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Our theater was originally built in 1912 as a vaudeville and movie house. It was called the Regent Theater, it had one screen and could seat 725 people total.

In 1930 it was renamed the “400 Theater.” This is due to the fact that at the time “The Four Hundred” was a popular term for the top four hundred people in high society.

Keeping the name for over 65 years, the theater changed with the times. Even splitting the auditorium into multiple screens, calling itself the “400 Twin.”

We opened as “The New 400 Theaters” July 1st, 2009. Our aim is to keep the tradition of the 400’s rich history alive showing first run movies on 35mm format in four refurnished venues. Our staff aims to keep every customer’s experience a positive one so that they can feel they too are part of the “New Four Hundred.”

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“City Lit Theater Company is dedicated to the vitality and accessibility of the literary imagination.  City Lit will be producing concert readings and full-stage productions of adaptations of literary material, scripted plays by language-oriented playwrights, and original material developed especially for City Lit.”

–City Lit mission statement, 1980 and today

City Lit was founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1980 by Arnold Aprill, David Dillon, and Lorell Wyatt. At the time it was the only theatre in the nation devoted to stage adaptations of literary material, a form that has since become quite popular. Over 26 seasons, City Lit has explored fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, essays, and drama in performance, and presented a wide array of voices, from classic writers such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, Oliver Goldsmith, Mark Twain, Colette, and P. G. Wodehouse to such contemporary writers as Alice Walker, W.P. Kinsella, Lynda Barry, Raymond Carver, Edward Albee and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. As an Illinois not-for-profit corporation and a 501(c)3 federal tax-exempt organization, it keeps its ticket prices below the actual cost of operation and production, and depends on the support of those who share its belief in the beauty and power of the spoken written word.

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As an ensemble, we seek out stories relevant to our audiences’ everyday lives. We aim to find works that showcase and broaden our ensembles talents and our ensemble style. Each production is chosen by the company members as a whole.

Steep Theatre Company is our family and Steep Theatre is our home. We have created an environment that other artists and audience members have always found welcoming, enjoyable and engaging. Each of our talented members are dedicated both artistically and administratively to making Steep a fixture in the Chicago theatre community.

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Lifeline Theatre specializes in original literary adaptations. Its ensemble of artists uses imaginative, unconventional staging to portray sprawling stories in an intimate space. Lifeline is committed to promoting the arts in its Rogers Park neighborhood and is an anchor of the Glenwood Avenue Arts District. We aspire to create art that is relevant to our culturally diverse, increasingly youthful neighborhood.

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Working within and beyond the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, About Face Theatre is committed to innovation, artistic excellence and community transformation. Through our projects, we strive to challenge our artists’ and audience’s intellects, imaginations, self-conceptions, moral expectations, and ideas about gender and sexuality in contemporary and historical contexts.

About Face has three programming arms: its award-winning Mainstage Season, its innovative New Works Program, and our nationally recognized Education Programs, including the celebrated About Face Youth Theatre and Educational Outreach tour that collectively reach approximately 5,000 Illinois students and teachers each year.

About Face has emerged as one of Chicago’s most respected theatres, and is quickly emerging as a national center for the development of gay and lesbian theatre.

Results of your search will be listed below and can be sorted by Title, Date Added (posted) or Deadline Date. If you do not submit specific search criteria, the default list is all current calls for artists sorted by Date Added– the date the call was added (posted) to the site.

This summer the Rogers Park Business Alliance and SSA #24 Clark/Morse/Glenwood are continuing their Mile of Murals project with a new installment on Glenwood Avenue from Greenleaf to Lunt.

Coordinating this wall are local artists Dustin Harris and Lea Pinsky, who led last year’s block-long wall from Estes to Greenleaf with the Howard Area Community Center youth. For this project, about a dozen LOCAL professional artists will be selected to contribute individual sections of the wall, each about 25’ long x 7’ high. Artists will be expected to work collaboratively with their peers adjacent to them on the wall as they create their designs, to ensure fluid transitions from one artist to the next. Each artist will receive a basic package of materials including paint (Nova for acrylics, Montana for aerosol), some brushes, and paint trays; plus there will be a few step stools to share. Artists will need to supply any other materials as needed. Stipend for each artist is $1400.

To apply, please complete this application and submit by April 30. If you cannot download the application, email lea@leapinsky.com or call 773-761-8699. Leave your name, email address, and phone number and we will send you the form.

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Redtwist Theatre… focuses primarily on the very best contemporary drama in a uniquely intimate space (36-42 seats), with friendly hospitality, living room comfort, and a compelling brand of acting that is the signature style of Redtwist Theatre. Redtwist Theatre (formerly Actors Workshop Theatre) integrates the exciting, risky, and innovative style that is specifically mentioned in the final words of our mission statement.

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Pegasus Theatre is a professional not-for-profit theatre that began operations in October 1985 with a fixed performing space in the Deep Ellum district of Dallas, Texas. The mission of Pegasus Theatre is to:

“Produce new and original comedies in a professional setting, highlighting the talents of North Texas theatre artists.”

The theatre produced an annual season of shows for 17 years in its performing space at 3916 Main Street in Dallas, a total of nearly 100 productions. In December 2002, Pegasus co-produced an Off-Broadway show in New York City, then went “dark” for two years (2003-2004) while its principals (Kurt Kleinmann and Barbara Weinberger) focused on other projects (a tour, a book, a new performing space.)

In early 2005, Pegasus Theatre began work on a North Texas production of one of its signature shows presented in “Living Black & White.”™ Mind Over Murder!, premiered in January 2006 to packed and appreciative houses at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas. It was a calculated risk to produce in such a large venue, and the positive experience at the Eisemann Center confirmed that North Texas audiences were ready for the return of the Black & White shows.

No overview of Pegasus Theatre is complete without a description of this unique production style, created and perfected by Artistic Director Kurt Kleinmann. Mr. Kleinmann has written a series of plays (15 to date) that are affectionate spoofs of American black-and-white movies of the 1930s and 1940s. The acting as well as all physical production aspects of these shows (lighting, set, costumes, makeup, sound, etc.) are painstakingly designed to recreate the look and feel of an old movie, live on stage. The effect is truly amazing and has garnered the theatre national exposure as well as critical acclaim.

The 2010 Neighborhood Arts Program (NAP) application is now available. This grant program is designed to encourage and support the presentation of high-quality instructional arts programs benefiting youth-at-risk, seniors, or persons with disabilities in Chicago’s low to moderate income neighborhoods. Individual artists with demonstrated teaching and/or performing experience in these communities may request up to $4,000 for workshops or touring performances suitable for Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Park District, community centers, schools, or facilities serving senior citizens or persons with disabilities.