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Adirondack Chair Circle
A gaggle of suburban moms, armed with pickleball paddles and hard kombucha, are ready to take on the school board in the fight of their…
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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! LIMITED DATES! GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! ETA Creative Arts Foundation is bringing back the powerful, groundbreaking, and unforgettable production of for colored…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight Music Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors
For more than four decades, the Tony Award-winning musical Little Shop of Horrors has delighted millions of fans around the world with the funny and…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts, Tours & Attractions
The Cosmic Underground Show
Step aboard for a one-of-a-kind journey where mind-reading, magic, comedy, and sci-fi collide in ways you won’t find anywhere else in Chicago. Hosted by real-life…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Drunk Christmas Carol
Drunk Christmas Carol, presented by the Drunk Shakespeare Society, brings a boozy twist on Charles Dickens’ holiday classic to Chicago for a limited run at…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Permission to Fail: Asian American Art in Progress
Asian American Arts Chicago, in partnership with HAIBAYÔ Café, is proud to announce “Permission to Fail,” a two-day artist salon taking place November 14–15, 2026,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Scott Green Lies To Your Kids
The Kids Show For Adults. It’s the all-ages magic show that’s actually fun for all ages. This is not a sweet, gentle, clap-along children’s show.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
“Hollywood Hit” at Dinner Detective Chicago
Feast on a fantastic dinner, but just beware… the killer is hiding somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect.…
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 Apiary
Clark Week Productions presents the Chicago premiere of The Apiary, Kate Douglas’ poignantly dark and comedic sci-fi fable. Set 22 years into a bleak future,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Niceties
Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! LIMITED DATES! GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! ETA Creative Arts Foundation is bringing back the powerful, groundbreaking, and unforgettable production of for colored…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Essie’s Christmas The Musical
We are thrilled to invite you to a brand new musical. Written and composed specifically for Theater@Concordia, Essie’s Christmas has a talented cast of Concordia…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble Presents, “Copasetic Vibrations: A Music Festival”
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE) is pleased to announce its 2026 – 2027 season. CDE will open this artistic season with Copestic Vibrations: A Music Festival,…
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
Sol Invictus Hervé Koubi
Led by the imaginative choreographer Hervé Koubi, Compagnie Hervé Koubi makes its Chicago premiere with the mesmerizingly kinetic Sol Invictus. Named after the “invincible sun” deity of Ancient…
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…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Snow Queen
THE SNOW QUEENwritten by Mallory Swisherdirected & choreographed by Stefan Roseen & Anna Roemer Once there was, and once there was not, a little girl…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Year One
Anna has her hands full living in a house with her brother, mother-in-law, and adult son. As her son drifts into a dangerous new ideology,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Adirondack Chair Circle
A gaggle of suburban moms, armed with pickleball paddles and hard kombucha, are ready to take on the school board in the fight of their…
Theatre & Performing Arts
2021
Under the glow of a flickering screen, a daughter reconstructs her deceased father. Pixel by pixel, contradiction by contradiction. 2021 is a live performance where theatre,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Year One
Anna has her hands full, not only in her medical practice, but also living in a house with her brother, mother-in-law, and adult son. As…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Fall Series | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Having become one of the hottest tickets in town, Fall Series at Steppenwolf Theatre features two World Premieres: Paulina Street Passage, a new work by…
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