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Theatre Building Chicago
Venue Location and Information
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1225 West Belmont Chicago, IL 60657
773-327-5252 www.TheatreBuildingChicago.org By Train: The theater is 1/2 mile West of the Belmont Avenue Red/Purple/Brown Line station.
By Bus: The #77 Belmont Avenue bus stops 1/2 block from the theater and connects with the 'L' station and many bus routes.
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About This Venue
 Theatre Building Chicago celebrates its 30th season as an incubator to develop original musical works and to support both acclaimed and emerging theatre companies and artists. Each year, Theatre Building Chicago provides space and services to more than a thousand artists in 16 presentations and 315 special events. Since opening its doors on March 15, 1977, Theatre Building Chicago - Chicago's very own theatrical crossroads -has hosted 497 companies, 798 long-running shows, 8,915 events, 1,077,574 audience members, 29,375 theatre artists, 497 companies and 24, 496 performances.
Unique in the country, Theatre Building Chicago conducts a musical theatre writers' workshop and presentation program that has premiered 114 new musicals in Chicago and seen a number of them soar into other productions on Broadway and across the country. Theatre Building Chicago offers up-and-coming theatre professionals the opportunity to break into the field Chicago-style, through hands-on internships. Our interns have gone on to careers at institutions both here and abroad, such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Royal Albert Hall in London, The Second City-Chicago and the Theatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, Italy.
Theatre Building Chicago serves as a forum for a variety of important community and civic events - people have voted, married and memorialized every kind of life event at Theatre Building Chicago.
Theatre Building Chicago (Mission Statement) The company maintains a steady commitment to the performing arts community in Chicago and strives to promote, develop and strengthen both emerging and established artists and organizations by:
*Providing subsidized space, equipment and support for performing groups
*Developing and producing new musicals
*Providing opportunities for artists, administrators and performing groups |
Past Productions
• Macabaret Oct 22 - Nov 1, 2009
• The Hostage Sep 20 - Nov 1, 2009
• The Fantasticks Sep 13 - Nov 8, 2009
• The Night Season Sep 8 - Oct 17, 2009
• Belt Aug 27 - 30, 2009
• TBC's Annual Mini-Musicals Jun 14 - 15, 2009
• Once On This Island May 11 - Jun 28, 2009
• Hizzoner: Daley the First Apr 4 - May 17, 2009
• All My Love Mar 22 - May 10, 2009
• Pacific Overtures Mar 18 - May 2, 2009
• Six Impossible Things Feb 21 - Mar 8, 2009
• The Vagina Monologues Feb 21 - 22, 2009
• The Adventures of Anansi the Spider Feb 18 - Mar 12, 2009
• Sleepy Hollow Feb 12 - Mar 8, 2009
• Slaphappy Feb 2 - Mar 15, 2009
• Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol Dec 2, 2008 - Jan 3, 2009
• Santaland Diaries Nov 28, 2008 - Jan 3, 2009
• Anung's First American Christmas Nov 18, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009
• The Magic Ofrenda Oct 22 - Nov 6, 2008
• The Mark of Zorro Sep 28 - Nov 23, 2008
• On the Shore of the Wide World Sep 27 - Nov 16, 2008
• Candide Sep 15 - Nov 2, 2008
• The Jenkins Farm Project Sep 4 - 7, 2008
• Embrace the Fire Aug 21 - 31, 2008
• Put On a Happy Face: A Broadway Memoir Jul 26, 2008
• Jekyll & Hyde -The Musical Jun 3 - Jul 20, 2008
• Be More Chill May 22 - Jul 6, 2008
• A Passage to India Apr 7 - May 18, 2008
• Nine Apr 6 - May 18, 2008
• Feydeau-Si-Deau Mar 20 - Apr 20, 2008
• My Dinner with Amy Feb 17 - Mar 23, 2008
• Muse of Fire Feb 14 - Mar 23, 2008
• Songs for a New World Jan 17 - Feb 10, 2008
• Sex, Cubs & Rock 'n' Roll Jan 4, 2008
• DC Anderson & Friends Dec 10, 2007
• A Wonderful Life Nov 18 - Dec 30, 2007
• Phantom Sep 16 - Nov 11, 2007
• 'night, Mother Sep 14 - Nov 18, 2007
• The Brother Aug 30 - Nov 18, 2007
• Envoy Aug 19 - Sep 16, 2007
• How Now, Brown Couch Aug 17 - Sep 2, 2007
• Stages 2007 Aug 10 - 12, 2007
• Green Eyes Jul 22 - 29, 2007
• Bernice Bobs Her Mullet Jul 20 - Aug 4, 2007
• Richard II Jul 20 - Aug 4, 2007
• Godspell Jul 20 - 22, 2007
• Amy and Fred's Big Time Show Jul 12 - 15, 2007
• Mandragola Jul 5 - 22, 2007
• Crossroads at Thirty Jun 17 - 18, 2007
• Moniker, Myth, and Missed Connections Jun 6 - Aug 1, 2007
• The Life Jun 2 - Jul 15, 2007
• Death and Plenty May 21, 2007
• Abaddon: The One-Acts May 11 - 13, 2007
• The Constant Wife May 6 - Jun 24, 2007
• Somebody Else's Troubles Apr 30, 2007
• Men Exposed...Thinking with Your Head Apr 21 - May 26, 2007
• Sex Signals Apr 15 - 18, 2007
• Ragtime Apr 9 - May 27, 2007
• A Life Interrupted: Can You Dream Us Now? Mar 26 - Apr 4, 2007
• The Silence of Malachi Ritscher Mar 23 - Apr 21, 2007
• Black, White and Gray Mar 19 - Apr 22, 2007
• Moon Over Buffalo Mar 12 - May 27, 2007
• The Wiz Mar 3 - 25, 2007
• Love's Fire Feb 12, 2007
• The Adventures of Anansi the Spider Feb 7 - 22, 2007
• The Teapot Scandals Feb 4 - Mar 10, 2007
• DESPAIRadise Jan 29, 2007
• Assassins Jan 28 - Mar 11, 2007
• The Pendragon Jan 21 - Feb 25, 2007
• Suspicious Clowns Jan 14, 2007
• The 6th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival Jan 4 - 14, 2007
• 14th Annual Actors' Scene Showcase Nov 21, 2006
• A Wonderful Life Nov 19 - Dec 31, 2006
• Frosty's Shakes -N- Dogs Nov 18 - Dec 31, 2006
• Naked in America - The Musical Oct 16, 2006
• Ka-tet: Mid-World Life Crisis Oct 14 - Nov 18, 2006
• Dead End Oct 1 - Nov 12, 2006
• Black, White and Gray Sep 25, 2006
• Band Geeks: A Halftime Musical Sep 16 - Nov 4, 2006
• Mother Courage and Her Children Sep 11 - Nov 5, 2006
• Keep Ishmael Aug 18 - Sep 16, 2006
• Fairystories Aug 18 - 27, 2006
• Momentum Aug 18 - 20, 2006
• Stages 2006 Aug 11 - 13, 2006
• About Face Youth Theatre 2005: The Home Project Jul 28 - 31, 2006
• Pippin Jul 14 - 16, 2006
• Duality: Two One-Acts Jun 30 - Jul 9, 2006
• Chicago Music, In Their Words Jun 14 - 29, 2006
• Expressions Jun 4, 2006
• The DaVinci GayCode Jun 3 - 8, 2006
• Side Show May 28 - Jul 9, 2006
• Sleeping Ugly - The Musical May 14 - Jun 25, 2006
• Fairystories, a new musical Apr 24, 2006
• The Spitfire Grill Apr 20 - May 21, 2006
• The Secret Garden Apr 9 - May 28, 2006
• Inside Amy's Mind Mar 31 - Apr 21, 2006
• Beach Wars Mar 20, 2006
• The Fowler Family Radio Hour Mar 19 - Apr 16, 2006
• Good Times: Live on Stage Mar 2 - 25, 2006
• Josephine Tonight! Feb 20 - Mar 26, 2006
• If Trane Wuz Here Feb 14 - 19, 2006
• The Pendragon Feb 6, 2006
• WORDSFest Feb 2 - 12, 2006
• The Boys Next Door Jan 29 - Mar 5, 2006
• The Circus of Dr. Lao Jan 23, 2006
• Fu Manchu Tied Up My Mom and Science Fair Dec 27 - 28, 2005
• A Christmas Carol Nov 27 - Dec 30, 2005
• The Eight: Reindeer Monologues Nov 25 - Dec 23, 2005
• Top of the Heap Nov 21, 2005
• Weave Nov 17 - 20, 2005
• Tuxedo Love Oct 14 - Nov 12, 2005
• The Twilight Gallery Oct 7 - 29, 2005
• Time and the Conways Sep 18 - Oct 30, 2005
• Anna Karenina Sep 11 - Nov 13, 2005
• Gypsy Sep 11 - Oct 30, 2005
• Macabaret Sep 10 - Oct 31, 2005
• Warfield, USA Aug 20, 2005
• Triple Helix- helix funnier than DNA! Aug 19 - Sep 3, 2005
• Ourselves Unabridged Aug 19 - 28, 2005
• Henry 4 (Part One) Aug 13 - 4, 2005
• STAGES 2005: a festival of new musicals Aug 12 - 14, 2005
• Hamlet3 Jul 14 - 31, 2005
• The Vicious Cycle Jul 9 - Aug 6, 2005
• Psycho Beach Party Jul 8 - Aug 6, 2005
• R/Evolve Jul 7 - 10, 2005
• Scarrie Jul 2 - Aug 7, 2005
• Vox Pandora Jun 14, 2005
• 2005 New Play Development Workshop Jun 6 - 15, 2005
• BurgerTown Jun 2 - 19, 2005
• Fools May 30 - Jul 3, 2005
• Stardust May 15 - Jun 26, 2005
• Saints & Sinners May 1 - 3, 2005
• William Finn Festival Mar 19 - May 22, 2005
• St. Peter's Umbrella Mar 10 - Apr 3, 2005
• Closer Than Ever Jan 22 - Mar 13, 2005
• The Return of Herbert Bracewell Nov 13 - Dec 19, 2004
• Helloween Prom Oct 31, 2004
• Gator Bait Oct 8 - Nov 6, 2004
• Sweeney Todd Sep 26 - Nov 28, 2004
• Matt & Ben Aug 12 - Sep 12, 2004
• Durang 4play Jul 9 - Aug 6, 2004
• How "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Happened! May 23 - Jun 26, 2004
• Show Biz Kids From Hell May 2, 2004
• Tony Andriacchi: With a Little Help From My Friends May 1, 2004
• Spider Saloff: It Had to Be You-A Night of Chicago's Greatest Songwriters Apr 29 - 30, 2004
• Alexandra Billings: The Songs That Got Away-The Unknown Judy Garland Apr 22 - 24, 2004
• Amadeus Mar 13 - May 9, 2004
• King of Coons Feb 8 - Mar 7, 2004
• Prairie Lights Nov 25, 2003 - Jan 4, 2004
• Cabaret Oct 19 - Dec 7, 2003
• The Great Society Oct 9, 2003 - Jan 4, 2004
• The Story Goes On Aug 28 - 29, 2003
• The Idiot Box May 19 - Jun 22, 2003
• Roommate Wanted Mar 27 - May 3, 2003
• 10 Naked Men Mar 6 - Apr 21, 2003
• Final Angel Jan 17 - Mar 2, 2003
• Fa La La This...Twisted Tales From a Hard Candy Christmas Dec 13 - 21, 2002
• Prairie Lights Nov 12, 2002 - Jan 4, 2003
• Feed the Dog! Oct 30, 2002
• A Whole Lot of Love Boat Sep 15, 2002
• The Servant of Two Masters Jul 21 - 28, 2002
• La Vie Ennui (The Boring Life) May 19 - Jul 14, 2002
• A Ritual of Faith May 11 - Jun 23, 2002
• Hans Brinker: Homecoming Dec 3 - 30, 2001
• Hushabye Mountain Sep 10 - Oct 7, 2001
• Lust n' Rust Jan 18 - Feb 18, 2001
• Blues in the Night Jan 15 - Feb 23, 2001
• Screw Xmas Dec 8, 2000 - Jan 5, 2001
• How the Other Half Loves Oct 22 - Dec 10, 2000
• The Melody Lingers On: The Songs of Irving Berlin Sep 12 - 24, 2000
• Musical! The Musical! Jun 28 - Oct 10, 2000
• Private Eyes Mar 18 - Apr 30, 2000
• The Homecoming Jan 13 - Mar 19, 2000
• Shakespeare's Lovers & Fighters Nov 14 - Dec 12, 1999
• Winter's Tale, The Nov 3 - Dec 19, 1999
• Ghetto Oct 30, 1999 - May 6, 2000
• Noises Off Oct 14 - Dec 19, 1999
• Hellcab Feb 24, 1999 - May 5, 2002
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