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The first known silent film presentation at the Music Box theatre was "Wings" in 1983 using the operators home theatre organ and accompanied by Barbara Sellers, the daughter of Preston and Edna Sellers who were Chicago Silent Film and radio theatre organ personalities of the 1920s – 1940s.
Apollo Theater Chicago [54] Arie Crown Theatre [55] Auditorium Theatre [56] Briar Street Theater [57] Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [58] Bughouse Theater; Cadillac Palace Theatre [59] Chicago Theatre [60] CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [61] Congress Theater [62] Greenhouse Theater ...
Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, c.1909. The young settlement of Chicago in 1834 saw its first commercial production by a fire eater and ventriloquist, Mr. Brown. In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel.
CHICAGO — In March 2019, a group of Steppenwolf Theatre leaders gathered at the offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an internationally renowned architecture and design firm that had designed ...
It was named after Chicago's first African-American Mayor Harold Washington and opened in August 2004, ten years after initial groundbreaking. [1] [2] In addition to the 1,000-seat Commonwealth Edison (Com-Ed) Theatre, the center offers a Digital Media Resource Center. [3]
Chicago Art Book Fair, November [1] Chicago Artists Month, September/October [2] Gold Coast Art Fair, Grant Park, June [3] Manifest, Columbia College Chicago, May; SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, October/November [4] Wells Street Art Festival, Old Town, June [5]
ChicagoFest was a Chicago music festival established in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic.It was a two-week event held annually at Navy Pier that featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP, Chicago Tribune Jazz, Miller Brewing Company Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.
The show was originally performed by the Neo-Futurists, an experimental theater troupe of which creator Greg Allen was a founding member. Opening in Chicago December 2, 1988, the show ran 50 weekends of the year through 2016. [3] As its subtitle states, the show consists of 30 original short plays performed in 60 minutes.