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Theatre & Performing Arts
Superior Donuts
Arthur Przybyszewski owns a decrepit donut shop in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Franco Wicks, a black teenager who is his only employee, wants to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Much Ado About Nothing
Just in time for the holiday season, Shakespeare’s wittiest rom-com is “as merry as the day is long!” Beatrice is living it up as a…
Theatre & Performing Arts
TRUNK
TRUNK is a one-man, interactive production that delves into the mind of a young artist reckoning with his approaching death. Written and performed by Riley…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Amadeus
Vienna: a cacophony of music and intrigue. The emperor’s composer, Antonio Salieri, holds court until the flamboyant entrance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: prodigy and wild…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Wheel of Improv
Chicago’s top comedians battle it out for laughs, glory, and sweet sweet points in an interactive game show, featuring a live studio audience (that’s you!)…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Taming of the Shrew
Deception, disguise, and desire. What if we want to be tamed? The richest man in town has two daughters and one big problem: he refuses to marry…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
Billy Corgan achieved stratospheric fame as the founder, frontman, and creative force behind the legendary Smashing Pumpkins. A Grammy winner whose powerful songwriting, commanding vocals,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Christmas Carol
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Rediscover a Dickens’ classic with an adaptation that “makes you…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The House That Will Not Stand
In early nineteenth-century New Orleans, widowed mother Beartrice struggles to manage her headstrong daughters after the death of her second husband. But as the matriarch…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Amadeus
Vienna: a cacophony of music and intrigue. The emperor’s composer, Antonio Salieri, holds court until the flamboyant entrance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: prodigy and wild…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Long Christmas Dinner
THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER – nine decades long in just one 75-minute act – showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family. Wilder…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Friends with Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker
November 7 – December 7 | The Den Theatre written by Stephanie Alison Walker directed by Nathan Dale Short assistant direction by Emma Leeper You…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Friends with Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker
You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse; but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns?…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Music of the Baroque: Handel’s Messiah
Celebrate the season with Messiah, Handel’s beloved homage to hope, faith, and triumph. From the soul-stirring “Comfort ye, my people” to the exhilarating “Hallelujah” Chorus, this…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Elf The Musical
Elf The Musical, inspired by the hit film, is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of Buddy, a young orphan child whose life is changed forever when he…
Theatre & Performing Arts
SIX
From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Christmas Carol
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Rediscover a Dickens’ classic with an adaptation that “makes you…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Improvised Christmas Carol
In a cuckoo-bananas world, sometimes we all just need a good ‘ol fashion morality check. It’s time for Ebenezer Scrooge to get another supernatural wake-up…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Much Ado About Nothing
Just in time for the holiday season, Shakespeare’s wittiest rom-com is “as merry as the day is long!” Beatrice is living it up as a…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Amadeus
Vienna: a cacophony of music and intrigue. The emperor’s composer, Antonio Salieri, holds court until the flamboyant entrance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: prodigy and wild…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Long Christmas Dinner
THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER – nine decades long in just one 75-minute act – showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family. Wilder…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Elf The Musical
Elf The Musical, inspired by the hit film, is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of Buddy, a young orphan child whose life is changed forever when he…
Theatre & Performing Arts
SIX
From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Mrs. Claus! A Holiday Musical at the Beverly Arts Center
Chicago Kids Company’s Holiday Classic returns for the 26th Year! Our biggest and most colorful show will put you in the Holiday Spirit in no…
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