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Charcoalblue Monday is Next Week

Monday, June 24, 2019 – 5:30pm – Green Street Meats, 112 N. Green St. To let us know if you can make it, or if you want to be in the know about future Charcoalblue Mondays, click RSVP or visit https://forms.gle/41YoHpnHRWaUe4Ed7. We’ll hold a couple of picnic tables near the bar (or outside, weather permitting!) so stop on by and have a beer on the Charcoalblue tab! Our staff are excited to kick it with the Chicago theatre community’s finest!

Theater on the Lake: PROLOGUE

In celebration of the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre, Night Out in the Parks and the Chicago Park District welcome you to Theater on the Lake: PROLOGUE 3 days to celebrate and shape the future of performance This free programming will take place June 26-28, 2019 at our lakefront home, located at 2401 N Lake Shore Drive, and will provide opportunities to converse and connect around the issues central to cultural work and performance in civic spaces. We’re partnering with Arts Alliance Illinois, DCASE, and Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium to focus our …

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International Touring Talk on June 5

Wednesday, June 5 at 7pm
Stage 773 The Cab, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.
The International Touring Talk will focus on the ins and outs of local and international touring, giving insight into the prep and process of taking a show on the road, with breakout sessions on Budgeting and Tech Riders. Panelists include: Angelique Grandone (Theater on the Lake), Doreen Sayegh (Chicago Shakespeare), Blair Thomas (Blair Thomas & Co.), John Rich (City of Chicago), and Dana Murphy and Katie Mazzini (Walkabout Theater).

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Charcoalblue Monday on Wednesday, May 29

Wednesday, May 29, 5:30pm Green Street Meats, 112 N Green St Charcoalblue is a theatre design consultancy originating in the UK, and we’ve finally established a studio here in the Windy City. Now we want to get to know the people who make this the greatest theatre city in the country: YOU! Join us for the second installment of Charcoalblue Mondays…on WEDNESAY, May 29! We’ll hold a couple of picnic tables near the bar (or outside, weather permitting!) so stop on by and have a beer on the Charcoalblue tab. Our staff …

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#MeToo + 18 Months: Prevention, Investigation, Redress

Lawyers for the Creative Arts in association with the League of Chicago Theatres and See Chicago Dance presents #MeToo + 18 Months: Prevention, Investigation, Redress Wednesday, May 29 at 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. The Alice at the Goodman Theatre 170 N. Dearborn Ave. FREE, but registration is required. REGISTER HERE A seminar providing practical advice by attorneys, managers and artists with experience in issues of sexual harassment in the performing arts. MORE INFORMATION

Theatre Community Invitation to Manuela Infante’s Estado Vegetal at MCA Stage

Dear Chicago Theatre Colleagues, In celebration of our final performance of the spring season, we invite you to join the MCA Stage on Friday, May 10 for a special evening of performance with Chilean theater-maker, Manuela Infante. 6:45pm | Pre-show Reception, Marisol 7:30pm | Performance of Estado Vegetal, Edlis Neeson Theater 8:45pm | Post-show Talk, Edlis Neeson Theater 9:15pm | On-stage Champagne Toast with the artists Enjoy refreshments at an exclusive pre-show reception with Associate Curator of Performance Tara Aisha Willis, the artist herself, as well as members of the League of …

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Chicago Dramatists Open House

Tap into your creative side. You have stories to tell. Characters that need to be created. Songs that need to be sung. We invite you to bring your creativity to life at Chicago Dramatists. Meet us on Saturday, May 11th at our brand new space at the Literacenter (641 West Lake Street), where we’ll hold our second Open House. Chicago Dramatists provides an artistic home for people from all walks of life. It’s a place where creativity is supported and realized. A place to craft your play, story, script or musical. You …

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