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The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival
Mar12
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events

The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival

The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival 2025 celebrates its first year at the Zhou B Art Center, 4th Floor Women…

Wednesday, March 12th
6:00 p.m.9:00 p.m.
Zhou B Art Center
1029 W. 35th St.
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents Circus Quixote
Mar12
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…

Wednesday, March 12th
7:00 p.m.9:30 p.m.
163 E. Pearson St.
Jackalope Theatre Announces “Dummy in Diaspora”
Mar12
Theatre & Performing Arts

Jackalope Theatre Announces “Dummy in Diaspora”

Jackalope Theatre Company is proud to announce the United States premiere of one of the hits of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dummy in Diaspora,…

Wednesday, March 12th
7:30 p.m.9:00 p.m.
Broadway Armory Park
5917 North Broadway
Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work
Mar12
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…

Wednesday, March 12th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Bramble Arts Loft
Marriott Theatre Presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mar13
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…

Thursday, March 13th
Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.
Marriott Theatre Presents: The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts

Marriott Theatre Presents: The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences kicks off its remarkable children’s theatre season, part of Marriott Theatre’s 50th anniversary, with the musical adaptation of one of…

Thursday, March 13th
Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.
Teatro ZinZanni Featuring Liv Warfield And Cunio Through March
Mar13
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…

Thursday, March 13th
Teatro ZinZanni Chicago
32 West Randolph Street
League of Chicago Theatres
Mar13
Mar16
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…

Thursday, March 13thSunday, March 16th

LOVE SONG by John Kolvenbach from Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts

LOVE SONG by John Kolvenbach from Remy Bumppo Theatre Company

CHICAGO – Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is pleased to announce the cast, creative and production teams for Love Song, written by John Kolvenbach and directed…

Thursday, March 13th
2:30 p.m.5:00 p.m.
Theater Wit
The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival
Mar13
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events

The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival

The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival 2025 celebrates its first year at the Zhou B Art Center, 4th Floor Women…

Thursday, March 13th
6:00 p.m.9:00 p.m.
Zhou B Art Center
1029 W. 35th St.
Jackalope Theatre Company’s The Singularity Play
Mar13
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,…

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.9:00 p.m.
Edgewater’s Berger Park
6205 N. Sheridan Rd.
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts

Hedwig and The Angry Inch

With music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” follows the journey of Hedwig Robinson,…

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.9:00 p.m.
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave
Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work
Mar13
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…

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Bramble Arts Loft
The Gift Theatre Presents the World Premier of Cygnus
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts

The Gift Theatre Presents the World Premier of Cygnus

The Gift Theatre, is proud to present the world premiere of Cygnus, written by Susan Soon He Stanton, award-winning writer and producer of HBO’s “Succession”…

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
The Filament Theatre
4041 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Redtwist Theatre Presents Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts

Redtwist Theatre Presents Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

CHICAGO – Award-winning Redtwist Theatre announces an original adaption of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, by Artistic Director of Development Dusty Brown, Caroline Kidwell and Jordan…

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Redtwist Theatre
1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
A Raisin in the Sun
Mar13
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…

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637
Gregory Alan Isakov with The Chicago Philharmonic
Mar13
Music & Comedy

Gregory Alan Isakov with The Chicago Philharmonic

Grammy Award-nominated folk singer Gregory Alan Isakov will perform live at Auditorium Theatre on Mar. 13-14, 2025.

Thursday, March 13th
7:30 p.m.10:30 p.m.
Auditorium Theatre
50 East Ida B. Wells Drive
Idle Muse Theatre Company Presents “The School For Scandal”
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts

Idle Muse Theatre Company Presents “The School For Scandal”

Idle Muse Theatre Company’s latest production is  Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, directed by Artistic Director Evan Jackson, March 13 – April 12…

Thursday, March 13th
8:00 p.m.10:00 p.m.
The Edge Off Broadway Theatre
1133 W Catalpa Ave.
Secret Family Sketch
Mar13
Music & Comedy

Secret Family Sketch

Secret Family is a sketch comedy group that’s much less demanding than your real family. They’re also funnier than your real family, probably. Unless your real…

Thursday, March 13th
8:30 p.m.9:30 p.m.
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave
Marriott Theatre Presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mar14
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…

Friday, March 14th
Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.
Marriott Theatre Presents: The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Mar14
Theatre & Performing Arts

Marriott Theatre Presents: The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences kicks off its remarkable children’s theatre season, part of Marriott Theatre’s 50th anniversary, with the musical adaptation of one of…

Friday, March 14th
Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.
Teatro ZinZanni Featuring Liv Warfield And Cunio Through March
Mar14
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…

Friday, March 14th
Teatro ZinZanni Chicago
32 West Randolph Street
Comedy Hour at Annoyance Theatre
Mar14
Mar15
Theatre & Performing Arts

Comedy Hour at Annoyance Theatre

Each week, Chicago comics bring the freshest, most experimental new material to the Annoyance for the Comedy Hour. The weekly show is an eclectic mix…

Friday, March 14th
12:00 a.m.Saturday, March 15th
1:00 a.m.
Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.
League of Chicago Theatres
Mar14
Mar17
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…

Friday, March 14thMonday, March 17th

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