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Porchlight Announces Cast and Creative Team for ANYTHING GOES


by Blair Ingenthron - November 06, 2023

Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its 90th Anniversary production of Cole Porter's crown jewel musical comedy, Anything Goes, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and a new book by Tim...

Cast and Creative Team Set for ANYTHING GOES at Porchlight Music Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2023

Porchlight has revealed the cast and creative team for ANYTHING GOES starring Meghan Murphy. Get all the details for this upcoming production....

Streams of Shorts, a Feature from Israel & More Set for Pride Film Fest Programming for June and July 2023


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 19, 2023

Pride Film Fest will celebrate the Pride month of June with three programs of short LGBT films from around the world and an in-person screening of the Argentine film HORSEPLAY at  Chicago’s Facets on June 22....

Cast Set for THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL Presented by Kokandy Productions


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 03, 2023

Kokandy Productions has announced the cast for The SpongeBob Musical, playing June 22 – August 20, 2023 at The Chopin Theatre....

THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL to Run June Through September at Kokandy Productions


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 30, 2023

This summer, dive into Bikini Bottom as Kokandy Productions kicks off its 2023 season with Nickelodeon’s The Spongebob Musical, directed by JD Caudill....

THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL & AMERICAN PSYCHO Set for Kokandy Productions 2023 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 22, 2023

Kokandy Productions has announced its 2023 season, including two fully produced musicals, plus plans for the return of the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival. See how to purchase tickets!...

Casting Announced for Hell In A Handbag's I PROMISED MYSELF TO LIVE FASTER


by Blair Ingenthron - January 18, 2023

Hell in a Handbag Productions will continue its 21st season with the Chicago premiere of I Promised Myself to Live Faster, an intergalactic queer extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high stakes pursuits and nuns from outer space, created and conceived by Pig Iron Theatre Company, with...

Refracted Theatre Co. Presents REFRACTION LAB SHOWCASE This December


by A.A. Cristi - November 11, 2022

Refracted Theatre Company will present its 2022 RefrAction Lab Showcase, featuring excerpts from five new works developed during its eight-month playwriting lab for emerging Chicago playwrights. ...

Stage Left Theater Announces Cast For MAN OF THE PEOPLE Beginning This Week


by Blair Ingenthron - October 16, 2022

Stage Left Theatre has announced the cast for the upcoming production of MAN OF THE PEOPLE - a new play by Dolores Díaz and directed by Anna C. Bahow. The show is Díaz's anticipated new work since ZULEMA, produced by Goodman Theatre in 2021. Performances take place at Chicago Dramatists from Octobe...

Workshop of Ian Ornstein's A VIRGIN DEATH to be Presented by A Theater in the Dark This Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 07, 2022

A Theater in the Dark Producing Artistic Director is directing a showcase production of a new contemporary drama, A VIRGIN DEATH, by Chicago playwright Ian Ornstein. A VIRGIN DEATH has a limited showcase run at the Athenaeum Center in its Blackbox Studio B stage....

Past Shows


Pride Films and Plays Tennessee Williams...

Fully Committed
10/8 - 10/9/2020


You think you're having a bad day? Meet Sam. He works the red-hot reservation line at one of New York's trendiest restaurants, where the best ...

UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE


Shocking when it first premiered in 1989, this Canadian work follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" and one teenager who try to learn ...

Last Sunday in June


In 2002, Tolins penned THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE. the day of the annual Gay Pride Parade. Tom and Michael, his partner of seven years, ...

Buyer & Cellar


In this one-man comedy, Alex More is a struggling actor who takes a job managing a make-believe shopping mall in the basement of Barbra Streisands ...

Nominee Night


Showcase of musical theater performers and productions nominated in the 2020 Non-Equity Jeff Awards.....

A Late Snow


A LATE SNOW, written in 1979, is the story of Ellie, a woman trapped in a snowstorm with her first, last, current and, possibly, next ...

Lonely Planet


In this often-comedic drama set during the height of the AIDS crisis, Jody is in his forties and runs a map store. Not one for ...

Mothers and Sons


Live virtual reading of Terrence McNally's play. 7 pm on Thursday, April 16.Login instructions and password will be provided after purchase.A woman pays an unexpected ...

Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist


The American premiere of FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST, an Edinburgh Festival hit by the British playwright and actor Samuel Ward. Desperately hilarious ...

Stop Kiss
Stop Kiss
1/15 - 2/9/2020


Sara and Callie are walking through New York City's West Village very late at night, when they share their first kiss. This leads to a ...

America's Best Outcast Toy
America's Best Outcast Toy
11/29 - 1/12/2020


A holiday reality show musical. We all know the story of the outcast toys and how they were rescued from their island by a certain ...

The Christmas Foundling
The Christmas Foundling
12/5 - 1/5/2020


When a baby boy is orphaned in the California Sierras on Christmas Eve, 1850, two curmudgeonly miners agree to raise him. A decade later, the ...

Songs from My Holiday Closet


Bookwriter/lyricist Larry Todd Cousineau, whose musicals written with composer Cindy OConnor include the upcoming AMERICAS BEST OUTCAST TOY, this past summers ALL THAT HE WAS, ...

A Man of No Importance
A Man of No Importance
10/10 - 11/17/2019


A musical adaptation by the Tony Award-winning writers of RAGTIME and ANASTASIA of the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney. Alfie Byrne is a bus ...

Movie Queens
Movie Queens
11/13 - 11/14/2019


Former Hollywood starlets and secret lovers reunite 50 years after the height of their career to make their Broadway debut. Sharing the stage with their ...

SAPPHIC SWITCHEROO


A night of scenes from classical comedies performed by all-female casts. Scenes will be taken from AS YOU LIKE IT, LYSISTRATA, SIR PATIENT FANCY, THE ...

THE QUEENS FOOL: A QUEER FAIRYTALE


When the Queen, unable to fall asleep, sends for a fool to amuse her she is given more then she bargains for. A surprisingly heartfelt ...

Simply Sensarional


Pride Films and Plays' annual fall benefit, SIMPLY SENSATIONAL, celebrates theater artists who have had a tremendous impact on all they work with. This years ...

Lethal Woman
Lethal Woman
10/29


A robbery at the art museum prompts venerated cop Taz to take on The Case of the Missing Cream Pitcher! Hijinks and a fair number ...

LezFest
LezFest
10/22 - 10/23/2019


LEZFEST, the popular and ever-evolving interdisciplinary program of performance by queer female and non-binary artists. Performances will cover an eclectic range of disciplines ranging from ...

Casa Valentina
Casa Valentina
8/22 - 9/29/2019


CASA VALENTINA is set in 1962, in an inconspicuous bungalow colony in New Yorks Catskill Mountains that caters to a very special clientele: cis-gender straight ...

All That He Was
All That He Was
8/10 - 9/8/2019


The musical ALL THAT HE WAS is a moving and surprisingly funny account of one mans struggle with AIDS and the reverberations of his death. ...

Casa Valentina
7/10 - 8/11/2019


Harvey Fierstein Pride Films and Plays...

Afterglow
Afterglow
3/27 - 7/28/2019


Josh and Alex are a gay male married couple in an open relationship. The two invite another man, Darius, to share their bed one night. ...

GRINDR The Opera
GRINDR The Opera
6/23 - 7/28/2019


GRINDR The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, ...

Desire in a Tinier House
Desire in a Tinier House
5/30 - 6/29/2019


It only takes three seconds for Trevin and Carlos to lock eyes. But how many minutes, months, millennia will it take for them to remain ...

Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort
2/28 - 3/31/2019


In this heartwarming musical with a lush folk/bluegrass score, Robert, a transgender man living in rural Georgia among his chosen family of mostly transgender friends, ...

I Know My Own Heart
I Know My Own Heart
1/10 - 2/10/2019


Inspired by the secret coded diaries of Yorkshire gentlewoman Anne Lister, this play subverts all the conventions of Regency romance. Teasing out the entangled lives ...

Barney the Elf
Barney the Elf
12/14 - 1/6/2019


Chicago drag queen sensation Dixie Lynn Cartwright again takes the lead for this cheeky musical twist on the modern holiday fave about "embracing your inner ...

LezFest
LezFest
12/16


The popular and ever-evolving interdisciplinary program of performance by queer female and non-binary artists, will return for its eighth session on Sunday, December 16. Previously ...

It's Only a Play
It's Only a Play
10/11 - 11/11/2018


An hilarious send-up of show business and its often-bizarre practitioners, which uses the occasion of a disastrous opening night party to pile one wildly funny ...

Mothers and Sons


A woman pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has ...

Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams


Staged reading of the Terrence McNally play. A couple run a children's theatre in a mall in upstate New York. With the possibility of taking ...

Homos, or Everyone in America


“Love is love” – but is navigating it any less complicated today? What does it mean to be in a committed relationship? Is monogamy just ...

It's Been a F*cking Year


Life is a rollercoaster of emotions, a whirlwind of events. Who would have thought that the last 365 days could hold so much? First love, ...

The Green Bay Tree
The Green Bay Tree
6/11 - 7/8/2018


A charming young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancée, the lifestyle of his male mentor, and the prescription of his ...

Resolution
Resolution
10/21 - 11/20/2016


New Years' Eve, New York City, 1892. High-society husband and wife Jack and Hannah make their resolutions for the coming year -- but when their ...

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Sing to Cycle: A Musical Revue For AIDS/Lifecycle in Chicago Sing to Cycle: A Musical Revue For AIDS/Lifecycle
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