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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, Tours & Attractions
SECRETS starring mentalist SIDNEY SEER
Star TV mentalist SIDNEY FRIEDMAN (aka SIDNEY SEER) returns for the 16th time to The Alley inside CARNIVALE, for this surreal, intimate, clandestine experience of…
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
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
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
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
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
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
Idle Muse Theatre Company Presents “Witch”
Idle Muse Theatre Company continues its 20th anniversary season and kicks off the Halloween season with Witch, September 10 – October 10, written by Jen…
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
Tituba
Performed in the hallowed halls of the University of Chicago’s historic Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Court Theatre’s 2026/27 season opens with the American premiere of Tituba—a…
Theatre & Performing Arts
El Evangelio Jornalero – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
This production is produced by Repertorio Latino TC and Colectivo El Pozo, written by Raúl Dorantes and directed by Joaquín Catana and Roma Díaz. El…
Theatre & Performing Arts
I am the Wind
Two lifelong friends sail into open water: one edging closer to the pull of oblivion, the other with a question neither can escape. Nobel laureate…
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…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Vape! The Grease Parody
Vape! lovingly pokes fun at all of the wonderful moments, sexual innuendos, outrageous characters, rivalries and secret romances from the original musical. The hair products may…
Theatre & Performing Arts
(dark) Toilet Fire (matter(s))
No matter how different we all are, we are united by one commonality: our need to go. Using the structure of an ancient religious ritual,…
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
Mäkelä, Petrushka & Belshazzar’s Feast
Step into the opulent Babylon of Belshazzar’s Feast, Walton’s dramatic cantata depicting a king’s blasphemous revelry and divine reckoning. Captivated by the sheer theatricality of the…
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…
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