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What is missing from the streets of Chicago this summer? People from other countries. And that's a problem, writes @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/3qv8YHy

"Hummingbird," a new virtual-reality play designed for younger tech-savvy audiences, debuts at @thisisUIC with plans to move to the @GoodmanTheatre this fall. bit.ly/3vMLRJt

. @AuditoriumChgo announced its plan to reopen this fall along with the 2021-22 arts season. Chicago’s @EnsembleEspanol will reopen the theater and kick off the season on Oct 16. Check out the full season below bit.ly/3pZ7t49

Chicago's @blackensemble and @ExploreNMMA have each received multimillion dollar grants from MacKenzie Scott. Check out the latest column from @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/35x4iqY

Does @TheSecondCity have a new pipeline to @iamjohnoliver and @StephenAtHome's shows? Check out the latest from @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/3grJJT1

Magda Krance, longtime director of media relations for the @LyricOpera will retire at the end of June. She has been the Lyric's its supremely confident and thoroughly unflappable public-facing problem solver for some 30 years, writes @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/3577NUK

This just in: @StephenAtHome joins @TheSecondCity's new board of directors, writes @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/3ixikka

. @GoodmanTheatre announces 2021-22 season, with live performances beginning this summer. Get the details from @ChrisJonesTrib below bit.ly/2Td6jWq

The new @SteppenwolfThtr mural was designed in honor of the former artistic director Martha Lavey, who took over artistic direction in 1995 after the theater was built and who died in 2017 following a pair of debilitating strokes, writes @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/3g8xuKI

Chicago's @HarrisTheater announced its 2021-22 season of in-person performances, presented under the venue’s own banner and featuring many international artists. Find out more from @ChrisJonesTrib below bit.ly/3vataiI

The Tony nominee Joaquina Kalukango ("Slave Play”) and the Canadian musical-theater star Chilina Kennedy (“Beautiful”) are to star in “Paradise Square,” the Garth Drabinsky musical trying out this fall in Chicago and then headed to Broadway. bit.ly/3g4ccyd

. @SteppenwolfThtr will honor Annette Bening and Sherry Lansing with a free virtual event led by @carriecoon. Get all the details from @proudchismosa below bit.ly/352gcJf

“Far Too Late,” the first song from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella,” has been released ahead of the album drop on July 9. bit.ly/3iobQ77

. @TheSecondCity said Friday that its e.t.c. space will reopen for shows beginning tonight, June 4. Get the details from @ChrisJonesTrib below bit.ly/2RmVDE1

Jay Españo, an actor, singer and director with experience in both film and live performance, has been appointed artistic director of @PrideArtsChi the Chicago theater company formerly known as Pride Film and Plays. bit.ly/3vNUFja

Following last fall’s Chicago Parks touring production, @GoodmanTheatre will return with a presentation of @sonesdemexico's “Zulema,” running Aug. 5-21 with a final performance on Sept. 2. Get the details from @proudchismosa below bit.ly/3cintbQ

Broadway will return on Aug. 4, with previews for Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over,” a production that premiered at Chicago’s @SteppenwolfThtr, writes @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/3vOaIgR

Naomi Osaka doesn't want to talk to the press? She'll win in the end because the nature of celebrity is changing with the younger generation, writes @ChrisJonesTrib bit.ly/2RidMmo

“Swing Low” is the latest in what has been a very moving little suite of pandemic-era @joffreyballet films from its Chicago black box studio, all offering the chance to see the superb dancers in close-up. @ChrisJonesTrib reviews: bit.ly/3g5bW0z

Lakeview’s @theaterwit will resume live performances this August, beginning with a remount of the 2015 production, "Mr. Burns, a post electric play.” Get all the details from @proudchismosa below. bit.ly/3vGc4dy