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Don Giovanni
The path to damnation never sounded so sweet The 2026/27 Season kicks off with a thrilling fable of deceit and retribution. Sharp humor, high drama,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Married Without Children: Sketch Comedy, Improv, and Naughty Game Show
Erin Island and Andrew McCammon (The Price is Right LIVE, Press Your Luck LIVE, Second City, and Boom Chicago) are a real-life comedy couple who…
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,…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
In Another Life: Chicago’s Vintage Fashion Show
In Another Life is a celebration of vintage fashion, creativity, and Chicago’s local style scene, presented during Chicago Fashion Week. The evening begins with cocktails…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Winter’s Tale
The Winter’s Tale is coming to Chicago, running from Thursday, December 3, 2026, through Saturday, December 12, 2026, at The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.…
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
The Journey: An Immersive Runway Experience
Presented by Emergent Fashion Society, The Journey is an immersive fashion experience celebrating Black creativity, fashion, and the journey behind bringing a creative vision to…
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
The Main Squeeze
American funk-rock band The Main Squeeze opens the 2026–27 Mix at Six season with their signature optimistic and electrifying sound. The Midwest-born and Los Angeles–based group returns to the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Clued In: Travel Can Be Murder
Enter a world pulled from the passages of Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and all the classic and modern mysteries that…
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
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
A Dreadful Monster Mash
A live improv show where Chicago improvisers play the tabletop horror game Dread on stage, with a Jenga tower deciding their fate. This show will…
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
The Winter’s Tale
The Winter’s Tale is coming to Chicago, running from Thursday, December 3, 2026, through Saturday, December 12, 2026, at The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.…
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
Don Giovanni
The path to damnation never sounded so sweet The 2026/27 Season kicks off with a thrilling fable of deceit and retribution. Sharp humor, high drama,…
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
Takes All Kinds
Based on immersive reporting from the trenches of democracy, Hoyle’s shape-shifting performance introduces us to more than a dozen remarkable characters, all based on real…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Premonitions Inc. at Kermess
We saw you coming. Fourteen floors above Randolph Street, aerialists fly through a century-old Belgian Spiegeltent while acrobatics, burlesque, cabaret, and comedy unfold around your…
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