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Porchlight Music Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors
For more than four decades, the Tony Award-winning musical Little Shop of Horrors has delighted millions of fans around the world with the funny and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
ATPT Announces Final Season of “Port of Entry”
After four years of sold-out performances, Port of Entry returns for its final season beginning Oct. 29. Created by Albany Park Theater Project and Third…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
America@250 – Now is the Time: Artists Go to Work
On July 4, 2026, America turned 250 years old. To reckon with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is to reckon with freedom…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
You Are Here Presents: Fear
Think Sesame Street, but queerer and for adults. Hopping wildfires, Jessee is stuck on scared! From the climate crisis to the hyper surveillance state, Jessee’s…
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
73 Seconds
Obie Award winner and “multi-media whiz” (New York Times) Jared Mezzocchi tells the story of his mother’s relationship to NASA and outer space while asking us to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Repertory Ballet: The Capulets
Chicago Repertory Ballet Revives Its Acclaimed Original Story Ballet Following its gripping world premiere in 2025, Chicago Repertory Ballet proudly brings back The Capulets for…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jerker, or The Helping Hand
One of the most provocative and enduring theatrical works to emerge from the AIDS crisis. The play follows J.R. and Bert, two gay men who…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Sophia Bush: A Life in Progress
Join actress and activist Sophia Bush for an intimate evening of unflinchingly honest storytelling. Live in conversation, she will open up about her childhood in…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Year One
Anna has her hands full living in a house with her brother, mother-in-law, and adult son. As her son drifts into a dangerous new ideology,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Beethoven 5 & Mao Fujita
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with its iconic four-note motif, stands as a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Strauss’ Burlesque — written when the composer…
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
Porchlight Music Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors
For more than four decades, the Tony Award-winning musical Little Shop of Horrors has delighted millions of fans around the world with the funny and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me
NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! records its live tapings at the Studebaker Theater inside the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Peter Sagal…
Theatre & Performing Arts
ATPT Announces Final Season of “Port of Entry”
After four years of sold-out performances, Port of Entry returns for its final season beginning Oct. 29. Created by Albany Park Theater Project and Third…
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
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
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
Cut to the Chase
A staple of Chicago theater for over two decades, CUT TO THE CHASE presents as one fun night of theater a number of new plays…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
America@250 – Now is the Time: Artists Go to Work
On July 4, 2026, America turned 250 years old. To reckon with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is to reckon with freedom…
Theatre & Performing Arts
IMAGINE U: Grace and the Butterfly Effect
In this foot-stomping new musical, Grace accidentally knocks down the fence between her dad’s well-manicured backyard and Mr. Hertz’s wildflower garden, where she discovers three…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is bringing its reimagined show, “The Greatest Show On Earth,” to Rosemont, IL, for seven performances from Friday, November…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Arts and America at 250: We Stand at the Intersection of Creativity and Politics
Artists have always responded to great inflection points in American history, and the 250th anniversary of our nation, at a particularly polarized time, is no…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Beethoven 5 & Mao Fujita
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with its iconic four-note motif, stands as a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Strauss’ Burlesque — written when the composer…
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