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Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends

Bluebird Arts kicks off its sixth season with Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Friends at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Avenue, Chicago. The show runs Saturday,…

Fleetwood Jordaine Theatre
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…

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Macbeth

One of Shakespeare’s most popular and enduring tragedies. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day…

League of Chicago Theatres
As You Like It

With a cast that includes some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters, As You Like It is a story that explores the complexities of love and…

Inheritance or Brothers From the Deep lightening over lake
Inheritance -or- Brothers from the Deep

Previews October 11-13 2024 Runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. from October 18 through November 23, 2024 Additional Thursday performances…

Little Women
Little Women

Little Women adapted by Marisha Chamberlain and directed by Carolyn Hoerdemann follows the March family as they await the return of their father from war,…

Dracula
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…

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Perfect Pie

Set in rural Ontario, Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie revisits the childhood friendship between two women; one who chose to stay in her hometown and the other…

League of Chicago Theatres
Where Did We Sit on the Bus?

During a third grade history lesson on Rosa Parks, a Latina child raises her hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” What…

Bottle Fly world premiere
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…

Boy Gets Girl peeking through blinds
Boy Gets Girl

A mystery thriller by Rebecca Gilman. The life of a successful career woman takes a terrifying turn when a seemingly innocent blind date spirals into…

Antigone
Antigone

Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by poet and MacArthur Fellow Anne Carson, remains unequaled in its ability to combine all the fundamental contradictions of the human condition…

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