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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
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
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
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,…
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…
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
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…
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…
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