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Since 1990, Performink has been an industry newspaper for Chicago theater, including show openings and reviews, audition listings, and industry and union news for Chicago actors, directors, dancers, designers, and other theater professionals. The Drury Lane Theatres were a group of six theaters in the Chicago suburbs founded by Tony DeSantis.
The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban , his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. [ 5 ]
Auditorium Theatre, situated within the Auditorium Building, Chicago (1889), bowling alley for US servicemen 1941–45, re-opened in 1967 Chicago Grand Opera Company (1910–1915), Chicago's first resident opera company, produced four seasons of opera in Chicago's Auditorium Theater from the fall of 1910 through November 1915.
DeSantis opened the Martinique Restaurant in Evergreen Park and began producing plays in 1949 in a tent adjacent to the restaurant to attract customers. [2] The enterprise was successful, prompting him to build his first theatre. Drury Lane Evergreen Park was DeSantis's first theatre in the Chicago area. It opened in 1958 and was a local ...
The Merle Reskin Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.Originally named the Blackstone Theatre it was built in 1910. . Renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre in 1992, it is now part of DePaul University, and is also used for events and performances of other
the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Second City comedy troupe, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Near North Side; the Garfield Park Conservatory; and Pilsen's National Museum of Mexican Art. In addition, the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Block Museum of Art, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Morton Arboretum are in near suburbs.
The name Steppenwolf Theatre Company was first used [6] in 1974 at a Unitarian church [7] [8] on Half Day Road in Deerfield. [1] The company presented And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, [9] with Rick Argosh directing, [10] [11] and Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, [12] with ...