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.

Presents contemporary plays that stimulate the palates of theatergoers. Features a mailing list, staff biographies, contact form, and season schedule.

Located near McCormick Place, the theater has been acoustically and architecturally rebuilt. Offers information services, seating charts, ticket and scheduling, contacts and history.

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.

Offer information and program schedule for this community theatre group providing entertainment on the southwest side. Performs at the Beverly Art Center.

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.

A playwrights' theatre that offers class schedules, an events calendar, opportunities, donation information, and contact details.

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.

Focused on adaptation of literature to the stage. Includes current season, its Joseph Jefferson awards, and past seasons since 1980.

Classic children's theatre plays and youth theater scripts professionally developed for young audiences.

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.

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.

Hyde Park-based theatre company offers classical theatre in an intimate setting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Information on upcoming shows, show dates and the various programs created by the Ephrata Performing Arts Center. Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

Ensemble of actors, directors and designers producing soulful, provocative, entertaining premiere and seldom-produced plays in an intimate environment. Features its annual Women at the Door new play development series, history, season schedule, and contacts.

Non-profit arts organization that celebrates the styles and standards of great theatre, literature, film, television and music through parody. Performs at the Royal George Theatre Center.

Classical and contemporary theatre: includes calendar, contact information.

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.

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.

Award winning theater company that presents its staff resumes, upcoming season, and history.

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.

Irish theatre company that offers information on its show schedule, tickets, directions and parking, merchandise, touring shows, links, and contacts.

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.

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.

Features shows with focused on the human contemporary experience. Highlights include photo gallery and contact information for the company. Participates in outdoor mobile theatre productions.

Offers current and past performance schedule, educational and community programs, ticket information, and driving directions and maps.

Wrigleyville-based company that features current production calendar, fundraising event information, staff biographies, and driving directions.

Explores new performance works embracing the genres of science fiction, horror, and phantasmagoria. Highlights include show schedule, biographies, downloadable video clips, and contact details.

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.

Learn about current and past productions, reviews, playwrights, troop members and reviews.

Focuses on new, innovative or non-traditional approaches to theatre.

Ground-breaking theater company presents new works and classics examining the heart of humanity through performance, outreach, and education.

Features current show schedule of this long standing 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.

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.

A not-for-profit equity theatre company preserving and presenting neglected theatrical works as well as premiering new works, especially but not limited to, Chicago playwrights. Specializing in neglected works.

Offers works from local playwrights in the Old Town area and includes show schedule, staff biographies, and links.

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.

Theatre company's innovative productions appeal to young adult audiences.

Offers production schedule, reviews, volunteer and professional opportunities and mailing list.

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.

Irish ensemble that produces a variety of works including comedy. Features show schedule, mailing list, and past productions.

A young, not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to creating a thought-provoking, intensely theatrical experience.

An annual performance festival of solo artists from around North America, with performances ranging from comedic to experimental, the character driven alongside the monologue focused. Includes downloadable application form, schedule, mailing list, workshops, and contacts.

Offers plays that raise the level of debate on social and political issues. Site includes history, schedule, newsletter and mailing list.

Founded in 1974, the company seeks to advance the vitality and diversity of American theatre at its permanent Halstead street location.

Exists to inspire and provoke through ensemble based works. Site include information on history, show schedule and archive, reviews, and theatre rental information.

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.

Showcases Latino and Hispanic women in a creative forum of social, political and educational outreach. Features biographies, show schedule, and background.

Celebrates the riches of Latino culture through its performances. Includes show schedule, archives, history, and ticket information.

Provides information about Cabinet Theatre, creating and producing new works for stage, media, and print.

A collaborative, ongoing theatre project whose mission is to help support and promote women as theatre artists.

Committed to original, cheap and "free if you're broke" theater. Includes current season, directions to Square One Cafe Loft, and mailing list.

Offers newsletter and performance calendar, along with information on its musical theatre writers' workshop (formerly called New Tuners Theatre) and the Stages Festival of New Musicals.

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.

Lincoln Square-area theater company dedicated to staging works by European writers, as well as unproduced plays.

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.

Presenting atypical scripts and political theatre. Offers production schedule and ticket information along with training workshops and biographies of members.

Hosts performances for young audiences and offers interactive workshops. Class details, calendar and contact information.

An ensemble of theater artists providing process oriented support for play development, especially projects with political themes. Features dates and overview of workshops, members, its mailing list, and contacts. Founded by University of Chicago graduates in 2002.

A one-person Shakespeare theater performance. Site includes reviews, synopsis, workshop and seminars, and performance schedule.

Offers productions and classes to the area; site includes performance schedule, patrons and supporters, and artistic musings.

Chicago Theatre mailing list and discussion forum of local plays, musicals, stagecraft, and classes.