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Marriott Theatre Announces Spectacular 2025 Season in Celebration of Upcoming 50th Anniversary
Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences will feature a remarkable season of beloved titles for kids of all ages. Chicagoland’s longest-running musical theatre invites theatergoers to…
Wednesday February 5, 2025
7:00 p.m. – Sunday January 4, 2026
11:30 p.m.Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Dr.Theatre & Performing Arts
Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery presented by Pegasus Theatre Chicago
Pegasus Theatre Chicago and Director ILesa Duncan proudly announces the revival of playwright Shay Youngblood’s Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, which follows “Daughter”, who returns…
Thursday, May 15th
5:00 p.m. – Sunday, June 15th
7:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & Performing Arts
The Olde School Shakespeare Collective Presents Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar explores the nature of power, loyalty, and betrayal, focusing on a conspiracy that leads to the assassination of a powerful leader. In…
Friday, May 16th
7:00 p.m. – Friday, June 13th
9:00 p.m.My Buddy’s
4416 N Clark StTheatre & 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, May 23rd
12:00 a.m. – Saturday, May 24th
1:00 a.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents: Titanic The Musical
Chicagoland’s longest running musical theatre, Marriott Theatre, continues its 50th Anniversary Season celebration with the epic production of Titanic The Musical, directed and choreographed by…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Young People’s Theatre Spins A Beloved Children’s Classic!
CHICAGO – The Young People’s Theatre of Chicago follows up it’s acclaimed and celebrated productions of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Bob…
Saturday, May 24th
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln AvenueMusic & 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…
Saturday, May 24th
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.Spiegeltent – Cambria Hotel
32 W. RandolphTheatre & Performing Arts
Young People’s Theatre Spins A Beloved Children’s Classic!
CHICAGO – The Young People’s Theatre of Chicago follows up it’s acclaimed and celebrated productions of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Bob…
Saturday, May 24th
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln AvenueTheatre & Performing Arts
Titanique
Broadway In Chicago presents the Porchlight Music Theatre production of TITANIQUE All aboard NYC’s must-sea musical comedy! When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian…
Saturday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place
175 E. Chestnut St .Chicago, IL 60611Theatre & Performing Arts
A&A BALLET Performs Sleeping Beauty Featuring Internationally Award-winning Cast
When A&A BALLET’s unique take on Sleeping Beauty debuted in 2019, it was received with rave reviews and starred a recent Youth America Grand Prix…
Saturday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N. Southport Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657Theatre & Performing Arts
The Chronicles of the Kaleidoscopic Visitors
Sister Fibonacci and her family live on a secluded winter island, growing food for the town on the mainland. When the island is visited by two green creatures with the…
Saturday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.Merle Reskin Theatre
60 E. Balbo, Chicago, IL, 60605Theatre & Performing Arts
Bright Star
With a Tony-nominated score written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star follows literary editor Alice Murphy as the introduction of up-and-coming writer Billy Cane leads…
Saturday, May 24th
2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln AvenueTheatre & Performing Arts
The End of Reality
“The End of Reality” is [Richard Maxwell’s] most eloquent statement to date on the blurring of despair and apathy in American lives. – Ben Brantley,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Hecklers’ Happy Hour
The only show in Chicago where you can tell the comedians what you really think! Audiences can unleash their inner “heckler” against some of Chicago’s…
Saturday, May 24th
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.The Lincoln Lodge
2040 North Milwaukee AvenueMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
ComedySportz Chicago
Chicago’s longest running and best interactive improv comedy experience. ComedySportz is comedy played as a sport, not comedy ABOUT sports (whew). Refs, fouls, points, games…
Saturday, May 24th
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.Malarkey Comedy Company
1501 N Kingsbury StTheatre & Performing Arts
Scandalous Boy
The story of the love between the emperor Hadrian and Antinous in pre-Christian Rome but framed in a twenty-first century setting with the statue of…
Saturday, May 24th
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Open Space Arts
1411 W. Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640Music & 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…
Saturday, May 24th
6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Spiegeltent – Cambria Hotel
32 W. RandolphMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Infinite Wrench
Don’t miss the longest running late-night show in Chicago! At The Infinite Wrench you’ll see 30 original plays in 60 minutes written and performed by…
Saturday, May 24th
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.The Neo-Futurist Theater
5153 N. Ashland Ave.Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Every Brilliant Thing
CIRCA Pintig, Chicago’s Filipino American theatre company in its 34th year, presents EVERY BRILLIANT THING, the groundbreaking one-performer play written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahue.…
Saturday, May 24th
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.1332 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
1332 W Irving Park RdTheatre & Performing Arts
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
Immersive interviews of some 25 women-loving women are recounted within a fantasy framework in which this community of women, who range from late teens to elders, is depicted allegorically as a hive…
Saturday, May 24th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in the Noyes Cultural Arts Center
927 Noyes SteetTheatre & Performing Arts
The End of Reality
“The End of Reality” is [Richard Maxwell’s] most eloquent statement to date on the blurring of despair and apathy in American lives. – Ben Brantley,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Cuckoo Clock
When a young girl moves in with her seemingly ancient Aunts, she discovers a magical house in Victorian England where the charming cuckoo clock comes to…
Saturday, May 24th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Berger Park Coach House Theater
6205 N. Sheridan RoadTheatre & Performing Arts
War of the Worlds
Breaking news: the Martians have landed…in Chicago! Our world is being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than ours, yet just as mortal. They…
Saturday, May 24th
7:30 p.m.Lifeline Theater, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60626
6912 N. Glenwood Ave.Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Baby Wants Candy! The Original Completely Improvised Musical
“CRITICS’ PICK. TRULY AMAZING!” – New York Times “BEST VISITING IMPROV COMEDY!”– TimeOut NY “HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!” – The Onion “★★★★★” THEY ARE AN ENTERTAINMENT PHENOMENON AND I…

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