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Oil Lamp Theater Announces “Poor Behavior” by Theresa Rebeck
Oil Lamp Theater’s next performance in its 2026 season is Poor Behavior, written by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Lauren Katz, April 10 – May…
Friday, May 8th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Oil Lamp Theater
1723 Glenview Rd, Glenview, IL, 60025Theatre & Performing Arts
Redtwist Theatre’s “‘Night Mother” By Marsha Norman
Award-winning Redtwist Theatre announces the cast and creative team for ‘night Mother, April 16 – May 24, by Marsha Norman and directed by Executive Artistic…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Presents “The Wedding Singer”
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, located in the heart of downtown Arlington Heights, 111 W. Campbell St., is proud to announce the cast and creative team…
Friday, May 8th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
111 W Campbell StreetTheatre & Performing Arts
Wild Door Theater Presents “Maybe Tomorrow”
Wild Door Theater presents the Midwest premiere of Maybe Tomorrow, a darkly funny and unsettling new play by Max Mondi and directed by Andrew Gallant,…
Friday, May 8th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N. Southport Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657Theatre & Performing Arts
Wild Door Theater Presents “Maybe Tomorrow”
Wild Door Theater presents the Midwest premiere of Maybe Tomorrow, a darkly funny and unsettling new play by Max Mondi and directed by Andrew Gallant,…
Friday, May 8th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N. Southport Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657Theatre & Performing Arts
I Hate Hamlet
By Paul Rudnick. Andrew Rally has it all: TV fame, a glamorous girlfriend, a devoted agent, the perfect New York apartment and the chance to…
Friday, May 8th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.St. Bonaventure Oratory
1625 W Diversey ParkwayMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
“Going Bacharach” Presents the Greatest Hits of Bacharach at the Apollo Theater
Rediscover the soundtrack of a lifetime with GOING BACHARACH, a vibrant new revue, direct from a sold-out run in New York, celebrating the legacy of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Scaramouche
A musical based on the rip-roaring novel by Rafael Sabatini. Radicalized by his friend’s brutal murder on the eve of the French Revolution, a sardonic…
Friday, May 8th
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, 60660Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Missed Call Sketch Comedy Show
Missed Call is a premier Chicago comedy group that writes and performs an entirely new sketch show every Friday — inspired by the audience’s suggestion!
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.The Annoyance Theatre
851 W. Belmont Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
3 Stages of Love Part 2: Simple Love/Unperfect Actor
Love always makes for a good story because some part of it is always relatable. And what better way to explore all the various sides…
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro
3905 N Lincoln AveTheatre & Performing Arts
The Lincoln Lodge
The Lincoln Lodge stand-up comedy and variety showcase plays every Friday and Saturday night in Chicago’s glamorous Logan Square! In addition to The Lodge’s rotating…
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Lincoln Lodge Theater
2040 N. Milwaukee Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
Harland Williams – COMZILLA 2026 Tour
Harland Williams is bringing his COMZILLA 2026 Tour to Chicago for a one-night-only performance at Park West on Friday, May 8, 2026.
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Park West
322 W Armitage AveTheatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble Presents “Architecture of Memory”
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE) presents the world premiere of Architecture of Memory, May 8 – 23, at Chicago Danztheatre, 1650 W. Foster Avenue. Architecture of…
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble
1650 W Foster AveTheatre & Performing Arts
An Enemy of the People
An award-winning new take on the historic masterwork about citizens standing up to power. When a respected doctor in small-town Norway makes a deadly discovery…
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.TimeLine Theatre Company
5035 N BroadwayMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
moonwatchers
It is Rocco and Allen’s job to watch the moon, and it is really quite boring. Night after night, they time the sequences exactly –…
Friday, May 8th
8:00 p.m. – Monday, May 25th
2:30 p.m.Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln AvenueMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Honk! A Short Form Improv Show
Honk! is a short form, game-based improv show that asks: what good is comedy if you can’t get a little silly? Comprised of some of…
Friday, May 8th
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Malarkey Comedy Company
1501 N Kingsbury StMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
420 Shakespeare
4 professional actors meet to perform a Shakespeare play… but only after one of them takes at least 20mg of you know what, leading to…
Friday, May 8th
9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.The De Matt Theater at The Second City
230 W North AveMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Voila: The Improvised Musical
iO Chicago presents: a fully made-up, off-off-off Broadway style musical every Friday at 10pm in the Fremont Theater. Spend your Friday night with us. See…
Friday, May 8th
10:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.The iO Theater, 1501 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60642, USA,
The iO Theater, 1501 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60642, USA,Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Hitch*Cocktails
A Chicago based improv comedy show and drinking game based on the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Based on an audience suggestion, the cast weave together…
Friday, May 8th
10:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.Theatre & Performing Arts
CHICAGO the Musical
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 showstopping…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Theater of the Mind
Now through July 12, 2026 Multiple experiences per day at the Reid Murdoch Building, 333 N LaSalle Visit TheateroftheMindChicago.com for dates, times, and tickets Created…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Goodnight Moon
This musical based on Margaret Wise Brown’s beloved children’s book is drenched in primary colors that pay homage to Clement Hurd’s vivid illustrations in an…
Saturday, May 9th
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.Chicago Children’s Theatre
100 S Racine AveTheatre & Performing Arts
My Teacher is Marie Antoinette?
Join us for our brand new show, My Teacher Is Marie Antoinette?, in our Theater for Young Audiences program, written and directed by Allison Horvatin*…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen
CHICAGO – YPT’s acclaimed 4th season concludes with Thelma Lynn Goodin’s joyous celebration of family, friends, and community in a close-knit Harlem neighborhood! Evanston playwright…
Saturday, May 9th
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue

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