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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 Innocence of Seduction…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Destroy Your Art
Destroy Your Art invites select filmmakers to make original short films and then destroy them in front of the only audience to ever see them,…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago’s Best Standup
Chicago’s Best Standup Comedy is back better than ever. We’ve compiled the absolute best standup comedy lineup that you will see in the city. Today’s…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Broken Planet
The Absurd Cabaret of Apocalyptic Proportions is an interactive, uplifting subversive live experience. It is your permission to misbehave. It is an immersive celebration of…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Best Night Ever Comedy Show
Best Night Ever is one of the city’s longest-running standup comedy showcases. Since 2009 the show has been highlighting comics from all over the city…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Flying Dutchman
The first opera that revealed Wagner’s genius, The Flying Dutchman is the story of a young woman’s obsession. Senta dreams of the Dutchman, who’s cursed…
Theatre & 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
Broken Planet
The Absurd Cabaret of Apocalyptic Proportions is an interactive, uplifting subversive live experience. It is your permission to misbehave. It is an immersive celebration of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Massage Therapy
“Micro-theater” presentation of a two-character play. Over the course of one year, a gay massage therapist and his female client grow to form an unusually…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Senza Fine
Senza Fine is a one woman show conceived and developed by Ashlyn Quintus; meditating on flushing the toilet at appropriate times, how to get out…
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…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
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…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & 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…
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…
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…
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
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…
Theatre & 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…
Music & 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…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & 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…
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