Performing Arts:
Act One Studios
Training center that offers adult classes in acting, on camera, and voice, featuring small groups of students, taught by working, professional actors. Also offers a series of acting and film classes for high school students.
The Actors' Center
Offers courses for stage, film and public speaking based on Meisner and Williamson for working actors and beginners, including core curriculum, scene study, audition intensives, on-camera, and playwriting.
The Audition Studio
Professional training center founded by Michael Shurtleff offering classes in voice technique and voiceovers. Site also includes advice on auditions and getting started as an actor.
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
Multi-venue entertainment complex in the city's burgeoning River West area showcases plays, musicals and original productions.
Chicago Storytelling Guild
Allowing storytellers and story lovers to hone their craft, network and perform in a variety of venues. Meets the third Tuesday of each month. Contact information and events calendar are featured.
Corporate Magic Ltd.
Specializes in performing magic shows at corporate trade shows, banquets, celebrations and bar/bat-mitzvahs. Represents interactive entertainers such as jugglers, caricaturists, mindreaders, and fortunetellers.
Free Street Program
An arts outreach organization that uses the performing arts to enhance the literacy, self-esteem, creativity and employability of populations consistently excluded from mainstream cultural programming. Offers workshops in writing, theater, music, and dance.
The Irving Park Fine Arts Committee
Provides community with musical and theatrical events.
Medinah Shrine Circus
A Chicago family tradition for over 60 years. Featuring hilarious clowns, ferocious cats, daring aerialists, amazing elephants. Held 13-17 March at the UIC Pavilion.
Olé Olé Puppet and Dance Theater
Comprised of professional puppeteers, musicians, theatrical designers, and dancers (flamenco, modern, and ballet). Also, features a youth program. Information on show calendar, location and contacts.
Performing Arts Chicago
Since 1949, the city's leading presenter of contemporary music, theater, and dance.
Shakespeare Marionette Company
Non-profit corporation established for the advancement of education and the arts through its puppetry of William Shakespeare productions. Features overview of performances, scenes and photo gallery.
Comedy:
Chicago Comedy Company
Customized corporate and college entertainment and creative training using improvisational comedy. Includes history, cast profiles, client list and contact information.
Chicago Comedy Festival
Annual event includes information about shows, schedule, performers, participating venues, tickets, past performers and contact details.
Chicago Improv Festival
Annual improvisational comedy festival that includes performance schedule, ticket information, workshops, history, news and photo gallery.
The Cleaning Ladies
A long-form improv group that often performs shows at The Playground Theater and area venues. Information, show schedule, and photos are featured.
ComedySportz
Improv comedy with a competitive edge. Features show dates, location, touring, and mailing list.
Funny How
A sketch comedy group, that sets out to test the boundaries through various forms of sketches and musical numbers. The members are past and current members of The Second City Training Center, Improv Olympic, and Annoyance Theater. Features ensemble profiles, and performance ticket information.
Galileo Players
Develops original sketch comedy revues that explore the interplay between science, technology, faith and reason. Site includes history, schedule, reviews, cast, and hiring opportunities.
ImprovChicago
Community portal for improvisational comedy with audition information, pertinent links, and a message board.
ImprovOlympic Theater
Performance and training center. Show schedule, history, class and contact information included.
Mr. Fancy Pants: Chicago Improv Ensemble
Featuring history, news, schedule, photo album, players' biographies, and links.
Paper Monkeys
Touring comedy group. History, biographies, schedule and contact information included.
The Playground
Improvisational theatre. Includes calendar of shows, history, special events and contact information.
Salsation
An all-Latino improvisational and sketch comedy ensemble performs 99% en ingles (in English), with appeal to all audiences. Reviews, cast, schedule, and contacts provided.
Schadenfreude Theater Company
Sketch comedy troupe offering biographies, show schedule, press, gossip, downloads, and contact and donation information
Second City
Top comedy club has cultivated many of the nation's finest and best known comics.
Artists & Galleries:
Andrew Bae Gallery
Contemporary Asian art gallery in the heart of Chicago's River North gallery district. For over twenty years, owner Andrew Bae has represented fine artists from Korea, Japan and China.
Ann Nathan Gallery
Specializing in comtemporary paintings, sculpture, and artist made furniture by established and emerging artists in all media. Also, select works by well known outsider and visionary artists.
ARC Gallery
Artist run gallery with a focus on contemporary installation, video, mixed media, painting and sculpture.
Around the Coyote
Works to develop an inclusive cultural community, with an emphasis on exhibiting the work of established and emerging local talent. Includes arts festivals, education outreach, artist in residence program, and gallery rentals.
Beverly Art Center
A nonprofit dedicated to enriching lives through the visual and performing arts. Offers classes, a gallery, performing arts presentations, a calendar of events and outreach. Located in the historic Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood.
Chicago Fine Arts Exchange
Serves as an art gallery exhibiting for sale over 100 pieces of artwork, as well as a unique party and special event venue. Image gallery and contact information are provided.
Contemporary Art Workshop
Gallery exhibits the work of contemporary emerging artists. Founded in 1949 by John Kearney, Leon Golub, Cosmo Campoli and Ray Fink, the CAW is one of the oldest artist-run alternative spaces in the country.
Donald Young Gallery
Featuring contemporary art by international artists working in sound, video, sculpture, photography, painting, and installation including Gary Hill, Bruce Nauman, Rodney Graham, Martin Puryear, Robert Mangold, and Sol Le Witt.
Echo Gallery
Private gallery showcasing erotica, pin-up, fantasy, comic and fetish art.
Fassbender Gallery
Exhibiting contemporary American and European artists. The focus is on innovations in abstraction, minimalism and installation.
Frederick Baker, Inc.
Large Midwest gallery devoted to works on paper: American and European fine prints, drawings and watercolors. Online sales, image gallery and descriptions of works, events calendar, contacts and professional memberships.
Gallery 37 Center for the Arts
Internationally recognized program for young people. Its programs offer job training in the arts, opportunities for arts-related employment and mentoring relationships with professional artists.
Gallery Bonfiglio
A permanent work and exhibition space for the artist Michael Bonfiglio that will also serve as a launching pad for other emerging artists. Features image gallery, events and exhibits, and contacts.
Griffin Graphics
Art gallery exhibiting the works of African American artist Gerald Griffin and other acclaimed painters and sculptors. Includes original works, and special collections.
Hammersmith Studios
Wicker Park area gallery offering custom picture framing and limited edition prints by contemporary artists like Shag, Steve Walters, and Derek Hess.
Jean Albano Gallery
Specializes in contemporay American painting, sculpture and multi-media.
Judy A Saslow Gallery
Offering outsider, intuitive, visionary, ethnographic, folk and contemporary artworks from all parts of the globe.
Kass/Meridian Gallery
Featuring contemporary works by well known artists such as Keith Haring, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Robert Motherwell.
Klein Art Works
Contemporary art gallery. Featured artists include Berlant, Heyman, Price, Shore, Staab and Sorensen.
Lydon Fine Art
Contemporary art gallery with a focus on contemporary abstract, landscape, still life and representational paintings by established and emerging artists.
Olga Tsareva Gallery
Online gallery of paintings and drawings along with information about the artist.
Oskar Friedl Gallery
Representing both established and emerging artists as well as local and international talents. Contemporary works are featured with a concentration on abstract painting and sculpture, installation and multi-media art.
Ottinger Gallery
Selling original paintings and sculpture by contemporary Realist and Impressionist artists. Upcoming events, hours of operation, and recent exhibits are showcased.
Palette and Chisel
Arts education and exhibition center offers classes, models, and art shows.
Platt Fine Art
Features 19th and 20th Century American paintings, fine prints, and works on paper. Provides pricing and artists search.
Primative Art Works
Features its collecton of artifacts, tribal and ethnic art forms, rugs, textiles, jewelry and beadwork. Offers location and contact information.
Robert Henry Adams Fine Art
Gallery specializing in American Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings and sculpture from before 1945. Representing the estate of John Storrs. Frequently shown artists include Benton, Marsh, Redfield, Payne, Davis, Moholy-Nagy and Calder.
Roy Boyd Gallery
Contemporary art gallery representing artists from both coasts and internationally. Artist represented include: Anne Wilson, William Conger, Markus Linnenbrink, Marlena Novak, Frank Piatek, John Pittman, John Reuter-Pacyna, Jonathan Thomas, Leslie Wolfe, and Dan Ziembo.
Steinbrunner, J.C.
Contemporary to traditional portraits and still lifes in watercolor as well as such public artworks as murals, banners, and three-dimensional works by this artist and art teacher, available for commissions.
Thirty-One: Art and Vintage
A unique collection of artistic works and vintage.
Thomas McCormick Gallery
Showing 20th century works of art, the gallery represents the estates of both important and newly recognized artists along with a contemporary program of established and emerging painters, sculptors and printmakers.
Tim McCarthy Fine Arts
Local artist offers portraits, landscapes and academic institution prints emphasizing Chicago themes.
Tobai International
Gallery featuring contemporary paintings and prints from Japan and Korea.
WomanMade Gallery
Gallery seeks to build an alternative community where the artistic values and criteria are determined by women, for women.
Wood Street Gallery and Sculpture Garden
Featuring emerging artists with a focus on contemporary American sculpture. An outdoor sculpture garden bordering the gallery provides a venue for exhibiting large scale sculpture.
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