Web Directory

» 500 Clown
   Uses circus arts, improvisation, and action-based performance to produce theatre with extreme physical and emotional risk. Biographies, history, performance schedule, workshops, and contact details are provided.
   http://www.500clown.com/

» A Real Read
   African-American performance ensemble, community theater group of Chicago. Includes information on the cast, past performances, and upcoming events.
   http://www.arealread.org/

» A Red Orchid Theatre
   Offers works from local playwrights in the Old Town area and includes show schedule, staff biographies, and links.
   http://www.aredorchidtheatre.org/

» Aguijón Theater Company of Chicago
   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/

» American Theatre Company
   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/

» Apollo Theater Chicago
   Located in Lincoln Park theatre district. Its repertoire includes a fresh blend of comedies, musicals and special events.
   http://www.apollochicago.com/

» Appetite Theatre Company
   Presents contemporary plays that stimulate the palates of theatergoers. Features a mailing list, staff biographies, contact form, and season schedule.
   http://www.appetitetheatre.com/

» Black Ensemble Theater
   Features information on its programs and its Five Play Season that documents and demonstrates the contributions that African American people make in American culture. Includes season schedule, past productions, education programs, and contacts.
   http://www.blackensembletheater.org/

» Bohemian Theatre Ensemble
   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/

» Chicago Dramatists
   A playwrights' theatre that offers class schedules, an events calendar, opportunities, donation information, and contact details.
   http://www.chicagodramatists.org/

» Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
   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,
   http://www.chicagoshakes.com/

» CollaborAction
   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/

» Congo Square Theatre Company
   Focusing on African-American heritage, the entire African Diaspora, and the world. Includes show schedule and season preview, history, ensemble cast, mailing list, and contacts.
   http://www.congosquaretheatre.org/

» Cornservatory
   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/

» Court Theatre
   Hyde Park-based theatre company offers classical theatre in an intimate setting.
   http://www.courttheatre.org

» Defiant Theatre
   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/

» ETA Creative Arts Foundation Inc.
   African American cultural performing arts institution. Lists schedule of plays and ticket information, schedule of classes, and subscriber information.
   http://www.etacreativearts.org/

» Eclipse Theatre Company
   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/

» Emerald City Theatre
   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/

» Emergency Theatre Company Chicago
   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/

» Goodman Theatre, The
   Located in the North Loop Theatre and features drama and musical performances. Current and past season information and tickets can be purchased online.
   http://www.goodman-theatre.org/

» HealthWorks Theatre
   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

» Hell in a Handbag Productions
   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/

» House Theatre, The
   Performances combine dance, magic and bold physical theater. Features show schedule, youth and community outreach programs, cast and crew biographies, history, and ticket information.
   http://www.thehousetheatre.com/

» Hypocrites, The
   Award winning theater company that presents its staff resumes, upcoming season, and history.
   http://www.the-hypocrites.com

» Imagination Theater
   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

» Journeymen, The
   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/

» Lifeline Theatre
   Offers current and past performance schedule, educational and community programs, ticket information, and driving directions and maps.
   http://www.lifelinetheatre.com/

» Live Bait Theatre
   Wrigleyville-based company that features current production calendar, fundraising event information, staff biographies, and driving directions.
   http://www.livebaittheater.org/

» MPAACT: Ma'at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre
   Not-for-profit theatre with a focus on new work and collaborative art exploring Afrikan-American culture and the Afrikan diaspora.
   http://www.mpaact.org/

» Mammals, The
   Explores new performance works embracing the genres of science fiction, horror, and phantasmagoria.
   http://themammals.blogspot.com/

» Midnight Circus
   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/

» National Pastime Theater
   Learn about current and past productions, reviews, playwrights, troop members and reviews.
   http://www.npt2.com/

» Neo-Futurists
   Highly regarded experimental theater company composed of artists who write, direct, and perform their own work dedicated to social, political, and personal enlightenment in the form of audience-interactive conceptual theatre.
   http://www.neofuturists.org/

» New Millennium Theatre Company
   Focuses on new, innovative or non-traditional approaches to theatre.
   http://www.nmtchicago.org/

» Open Eye Productions
   Features current show schedule, tickets, location, and cast.
   http://www.openeyeproductions.org/

» Organic Theater Company
   Ground-breaking theater company presents new works and classics examining the heart of humanity through performance, outreach, and education.
   http://www.organictheater.com/

» Pegasus Players
   Features current show schedule of this long standing company.
   http://www.pegasusplayers.org/

» Plasticene
   A physical theater company. Offers history, profile, production and show schedule, ticket information, links, and contacts.
   http://www.plasticene.com/

» Profiles Theatre Company
   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/

» Prop Theater
   Off-Loop, non-Equity storefront theater and performing company specializing in new plays. Features profiles of the principal players.
   http://www.propthtr.org

» Raven Theatre Company
   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/

» Redmoon Theater
   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/

» Scrap Mettle Soul
   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/

» Seanachai Theatre
   Irish ensemble that produces a variety of works including comedy. Features show schedule, mailing list, and past productions.
   http://www.seanachai.org/

» Serendipity Theatre Company Ensemble
   A young, not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to creating a thought-provoking, intensely theatrical experience.
   http://www.serendipitytheatre.org/

» ShawChicago Theater Company
   Non-profit theater company devoted to performing the works of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
   http://www.shawchicago.org

» Sprung
   International movement theatre formed by two graduates of L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Offers workshops, performances, and the company history.
   http://www.sprungtheatre.com

» Stage Left Theatre
   Offers plays that raise the level of debate on social and political issues. History, schedule, newsletter and mailing list.
   http://www.stagelefttheatre.com/

» Steppenwolf Theatre Company
   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/

» Straw Dog Theatre Company
   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/

» T. Daniel Creations
   Performers T. Daniel and Laurie Willets' creations of mime plays and mime as a visual interpretation of live music.
   http://www.tdanielcreations.com/

» TUTA - The Utopian Theatre Asylum
   Presenting atypical scripts and political theatre. Offers production schedule and ticket information along with training workshops and biographies of members.
   http://www.tutato.com/

» Teatro Luna
   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/

» Teatro Vista
   Celebrates the riches of Latino culture through its performances. Includes show schedule, archives, history, and ticket information.
   http://www.teatrovista.org/

» The Stockyards Theatre Project
   A collaborative, ongoing theatre project whose mission is to help support and promote women as theatre artists.
   http://www.angelfire.com/il2/stockyards/

» TimeLine Theatre Company
   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/

» TinFish
   Lincoln Square-area theater company dedicated to staging works by European writers, as well as unproduced plays.
   http://www.tinfish.org/

» Trap Door Theatre
   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/

» Victory Gardens Theater
   Not-for-profit professional developmental theater features Chicago artists and their works.
   http://www.victorygardens.org/

» WNEP Theatre Foundation, Inc.
   Offers productions and classes to the area; performance schedule, patrons and supporters, and artistic musings.
   http://www.wneptheater.org/

» lookingglass theatre company
   Local ensemble has offered dynamic, physical intellectual theater since 1989.
   http://www.lookingglasstheatre.org/