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Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Best Of Annoyance Sketch
Enjoy the best sketch comedy Chicago has to offer! The Annoyance Theatre has been at the crux of the comedy scene in Chicago for over…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Late Night Slice with Wet Pizza
An experimental comedy variety show and incubator hosted by Chicago’s hottest improv group, Wet Pizza. The mission of this show is to create a space…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Hot Seat
“It’s about to heat up in here! The 2019 Reader-Recommended show is back featuring some of iO’s best players! Hot Seat invites the audience to…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
LET’S PLAY A GAME: Chicago’s scariest short-form show
Who’s Line is it Anyways meets Fear Factor in LETS PLAY A GAME, a new short form show that’s a unique blend of comedy, chaos,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro ZinZanni Featuring Liv Warfield And Cunio Through March
Teatro ZinZanni, named “Best Night Out in Chicago” by CS Magazine, is thrilled to announce their current production has been extended through March 30th due…
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…
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…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro Zinzanni
Tickets are on sale Now at https://zinzanni.com/chicago/ for Love, Chaos, & Dinner ! Teatro Zinzanni returns to the vibrant Chicago Loop inside the velvet walls…
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…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Cultural Center New Play Residency Series
This February, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events offers public readings of new theatre projects that are current recipients of the Chicago Cultural…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds
CHICAGO – The Young People’s Theatre of Chicago’s “bouncy and bodacious” smash-hit production of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus opened YPT’s 2024-2025 season…
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…
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
Fat Ham
A boisterous Southern cookout sets the scene for a Black, queer discovery of self and resilience in this Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony nominated “uproarious reimagining…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Lottery Day
On a hot September afternoon in Chicago, the matriarch of a quickly gentrifying neighborhood invites her friends and family for a barbeque that will go…
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
Mr. Parker
Terry Parker is a middle-aged man navigating life after a profound personal loss. As he works to rediscover his identity and adjust to unexpected changes,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
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…
Music & Comedy
Wind Ensemble
Dialogues The Wind Ensemble’s winter concert explores a series of musical exchanges featuring Chandler Wilson’s Conversations, Percy Grainger’s Marching Song of Democracy, Valerie Coleman’s Roma, Omar Thomas’ Mother of…
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…
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