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And It Is The People Who Should Wield It
According to Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theatre artist who created Forum Theatre as a style of performance, “The theatre is a weapon, and it is…
Theatre & Performing Arts
“Unpacking Home” by Raices to Roots
“Unpacking Home” is a dance and poetry theatrical production that follows The Poet, a character in search of home, who receives a suitcase from their…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Who’s Waldo?
Who’s Waldo? is a comedy variety show where everyone (local and touring comedians, clowns, musicians, and – yes, even you) is Waldo. Part comedy show,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Scratch Night – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
This one-night only production is produced by Physical Theater Festival, curated and hosted by Alice Da Cunha and Paola Sousa, and is made possible through…
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
Music of the Baroque: Mozart’s Summit
Mozart’s last two symphonies and his final piano concerto unite in a season opener of rich expressive power. The intensity of Symphony No. 40 paves…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Shane
In this World Premiere adaptation of the classic western, Shane, a mysterious stranger, shows up at the Starrett homestead in the Wyoming Territory in 1889.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
How did a dead body, a fake love letter, and — of all people — Ian Fleming turn the tide of World War II? Olivier…
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
Queer Quentos – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
This one-night-only production is made possible through the generous support of CENTER on HALSTED, our sponsoring partner. Hosted by Norma Seledon. Join us for Queer…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Blood of the Lamb
A searing drama about bureaucratic chaos in a post-Roe America. After her transcontinental flight is diverted to Dallas, a pregnant woman inexplicably finds herself trapped…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Goodman Premieres The 7 Fingers’ THE ATTIC – THINGS I’VE SEEN WHILE LYING ON MY BACK
The 7 Fingers is “pulse-raising magic” (The New York Times). From the primal vista of her childhood bedroom springs Shana Carroll’s wildly imaginative, ground-breaking memoir that…
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
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
How did a dead body, a fake love letter, and — of all people — Ian Fleming turn the tide of World War II? Olivier…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents Come From Away
Marriott Theatre, Chicagoland’s longest-running musical theatre presents Come From Away, the internationally celebrated musical that was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, captured four Laurence Olivier Awards,…
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
Always, Sometimes, Maybe
Always, Sometimes, Maybe is an award winning, internationally acclaimed solo show about a janitor so lonely she makes her friends out of trash. When Lou…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Goodman Premieres The 7 Fingers’ THE ATTIC – THINGS I’VE SEEN WHILE LYING ON MY BACK
The 7 Fingers is “pulse-raising magic” (The New York Times). From the primal vista of her childhood bedroom springs Shana Carroll’s wildly imaginative, ground-breaking memoir that…
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…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Sir Thomas Madden Jr.
Then God created Sir Thomas Madden Jr. Averaging six feet, six-and-a-half inches, Sir Thomas Madden Jr. is Jeff Madden and Paul Thomas, an Atlanta-Chicago sketch…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
How did a dead body, a fake love letter, and — of all people — Ian Fleming turn the tide of World War II? Olivier…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents Come From Away
Marriott Theatre, Chicagoland’s longest-running musical theatre presents Come From Away, the internationally celebrated musical that was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, captured four Laurence Olivier Awards,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Goodman Premieres The 7 Fingers’ THE ATTIC – THINGS I’VE SEEN WHILE LYING ON MY BACK
The 7 Fingers is “pulse-raising magic” (The New York Times). From the primal vista of her childhood bedroom springs Shana Carroll’s wildly imaginative, ground-breaking memoir that…
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