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Fun Home
Fun Home
1/16 - 3/2/2025


Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Tony-award winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musical Fun Home, opening January 16, 2025, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, ...

Revival: A Tribute to The Allman Brothers Band


7-piece all-star powerhouse group The Revival Brothers pays reverent tribute to the Allman Brothers and their incredible legacy of iconic music. 

Fool for Love
Fool for Love
1/30 - 3/16/2025


In a sweltering motel room in the Mojave Desert, May and Eddie lick their wounds and get ready for another relentless round. This brawl is ...

Piaf! The Show


Piaf! The Show is a musical fête to the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf. This acclaimed French production stars Anne Carrere a “legitimate musical heiress” ...

Feels Like The First Time


Feels Like the First Time America’s #1 Tribute to Foreigner SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2025 | 7:00 PM TICKETS* Tickets: $49 / $55 / $59 RaueNOW: ...

Feels Like The First Time


Feels Like the First Time America’s #1 Tribute to Foreigner SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2025 | 7:00 PM TICKETS* Tickets: $49 / $55 / $59 RaueNOW: ...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child


IT’S TIME TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC Broadway’s Spellbinding Sensation  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child  is coming to Chicago on its first-ever North American Tour. ...


The national tour of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD will make its debut at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre, with previews beginning ...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child


__It's time to believe in magic__ Broadway’s Spellbinding Sensation Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is coming to a city near you on its first-ever ...


Charlie Berens will perform at the UIS Performing Arts Center on February 2, 2025. Known for his comedic online news show, the Manitowoc Minute, Berens ...

Jaja's African Hair Braiding


__Straight from a twice-extended Broadway run, making its Regional Premiere__ This comedic play offers a glimpse into the lives of a group of West African ...

Knockout
1/24 - 2/2/2025


Knockout, created and performed by Erin Kilmurray and Kara Brody, is a groundbreaking dance work that explores themes of desire, intimacy, strength, and survival through ...

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND: THE SHAKESPEARE’S SEQUELS


PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND in association with Theater Wit February  3, 2025, 7pm CT Theater Wit & Simulcast Topic: The Shakespeare Sequels ...

THE SHAKESPEARE’S SEQUELS


“We know what we are but not what we may be.”  – Ophelia,  Hamlet In the spirit of past topics such as “Shakespeare’s Prequels” and ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Bartók Concerto for Orchestra


Revel in the sonic splendor of the CSO with two of its signature works: Strauss’ brash symphonic portrait of the infamous libertine Don Juan and ...

Las Locas Comedy Presents: 8 Year Anniversary Show - Chingona Comedy Hour


CALLING ALL CHINGONAS!! Can you believe Las Locas Comedy has been producing Latina forward comedy shows across Chicagoland and the country for 8 years?! Let’s ...

Singin' in the Rain - Film Screening with Live Orchestra


"What a glorious feeling!" Join us for our inaugural film and live orchestra event as the celebrated Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra performs the lush ...

The Blind Boys of Alabama


The Blind Boys of Alabama are recognized worldwide as living legends of gospel music.   Celebrated by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and ...

Going Gershwin by Ryan & Ryan


Ryan & Ryan is a proven hit with audiences of all generations. To sum it up, they make music that inspires.

A Blue-eyed Soul Session


A Blue-eyed Soul Session The Music of Derrick Procell, Joe Cocker and Van Morrison SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025| 7:00 PM TICKETS* Tickets: $29 / $35 ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Salonen Conducts Bluebeard's Castle


A taut and gripping thriller, Bartók’s one-act opera follows Duke Bluebeard and his newest wife Judith as she opens the seven doors of his castle ...

Dances From the Heart


CHICAGO – Emergence Dance Theatre presents the popular and romantic Dance Chicago program, Dances From the Heart, Saturday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. The program, ...

LOVE Happens


The Silhouettes® acclaimed show, “LOVE Happens” is an entertaining, family-friendly shadow dance story filled with the types of love that fill our world.

LOVE Happens


Governors State University’s (GovState) The Center for Performing Arts (The Center), 1 University Parkway, University Park, continues its 29th season with LOVE Happens presented by ...


The Silhouettes, America's premier shadow-dance company and former finalists on America's Got Talent, will present LOVE Happens, a captivating, family-friendly performance exploring various forms of ...

Avaaz
Avaaz
1/21 - 2/9/2025


__Celebrating the Iranian-Jewish immigrant experience through traditions and humor__ Written and performed by Emmy Award nominee Michael Shayan and directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz ...


Hand Foot Hand, written and performed by Deborah Kent and directed by Kate Hendrickson, explores the challenges faced by a blind student navigating a new ...

Sweeney Todd
1/31 - 2/9/2025


Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is a darkly gripping musical thriller that has garnered numerous accolades, ...


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Review: FAT HAM Presented by Goodman Theatre and Definition Theatre


by Zac Thriffiley - January 24, 2025

The Goodman’s FAT HAM is an intelligent, uproarious adaptation that explores and celebrates Black joy and resilience. The co-production with Definition Theatre has already been extended through March 2....

Review: JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING at Chicago Shakespeare Theater


by Rachel Weinberg - January 21, 2025

With JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING, Jocelyn Bioh pulls off a challenging theatrical feat: She makes a slice-of-life play consistently engaging and entertaining. Set in Harlem at a hair salon of the same name, JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING follows a group of West African immigrant women working there —...

Review: JEKYLL & HYDE IN CONCERT at BrightSide Theatre


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - January 19, 2025

This is the moment – when Dr. Henry Jekyll decides to try an experiment. Jekyll and Hyde in Concert is the newest production from BrightSide Theatre. ...

Review: SHUCKED National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago


by Rachel Weinberg - January 09, 2025

SHUCKED is a corny musical...in the best way possible. Book writer Robert Horn and composer team Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally’s lyrics are chock-full (or should I say husk-full?) of puns, double entendres, and cringey punchlines. I was grinning ear-to-ear (of corn). SHUCKED is joyful, creative, a...

Review: LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL at Music Theater Works At The North Shore Center For The Performing Arts


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - December 23, 2024

This story is definitely geared to young females. They do identify with it. It was apparent in the audience. It is about respecting yourself but also treating each other with respect. Believe in yourself. Have faith in others but ultimately, have faith in yourself. We all need to remember these impo...

Review: TEATRO ZINZANNI at Cambria Hotel


by Rachel Weinberg - December 12, 2024

TEATRO ZINZANNI is still kicking it in the indoor Spiegeltent Zazou nestled on the fourteenth floor of the Cambria Hotel in the Loop. It’s still a reliably entertaining variety show, and this particular edition includes many returning performers....

& JULIET National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago


by Rachel Weinberg - December 05, 2024

& JULIET is an unserious jukebox musical that’s deeply serious about its commitment to fun....

Review: RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA at Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire IL


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - November 24, 2024

This is the crucial moment in the current childrens’ theatre production at Marriott Lincolnshire of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical, Cinderella. The cast of ten, under the direction of Laura Rook, brings delight and joy to the littlest members of the audience, many of the girls dressed as ...

Review: FALSETTOS presented by Court Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company


by Rachel Weinberg - November 25, 2024

FALSETTOS, originally written as two-one act musicals set in 1979 and 1981, respectively, feels simultaneously dated and prescient. In this co-production from Court Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company, director Nick Bowling leads a first-rate ensemble that preserves the musical as a period piece bu...

Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at Theo Ubique


by Misha Davenport - November 22, 2024

What did our critic think of THE SECRET GARDEN at Theo Ubique?...



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