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American Theatre Company
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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
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Presents contemporary plays that stimulate the palates of theatergoers. Features a mailing list, staff biographies, contact form, and season schedule.
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Beverly Theatre Guild
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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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Chicago Dramatists
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A playwrights' theatre that offers class schedules, an events calendar, opportunities, donation information, and contact details.
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City Lit Theatre Company
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Focused on adaptation of literature to the stage. Includes current season, its Joseph Jefferson awards, and past seasons since 1980.
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CollaborAction
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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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Court Theatre
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Hyde Park-based theatre company offers classical theatre in an intimate setting.
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Eclipse Theatre Company
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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
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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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Greasy Joan & Co.
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Classical and contemporary theatre: includes calendar, contact information.
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Hell in a Handbag Productions
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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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Journeymen, The
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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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Lifeline Theatre
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Offers current and past performance schedule, educational and community programs, ticket information, and driving directions and maps.
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Live Bait Theatre
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Wrigleyville-based company that features current production calendar, fundraising event information, staff biographies, and driving directions.
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Midnight Circus
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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
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Learn about current and past productions, reviews, playwrights, troop members and reviews.
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New Millennium Theatre Company
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Focuses on new, innovative or non-traditional approaches to theatre.
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Organic Theater Company
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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
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Features current show schedule of this long standing company.
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Raven Theatre Company
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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 Orchid Theatre, A
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Offers works from local playwrights in the Old Town area and includes show schedule, staff biographies, and links.
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Redmoon Theater
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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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Running with Scissors
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Offers production schedule, reviews, volunteer and professional opportunities and mailing list.
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Scrap Mettle Soul
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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
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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
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A young, not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to creating a thought-provoking, intensely theatrical experience.
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Stage Left Theatre
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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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Sweat Girls
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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
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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
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Celebrates the riches of Latino culture through its performances. Includes show schedule, archives, history, and ticket information.
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The Stockyards Theatre Project
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A collaborative, ongoing theatre project whose mission is to help support and promote women as theatre artists.
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Theatre Club Chicago
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Offers theatergoers ticket discounts, preferred seats, pre-play discussions, guest speakers, Loop Theatre District walking tours and backstage tours.
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TimeLine Theatre Company
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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
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Lincoln Square-area theater company dedicated to staging works by European writers, as well as unproduced plays.
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TUTA - The Utopian Theatre Asylum
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Presenting atypical scripts and political theatre. Offers production schedule and ticket information along with training workshops and biographies of members.
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Will and Testiment
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A one-person Shakespeare theater performance. Site includes reviews, synopsis, workshop and seminars, and performance schedule.
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WNEP Theatre Foundation, Inc.
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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
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Chicago Theatre mailing list and discussion forum of local plays, musicals, stagecraft, and classes.
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Aguijón Theater Company of Chicago
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Non-profit group's purpose is to expose audiences to Spanish and Latino theatre. Lists current production, company history, and map. [English, Spanish]
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Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
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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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Broadway in Chicago
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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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Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
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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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Classics On Stage
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Classic children's theatre plays and youth theater scripts professionally developed for young audiences.
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Defiant Theatre
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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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Emergency Theatre Company Chicago
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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
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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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HealthWorks Theatre
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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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Hypocrites, The
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Award winning theater company that presents its staff resumes, upcoming season, and history.
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Imagination Theater
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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
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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
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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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Mammals, The
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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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Profiles Theatre Company
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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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Prop Theater
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Off-Loop, non-Equity storefront theater and performing company specializing in new plays. Features profiles of the principal players.
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company
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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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Straw Dog Theatre Company
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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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Supernatural Chicago
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Interactive theatre show presented by Neil Tobin melding Chicago ghost stories, magic and mindreading. Held in the Excalibur nightclub. Includes online ticket sales.
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The Cabinet Theatre
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Provides information about Cabinet Theatre, creating and producing new works for stage, media, and print.
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Vittum Theater
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Hosts performances for young audiences and offers interactive workshops. Class details, calendar and contact information.
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