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People Presenting Things
People Presenting Things is an improvised comedy experience like no other. Performers take the stage ready to present a slideshow – but, they have no…
Thursday, May 2nd
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Bughouse Theater
1910 West Irving Park Road, IllinoisTheatre & Performing Arts
Cut to the Chase
Annual festival of new of new one act plays, this year celebrating the theme “Face to Face.” These seven one-acts plays are each built around…
Thursday, May 2nd
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Den Theatre
1331 North Milwaukee AvenueTheatre & Performing Arts
Nana
Trap Door Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Season closes with Olwen Wymark’s splendid dramatization of Zola’s Nana: a story of sexual and financial greed in nineteenth-century Parisian…
Thursday, May 2nd
8:00 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.Trap Door Theatre
1655 W. Cortland, Chicago, IL, 60622Theatre & Performing Arts
Panther In The Sky
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and CIRCA Pintig History Theatre Community are proud to present Panther In The Sky, May 1 – 18, in the Auditorium at…
Thursday, May 2nd
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Ebenezer Lutheran Church
1650 W Foster AveTheatre & 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Comedy Hour at Annoyance Theatre
Each week, Chicago comics bring the freshest, most experimental new material to the Annoyance for the Comedy Hour. The weekly show is an eclectic mix…
Friday, May 3rd
12:00 a.m. – Saturday, May 4th
1:00 a.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave., 2nd Fl.Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble presents the world premiere of “Meditations On Being”
CHICAGO – Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE) begins its 22nd season with “Meditations On Being,” March 1 – 9 in the Auditorium at Ebenezer Lutheran Church,…
Friday, May 3rd
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.1650 W Foster Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
1650 W Foster AveMuseums, 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Bluey’s Big Play
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all…
Friday, May 3rd
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Auditorium Theatre
50 E Ida B Wells Dr, Chicago, IL, 60605Music & 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…
Friday, May 3rd
6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Spiegeltent – Cambria Hotel
32 W. RandolphMusic & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Infinite Wrench
Don’t miss the longest running late-night show in Chicago! At The Infinite Wrench you’ll see 30 original plays in 60 minutes written and performed by…
Friday, May 3rd
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.The Neo-Futurist Theater
5153 N. Ashland Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
Praize Productions Presents Black Love Reigns Supreme
Black Love Reigns SupremeMay 3rd & 4th, 2024 | 7:00pmLogan Center | Performance Hall915 E. 60th Street | ChicagoTickets: $45 – $125 Award-winning Praize Productions, Inc.…
Friday, May 3rd
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.Logan Center for the Arts – Performance Hall
915 E 60th 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, Comedy
The Murder Mystery Company Presents: “Death of a Gangster”
- Presented by
The Murder Mystery Co.
Friday, May 3rd
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Palm Court Resaurant
1912 North Arlington Heights RoadTheatre & 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Speculative Archive: Deanna Bowen & Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Presented as part of The Speculative Archive: Contemporary Black Experimental Film and Video, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich & Deanna Bowen in person, in conversation with Christopher Harris…
Friday, May 3rd
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Logan Center for the Arts – Screening Room
915 E 60th StTheatre & 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
GRAMMY® winners Third Coast Percussion collaborates with 2024® GRAMMY Award winner and CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery
Third Coast Percussion (TCP), the Chicago-based GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet of classically trained percussionists, presents a new collaborative concert Jessie Montgomery + Third Coast Percussion with…
Friday, May 3rd
7:30 p.m.DePaul University School of Music Holtschneider Performance Center, Allen Recital Hall
2330 N Halsted St,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…
Friday, May 3rd
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts, Comedy
DRINK! The Sketch Comedy Drinking Game: Chicago Edition
- Presented by
Corn Productions
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jackalope Theatre Company’s 16th Season Begins the the Smuggler, at its new home in Berger Park
CHICAGO – Jackalope Theatre Company is proud to launch its 16th season at its new home in Edgewater’s Berger Park, 6205 N. Sheridan Rd., with…
Friday, May 3rd
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Edgewater’s Berger Park
6205 N. Sheridan Rd.Theatre & 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…
Friday, May 3rd
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…
Friday, May 3rd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
111 W. Campbell, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005Theatre & 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…
Friday, May 3rd
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
800 E Grand Ave- Presented by
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