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Shubukai Chicago’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Performance
Dance and live music are part of this special 70-minute performance in honor of Shubukai Chicago’s 50th Anniversary. Joining Artistic Director Yoshinojo Fujima (aka Rika…
Theatre & Performing Arts
DISPOSABLE – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
This production is produced by WorkersTEATRO, written by Jasmin Cardenas, directed by Francesca Patrón and presented in partnership with Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater. Going to college,…
Lincoln Park
Event detailsTheatre & Performing Arts
Black Girl From a White Suburb
Tour-de-force solo show by Tania Richard, adapted from her memoir Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice. Growing up in…
Theatre & Performing Arts
HA Harmonic
HA Harmonic is a site-responsive performance developed for the Chicago Park District’s Monument Response Project by Sonja Henderson and Sadie Woods titled We Still Here,…
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
Flotsam River Circus
Flotsam River Circus, a troupe of world-class musicians, puppeteers, and circus artists who travel aboard a handmade raft, is bringing its magical floating spectacle to…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
“Dirty Money” – Dinner Detective Chicago
The Dinner Detective is an interactive true crime mystery show set in the present day and based on real cold cases. Feast on a fantastic…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Pandemonium, Please Hold
The Second City’s 114th Mainstage Revue Pandemonium, Please Hold is a loud, fast, and gloriously unhinged night of comedic mayhem. The Second City’s six-person cast…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Séance
The Séance is an original stage show that recreates an authentic Victorian-era séance. We investigate the history, tell the stories of the participants, and demonstrate…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Adolescent Salvation
Over the course of one night, through a haze of tequila, texting, and Taylor Swift, three teenagers banter, bicker, and push each other to the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Séance: Live (and dead) in Chicago
We play with the dead. The Séance returns to Chicago’s Stars & Garters for Saturday nights this fall. Recreating the atmosphere and techniques of 19th-century…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Missing Piece
THE MISSING PIECE is coming to VAL — and it’s going to get weird (in the best way) Two clowns. One shared apocalypse. Zero agreement…
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
DISPOSABLE – Destinos: 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
This production is produced by WorkersTEATRO, written by Jasmin Cardenas, directed by Francesca Patrón and presented in partnership with Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater. Going to college,…
Lincoln Park
Event detailsMusic & 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
Blood of the Lamb
A searing drama about bureaucratic chaos in a post-Roe America. After her transcontinental flight is diverted to Dallas, a pregnant woman inexplicably finds herself trapped…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Swallow
THE SWALLOW is set during a private singing lesson between a choral director and a new student. As they work together on a song, what initially…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Vape! A Grease Parody
Vape! The Grease Parody, a hilariously unhinged spoof of the beloved stage and film musical Grease, will make its Chicago debut at the Apollo Theater,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Destinos 9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival: Yamel Cucuy
This production is produced by Glass Half Full Theatre (Austin, Texas), Directed by Caroline Reck, and is made possible through the generous support of our…
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
Petr Popelka & Hilary Hahn
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is packed with magical melodies and sparkling action, and there’s no more stylish interpreter than Hilary Hahn, one of the top violinists…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Shane
In this World Premiere adaptation of the classic western, Shane, a mysterious stranger, shows up at the Starrett homestead in the Wyoming Territory in 1889.…
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
Redtwist Theatre Presents The First Show of Its 22nd Season, “Prayer Circle”
Award-winning Redtwist Theatre’s new 22nd season, “State of Violence,” begins with Prayer Circle, September 17 – November 8, by Erik Gernand and directed by Executive…
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