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Notes for Peace Reunion
Feb16
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts

Notes for Peace Reunion

Notes for Peace is an initiative of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra that empowers families across Chicago who have lost children to gun…

Sunday, February 16th
2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Epiphany Center for the Arts
201 South Ashland Avenue
Porchlight Music Theatre Presents the Tony Award-Winning Fun Home
Feb16
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,…

Sunday, February 16th
2:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Ruth Page Center for the Arts
1016 N. Dearborn St.
Fool for Love
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Glassheart
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, 60660
Hubbard Street Dance Company Winter Series
Feb16
Theatre & Performing Arts

Hubbard Street Dance Company Winter Series

Building on the success of their sold-out Fall Series in November, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) continues Season 47 with the highly anticipated second engagement!…

Sunday, February 16th
3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Tetzlaff Plays Sibelius
Feb16
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Tetzlaff Plays Sibelius

The rugged, windswept beauty of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is a perfect showcase for Christian Tetzlaff, whose “fiery and compelling” 2022 CSO performance was named one…

Sunday, February 16th
3:00 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Chicago Symphony Center
220 S Michigan Ave
Hedda Gabler
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
3:00 p.m.5:30 p.m.
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave
Beetlejuice Jr.
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
6:00 p.m.7:30 p.m.
Yellow Box Theatre
1635 Emerson Lane
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents Circus Quixote
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
7:00 p.m.9:30 p.m.
163 E. Pearson St.
Twelfth Night
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
7:00 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue
Jackalope Theatre Company’s The Singularity Play
Feb16
Theatre & Performing Arts

Jackalope Theatre Company’s The Singularity Play

CHICAGO – Jackalope Theatre Company continues its 16th season at Edgewater’s Berger Park, 6205 N. Sheridan Rd., with  the world premiere of The Singularity Play,…

Sunday, February 16th
7:30 p.m.9:00 p.m.
Edgewater’s Berger Park
6205 N. Sheridan Rd.
Boy Gets Girl
Feb16
Theatre & Performing Arts

Boy Gets Girl

Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman The life of a successful career woman takes a terrifying turn when a seemingly innocent blind date spirals into…

Sunday, February 16th
7:30 p.m.9:00 p.m.
Choose Chicago
7924 Lincoln Ave
Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work
Feb16
Theatre & Performing Arts

Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work

CHICAGO – Bramble Theatre Company, is proud to announce the third annual Festival of Unfinished Work at the new Bramble Arts Loft located on the…

Sunday, February 16th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Bramble Arts Loft
A Raisin in the Sun
Feb16
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…

Sunday, February 16th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637
The Saga of Lady Miss
Feb16
Theatre & Performing Arts

The Saga of Lady Miss

ArtHaus Vigil and Evoke Gallery present THE SAGA OF LADY MISS : A Play Beyond 2 Acts Written by Magdalena Pogue Directed by Cléo la Muñeca And…

Sunday, February 16th
8:00 p.m.10:00 p.m.
Evoke Gallery
3040 N Central Ave
Marriott Theatre Presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Feb17
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…

Monday, February 17th
Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.
League of Chicago Theatres
Feb17
Feb20
Theatre & Performing Arts

Encounters with Light

Encounters with Light features Martha Graham’s 1931 masterpiece, Primitive Mysteries as well as a world premier by guest artist, Vershawn Sanders Ward. Original choreography by…

Monday, February 17thThursday, February 20th

New Monuments | Chicago Brendan Fernandes
Feb17
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…

Monday, February 17th
11:00 a.m.5:00 p.m.
Grant Park
301 S Columbus Dr
A Raisin in the Sun Public Programs: Let’s Talk About Art
Feb17
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts

A Raisin in the Sun Public Programs: Let’s Talk About Art

Court Theatre joins the Let’s Talk About Art series – Hyde Park Art Center’s innovative hybrid learning program for older adults (65+) – as part of…

Monday, February 17th
1:00 p.m.2:00 p.m.
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Twelfth Night
Feb17
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…

Monday, February 17th
7:00 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue
Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work
Feb17
Theatre & Performing Arts

Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work

CHICAGO – Bramble Theatre Company, is proud to announce the third annual Festival of Unfinished Work at the new Bramble Arts Loft located on the…

Monday, February 17th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Bramble Arts Loft
A Raisin in the Sun
Feb17
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…

Monday, February 17th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637
Glassheart
Feb17
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…

Monday, February 17th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, 60660
Marriott Theatre Presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Feb18
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…

Tuesday, February 18th
Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.
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