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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 ...

Cinderella
Cinderella
1/10 - 1/20/2025


Magical Starlight Theatre's January 2025 “Cinderella” – a timeless tale that weaves together profound messages about kindness and the transformative power of love.

CELESTIAL COUNTERPOINT: Songs Among the Stars


From the universe to the microcosm, this concert featuring piano, strings and clarinet will have you looking to the skies for creative inspiration. Debussy: Clair ...

Minkowski Conducts


Renowned French conductor Marc Minkowski makes his Music of the Baroque debut with music by three orchestral gods—Handel, Rameau, and Mozart. Handel’s concerto grosso was ...

The Smuggler
The Smuggler
1/14 - 1/25/2025


CHICAGO – Jackalope Theatre Company is proud to announce the return of the one-man thriller in rhyme, The Smuggler, now playing through January 25,  by ...

Think Floyd


Think Floyd SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 | 7:00 PM  TICKETS* Tickets: $49 / $55 / $59 RaueNOW: $34.30 / $38.50 / $41.30 Think Floyd USA, ...


The 38th Annual Young Playwrights Festival at Pegasus Theatre Chicago showcases the boundless creativity of high school playwrights through three world premieres that explore themes ...

38th Annual Young Playwrights Festival


Chicago - Pegasus Theatre Chicago presents the 38th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, January 5 - 26, 2025 at Chicago Dramatists, 798 N. Aberdeen.  For nearly ...

Come From Away
1/21 - 1/26/2025


Come From Away brings to life the extraordinary true story of 7,000 stranded airline passengers and the small Canadian town of Gander that welcomed them ...

Come From Away
Come From Away
1/21 - 1/26/2025


Broadway’s  COME FROM AWAY  is a Best Musical winner all across North America! This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of ...

HARANA
HARANA
1/26


An evening of arias, songs, and serenades.

Harana
Harana
1/26


Governors State University’s (GovState) The Center for Performing Arts (The Center), 1 University Parkway, University Park, continues its 29th season with LÍRIKO’s Opera Up Close: ...

Hitt Records
12/21 - 1/26/2025


Hitt Records is a new musical revue that explores the rich history of music through the lens of a vintage record shop owned by characters ...

I'M NOT SAD
1/10 - 1/26/2025


I'M NOT SAD is a one-person show written and performed by Juan Muñoz, set to debut on January 10, 2025, at the Theo Ubique Cabaret ...

Jekyll and Hyde in Concert
Jekyll and Hyde in Concert
1/17 - 1/26/2025


A concert presentation of the musical based on Robert Louis Stevensons’s classic story of an epic struggle between good and evil, performed by a cast ...

LOVE IN THE TIME OF _____
1/16 - 1/26/2025


Love in the Time of _____ explores the intersection of pop songs, dating apps, and the complexities of love through a series of vignettes. The ...

Minkowski Conducts


Renowned French conductor Marc Minkowski makes his Music of the Baroque debut with music by three orchestral gods—Handel, Rameau, and Mozart. Handel’s concerto grosso was ...

New Philharmonic: The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti


Delight in this romantic comedy opera by Donizetti about a young villager who seeks a love potion from a traveling quack doctor to win the ...

SINGLE-SIDED
1/14 - 1/26/2025


Single-Sided is a one-man musical written and performed by Aaron Jamieson Roberts. It follows AJ, an imaginative young person navigating the challenges of modern dating ...

STAY HUMAN YOU ANIMAL
1/12 - 1/26/2025


STAY HUMAN YOU ANIMAL is a one-person show by Fred Cavair Robinson, presenting a collection of short plays rooted in the neo-futurist aesthetic. The performance ...

Symphonic Stanzas: Music in the World


Encore Music Academy presents Symphonic Stanzas: Music In The World SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2025 | 4:00 PM TICKETS* $20 Adults| $15 Students and Seniors* EMA ...


THE MYSTERIOUS MAGICIAN (AND CHIP) features an evening filled with magic and laughter, brought to life by Charlie Baker. As a skilled movement artist and ...


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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...

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