About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world. Working within and beyond the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, About Face Theatre is committed to innovation, artistic excellence and community transformation.
Cultural Places
After Hours Press
After Hours is a semi-annual magazine publishing poetry, fiction, art, and photography from Chicago area writers and artists
Alchemy Theatre Company
Wood Dale Junior High School Center For The Arts
AMEBA Acrobatic and Aerial Dance
AMEBA is a not-for-profit dance company that is dedicated to the exploration of athletic art forms, including the rare forms of Acrobatic and Aerial Dance. AMEBA's vision is to lead the way into a new realm of dance that explores acrobatic movement expression. AMEBA intends to boldly and beautifully navigate this new realm of dance, transforming acrobatic movement into touching artistic expression, beaming with physical, emotional and intellectual energy.
American Institute of Architects Chicago (AIA Chicago)
The American Institute of Architects Chicago (AIA Chicago) is the largest professional association of licensed architects, architectural interns, and allied professionals in Illinois. It is the second largest AIA chapter in the country. Of the 70,000 AIA members across the country, over 2000 are in the Chicago chapter
Andy's Jazz Club
Monday through Friday: Jazz At Noon offers a tasty variety of lunchtime favorites with conversation friendly music, guaranteed to satisfy the cravings of the clock-watchers and leisure lovers alike. Jazz At Five ups the intensity when locals and visitors mingle beneath the "Wall of Fame" and exchange ideas in the universal language of Jazz. Jazz At Nine expands the experience with a range of world-renowned artists with diverse styles continuing until 1 AM (1:30 AM on weekends). (Cover charge varies.)
Another Chicago Theater Company
Chicago based ensemble aspires to create the best of the best in live theater.
Apollo Theater Chicago
The Apollo Theater (no relation to New York City's Apollo Theatre) is a lush venue with a prestigious reputation, located in the heart of Chicago's fashionable Lincoln Park neighborhood. Its three-quarter thrust stage has 440 plush seats configured in just eleven rows, allowing audiences a theatrical experience unparalleled in intimacy and accessibility.
ArchiCenter, CitySpace
The Chicago Architecture Foundation is dedicated to advancing public interest and education in architecture and related design. Exhibit space and tours
Art Institute of Chicago
The purposes for which the Art Institute of Chicago is formed are: to found, build, maintain, and operate museums, schools, libraries of art, and theaters; to provide support facilities in connection therewith; to conduct appropriate activities conducive to the artistic development of the region; and to conduct and participate in appropriate activities of national and international significance.
Artistic Home
The Artistic Home's mission is to create theatre and film that explores and celebrates the truth within us. Through extraordinary acting, we seek to ignite an audience's imagination, to reach deep into the primal to send tremors through the intellect, to give birth to unforgettable moments by working in an intimate space, to touch audiences who are increasingly distanced from human contact. We readdress the classics and explore new works with passion. We give artists a home where they can shape, develop and strengthen their artistic voice
Attic Playhouse
The Attic Playhouse strives to showcase a broad spectrum of theatre as an art form by producing: classic straight plays, small musicals, one-acts, improvisational and skit comedies and theatre for young audiences. Special attention is given to producing original scripts and encouraging new talent. At least one production a year is dedicated to these original works. Additional emphasis is given to placing recent graduates and students of the theatre in various positions both behind the scenes and onstage, assisting their transition into the professional world
Auguijon Theater Company
Auguijon is dedicated to promoting cultural exploration, discussion and performance of Spanish-language and bilingual works as well as increasing creative and economic opportunities for local Latino and non-Latino actors, directors and theater workers and to provide a forum in which to showcase their talents.
Adler Planetarium
The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, America's First Planetarium, was founded in 1930 by Chicago business leader Max Adler. The museum is home to two full-size planetarium theaters, including the world's first all-digital projection StarRider Theater and one of the world's most important antique instrument collections. The Adler is a recognized leader in science education, with a focus on inspiring young people, particularly women and minorities, to pursue careers in science.
Albany Park Theater Project
Albany Park Theater Project is a multiethnic ensemble of teenagers creating original performance works out of real-life stories from Chicago's immigrant, working-class Albany Park neighborhood. Directions: Lawrence to Central Park (about 3700 west), north on Central Park, west on Argyle, north on Ridgeway (street parking available).
AlphaBet Soup Products
National Award Winning Children's Theater For More Than 19 Years
American Dance Center
Bridging the gap between classroom studies and the professional stage, the American Dance Center brings recognition and performing outlets to the suburban area. Emphasizing the joy of movement, the school offers nationally recognized programs for pre-school through professional levels.
American Players Theatre
American Players Theatre is a professional, Equity, classical theatre located in Spring Green, Wisconsin, 40 miles west of Madison. The 1148 comfortably cushioned seats sit in a natural amphitheater on 110 acres of woods and meadow just off the Wisconsin River. Shakespeare is APT’s heart and soul, with accompanying works ranging from the Greeks to British comedies. The acting company of 28 members and a staff that reaches 120 at the height of the season, produce five plays performed in rotating repertory.
Another Chicago Magazine
Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction. ACM reads submissions between February 1 and August 31. Submissions received any other time are returned unread
Apollo Project
www.apolloproject.org is a Chicago-based community of artists whose mission is to bring social and artistic consciousness by providing a platform for expression in fine or applied arts, dance, music, poetry, literature and/or multi-media presentation
Apple Tree Theatre
Apple Tree Theatre is committed to producing a diverse and challenging selection of both dramas and musicals, from new works to classics, all of which illuminate the human condition, celebrate the tenacity of the human spirit, and expand the vision of artists and audiences alike—culturally, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually as they connect with one another. Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, Illinois (near Lake Michigan in the Northshore suburbs of Chicago), has been producing award-winning plays and musicals since its inception in 1983.
Around the Coyote
Gallery and annual arts festival: Around the Coyote supports, promotes and makes accessible Chicago's multidisciplinary arts community.
Art Resources in Teaching
Art Resources in Teaching (A.R.T.), a not-for-profit organization, is Chicago's oldest and largest educational organization dedicated to providing vibrant visual arts residency programs to school children in the Chicago area. A.R.T. Teaching-Artists make art come alive for students and teachers by establishing connections between academic subjects and the visual arts with lively discussions, slide presentations, and hands-on art projects.
Arts & Business Council of Chicago
A&BC-Chicago brings together more than 350 non-profit arts groups with hundreds of business professionals each year, ensuring the long-term health and vitality of metropolitan Chicago and preserving its status as a great place to work and live
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
The Auditorium Theatre is the crowning achievement of famed architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. It was built in 1889, and was immediately acclaimed as one of the most beautiful and functional theatres in the world. Its architectural integrity and perfect acoustics are internationally recognized. Past presentations at the Auditorium Theatre have included: The Bolshoi Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Eifman Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, White Oak Dance Project, The Joffrey Ballet and Riverdance - The Show.