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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…
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…
Theatre & 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…
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
See Chicago Dance’s Chicago Dance Month Returns This June
See Chicago Dance, the dance industry’s nonprofit service organization celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025, is proud to announce that its popular annual offering, Chicago…
Music & 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…
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…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Late Nite Catechism, the Comedy Legend, Returns
Call it Loretta Young meets Carol Burnett and Whoopi Goldberg. Late Nite Catechism is part catechism class, part stand-up routine. Written by Vicki Quade &…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchfest Lakeview
Porhcfest is a music festival that takes place on front porches. With neighbors hosting the concerts and local musicians performing, it captures the essence of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jackalope Theatre Presents Neighborhood Watch
CHICAGO – Jackalope Theatre Company’s 17th season continues with the world premiere of Rehana Lew Mirza’s latest play, Neighborhood Watch, May 22 – June 28,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Winters keep getting worse in Evanston, IL, where salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Drink the Past Dry
The nondescript neighborhood bar in the middle of Chicago looks like every other bar in every other neighborhood in the city. A few regulars sit…
Theatre & Performing Arts
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
In 1920, Karel Čapek’s early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term “robot” and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & 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
From the Ground, Up: A contemporary circus show
The Aloft Youth Ensemble presents it’s third contemporary circus show: “From the Ground, Up” Directed by Kristi Alyssa and Rachel Nesnevich. The Aloft Youth Ensemble is…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Lifeline Theatre Presents World Premiere of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds
Breaking news: the Martians have landed…in Chicago! Our world is watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than ours, yet just as mortal. They regard…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Antiquities
A “brilliantly imagined drama” (Wall Street Journal) for anyone whose computer has asked them to prove that they’re a human. Which is to say, everyone.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Cop Macbeth
The Conspirators present Chicago Cop Macbeth by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Wm. Bullion, at the Otherworld Theatre, 3914 N. Clark St., May 16…
Theatre & Performing Arts
See Chicago Dance’s Chicago Dance Month Returns This June
See Chicago Dance, the dance industry’s nonprofit service organization celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025, is proud to announce that its popular annual offering, Chicago…
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