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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Young People’s Theatre of Chicago (YPT) launches its milestone Fifth-Anniversary Season with Laura Numeroff’s award-winning children’s classic, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie! The…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Sugar Plum Fairy, P.I.
Step into the sugary, shadowy world of Sugar Plum Fairy, P.I., a fairytale noir mystery filled with crime and double crosses! During the dark days…
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
Sugar Plum Fairy, P.I.
Step into the sugary, shadowy world of Sugar Plum Fairy, P.I., a fairytale noir mystery filled with crime and double crosses! During the dark days…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Book Of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is returning to Chicago for a limited limited engagement from Friday, October 23 through Sunday, November 1, 2026. From the creators…
Theatre & Performing Arts
T A K E | Visceral Dance Chicago
An immersive work set to an electronic recorded score mixed with live music, takes the audience “on a journey from darkness to light” TAKE is…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Holy Ghost Bingo: God, Goblins, & Games!
Holy Ghost Bingo: God, Goblins, & Games is a Halloween-themed interactive comedy play written by Vicki Quade, one of the authors of the hit comedy,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Omar
Where memory is preserved, legacy endures. MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens and celebrated co-composer Michael Abels deliver a profoundly moving story about the strength…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Beverly Theatre Guild presents “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella”
64th season opener, Cinderella. This classic rags-to-riches fairy tale with the world’s favorite princess is scheduled to be performed on October 23rd , 24th ,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Dark Wood
World Premiere dystopian fable written by Broadway’s Eric Coble. ‘The Fix’ was supposed to correct everything that had gone wrong with the country. Now, three…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Presents “Mud Row”
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is pleased to announce the cast, creative and production teams for the first production in its 2026 – 2027 season, Mud…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Tin Drum Theatre Company Presents the Chicago Premiere, “A Dark Wood”
Tin Drum Theatre Company announces the Chicago premiere of A Dark Wood, October 15 – November 1, written by Eric Coble and directed by Steve…
Theatre & Performing Arts
I.A. Inteligencia Actoral – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
I.A. Inteligencia Actoral by Aguijón Theater. Written by: Flavio González Mello. Directed by: Marcela Muñoz A couple of weeks before a theater company opens Hamlet, its…
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
Adirondack Chair Circle
A gaggle of suburban moms, armed with pickleball paddles and hard kombucha, are ready to take on the school board in the fight of their…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Sleeping Beauty & Dvořák Cello Concerto
The crown jewel of cello repertoire, Dvořák’s heroic and soulful Cello Concerto marks the return of Jian Wang, a soloist with a lustrous sound and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Refracted Theatre Company Presents “I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire”
Award-winning Refracted Theatre Company is proud to announce the cast and creative team of I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, written by Samantha Hurley and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Oil Lamp Theater Presents “Dial M for Murder”
Oil Lamp Theater is proud to announce the cast and creative team for its next production, Dial M for Murder, October 2 – November 1,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Vladimir
About this show In a world where facts are manipulated and fear is currency, the truth becomes dangerous. As a new authoritarian government tightens its…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Factory Theater Presents the World Premiere of “Radical Futures”
The Factory Theater and Artistic Director Michael Jones are proud to announce the first production of its 32nd season, the world premiere of B.Z Florida’s…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Babes With Blades Theatre Company Presents William Shakespeare’s “King Lear”
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s (BWBTC) presents the final production in its 2026 season, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Alison Dornheggen and fight choreography…
Theatre & Performing Arts
“One” and “Blood Spill” Double Bill
A double bill of ONE and BLOOD SPILL. ONE is Jeff Hagedorn’s groundbreaking solo play about a young man attempting to understand and confront his…
Theatre & Performing Arts
KING HEDLEY II
Revisiting characters established in August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS, this play returns to Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1985. King Hedley, a man recently released from prison,…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
DETROIT ’67
Detroit ’67 A Play by Dominique Morisseau Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman Running through November 1, 2026 ★★★★ “HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. THE CAST IS FIRE!” –Bonnie…
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