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Dracula
Oct24
Nov9
Theatre & Performing Arts

Dracula

Prepare to be transported to the eerie landscapes of Transylvania and the shadowy corners of Victorian England as you embark on a spine-tingling journey filled…

Thursday, October 24thSaturday, November 9th
Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall
31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville, IL, 60540
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Oct24
Nov29
Theatre & Performing Arts

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

It’s The Golden Age of Hollywood, and the streets of Los Angeles teem with aspiring starlets. When Vera Stark-maid to “America’s Sweetie Pie,” Gloria Mitchell-lands…

Thursday, October 24thFriday, November 29th
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60622
Bottle Fly world premiere
Oct24
Dec1
Theatre & Performing Arts

Bottle Fly

World Premiere of a new play by Jacqueline Goldfinger, author of last seasons’ Babel. This beautiful depiction of queer survival in the Everglades captures the…

Thursday, October 24thSunday, December 1st
Redtwist Theatre
1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
The Wong Kids
Oct24
Nov3
Theatre & Performing Arts

The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra, Go! (Imagine U)

Violet and Bruce Wong just don’t fit in with the other Earth kids. Sure, they have superpowers; they’re just not very good ones. But when…

Thursday, October 24thSunday, November 3rd
League of Chicago Theatres
Oct24
Nov3
Theatre & Performing Arts

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Crime. Corruption. Cauliflower. Bertolt Brecht’s cutthroat satire chronicles gangster Arturo Ui’s bloody ascension to power. Set in Chicago amidst a city-wide scandal, The Resistible Rise…

Thursday, October 24thSunday, November 3rd
Newhart Family Theatre
1020 W. Sheridan Rd.
Little Shop of Horrors
Oct24
Nov17
Theatre & Performing Arts

Little Shop of HORRORS

The frighteningly fantastical musical arrives just in time for Halloween to make audiences scream with laughter. From the award-winning duo of Howard Ashman and Alan…

Thursday, October 24thSunday, November 17th
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, IL, 60077
Leroy & Lucy
Oct24
Dec15
Theatre & Performing Arts

Leroy and Lucy

Two lost souls meet at a crossroads, in the dead of night, deep in the Mississippi of it all.  With a yearning guitar between them,…

Thursday, October 24th
7:30 a.m.Sunday, December 15th
3:00 a.m.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 N. Halsted St. , Chicago, IL, 60614
Atonement
Oct24
Nov3
Theatre & Performing Arts

Atonement

Witness the U.S. premiere of renowned choreographer Cathy Marston’s ‘Atonement’ in her re-imagining of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel-turned Academy Award®-winning film. The poignant story follows…

Thursday, October 24thSunday, November 3rd
Lyric Opera of Chicago
20 N. Wacker Dr. , Chicago, IL, 60606
IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok
Oct24
Theatre & Performing Arts

IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok

PUBLIC TICKETS AVAILABLE AUGUST 26THSUBSCRIBERS & GROUP EARLY ACCESS AVAILABLE AUGUST 1ST At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant…

Thursday, October 24th
7:30 p.m.Sunday, November 24th
9:30 p.m.
Raven Theatre East Stage
6157 N. Clark St. , Chicago, IL, 60660
Dracula
Oct25
Nov10
Theatre & Performing Arts

Dracula

Prepare to be transported to the eerie landscapes of Transylvania and the shadowy corners of Victorian England as you embark on a spine-tingling journey filled…

Friday, October 25thSunday, November 10th
Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall
31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville, IL, 60540
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Oct25
Nov30
Theatre & Performing Arts

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

It’s The Golden Age of Hollywood, and the streets of Los Angeles teem with aspiring starlets. When Vera Stark-maid to “America’s Sweetie Pie,” Gloria Mitchell-lands…

Friday, October 25thSaturday, November 30th
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60622
Bottle Fly world premiere
Oct25
Dec2
Theatre & Performing Arts

Bottle Fly

World Premiere of a new play by Jacqueline Goldfinger, author of last seasons’ Babel. This beautiful depiction of queer survival in the Everglades captures the…

Friday, October 25thMonday, December 2nd
Redtwist Theatre
1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
Orphans directed by Richard Dominick illustration
Oct25
Nov10
Theatre & Performing Arts

Orphans

Two grown orphan brothers live in an old dilapidated row house in North Philadelphia – deserted in childhood by an unfaithful father and by the…

Friday, October 25thSunday, November 10th
Atonement
Oct25
Nov4
Theatre & Performing Arts

Atonement

Witness the U.S. premiere of renowned choreographer Cathy Marston’s ‘Atonement’ in her re-imagining of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel-turned Academy Award®-winning film. The poignant story follows…

Friday, October 25thMonday, November 4th
Lyric Opera of Chicago
20 N. Wacker Dr. , Chicago, IL, 60606
IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok
Oct25
Theatre & Performing Arts

IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok

PUBLIC TICKETS AVAILABLE AUGUST 26THSUBSCRIBERS & GROUP EARLY ACCESS AVAILABLE AUGUST 1ST At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant…

Friday, October 25th
7:30 p.m.Monday, November 25th
9:30 p.m.
Raven Theatre East Stage
6157 N. Clark St. , Chicago, IL, 60660
Dracula
Oct26
Nov11
Theatre & Performing Arts

Dracula

Prepare to be transported to the eerie landscapes of Transylvania and the shadowy corners of Victorian England as you embark on a spine-tingling journey filled…

Saturday, October 26thMonday, November 11th
Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall
31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville, IL, 60540
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Oct26
Dec1
Theatre & Performing Arts

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

It’s The Golden Age of Hollywood, and the streets of Los Angeles teem with aspiring starlets. When Vera Stark-maid to “America’s Sweetie Pie,” Gloria Mitchell-lands…

Saturday, October 26thSunday, December 1st
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60622
Bottle Fly world premiere
Oct26
Dec3
Theatre & Performing Arts

Bottle Fly

World Premiere of a new play by Jacqueline Goldfinger, author of last seasons’ Babel. This beautiful depiction of queer survival in the Everglades captures the…

Saturday, October 26thTuesday, December 3rd
Redtwist Theatre
1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
Fleetwood Jordaine Theatre
Oct26
Nov10
Theatre & Performing Arts

Until the Flood

This play explores the social uprising in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer in 2014. The play draws…

Saturday, October 26thSunday, November 10th
Noyes Cultural Arts Center
927 Noyes St. , Evanston, IL, 60201
El Pielago de la Calamidades
Oct26
Nov17
Theatre & Performing Arts

El Pielago de la Calamidades

The unwritten story of what happened to the nomadic actors who were hired by Hamlet to represent the murder of his father. Rated: PG13 Parents…

Saturday, October 26th
7:00 p.m.Sunday, November 17th
9:00 p.m.
Teatro Tariakuri
3117 W. 63rd St. , Chicago, IL, 60629
Atonement
Oct26
Nov5
Theatre & Performing Arts

Atonement

Witness the U.S. premiere of renowned choreographer Cathy Marston’s ‘Atonement’ in her re-imagining of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel-turned Academy Award®-winning film. The poignant story follows…

Saturday, October 26thTuesday, November 5th
Lyric Opera of Chicago
20 N. Wacker Dr. , Chicago, IL, 60606
IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok
Oct26
Theatre & Performing Arts

IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok

PUBLIC TICKETS AVAILABLE AUGUST 26THSUBSCRIBERS & GROUP EARLY ACCESS AVAILABLE AUGUST 1ST At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant…

Saturday, October 26th
7:30 p.m.Tuesday, November 26th
9:30 p.m.
Raven Theatre East Stage
6157 N. Clark St. , Chicago, IL, 60660
Dracula
Oct27
Nov12
Theatre & Performing Arts

Dracula

Prepare to be transported to the eerie landscapes of Transylvania and the shadowy corners of Victorian England as you embark on a spine-tingling journey filled…

Sunday, October 27thTuesday, November 12th
Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall
31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville, IL, 60540
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Oct27
Dec2
Theatre & Performing Arts

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

It’s The Golden Age of Hollywood, and the streets of Los Angeles teem with aspiring starlets. When Vera Stark-maid to “America’s Sweetie Pie,” Gloria Mitchell-lands…

Sunday, October 27thMonday, December 2nd
The Den Theatre
1331 N Milwaukee Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60622
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