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Johnny Cobweb
DePaul’s student-led organization Blue Demon Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of Johnny Cobweb, an original comedy by Jason Fennell! In the safe, suburban…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight Music Theatre Presents the Tony Award-Winning Fun Home
Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Tony-award winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musical Fun Home, opening January 16, 2025, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Rendezvous Arts Presents The Haymarket Opera Company and Millinery Artist Eia Radosavljevic
Chicago’s Haymarket Opera Company makes their Rendezvous debut this month. Founded in 2010, Haymarket‘s productions include more than 30 operas using period instruments and historically…
Theatre & Performing Arts
One Party Consent
Trust is tricky. You enter working relationships and it’s unprofessional not to offer it. When you feel your trust challenged, you convince yourself that you’re…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Fool for Love
In a sweltering motel room in the Mojave Desert, May and Eddie lick their wounds and get ready for another relentless round. This brawl is…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Glassheart
Chicago premiere of a new play by Chicago-based playwright Reina Hardy. A modern-day reimagining of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. The Beast has…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Kodo One Earth Tour 2025
Kodo Feel the power of the taiko drum in this special director’s cut of this explosive performance created just for Chicago! The master drummers of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Tesman returns from her honeymoon to the brutal banality of domestic life: an agonizingly bland husband; a living room full of dying flowers; and…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
Àkójọpọ̀ X Gorée Cuisine Presents: The Games of Our Heritage
Àkójọpọ̀ X Gorée Cuisine Presents: The Games of Our Heritage Connecting the Black Diaspora Through Culture and Community Celebrate Black History Month by immersing yourself…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Beetlejuice Jr.
It’s our show now, kid. The ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in Beetlejuice JR., the frightfully funny musical based on the beloved motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon. Lydia…
Theatre & Performing Arts
CLUE Live on Stage!
A mansion. A murder. A mystery. Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Civic Orchestra Fellows x Chicago Refugee Coalition
Join the Civic Orchestra Fellows and participants from the Chicago Refugee Coalition in a special concert that shares and celebrates cultural identities through music and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents Circus Quixote
After pausing its operations last year to reorganize and create a new business model, Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, in association with The Actors…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Twelfth Night
DePaul’s student-run theatre organization is proud to present William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. This show tells the story of a woman’s journey through love and identity as…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Danse Russe: Will Hagen violin and Albert Cano Smit, piano
Danse Russe: Stravinksy & Prokofiev William Hagen, violin & Albert Cano Smit, piano Riveting violinist William Hagen and frequent collaborator, pianist Albert Cano Smit, present…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Raisin in the Sun
New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Betrayal
Stage and screen stars Helen Hunt (Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe Awards), Robert Sean Leonard (Tony Award) and Ian Barford (Tony Award nominee) form the “eternal…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Romeo and Bernadette: a new musical
Shakespeare meets the modern-world in this delightful musical rom-com with songs based on traditional Italian melodies. After a 600 year nap, Romeo believes that Bernadette,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Chicagoland’s longest running musical theatre, Marriott Theatre, officially kicks off its spectacular 50th Anniversary Season with one of the most enduring and beloved musicals of…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
New Monuments | Chicago Brendan Fernandes
Envisioned as the first in a series of interventions that engage monuments in and outside of the United States, New Monuments | Chicago by Brendan Fernandes seeks…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Lust for Life: A Rock-Out BurlyQ Revue
LUST FOR LIFE: A ROCK-OUT BURLYQ REVUE LUST FOR LIFE is back FEBRUARY 24TH and READY TO ROCK AWAY THE MONDAY MOPES in their brand new…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Twelfth Night
DePaul’s student-run theatre organization is proud to present William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. This show tells the story of a woman’s journey through love and identity as…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Raisin in the Sun
New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Love Songs are Weird, and other reasons I’m single
Love Songs are Weird, and other reasons I’m single returns to Davenport’s Piano Bar this February! Join Rachel Silvert on a hilarious, and at times…
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