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Beauty and the Beast
Chicago Kids Company – Theater for Children (CKC) presents Beauty and the Beast. Don’t miss Chicago Kids Company’s newest show! Full of comedy, romance, and…
Friday, April 5th
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th StreetTheatre & Performing Arts
Working – A Musical
Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes…
Friday, April 5th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Jedlicka Performing Arts Center
3801 S. Central Ave. , Cicero, IL, 60804Music & 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, April 5th
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, April 5th
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.The Neo-Futurist Theater
5153 N. Ashland Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
Churchill
Winston Churchill has just been awarded honorary US citizenship by President John F. Kennedy. In recognition of this unprecedented occasion, The American-Oxford Society has asked…
Friday, April 5th
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…
Friday, April 5th
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…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Stove God Cooks Live at The Point
Join Covert Operations and Tucker Ventures for the live performance of Griselda Records Recording Artist Stove God Cooks Friday April 5th at The Point located…
Friday, April 5th
7:00 p.m. – Saturday, April 6th
12:00 a.m.The Point
1565 N Milwaukee AveTheatre & 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, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Emmet Cohen Trio
With a flourishing career highlighted by performances at the esteemed Jazz at Lincoln Center, jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen has distinguished himself as a…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th StreetTheatre & 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, April 5th
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, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Theater Wit
1229 W. Belmont Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60657Theatre & 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…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Open Space Arts
1411 W. Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL, 60640Theatre & 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…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60601Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Klaus Mäkelä & Yuja Wang
Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto is an exhilarating showcase for Yuja Wang, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called “quite simply the most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chicago Symphony Center
220 S Michigan AveTheatre & Performing Arts
ONCE
In the city of Dublin, music fills the streets and hearts yearn for connection. When Irish musician Guy meets Czech immigrant Girl, their surprising friendship…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Newhart Family Theatre
1020 W. Sheridan Rd.Theatre & Performing Arts
Purpose
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Everyone dies, but not everyone’s death is pre-ordained by Shakespeare. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead puts the spotlight on two of Shakespeare’s minor characters as they wrestle…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637Theatre & Performing Arts
Tapestry Unraveled
Hailed as one of the most successful and talented female pop artists, Carole King has carved out an iconic place in music history. Singer Tina…
Friday, April 5th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
111 W. Campbell, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005Theatre & 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…
Friday, April 5th
8:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & Performing Arts
Curious Theatre Branch announces with a world premiere from Jenny Magnus, The Good
CHICAGO – Curious Theatre Branch, continues its 35th anniversary season with a world premiere from Founding Co-Artistic Director Jenny Magnus, The Good, March 29 –…
Friday, April 5th
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Chicago Dramatists
1105 W. Chicago Ave. , Chicago, IL, 60642Theatre & Performing Arts
The Lincoln Lodge
The Lincoln Lodge stand-up comedy and variety showcase plays every Friday and Saturday night in Chicago’s glamorous Logan Square! In addition to The Lodge’s rotating…
Friday, April 5th
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Lincoln Lodge Theater
2040 N. Milwaukee Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
Idle Muse Theatre Company; What the Weird Sisters Saw
CHICAGO – Idle Muse Theatre Company’s 2023 – 2024 season continues with an all-new version of What the Weird Sisters Saw at the Edge Off-Broadway…
Friday, April 5th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.The Edge Off Broadway Theatre
1133 W Catalpa Ave.
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