Chicago native Jeremy Piven is slated to make his Broadway debut next season in a revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.”
The theater and the dates are still to be announced.
Currently, Piven can be seen in HBO’s cable hit TV series “Entourage,” which has earned the star two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.

Congratulations to our friend Billy Dec on his new show “24/7″ which airs WMAQ-TV Channel 5 in Chicago right after Saturday Night Live.
Dec has long been a favorite of Chicagoans with his very famous Rockit Ranch Productions, the hot spot-Rockit Bar and Grill, various other successful business enterprises and his charity functions.
Our own Steve Saltz […]

RICHARD WIDMARK AND CHARLTON HESTON
They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
While they were bigger than life on the silver screen, they were gentle men off screen.
Did you know that Richard Widmark was from Illinois? Well, he wasn’t born here, he was born in Minnesota, but his family soon found their way to Princeton […]

The Theatre School at DePaul University will be holding their annual Awards For Excellence In The Arts Gala on April 22 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Chicagoactor.com had the wonderful pleasure and honor to attend last year’s festivities with Alec Baldwin and Michael Rooker and we can tell you first hand that DePaul’s Gala is a […]

Roger Ebert is planning to attend his annual film festival
on April 23-27 in Champaign, IL at the Virginia Theater, IF
his doctors give him the all clear.
However, if they don’t, Ebert says the “show must go on”
and will, with or without him.
Hopefully, it will be with him in attendance.
Guests for this years fest included famed director […]

Vitalist Theatre joins The League Of Chicago Theaters’
“Theater Thursdays” with their presentation of the
classic “A Passage To India,” on April 24.
Before the performance, dinner will be at Radhuni Indian
Kitchen with a discussion and performance of traditional
Indian poetry and dance that are featured in the play.
The event starts at 6:00 and runs till 7:00 pm. […]

Calling all Ellen DeGeneres fans!
Yes…Ellen is bringing her show to Chicago on May 3.
For more information and tickets visit: www.ellen.warnerbros.com.
Oprah who?

Congratulations to our town’s Virginia Madsen. The beautiful and multifaceted actress has just launched her own production company called Title IX Productions (the name refers to the 1972 law that prohibits gender discrimination in universities and schools).
First on the company’s roster of films will be a documentary directed by Elaine Madsen entitled “I Know A […]

If you ask women who the most sexiest man is, odds are that actor Matt Damon would not be their first choice, nor their second.
But People Magazine decided that he was the main man last year.
The versatile and box office star will be in Chicago in a few months to film “The Informant.”
The Director will […]

Whew!
The very handsome and terrific actor, heartthrob Gerard Butler still intends to come back to
Chicago.
The Scot told journalist and Chicago favorite Cindy Pearlman that he is still very much attached to Brian De Palma’s prequel to “The Untouchables” entitled “Capone Rising.”
Butler, who said that the script is one of the best that he has read, […]