This Event is No Longer Available. Quarantine Carols Benefiting Season of Concern The Why: Each holiday season, the shows around Chicagoland raise an incredible amount of money for Season of Concern by collecting audience donations after performances. We know that this collection will be lacking this year for obvious reasons… but these generous donations are needed now more...
Our good friend, Keith Hartley of Back to Basics Chiropractic Health Center is working with The Main/Dempster Mile Business Association to collect donations and sell the SECOND CITY DIVAS LIVE CD! Drop by 1318 Chicago Ave, Evanston to make a $20 donation and receive a free SECOND CITY DIVAS LIVE CD!...
This Event is No Longer Available. This benefit follows the tradition of Season of Carols, the popular, annual holiday CD as a live streaming event featuring popular local entertainers including Hollis Resnik, Cory Goodrich, Michael Mahler, Donica Lynn, Heidi Kettenring, James Earl Jones II and many more! Tune in on December 8, at 7pm CST, at...
This Event is No Longer Available. Thank you to all who walked, ran and donated to the AIDS Walk/Run 2020! With masks and social distancing in place, we raised $27,450 (and counting,) making Season of Concern the #1 fundraising team three years in a row! ...
We are saddened by the loss of Marie O’Connor, longtime advocate of Season of Concern and many other arts organizations including the Chicago International Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Auditorium Theatre, and many, many others. We will miss her! Donations in her name can be made here: https://seasonofconcern.org/donate...
Season of Concern Chicago offers emergency assistance for any member of the Chicago theater community who is dealing with serious medical issues, including those that may result from COVID-19 infection. Proof of testing positive for the virus is required. The events of the past few days have overwhelmed and overturned our community and our world, possibly...
This Event is No Longer Available. Thank you to the amazing and talented Marya Grandy and Tom Vendafreddo for performing a live Living Room Concert to benefit Season of Concern, this Sunday, May 3 at 7 p.m. CT on Instagram @tvendafreddo and Facebook facebook.com/tommy.vendafreddo. Help Marya and Tom raise money to benefit our mission: "A future where...
This Event is No Longer Available. Join WGN-TV's “Around Town” correspondent Ana Belaval and a star-studded line-up of more than 20 top Chicago stage performers for Chicago Offstage! Live at Home, a virtual streaming event debuting live on Season of Concern’s new YouTube channel (https://tinyurl.com/soctube) on Sunday, April 19, at 6 p.m. CST. Chicago Offstage! promises to...
Seasons change. And so has Season of Concern. When Season of Concern was founded in 1987, it was the dawn of the AIDS crisis. The Chicago theater community banded together to support local theater practitioners afflicted with AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses. Today, thankfully, as the AIDS crisis has become more manageable, we’ve expanded our services to meet...
When I was 22 years old, I participated in a reading at the now-defunct Chicago Theater Company where Douglas Allen Mann and Luther Goins (current SOC President) were managing directors. Douglas and Luther saw a light in me, took a chance, began to nurture what they called "natural talent" and life took a new direction....
