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Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
Winters keep getting worse in Evanston, IL, where salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Drink the Past Dry
The nondescript neighborhood bar in the middle of Chicago looks like every other bar in every other neighborhood in the city. A few regulars sit…
Theatre & Performing Arts
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
In 1920, Karel Čapek’s early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term “robot” and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
Immersive interviews of some 25 women-loving women are recounted within a fantasy framework in which this community of women, who range from late teens to elders, is depicted allegorically as a hive…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The End of Reality
“The End of Reality” is [Richard Maxwell’s] most eloquent statement to date on the blurring of despair and apathy in American lives. – Ben Brantley,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Scandalous Boy
The story of the love between the emperor Hadrian and Antinous in pre-Christian Rome but framed in a twenty-first century setting with the statue of…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Every Brilliant Thing
CIRCA Pintig, Chicago’s Filipino American theatre company in its 34th year, presents EVERY BRILLIANT THING, the groundbreaking one-performer play written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahue.…
Music & Comedy
Rockin’ in the Park 2025 Free Summer Concert Series
Rosemont’s Parkway Bank Park entertainment district (5501 Park Place, Rosemont) will turn up the volume this summer with the return of its popular “Rockin’ in…
Theatre & Performing Arts
War of the Worlds
Breaking news: the Martians have landed…in Chicago! Our world is being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than ours, yet just as mortal. They…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Lifeline Theatre Presents World Premiere of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds
Breaking news: the Martians have landed…in Chicago! Our world is watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than ours, yet just as mortal. They regard…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Antiquities
A “brilliantly imagined drama” (Wall Street Journal) for anyone whose computer has asked them to prove that they’re a human. Which is to say, everyone.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Cop Macbeth
The Conspirators present Chicago Cop Macbeth by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Wm. Bullion, at the Otherworld Theatre, 3914 N. Clark St., May 16…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents: Titanic The Musical
Chicagoland’s longest running musical theatre, Marriott Theatre, continues its 50th Anniversary Season celebration with the epic production of Titanic The Musical, directed and choreographed by…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Antiquities
A “brilliantly imagined drama” (Wall Street Journal) for anyone whose computer has asked them to prove that they’re a human. Which is to say, everyone.…
Music & Comedy
Late Nite Mic with Vik Pandya at The Comedy Bar
IMPORTANT HOUSE POLICIES: PLEASE READ 📍 All shows take place at 162 E Superior St. – The entrance to the venue is on Superior Street, just east of the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents: Titanic The Musical
Chicagoland’s longest running musical theatre, Marriott Theatre, continues its 50th Anniversary Season celebration with the epic production of Titanic The Musical, directed and choreographed by…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alice in Wonderland
Follow Alice as she travels down the Rabbit Hole to the most amazing places! Along her fantastic journey she’ll meet the Mad Hatter, March Hare,…
Music & Comedy
Tuesday Good Show
Showcasing some of the best performers in the city, Tuesday Good Show is a free weekly variety show hosted by Nick Bonsignore and Keller Paulson.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Po’Chop & Switch the Boi Wonder Present: Notes on Masculinity
Veteran performers Po’Chop and Switch the Boi Wonder host Notes on Masculinity, bimonthly drag king-centered cabaret, where performers showcase the diversity of burlesque and masculine…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Titanique
Broadway In Chicago presents the Porchlight Music Theatre production of TITANIQUE All aboard NYC’s must-sea musical comedy! When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian…
Music & Comedy
Tomato Throw Show at The Comedy Bar
Join us for the most fun interactive comedy show in Chicago, where the audience determines who’s the funniest (and the most unfunny) by throwing [fake]…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Antiquities
A “brilliantly imagined drama” (Wall Street Journal) for anyone whose computer has asked them to prove that they’re a human. Which is to say, everyone.…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Comic Court: The Best Comedy Show in the World
Would you rather be able to fly or be able to turn invisible? Who are we more tired of: Ryan Reynolds or Dwayne Johnson? Would…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Marriott Theatre Presents: Titanic The Musical
Chicagoland’s longest running musical theatre, Marriott Theatre, continues its 50th Anniversary Season celebration with the epic production of Titanic The Musical, directed and choreographed by…
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