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The Tortoise and the Hare
Chicago Kids Company – Theater for Children (CKC) presents The Tortoise and the Hare, a one-hour musical adaptation! The Hare is ready to win all…
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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Toni Stone
Play ball! The sensational true story of the first woman to play professional baseball knocks it out of the park as a can’t-miss theatrical event.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago
After 25 years, CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight Music Theatre Announces, Award Winning Musical, Cabaret
Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning landmark musical Cabaret, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., January 14 –…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is the largest of its kind in North America and will return January 18-29, 2023 at venues large…
Theatre & Performing Arts
the ripple, the wave that carried me home
A family responds to injustice and a daughter reckons with her political inheritance in this new play by “a poet, a playwright to pay attention…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Disney On Ice: Frozen & Encanto
Disney on Ice is bringing Frozen & Encanto to the United Center! For the first time, Disney On Ice invites families to step inside the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Las Wavys
by Ricardo Gamboa directed by Coya Paz When a villainous group of aliens threatens the planet, four students from the South Side of Chicago band together to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago – The Musical
After 25 years, CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Drunk Shakespeare
Five classically-trained actors meet as members of “The Drunk Shakespeare Society.” One drinks at least 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform a…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Late Nite Catechism
After 30 years, Sister is still eager to get back in the habit, where she’s been since 1993. Call it Loretta Young meets Carol Burnett…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Drunk Shakespeare
Five classically-trained actors meet as members of “The Drunk Shakespeare Society.” One drinks at least 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform a…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Cabaret ZaZou presents LUMINAIRE
Randolph Entertainment LLC, producer of the fan favorite Teatro ZinZanni Chicago, announced CABARET ZAZOU’s premier production, Luminaire will open on September 7, 2022. The new, groundbreaking,…
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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Muffed: A Recounting Of Farmington, Maine’s 43rd Annual Chester Greenwood Day Devised By The Members Of The Meaningful Action Theatre Company
A group of actors attempt to stage the first reading of their new documentary theatre piece about one small town’s celebration for the inventor of…
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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
36th Young Playwrights Festival
Pegasus Theatre Chicago is proud to announce the authors and plays being presented at the 36th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, Wednesday, Jan. 4 – Saturday,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
made in chicago
*Tickets between $15-$45. Tickets will also be sold at the door. Masks strongly encouraged. Hailed as “an artist taking wholehearted risks” (New Music Box) and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Redtwist Announces the World Premiere of “The Great Khan”
Redtwist Theatre announces the world premiere ofThe Great Khan, written by Michael Gene Sullivan and directed by Jamal Howard, January 19 – February 26, 2023,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
tick…tick, BOOM!
Before RENT, there was TICK, TICK…BOOM! Written by the late Jonathan Larson and directed by BoHo Artistic Associate Bo Frazier, TICK, TICK…BOOM! tells the autobiographical…
Theatre & Performing Arts
“Matilda The Musical” 80th Annual Dolphin Show
In its 80th year, the largest student produced musical in the country is thrilled to present Roald Dahl’s MATILDA the Musical! Based on Roald Dahl’s…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter’s “comedy of menace.” Stanley may or may not play the piano, and today may or may not be his birthday, and he may…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight Music Theatre’s Cabaret Now Extended Through
Porchlight Music Theatre is pleased to announce, due to popular demand, a new block of tickets have been added to its presentation of the Tony…
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