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The Sound of Music
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Comedy Hour at Annoyance Theatre
Each week, Chicago comics bring the freshest, most experimental new material to the Annoyance for the Comedy Hour. The weekly show is an eclectic mix…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
Lights, Camera, Create!
The stage is set at Chicago Actor’s Studio for Spooky Fun! Theatrical Skits & Pumpkin Decorating – Be entertained while you bring your creative vision…
Theatre & Performing Arts
House of the Fearless – Halloween inspired circus
We’re thrilled to bring back MSA & Circus Arts’ production House of the Fearless! Talented MSA students will share the center ring with Chicago’s very…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Paranormal Activity – A New Story Live On Stage
“★ ★ ★ ★! Enough connection to the movies to be beloved by fans, while being completely accessible to the unfamiliar.” –Chicago Sun-Times “The one…
Theatre & Performing Arts
House of Boos: Halloween Spectacular Featuring Chicago’s Own Necromancer Neil Tobin
One night only, immerse yourself in spooky psychic surprises and interactive magical fun with host Neil Tobin, Necromancer (Supernatural Chicago, Ghost Adventures, Dead Famous). Ages…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Infinite Wrench
Don’t miss the longest running late-night show in Chicago! At The Infinite Wrench you’ll see 30 original plays in 60 minutes written and performed by…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
ComedySportz Chicago
Chicago’s longest running and best interactive improv comedy experience. ComedySportz is comedy played as a sport, not comedy ABOUT sports (whew). Refs, fouls, points, games…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
ComedySportz Chicago
Chicago’s longest running and best interactive improv comedy experience. ComedySportz is comedy played as a sport, not comedy ABOUT sports (whew). Refs, fouls, points, games…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Mothman Cometh
After anaward-winning summer tour through Green Bay, Edinburgh, Berlin, and Philadelphia, Whisper Theatre’s The Mothman Cometh returns to the Newport Theater for 3 nights only,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The House That Will Not Stand
In early nineteenth-century New Orleans, widowed mother Beartrice struggles to manage her headstrong daughters after the death of her second husband. But as the matriarch…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro Zinzanni
Tickets are on sale Now at https://zinzanni.com/chicago/ for Love, Chaos, & Dinner ! Teatro Zinzanni returns to the vibrant Chicago Loop inside the velvet walls…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Conspirators’ “Duck Soup”
The Conspirators present Duck Soup by Harry Ruby and Burt Kalmar, adapted from the Marx Brothers’ movie for the stage by Sid Feldman and directed…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Revolution(s)
By Zayd Ayers Dohrn Music and Lyrics by Tom Morello Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III October 4 – November 9, 2025 Put your hands…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Single Living Finds A Boo! A Comedy Variety Show
Get ready for a night of comedy so good, it’s scary! Headlining the show is Single Living, a Chicago-based, all-Black women improv team that’s been…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Improvised Shakespeare Company®
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents its critically-acclaimed, long-running hit show Improvised Shakespeare Chicago, now in its 19th year! Join us for an evening of…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Improvised Shakespeare
Critically-acclaimed improvised comedy featuring the language and themes of William Shakespeare
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars
Motherhood, marijuana, and the multiverse collide in this Chicago-set story of family, immigration, and American identity. Like millions of Americans, Clara is doing her best…
Theatre & Performing Arts
DeathToll: The Sketch Comedy Drinking Game Show
Our longest-running sketch show is back again to scare you into drinking! DEATH TOLL is a sketch show with one simple rule: drink when someone…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Ugly Lies The Bone
Jonathan Berry is BACK and he’s directing Shattered Globe’s powerful season opener UGLY LIES THE BONE. After three tours in Afghanistan, Jess returns home to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Mr. Wolf
12 years ago, Theresa was stolen from her parents. Now a precocious 15-year-old, she has been rescued and returned to a family that had nearly…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Neighborhood of the Loners
The Neighborhood of the Loners is a place where residents live without social interactions or contact with the world around them. This sanctuary of solitude…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Mop & Bucket Blues
“Mop and Bucket Blues” examines the importance of sports and creative arts programming by bringing awareness to Chicago’s inner city gun violence, poverty, food insecurity,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Strange Cargo: The Doom of the Demeter
Based on Chapter Seven of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, this gothic horror high seas adventure tells the shocking events aboard the cargo ship transporting Count Dracula’s belongings from…
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