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May 24, 2026: May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Les Misérables
STILL THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR MUSICAL Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, Les Misérables, makes a triumphant return…
Loop
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Sunday, May 24th
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Cadillac Palace Theatre
151 W. Randolph St. , Chicago, IL, 60601
May24
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…
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Sunday, May 24th
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Reid Murdoch Building – 333 N LaSalle
333 N LaSalle
May24
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…
West Loop
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Sunday, May 24th
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
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Chicago Children’s Theatre
100 S Racine Ave
May24
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…
Lincoln Park
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Sunday, May 24th
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue
May24
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…
Lincoln Park
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Sunday, May 24th
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
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Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
The 8th Dwarf
Binkley, an outsider dwarf from the Kingdom of Magical Land, is quiet, timid and scared of the dark — not exactly the best characteristics for…
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Sunday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Bughouse Theater
1910 West Irving Park Road
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Covenant
BY YORK WALKER DIRECTED BY MALKIA STAMPLEY “Everybody got a secret.” Expect one devilish twist after another in Covenant, a mythic and suspenseful new play hailed…
Loop
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Sunday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Goodman Theatre
170 N. Dearborn St.
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Content
Abigail Faulkner has vanished under mysterious circumstances, leaving her family with nothing but questions. Thankfully, true crime YouTuber Nathan Kraus has taken it upon himself…
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Sunday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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The Theatre School at DePaul University
2350 N. Racine Ave, Chicago, IL, 60614
May24
Theatre & 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…
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Sunday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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TimeLine Theatre Company
5035 N Broadway
May24
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…
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Sunday, May 24th
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
111 W Campbell Street
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Always…Patsy Cline
This musical play, complete with down-home country humor and big-hearted emotion, includes hits Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, Walkin’ After Midnight and more! Starring ensemble member Liz Chidester as Patsy…
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Sunday, May 24th
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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American Blues Theater
5627 N Lincoln Blvd
May24
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Company
From musical theatre’s most renowned composer, Company is largely regarded as a trailblazer of the dark-comedy, modern-musical genre and the winner of six Tony Awards,…
Lincoln Park
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Sunday, May 24th
2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 North Lincoln Avenue
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky’s epic novel distilled into a 90-minute play for three-actors and performed in TUTA’s hyper-intimate 24-seat theater. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT focuses on the plight of…
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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TUTA Theatre
4670 N. Manor Ave.
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Gee’s Bend
GEE’S BEND is the story of the Pettway women, quilters from the isolated community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Beginning in 1939, the play follows Alice, her…
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in the Noyes Cultural Arts Center
927 Noyes Steet
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
First Floor Theater’s “WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY”
A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about corporations, not about warehouses, and certainly not about billionaires.…
Edgewater
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Raven Theatre Company
6157 N. Clark St.
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Windfall
This is a story about money. Don’t let them fool you otherwise. When a father loses his child in a clash with the local police,…
Lincoln Park
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 N. Halsted St. , Chicago, IL, 60614
May24
Theatre & 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,…
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N. Southport Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657
May24
Theatre & 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,…
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
2936 N. Southport Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657
May24
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…
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL, 60660
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hookman
For fans of movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freaky & Scream, Bump in the Night Theatre brings slashers to the stage…
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Sunday, May 24th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Bramble Arts Loft
May24
Theatre & 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…
Edgewater
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Sunday, May 24th
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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Redtwist Theatre
1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
May24
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Who’s Waldo?
Ten of Chicago’s best comedians and performers will rapid-fire take the stage as Waldo, and it’s up to the audience to figure out: Who’s Waldo?…
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Sunday, May 24th
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Lincoln Lodge, 2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
2040 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, United States
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
Spamalot
THE SHOW THAT SET BROADWAY BACK 1,000 YEARS…RETURNS! TOURING ACROSS AMERICA THE TONY AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL COMEDY MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT Peter Marks of The Washington…
Loop
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Sunday, May 24th
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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CIBC Theatre
18 W. Monroe St. , Chicago, IL, 60602
May24
Theatre & Performing Arts
[producing body] Presents “Spaceman”
[producingbody] is pleased to announce the Chicago premiere of Spaceman, by Leegrid Stevens and directed by Eric Slater, May 19 – June 13, at The…
Edgewater
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Sunday, May 24th
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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The Edge Off Broadway Theatre
1133 W Catalpa Ave.

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