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First Floor Theater’s “WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY”
A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about corporations, not about warehouses, and certainly not about billionaires.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Windfall
This is a story about money. Don’t let them fool you otherwise. When a father loses his child in a clash with the local police,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Redtwist Theatre’s “‘Night Mother” By Marsha Norman
Award-winning Redtwist Theatre announces the cast and creative team for ‘night Mother, April 16 – May 24, by Marsha Norman and directed by Executive Artistic…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: Spring Series
To close Season 48 with vigor and verve, Hubbard Street brings a powerhouse program to the Harris Theater May 14, 15, + 17 featuring two…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Presents “The Wedding Singer”
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, located in the heart of downtown Arlington Heights, 111 W. Campbell St., is proud to announce the cast and creative team…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Wild Door Theater Presents “Maybe Tomorrow”
Wild Door Theater presents the Midwest premiere of Maybe Tomorrow, a darkly funny and unsettling new play by Max Mondi and directed by Andrew Gallant,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Wild Door Theater Presents “Maybe Tomorrow”
Wild Door Theater presents the Midwest premiere of Maybe Tomorrow, a darkly funny and unsettling new play by Max Mondi and directed by Andrew Gallant,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
I Hate Hamlet
By Paul Rudnick. Andrew Rally has it all: TV fame, a glamorous girlfriend, a devoted agent, the perfect New York apartment and the chance to…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
“Going Bacharach” Presents the Greatest Hits of Bacharach at the Apollo Theater
Rediscover the soundtrack of a lifetime with GOING BACHARACH, a vibrant new revue, direct from a sold-out run in New York, celebrating the legacy of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Always…Patsy Cline
This musical play, complete with down-home country humor and big-hearted emotion, includes hits Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, Walkin’ After Midnight and more! Starring ensemble member Liz Chidester as Patsy…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hookman
For fans of movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freaky & Scream, Bump in the Night Theatre brings slashers to the stage…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Scaramouche
A musical based on the rip-roaring novel by Rafael Sabatini. Radicalized by his friend’s brutal murder on the eve of the French Revolution, a sardonic…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Missed Call Sketch Comedy Show
Missed Call is a premier Chicago comedy group that writes and performs an entirely new sketch show every Friday — inspired by the audience’s suggestion!
Theatre & Performing Arts
3 Stages of Love
Ghostlight begins its 9th Season with the first installment of a three-part cabaret experience devised by Ensemble Member Khnemu Menu-Ra, 3 Stages of Love. The…
Theatre & Performing Arts
3 Stages of Love Part 2: Simple Love/Unperfect Actor
Love always makes for a good story because some part of it is always relatable. And what better way to explore all the various sides…
Theatre & 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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Le Bal
Le Bal is a newly commissioned devised play inspired by Ettore Scola’s iconic film—a sweeping, dialogue-free production that tells the story of political and personal…
Theatre & Performing Arts
FIRE HOUSE
You step inside Chicago’s oldest firehouse, preserved perfectly in time. A company of firefighters is preparing for the line of duty as a string of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble Presents “Architecture of Memory”
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE) presents the world premiere of Architecture of Memory, May 8 – 23, at Chicago Danztheatre, 1650 W. Foster Avenue. Architecture of…
Theatre & Performing Arts
An Enemy of the People
An award-winning new take on the historic masterwork about citizens standing up to power. When a respected doctor in small-town Norway makes a deadly discovery…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
moonwatchers
It is Rocco and Allen’s job to watch the moon, and it is really quite boring. Night after night, they time the sequences exactly –…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Honk! A Short Form Improv Show
Honk! is a short form, game-based improv show that asks: what good is comedy if you can’t get a little silly? Comprised of some of…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
420 Shakespeare
4 professional actors meet to perform a Shakespeare play… but only after one of them takes at least 20mg of you know what, leading to…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Voila: The Improvised Musical
iO Chicago presents: a fully made-up, off-off-off Broadway style musical every Friday at 10pm in the Fremont Theater. Spend your Friday night with us. See…
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