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Theatre & Performing Arts
Becoming: Exploring Identity
Becoming is Coming! Kaeshi Chai’s Becoming: Exploring Identity is coming to Chicago on September 3rd at 6PM at The Newport Theater Previously seen in Austin,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Spongebob Musical
When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save…
Theatre & Performing Arts
In The Back/On The Floor
IN THE BACK/ON THE FLOOR examines the issues that minimum wage workers face through the lives of several employees at a big-box retail store. Though…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Fly Honeys at Thalia Hall
Voted Chicago’s best dance production of 2022 for their pride month show at Thalia Hall, the Fly Honeys return with an all-new four-night production this…
Theatre & Performing Arts
NORTH & SUR
The extraordinary encounter between two icons of World Literature: the great North American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who is recognized as one of the foremost…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago’s Best Standup
Chicago’s Best Standup Comedy is back better than ever. We’ve compiled the absolute best standup comedy lineup that you will see in the city. Today’s…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Dance’s 11th Annual Chicago Dance Month Returns with Live at Lunch Performances at The Green
See Chicago Dance, the dance industry’s nonprofit service organization, is proud to announce that its popular annual offering, Chicago Dance Month, returns this June. Now…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Artists Live With Dorothy Burge And Michelle Daniel Jones
Time 6:00pm – 7:30pm CDT Campus Hyde Park Campus Location Logan Center, Performance Penthouse Related: Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death & Imprisonment Related: Opening Reception for “Makes…
Theatre & Performing Arts
See. Hear. Heal.: An LGBTQ+ Survivor Storytelling Night with Outspoken and Awakenings
Outspoken, an LGBTQIA+ storytelling show, is teaming up with Awakenings, a non-profit arts org that helps survivors of sexual violence heal through art, to present…
Theatre & Performing Arts
NORTH & SUR
The extraordinary encounter between two icons of World Literature: the great North American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who is recognized as one of the foremost…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Welcome to Matteson!
A dark comedy by Chicago-born playwright Inda Craig-Galván, WELCOME TO MATTESON! follows two Black couples over the course of a dinner party; one couple has…
Theatre & Performing Arts
as though your body were right
This work is an invitation to confront the bodiliness of being human. It is a shared experience of the vulnerability of being a body, and…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
“Where we go together” or The Flashlight Play
“Where we go together” or The Flashlight Play is an immersive and interactive show about three poor theater artists who break into a dark space…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Baked! The Musical
Previews: September 7-10, 2023Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 6:00pm Run: September 14-October 8, 2023 Thursday-Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 6:00pm Special Matinee Wednesday, October 4…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Birthday Candles
Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Tend
Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need. Structured as a one hour appointment, the self-care informed dance…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Writer
Join us for an onstage experience, unlike anything you have ever seen before! A playwright wants to create a new story for a new world…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Irene Hsiao, Blue Alice
Blue Alice is a durational movement piece by dancer and choreographer Irene Hsaio. With a sculptural costume made of tarp and Mylar, Hsiao continuously shape-shifts throughout…
Theatre & Performing Arts
NORTH & SUR
The extraordinary encounter between two icons of World Literature: the great North American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who is recognized as one of the foremost…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Pirate Legends : William Dampier
Dead Reckoning Theater Co. is bringing their signature immersive theater production to Navy Pier. “Pirate Legends : William Dampier ” is performing now aboard the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Otherworld Theatre Company, the premier sci-fi and fantasy theatre company in North America, stages Matt Cox’s PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Welcome to Matteson!
A dark comedy by Chicago-born playwright Inda Craig-Galván, WELCOME TO MATTESON! follows two Black couples over the course of a dinner party; one couple has…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Anjal Chande, The Next Cup of Tea
The Next Cup of Tea is a solo dance-theater performance by Anjal Chande that investigates how to make sense of the never-ending impulses that run through…
Theatre & Performing Arts
as though your body were right
This work is an invitation to confront the bodiliness of being human. It is a shared experience of the vulnerability of being a body, and…
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