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January 29, 2022: Jan29
Theatre & Performing Arts
Muti Conducts Vivaldi & Handel Water Music
Riccardo Muti conducts a program of Baroque masterpieces by Vivaldi and Handel. CSO musicians are prominently featured in three defining examples of Vivaldi’s mastery of…
Loop
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Saturday January 29
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
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220 S. Michigan Ave.
January 30, 2022: Jan30
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki made one of the most thrilling CSO debuts of 2019, an “extraordinarily delicate and poetic performance” in which “virtually everything [he] played conveyed…
Loop
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Sunday January 30
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

220 S. Michigan Ave.
January 31, 2022: Jan31
Theatre & Performing Arts
Clear – A New Musical Experience
Clear is a new, original musical from Paul Oakley Stovall, a Chicago-based artist who is currently performing as “Washington” in the national tour of Lin-Manuel…
Loop
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Monday January 31
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
1016 N. Dearborn St.
February 1, 2022: Feb1
Feb13
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hairspray
You Can’t Stop the Beat! HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon is back on tour! Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960’s Baltimore as she…
Loop
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Tuesday February 1 – Sunday February 13
CIBC Theatre
18 West Monroe Street
February 5, 2022: Feb5
Theatre & Performing Arts
Trinity Irish Dance Company
Chicago’s own boundary-pushing, genre-defying Irish dance company brings its “unique blend of traditional and innovative Irish dance and live music” (See Chicago Dance) back to…
Loop
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Saturday February 5
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
February 6, 2022: Feb6
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Verdi Voices
There’s nothing more thrilling than the passion of Verdi as it pours forth in a stunning live performance. Join us at Lyric this February to…
Loop
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Sunday February 6
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lyric Opera House
20 N Wacker Drive
February 12, 2022: Feb12
Theatre & Performing Arts
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Celebrating its 70th annivesary, one of the most famous and celebrated companies in the world brings the culture, music, dance, and costumes of Mexico to…
Loop
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Saturday February 12
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
February 13, 2022: Feb13
Feb14
Theatre & Performing Arts
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Celebrating its 70th annivesary, one of the most famous and celebrated companies in the world brings the culture, music, dance, and costumes of Mexico to…
Loop
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Sunday February 13
3:00 p.m. – Monday February 14
5:00 p.m.
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
February 16, 2022: Feb16
Theatre & Performing Arts
Passing Strange
Porchlight Music Theatre continues its eighth season of “lost” musicals series with Porchlight Revisits Passing Strange. Passing Strange is presented for three performances only: Wednesday,…
Loop
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Wednesday February 16
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
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The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
1016 N. Dearborn St.
February 17, 2022: Feb17
Theatre & Performing Arts
Passing Strange
Porchlight Music Theatre continues its eighth season of “lost” musicals series with Porchlight Revisits Passing Strange. Passing Strange is presented for three performances only: Wednesday,…
Loop
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Thursday February 17
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
1016 N. Dearborn St.
Feb17
Theatre & Performing Arts
Passing Strange
Porchlight Music Theatre continues its eighth season of “lost” musicals series with Porchlight Revisits Passing Strange. Passing Strange is presented for three performances only: Wednesday,…
Loop
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Thursday February 17
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
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The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
1016 N. Dearborn St.
February 20, 2022: Feb20
Theatre & Performing Arts
Music of the Baroque presents The Chevalier
Music of the Baroque, in partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, and Concert Theatre…
Loop
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Sunday February 20
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

220 S. Michigan Ave.
February 22, 2022: Feb22
Mar6
Theatre & Performing Arts
Come From Away
The true story of the small town that welcomed the world. Broadway’s COME FROM AWAY has won Best Musical all across North America! The New…
Loop
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Tuesday February 22 – Sunday March 6
Cadillac Palace Theatre
151 W. Randolph St.
Feb22
Feb27
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Simon & Garfunkel Story
Since its sell-out in London’s West End, ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ is now the World’s leading theatre show concerning Simon & Garfunkel featuring a…
Loop
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Tuesday February 22 – Sunday February 27
CIBC Theatre
18 West Monroe Street
February 27, 2022: Feb27
Theatre & Performing Arts
Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous – A National Geographic Live Event
Meet Spinosaurus, the largest predatory dinosaur yet discovered — larger than T. rex — and hear the incredible story of how this prehistoric giant was…
Loop
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Sunday February 27
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
February 28, 2022: Feb28
Theatre & Performing Arts
McGill Plays Mozart
Mozart scholar Dame Jane Glover joins forces with Chicago native and New York Philharmonic principal clarinet Anthony McGill for Mozart’s gorgeous Clarinet Concerto. Mozart’s haunting…
Loop
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Monday February 28
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 East Randolph Drive
March 2, 2022: Mar2
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hadestown
COME SEE HOW THE WORLD COULD BE. Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best…
Loop
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Wednesday March 2 – Sunday March 13
CIBC Theatre
18 West Monroe Street
Mar2
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
“Watching Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater can change your life. If that sounds like a slogan it’s truth in advertising” (The New York Times). For…
Loop
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Wednesday March 2
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
March 3, 2022: Mar3
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
“Watching Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater can change your life. If that sounds like a slogan it’s truth in advertising” (The New York Times). For…
Loop
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Thursday March 3
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
March 4, 2022: Mar4
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
“Watching Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater can change your life. If that sounds like a slogan it’s truth in advertising” (The New York Times). For…
Loop
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Friday March 4
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
Mar5
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
“Watching Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater can change your life. If that sounds like a slogan it’s truth in advertising” (The New York Times). For…
Loop
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Saturday March 5
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
Mar12
Theatre & Performing Arts
THE SWELL SEASON
Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard are reuniting this spring to grace select stages for the first time in over ten years. The pair came to…
Loop
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Saturday March 12
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Cadillac Palace Theatre
151 W. Randolph St.
Mar13
Theatre & Performing Arts
Wild Hope
Photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale shares her personal odyssey — from documenting the heartbreaking realities of war to witnessing the inspiring power of an individual to make…
Loop
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Sunday March 13
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr
March 14, 2022: Mar14
Theatre & Performing Arts
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel…
Loop
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Monday March 14
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
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James M. Nederlander Theatre
24 W Randolph St.

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