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, ...
Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and a Pulitzer finalist, Fun Home, directed by Stephen Schellhardt and music directed by Heidi Joosten, is a ...
Porchlight Music Theatre has appointed Jenna Deja as its interim executive director as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. Deja takes over from Jeannie Lukow, who ...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 31, 2025
Porchlight Music Theatre’s Porchlight Young Professionals will present the return of its popular fundraiser, Broadway Open Mic. Learn more about the event and see how to purchase tickets....
by A.A. Cristi - January 29, 2025
Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its annual fundraising concert celebrating Porchlight's 30th anniversary with Chicago Sings 30 Years of Porchlight, Monday, May 12 at 7 p.m., with a 5:30 p.m. reception, at the House of Blues Chicago....
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 21, 2024
Join Porchlight Young Professionals for a WICKED film watch party featuring cast veterans. Enjoy an evening of musical magic and community engagement. Learn how to attend....
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 03, 2024
Porchlight Music Theatre named Jenna Deja as interim executive director. Learn more about Deja and about th position!...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 21, 2024
At the milestone 50th Anniversary Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theater, more than 100 recognized artists and new emerging faces and voices will be honored. Learn more about the ceremony!...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2023
Porchlight has revealed the cast and creative team for ANYTHING GOES starring Meghan Murphy. Get all the details for this upcoming production....
by Stephi Wild - October 13, 2023
Porchlight Music Theatre’s Porchlight Young Professionals has announced its fall fundraiser, Broadway Open Mic, a live karaoke special event during Porchlight’s Cole Porter Festival: A Celebration of the Man and his Music, Friday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. at The Understudy Coffee and Books....
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 11, 2023
Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre has unveiled its 29th season. The new season launches with The Cole Porter Festival - A Celebration of the Man and his Music. Learn more details about the season!...
by Blair Ingenthron - May 12, 2023
Porchlight Music Theatre is presenting the Chicago premiere of the critically acclaimed musical comedy Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, music by Brendan Milburn, lyrics by Val Vigoda, orchestrations and additional music by Ryan O’Connell and book by Joe DiPietro, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, now...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 29, 2022
Porchlight Music Theatre is continuing its 2022 - 2023 season with Porchlight Revisits I am a Camera, book by John Van Druten, directed by Nate Cohen+. Porchlight Revisits I am a Camera is presented for two performances only Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1:30 p.m....
CHICAGO – Porchlight Music Theatre announces the return of its popular series with New Faces Sing Broadway NOW, hosted by Adrian Aguilar, directed by former ...
New Faces Sing Broadway NOW features a vibrant array of emerging talent in a showcase that highlights recent Broadway hits. Hosted by Adrian Aguilar and ...
THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ...
Chicago will get a kick out of this 90th anniversary production of Cole Porter’s smash-hit musical comedy, Anything Goes. Launching Porchlight’s 29th season, this legendary ...
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is the critically acclaimed new musical comedy with a tongue-in-cheek script by Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro + ( Diana, Memphis, All Shook Up ...
Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre launches its 29th season with Chicago’s Cole Porter Festival - A Celebration of the Man and his Music , launching October ...
The original 1966 version of Cabaret, the groundbreaking musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff, offered a stark and satirical look at pre-war ...
The brilliant songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me bring us another witty, tuneful and utterly charming musical in The Apple ...
RENT: DOWNTOWN LA takes place in a warehouse in industrial downtown Los Angeles, where an artistic renaissance is underway in the vein of 1990s Alphabet ...
Spring Awakening explodes onto the stage with a raw and powerful exploration of teenage angst and sexual awakening in a repressed society. Set in late ...
The brilliant songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me bring us another witty, tuneful and utterly charming musical in The Apple ...
Porchlight Music Theatre is partnering with Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence on its next live streaming production: Hershey Felder as "Sholem Aleichem" in ...
Burning Bluebeard, now in its ninth year, was created and performed by the critically acclaimed theatre troupe The Ruffians. A magical story is told with ...
Debuting during the holiday season, Tchaikovsky is based on Felder's original Our Great Tchaikovsky and now has an extended focus on The Nutcracker ballet....
In a special arrangement with L.A. Theatre Works, playwright Luis Valdez masterfully uses the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the unrest in Los Angeles following ...
Filmed on-site at Chicago's historic Studebaker Theatre, the popular New Faces Sing Broadway cabaret series returns, virtually, this fall with host Larry Adams and a ...
After sold out engagements in 2018 and 2019 at Harlem's world-famous Apollo Theater, Shoshana Bean returns to the legendary stage, this time for a global ...
In a special arrangement with L.A. Theatre Works, Porchlight will host the first revised and updated version of this 1970s cult classic based on the ...
Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its newest virtual offering, the first online production of its New Faces Sing Broadway series, New Faces Sing Broadway 1987, ...
A Paris Love Story is a very personal journey through the beloved city of Paris through the music of Claude Debussy ("Clair de Lune," Prélude ...
A celebration of the artist many consider “the most important composer in the history of jazz,” this stylish salute to “The Duke” will transport audiences ...
The show won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of the few musicals ever to receive this honor, and the New York Drama Critics' ...
The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most unconventional of Broadway hits. 1776 puts a human face on the pages ...
Old Globe Theatre: - book: Robert L. Freedman; lyrics: Robert L. Freedman, Steven Lutvak; music: Steven Lutvak; dir: Darko Tresnjak....
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a classic American musical known for its powerful characters and exploration of ambition, fame, and the complexities of family. Loosely ...
The Tony Award winning musical 1776 is based on the events leading up to the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, ...
n the electrifying world of Memphis the Musical, get ready for a powerful story set against the backdrop of the 1950s rock and roll revolution. ...
Stephen Sondheim’s remarkable Broadway fable of friendship and the high price of success opens in the present and moves backward in time. The triumphs and ...
Billy Elliot the Musical is a joyous celebration of one young boy’s journey to make his dreams come true based on the smash-hit independent film ...
The Scottsboro Boys, a powerful musical with a tragic historical core, is the brainchild of a creative trio. David Thompson crafted the book, weaving the ...
The Scottsboro Boys, a powerful musical with a tragic historical core, is the brainchild of a creative trio. David Thompson crafted the book, weaving the ...
“Brian Allen, Beth Barefoot-Jones and a talented cast bring Little Me to us with verve and style. It’s also a professional production at bargain prices. ...
MARRY ME A LITTLE uses several unknown songs by the undisputed master of the contemporary Broadway musical to tell a charming and bittersweet tale of ...
Assembled under the expert eye of director/lyricist, Richard Maltby, Jr., Ain't Misbehavin' is one of the most popular, well-crafted revues of all time and winner ...
The recipient of Tony Award-nominations for both “Best Score” and “Book of a Musical,” Side Show is inspired by the true-life story of the legendary ...
CHICAGO – Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the first production in the third season of Chicago’s smash “lost” ...
Broadway's greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE ...
MARRY ME A LITTLE uses several unknown songs by the undisputed master of the contemporary Broadway musical to tell a charming and bittersweet tale of ...
Hailed as a "revelatory revue full of wonderful moments" and a "funny, affectionate and revealing tribute to musical theater's greatest living composer and lyricist," Sondheim ...
The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler 's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the ...
Power, sex, ambition, greed... it's just another day at the office. From the authors of GUYS AND DOLLS comes one of the most delightfully irreverent musicals ...
The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930's Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway's ...
A legendary cult show, this wacky, intelligent, highly unconventional musical satire points ahead to Stephen Sondheim 's groundbreaking work in the 1970's even as it ...
SoHo, the ‘90s, a young composer is on the brink of turning 30 and falling into professional oblivion. His girlfriend wants to get married and ...
A couple must decide whether to spend their life savings on the family taxicab company or to celebrate their only daughter’s marriage with a lavish ...
This musical feast of Sondheim favorites weaves a lyrical tapestry around the emotions and relationships of five guests attending an elegant, and ultimately life changing, ...
A revue with a difference? A revue that tells a story? A show that covers one night and forty years? A show that takes place ...
A revue with a difference...brA revue that tells a story...brA show that covers one night and forty years...brA show that takes place today and also ...
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Fun Home
Porchlight Music Theatre (1/16 - 3/2) | |
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Fool for Love
Steppenwolf Theatre Company (1/30 - 3/16) | |
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I and You
Citadel Theatre (2/21 - 3/23) | |
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Clue
Peoria Civic Center (4/1 - 4/2) | |
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LES FRANGLAISES
ZENITH DE TOULON (11/13 - 11/13) | |
Cygnus
The Gift Theatre (2/6 - 3/16) | ||
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Going Gershwin by Ryan & Ryan
ECC Arts Center (2/8 - 2/8) | |
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Journeyman: A Tribute to Eric Clapton
Raue Center For The Arts (3/22 - 3/22) | |
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Insidious: The Further You Fear
Kings Theatre (2/21 - 2/21) | |
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The Cher Show (Non-Equity)
Sangamon Auditorium (4/17 - 4/17) | |
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