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Destinos – Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
Destinos, 6th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, Chicago’s annual citywide festival showcasing Latino theater artists and companies from Chicago, the U.S. and Latin America, returns…
Thursday, September 28th – Sunday, November 12thMultiple LocationsTheatre & Performing Arts
Silver Dollar Road Documentary Screening
The DuSable Museum will host a free screening of Silver Dollar Road on Thursday, September 28 at 6:00pm. The film, which just premiered at The…
Thursday, September 28th
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.The DuSable Museum
740 East 56th PlaceTheatre & Performing Arts
NORTH & SUR
The extraordinary encounter between two icons of World Literature: the great North American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who is recognized as one of the foremost…
Thursday, September 28th
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
31 W. Ohio StTheatre & Performing Arts
Pirate Legends : William Dampier
Dead Reckoning Theater Co. is bringing their signature immersive theater production to Navy Pier. “Pirate Legends : William Dampier ” is performing now aboard the…
Thursday, September 28th
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.Tall Ship Windy
600 East Grand Avenue Navy PierTheatre & Performing Arts
PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Otherworld Theatre Company, the premier sci-fi and fantasy theatre company in North America, stages Matt Cox’s PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain…
Thursday, September 28th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Otherworld Theatre
3914 N. Clark St.Theatre & Performing Arts
Welcome to Matteson!
A dark comedy by Chicago-born playwright Inda Craig-Galván, WELCOME TO MATTESON! follows two Black couples over the course of a dinner party; one couple has…
Thursday, September 28th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Abott Hall on Northwestern University’s Downtown Campus
710 N Lakeshore Dr.Theatre & Performing Arts
The Roar Speakeasy: A Prohibition Era Experience
Go back in time to Chicago’s Prohibition Era at The Roar on Rush! A lively Speakeasy that lights the way to a hidden 4-room cocktail…
Thursday, September 28th
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.The Roar on Rush
437 N. Rush StreetTheatre & Performing Arts
Redtwist Theatre Presents Wolves
Redtwist Theatre is proud to announce the first production in its 2023 – 2024 Season of Pride with a gay reimagining of Little Red Riding…
Thursday, September 28th
7:30 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.Redtwist Theatre
1044 W. Bryn Mawr AveTheatre & Performing Arts
as though your body were right
This work is an invitation to confront the bodiliness of being human. It is a shared experience of the vulnerability of being a body, and…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
composition as explanation
Join us from September 28 – 30 for composition as explanation, a one-of-a-kind experience from acclaimed ensemble Eighth Blackbird! Eighth Blackbird (8BB) has been pushing the…
Thursday, September 28th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Muti, Glass & Mendelssohn Italian
Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy. Richard Strauss’ Aus Italien whisks the listener through the sun-soaked countryside, past Roman ruins and…
Thursday, September 28th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chicago Symphony Center
220 S Michigan AveTheatre & Performing Arts
In The Back/On The Floor
IN THE BACK/ON THE FLOOR examines the issues that minimum wage workers face through the lives of several employees at a big-box retail store. Though…
Thursday, September 28th
8:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & Performing Arts
Student Play Fest
Three New One-Act Plays about Being and Dating. The Familiar Perils of a Vacation Bible School Education by Annika Halonen Much To Do About Valentine by…
Thursday, September 28th
8:00 p.m.Mundelein Center For The Fine & Performing Arts
1020 W Sheridan RdMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
End of the Worm as We Know It
It’s the end of the worm, and we want to spend it with you. Even moments away from being sucked into an inevitable wormhole, the…
Thursday, September 28th
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.Theatre & Performing Arts
CLATA Presents: La Carne Asadas
Stop by your tia Vanessa’s carne asada filled with tortas, Spanish and punch lines. Everyone will be there: Your abuelita, your tio Pancho, el cutie…
Lincoln Park
Event detailsThursday, September 28th
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1700 N HalstedTheatre & Performing Arts
Jane: Abortion and the Underground
Idle Muse Theatre Company is proud to announce the first production in its 2023 – 2024 Season,Jane: Abortion and the Underground, written by Paula Kamen…
Thursday, September 28th
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Edge Off Broadway Theatre
1133 W Catalpa Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
Pippin
Music Theater Works, recently launched its 43rd season with the highly recommended “Avenue Q,” announced the cast and creative team for its second production in…
Thursday, September 28th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie
9501 Skokie Blvd.Theatre & 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, September 29th
12:00 a.m. – Saturday, September 30th
1:00 a.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.Theatre & Performing Arts
Walk With Amal – Stroll With Me
All of Chicago is invited to walk alongside Amal as she strolls through Chicago’s beautiful Riverwalk.
Friday, September 29th
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Vietnam Veteran’s MemorialMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Muti, Glass & Mendelssohn Italian
Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy. Richard Strauss’ Aus Italien whisks the listener through the sun-soaked countryside, past Roman ruins and…
Friday, September 29th
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Chicago Symphony Center
220 S Michigan AveTheatre & Performing Arts
Working – A Musical
Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes…
Friday, September 29th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Jedlicka Performing Arts Center
3801 S. Central Ave. , Cicero, IL, 60804Sports & Recreation, Theatre & Performing Arts
M.A.D.D. Rhythms presents Chicago Tap Summit
M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Chicago’s esteemed tap company, is excited to present this year’s Chicago Tap Summit, September 29 – October 1, at the Harold Washington Cultural…
Friday, September 29th
3:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Harold Washington Cultural Center
4701 S. King DriveMuseums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Haunted Soirée: A Macabre Cocktail Party
Haunted Soirée: A Macabre Cocktail Party is a free-roam cocktail party inside of a historical haunted venue. It’s a night of themed mini-cocktails, extravagant entertainment,…
Friday, September 29th
6:15 p.m. – 11:15 p.m.The International Museum of Surgical Sciences
1524 N. Lake Shore Drive – Chicago, IL 60610Theatre & Performing Arts
MONSTER HIGH LIVE
See your favorite children of legendary monsters in an all-new live show with fangtastic singing, clawesome dancing, and friendship that never ends…literally! In Monster High…
Friday, September 29th
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.NOW Arena
5333 Prairie Stone Parkway

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