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Hooch & Holler Comedy Show
Every Wednesday The Best Speakeasy In Chicago Hosts The Hottest Comedians The City Has To Offer! Indulge In Our Amazing Craft Cocktails And Enjoy An…
Wednesday, May 1st
9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.Bordel Cocktail & Cabaret
1721 W DivisionTheatre & Performing Arts
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s The S Paradox
CHICAGO – Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s (BWBTC) 2024 season opens with The S Paradox, written by Joining Sword & Pen International Playwright Competition and…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
New Monuments | Chicago Brendan Fernandes
Envisioned as the first in a series of interventions that engage monuments in and outside of the United States, New Monuments | Chicago by Brendan Fernandes seeks…
Thursday, May 2nd
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Connect Gallery
1451 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro Zinzanni
Tickets are on sale Now at https://zinzanni.com/chicago/ for Love, Chaos, & Dinner ! Teatro Zinzanni returns to the vibrant Chicago Loop inside the velvet walls…
Thursday, May 2nd
6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Spiegeltent – Cambria Hotel
32 W. RandolphTheatre & Performing Arts
How I Learned What I Learned
Broadway In Chicago is excited to join Congo Square Theatre Company in announcing its continued 25th Anniversary celebration with the Chicago premiere of HOW I LEARNED…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place
175 E. Chestnut StTheatre & Performing Arts
PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Otherworld Theatre Company, the premier sci-fi and fantasy theatre company in North America, stages Matt Cox’s PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Simon & Garfunkel Story
The Simon & Garfunkel Story is touring North America again this year! Using huge projection photos and original film footage, featuring a full live band…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.CIBC Theatre
18 W. Monroe St. , Chicago, IL, 60602Theatre & Performing Arts
Mamma Mia
A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.James M. Nederlander Theatre
24 W. Randolph St.Theatre & Performing Arts
The Roar Speakeasy: A Prohibition Era Experience
Go back in time to Chicago’s Prohibition Era at The Roar on Rush! A lively Speakeasy that lights the way to a hidden 4-room cocktail…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
9th Annual Doc10 Documentary Film Festival
See the best of the best in documentary film at the 2024 Doc10 Documentary Film Festival, May 2-5 at the Davis Theatre and Gene Siskel…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:00 p.m. – Sunday, May 5th
7:00 p.m.Davis Theater, Chicago
4614 North Lincoln AvenueTheatre & Performing Arts
A Barrie Cole Play Festival: Hamburgers and Disappointment
CHICAGO, IL – Sweetback Productions, in collaboration with Labyrinth Arts, is proud to announce Hamburgers and Disappointment: Plays about Enoughness, a festival of works by…
Theatre & Performing Arts
BIG LOVE
[producingbody]’s second show – BIG LOVE by Charles Mee a play – 90 minutes, no intermission. Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & Performing Arts
LOVE SONG by John Kolvenbach from Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
CHICAGO – Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is pleased to announce the cast, creative and production teams for Love Song, written by John Kolvenbach and directed…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Theater Wit
1229 W. Belmont Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657Theatre & Performing Arts
9 to 5: The Musical
Three unlikely friends take control of their office and learn there is nothing they can’t do, even in a man’s world. Set in the late…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
111 W. Campbell, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005Theatre & Performing Arts
An Evening with Alan Ruck and Screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Auditorium Theatre presents a special showing of the John Hughes classic FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF featuring a Q&A with star Alan Ruck (Cameron Frye)!…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr, Chicago, IL, 60605Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Judgment Day
“Landing all the jokes… Moritz von Stuelpnagel tackles darkly funny materials with a shrewd balance of heightened reality, warped sitcom & underlying pathos” –Hollywood Reporter Emmy and Tony…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
800 E Grand AveTheatre & Performing Arts
Death Becomes Her – The Musical
Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Cadillac Palace Theatre
151 W. Randolph St. , Chicago, IL, 60601Theatre & Performing Arts
GDC: “Season 61 | UNLIMITED!” Spring Harris Theater Engagement
Giordano Dance Chicago, America’s original jazz dance company, presents their spring engagement at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. at…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601Theatre & Performing Arts
Joffrey Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Far from a Shakespearean tale, Ekman’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a mind-bending trip to a surreal realm of unearthly delights. Set during the traditional Scandinavian…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Lyric Opera of Chicago
20 N. Wacker Dr. , Chicago, IL, 60606Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Sheherazade
Elim Chan leads Rimsky-Korsakov’s sumptuous symphonic suite Sheherazade, inspired by the legendary heroine and tales of One Thousand and One Nights. Paul Jacobs, “a virtuoso…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chicago Symphony Center
220 S Michigan AveTheatre & Performing Arts
The Rooster Play
A comic discussion of identity and sexuality. John has been in a stable relationship with his boyfriend for a number of years. But when he…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Open Space Arts
1411 W. Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640Theatre & Performing Arts
Blue in the Right Way announces its inaugural production, Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
CHICAGO – Blue in the Right Way is proud to present its inaugural production, Women Beware Women, freely adapted by Kevin V. Smith and Daiva…
Thursday, May 2nd
7:30 p.m. – 10:15 p.m.The Edge Theater
5451 N Broadway Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640Theatre & Performing Arts
In The Back/On The Floor
IN THE BACK/ON THE FLOOR examines the issues that minimum wage workers face through the lives of several employees at a big-box retail store. Though…
Thursday, May 2nd
8:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642
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