|
|
WINDY CITY TIMES
|
|---|
|
|
|
ComedySportz hosting LGBTQ performances during June
2019-06-05
|
|
This article shared 1288 times since Wed Jun 5, 2019
|
|
ComedySportz Chicago ( CSZ ) will commence Pride Month with the company's very first ComedySportz Chicago Pride Month featuring a series of performances,and a Pride Weekend celebration with CSZ's LGBTQIA+ cast members from June 7-22 at ComedySportz Theater Chicago, 929 W. Belmont Ave.
A special one-night only 18+ Rainbow A-Go-Go Variety Show will take place Saturday, June 22, at 10 p.m. In addition to the regular performance schedule, the company will hold family-friendly performances. These all-ages performances will be June 7, 14 and 22 at 6 and 8 p.m.
The venue will also sell a signature cocktail, The Pride Tai, with 100 percent of the profits going to the Pride Month partner Howard Brown Health.
Tickets are $25 per person for 6 and 8 p.m. shows, and $10 a person for the 10 p.m. performances. Visit CSZChicago.com or call 773-549-8080. |
|
|
|
This article shared 1288 times since Wed Jun 5, 2019
|
|
|
| ARTICLES YOU MIGHT LIKE |
|---|
| 
|  | Actor, writer Lena Waithe to headline screenwriting conference at DePaul U
2021-01-26
--From a press release - CHICAGO — Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer and actor Lena Waithe of "Twenties," "The Chi" and "Queen & Slim" will headline DePaul University's Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference Feb. 5-6. DePaul's School of Cinematic Arts will pr ...
| 
| | African American Arts Alliance, Black Ensemble Theater Martin Luther King Day
2021-01-25
--From a press release - The African American Arts Alliance of Chicago and Black Ensemble Theater present the 10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Monday, January 18, 2021 at 6:00pm. The jubilant, online event is free will be ...
| 
| | THEATER A Red Orchid Theatre running magical 'Missed Connections' Feb. 2-28
2021-01-19
A Red Orchid Theatre is presenting Missed Connections—a live, interactive play with magic, conceived for virtual experience, co-written by Jon Tai and Alex Gruhin, performed by magician Jon Tai and produced by Alex Gruhin—on Feb. 2-28. ...
| 
| | Virtual OUTspoken storytelling event Feb. 2
2021-01-17
The next virtual OUTspoken Storytelling Night will take place Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. The speakers will be as follows: —Donald Bell is a third-generation Chicagoan, South Sider and White Sox fan who is a retired ...
| 
| | 'Dixie's Happy Hour' streaming Jan. 26-31
2021-01-15
On the heels of Dixie's Tupperware Party and Dixie's: Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull (and 16 other things I learned while I was drinking last Thursday), drag personality Dixie Longate is ...
|
| | Hell in a Handbag Productions to present
Out, Darn Spot!
2021-01-15
--From a press release - CHICAGO (Jan. 15, 2021) — Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to present the campy comedyOut, Darn Spot!, written by and starring ensemble member Tyler Anthony Smith* and directed, filmed and edited by Stephanie Shaw. ...
| 
| | Artemisia Theatre announces entirely virtual 2021 season
2021-01-13
--From a press release - CHICAGO - In order to continue its strong feminist story-telling tradition, Artemisia Theatre announces an entirely virtual 2021 season. The new season includes two World Premiere theater productions and eight audio performances airing on its podcast ...
| 
| | SHOWBIZ Laverne Cox, lesbian coach, Jim Parsons, 'Brokeback,' theater items
2021-01-11
Laverne Cox is teaming with Meryl Streep and Rashida Jones to executive-produce a new documentary exploring one of the most critical issues at the intersection of race, feminism, and power: the sex industry, out.com noted. Sell/Buy/Date ...
|
| | African American Arts Alliance, Black Ensemble to present MLK event Jan. 18
2021-01-08
The African American Arts Alliance of Chicago and Black Ensemble Theater will present the 10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Monday, Jan. 18, at 6 p.m. The online event will be free. This ...
|
| | Rip Nelson Holiday Quarantine Special extended through Jan. 17
2021-01-06
--From a press release - CHICAGO (Jan. 4, 2021) — Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce one additional week of performances of its streaming holiday hit The Rip Nelson Holiday Quarantine Special, now playing through Jan. 17, 2021. ...
| 
| | Hell in a Handbag announces annual benefit, "The Morning After"
2020-12-23
CHICAGO (Dec. 17, 2020) — Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce its annual benefit "The Morning After," featuring the streaming world premiere of the smash hit musical that started it all for them, ...
| 
| | PrideArts to screen one-night-only live virtual readings
2020-12-21
--From a press release - PrideArts series of one-night-only live virtual readings resumes with TWELFTH NIGHT on the Twelfth of January Peter Vamvakas to direct a cast of seven Click here for a Word doc version of this release CHICAGO — ...
| 
| | Bechdel Fest 8 to highlight femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans, queer actors
2020-12-21
Broken Nose Theatre (BNT) will present Bechdel Fest 8: Realign—the company’s annual festival of new short plays featuring an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men.
...
| 
| | OUTSpoken: LGBTQ storytelling event Jan. 5 on Zoom
2020-12-16
Another OUTspoken Storytelling Night will offer the perspective of four Chicagoans telling life stories from their LGBTQ+ viewpoint or that of their close friends and relatives, Tuesday, Jan. 5, starting at 7 p.m. on Zoom. The ...
| 
| | Pegasus holding Young Playwrights Festival Jan. 7-31
2020-12-10
On Jan. 7-31, Pegasus Theatre Chicago is presenting the 34th Young Playwrights Festival (YPF), which selects winning high school-age scribes to apprentice with theater professionals to workshop and produce their ...
| | |
|
|
|
|
