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El Evangelio Jornalero – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
This production is produced by Repertorio Latino TC and Colectivo El Pozo, written by Raúl Dorantes and directed by Joaquín Catana and Roma Díaz. El…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Book Of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is returning to Chicago for a limited limited engagement from Friday, October 23 through Sunday, November 1, 2026. From the creators…
Theatre & Performing Arts
I am the Wind
Two lifelong friends sail into open water: one edging closer to the pull of oblivion, the other with a question neither can escape. Nobel laureate…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Omar
Where memory is preserved, legacy endures. MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens and celebrated co-composer Michael Abels deliver a profoundly moving story about the strength…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jekyll& Hyde
Kokandy Productions’ critically acclaimed revival of the 10-time 2025 Jeff Award–nominated musical JEKYLL & HYDE will make its Broadway In Chicago debut at the Broadway Playhouse at…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The 37th Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival Returns September 20 – October 26 at Four Chicago Venues
Curious Theatre Branch, with co-producers Chicago Danztheater Ensemble, Chicago Dramatists and Labyrinth Club, are pleased to announce the 37th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, September 20…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Vampire Playlist – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
Vampire playlist by Concrete Content. Written by Xitlali Celeste, Angelica Davila, Pedro Arturo Jimenez, Luis Antonio Mora, Cielo Santiago Muñoz, Amelia Roque, Dani Suarez, Erik Ventura,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Vape! The Grease Parody
Vape! lovingly pokes fun at all of the wonderful moments, sexual innuendos, outrageous characters, rivalries and secret romances from the original musical. The hair products may…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Premonitions Inc. at Kermess
We saw you coming. Fourteen floors above Randolph Street, aerialists fly through a century-old Belgian Spiegeltent while acrobatics, burlesque, cabaret, and comedy unfold around your…
Theatre & Performing Arts
DEATH TOLL: The Halloween Drinking Game Sketch Comedy Show
Our longest-running sketch show is back again to scare you into drinking! DEATH TOLL is a sketch comedy show with one simple rule: drink when…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Dark Wood
World Premiere dystopian fable written by Broadway’s Eric Coble. ‘The Fix’ was supposed to correct everything that had gone wrong with the country. Now, three…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Topdog/Underdog
“Take thuh cards and show me whatcha got!” Brothers Lincoln and Booth, named in jest, are two Black men living in America just trying to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Adirondack Chair Circle
A gaggle of suburban moms, armed with pickleball paddles and hard kombucha, are ready to take on the school board in the fight of their…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Vladimir
About this show In a world where facts are manipulated and fear is currency, the truth becomes dangerous. As a new authoritarian government tightens its…
Theatre & Performing Arts
“One” and “Blood Spill” Double Bill
A double bill of ONE and BLOOD SPILL. ONE is Jeff Hagedorn’s groundbreaking solo play about a young man attempting to understand and confront his…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Tartuffe
Moliere’s Tartuffe is a five-act comedy satirizing religious hypocrisy, where the charlatan Tartuffe frauds the gullible Orgon by faking piety, seizing control of his home,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Beverly Theatre Guild presents “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella”
64th season opener, Cinderella. This classic rags-to-riches fairy tale with the world’s favorite princess is scheduled to be performed on October 23rd , 24th ,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Presents “Mud Row”
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is pleased to announce the cast, creative and production teams for the first production in its 2026 – 2027 season, Mud…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Refracted Theatre Company Presents “I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire”
Award-winning Refracted Theatre Company is proud to announce the cast and creative team of I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, written by Samantha Hurley and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Redtwist Theatre Presents The First Show of Its 22nd Season, “Prayer Circle”
Award-winning Redtwist Theatre’s new 22nd season, “State of Violence,” begins with Prayer Circle, September 17 – November 8, by Erik Gernand and directed by Executive…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Oil Lamp Theater Presents “Dial M for Murder”
Oil Lamp Theater is proud to announce the cast and creative team for its next production, Dial M for Murder, October 2 – November 1,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Factory Theater Presents the World Premiere of “Radical Futures”
The Factory Theater and Artistic Director Michael Jones are proud to announce the first production of its 32nd season, the world premiere of B.Z Florida’s…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Babes With Blades Theatre Company Presents William Shakespeare’s “King Lear”
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s (BWBTC) presents the final production in its 2026 season, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Alison Dornheggen and fight choreography…
Theatre & Performing Arts
KING HEDLEY II
Revisiting characters established in August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS, this play returns to Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1985. King Hedley, a man recently released from prison,…
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