of humanity through performance, outreach, and education.
http://www.organictheater.com/
Features current show schedule of this long standing company.
http://www.pegasusplayers.org/
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.
http://www.profilestheatre.org/
Off-Loop, non-Equity storefront theater and performing company specializing in new plays. Features profiles of the principal players.
http://www.propthtr.org
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.
http://www.raventheatre.com/
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.
http://www.redmoon.org/
Offers production schedule, reviews, volunteer and professional opportunities and mailing list.
http://www.rwscissors.org/
Offers classess for experienced and novice actors. Includes free tips, policies, casting and contacts.
http://www.sarantosstudios.com/
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.
http://www.scrapmettlesoul.org/
Irish ensemble that produces a variety of works including comedy. Features show schedule, mailing list, and past productions.
http://www.seanachai.org/
A young, not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to creating a thought-provoking, intensely theatrical experience.
http://www.serendipitytheatre.org/
Non-profit theater company devoted to performing the works of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
http://www.shawchicago.org/
Offers plays that raise the level of debate on social and political issues. History, schedule, newsletter and mailing list.
http://www.stagelefttheatre.com/
Founded in 1974, the company seeks to advance the vitality and diversity of American theatre at its permanent Halstead street location.
http://www.steppenwolf.org
A collaborative, ongoing theatre project whose mission is to help support and promote women as theatre artists.
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/stockyards/
Exists to inspire and provoke through ensemble based works. Site include information on history, show schedule and archive, reviews, and theatre rental information.
http://www.strawdog.org/
Interactive theatre show presented by Neil Tobin melding Chicago ghost stories, magic and mindreading. Held in the Excalibur nightclub. Includes online ticket sales.
http://www.supernaturalchicago.com/
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.
http://www.sweatgirls.org/
Showcases Latino and Hispanic women in a creative forum of social, political and educational outreach. Features biographies, show schedule, and background.
http://www.teatroluna.org/
Celebrates the riches of Latino culture through its performances. Includes show schedule, archives, history, and ticket information.
http://www.teatrovista.org/
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.
http://www.theatrebuildingchicago.org/
Offers theatergoers ticket discounts, preferred seats, pre-play discussions, guest speakers, Loop Theatre District walking tours and backstage tours.
http://www.theatreclubchicago.com/
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.
http://www.timelinetheatre.com/
Lincoln Square-area theater company dedicated to staging works by European writers, as well as unproduced plays.
http://www.tinfish.org/
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.
http://www.trapdoortheatre.com/
Presenting atypical scripts and political theatre. Offers production schedule and ticket information along with training workshops and biographies of members.
http://www.tutato.com/
Hosts performances for young audiences and offers interactive workshops. Class details, calendar and contact information.
http://www.vittumtheater.org/
A one-person Shakespeare theater performance. Reviews, synopsis, workshop and seminars, and performance schedule.
http://fstoneact.tripod.com/
Offers productions and classes to the area; performance schedule, patrons and supporters, and artistic musings.
http://www.wneptheater.org/
Chicago Theatre mailing list and discussion forum of local plays, musicals, stagecraft, and classes.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chicago-theatre/
