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Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group is comedy, theater and rock concert all rolled into one. Having recently celebrated 25 years at the Briar Street theatre, this wildly popular…
Wednesday, June 14th
8:00 a.m. – Sunday, December 31st
8:00 a.m.Briar Street Theatre
3133 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL, 60657Theatre & Performing Arts
MJ-The Musical
BROADWAY’S MOST ELECTRIFYING NEW MUSICAL! He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is finally coming…
Tuesday, August 22nd
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.James M. Nederlander Theatre
24 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Dance’s 11th Annual Chicago Dance Month Returns with Live at Lunch Performances at The Green
See Chicago Dance, the dance industry’s nonprofit service organization, is proud to announce that its popular annual offering, Chicago Dance Month, returns this June. Now…
Wednesday, August 23rd
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.The Green at 320
320 S. Canal St.Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts | Rainer Crosett, Cello and Kuang-Hao Huang, Piano
DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERTS | RAINER CROSETT, CELLO KUANG-HAO HUANG, PIANO Program: Nadia Boulanger – Three Pieces for Cello and Piano Manuel de…
Wednesday, August 23rd
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago
55 E. Wacker DriveTheatre & Performing Arts
MJ-The Musical
BROADWAY’S MOST ELECTRIFYING NEW MUSICAL! He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is finally coming…
Wednesday, August 23rd
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.James M. Nederlander Theatre
24 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601Theatre & Performing Arts
Gypsy
The mother of all musicals Gypsy is the tale of the ultimate ambitious stage mother, fighting for her daughters’ success while secretly yearning for her…
Wednesday, August 23rd
7:30 p.m. – Sunday, October 15th
4:00 p.m.Marriott Theatre
10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL, 60069Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
LIGHTS at The Annoyance Theatre
After a sold-out, six-week summer run, LIGHTS returns to the Annoyance Theatre this month. In an effort to give back, two self-important performers (Anna Weatherwax…
Wednesday, August 23rd
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.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…
Wednesday, August 23rd
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie
9501 Skokie Blvd.Theatre & Performing Arts
Tend
Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need. Structured as a one hour appointment, the self-care informed dance…
Theatre & Performing Arts
MJ-The Musical
BROADWAY’S MOST ELECTRIFYING NEW MUSICAL! He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is finally coming…
Thursday, August 24th
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.James M. Nederlander Theatre
24 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601Theatre & Performing Arts
The Writer
Join us for an onstage experience, unlike anything you have ever seen before! A playwright wants to create a new story for a new world…
Thursday, August 24th
3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.The Edge Theater
5451 N Broadway Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Unsent Live Show
UNSENT returns to Chicago Thursday, August 24th at The Joinery! What better way to spend a Chicago summer night than patio drinks, a historic venue, and ten…
Thursday, August 24th
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.The Joinery Chicago
2533 W Homer St.Theatre & 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, August 24th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Otherworld Theatre
3914 N. Clark St.Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Spongebob Musical
When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save…
Thursday, August 24th
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chopin Theatre
1543 W. Division St. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Gay Card
GAY CARD is the hilariously heartwarming story of Logan Kapler, a one-friend loser who has never belonged. But now he’s starting college with a trick…
Thursday, August 24th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Pride Arts Center
4139 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL, 60613Theatre & Performing Arts
The 39 Steps
This fast-paced, family friendly whodunit is based on the novel by John Buchan and the Hitchcock movie by the same name but told with more…
Thursday, August 24th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Stahl Family Theatre
5900 W Belmont 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, August 24th
8:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & 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, August 24th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie
9501 Skokie Blvd.Theatre & Performing Arts
The Innocence of Seduction
The second play in Mark Pracht’s projected “Four-Color Trilogy” of plays set during the early years of the comic book industry. The first play in…
Friday, August 25th
7:30 a.m. – Sunday, October 8th
3:00 a.m.City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, 60660Theatre & Performing Arts
MJ-The Musical
BROADWAY’S MOST ELECTRIFYING NEW MUSICAL! He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now, Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry is finally coming…
Friday, August 25th
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.James M. Nederlander Theatre
24 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601Theatre & 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, August 25th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Jedlicka Performing Arts Center
3801 S. Central Ave. , Cicero, IL, 60804Theatre & Performing Arts
The Writer
Join us for an onstage experience, unlike anything you have ever seen before! A playwright wants to create a new story for a new world…
Friday, August 25th
3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.The Edge Theater
5451 N Broadway Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640Music & 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…
Friday, August 25th
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Neo-Futurist Theater
5153 N. Ashland Ave.

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