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It's A Wonderful Life Radio Play
12/13 - 12/21/2024
The Dickensian tale of George Bailey, a savings and loan manager who spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of ...
Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs 'A Christmas Carol'
12/5 - 12/22/2024
Jeff Award-Winner Blake Montgomery is proud to present Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again, at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave, December ...
The Long Christmas Dinner
11/19 - 12/29/2024
THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER - nine decades long in just one 75-minute act - showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family. Wilder ...
The Berlin Diaries
12/20 - 1/5/2025
The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a ...
The Totality of All Things
12/5 - 1/19/2025
Award-winning Redtwist Theatre is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the headlining production in Twisted Playfest, The Totality of All Things, written ...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
9/10 - 2/1/2025
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. ...
Glassheart
1/10 - 2/23/2025
A modern-day reimagining of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale.
I and You
2/21 - 3/23/2025
Written by Lauren Gunderson; Directed by Scott Shallenbarger. This extraordinary touching story is written by the same playwright who brought us "Silent Sky" this last ...
DOG SEES GOD
4/3 - 4/6/2025
An "unauthorized continuation," this play reimagines characters from the popular comic strip Peanuts as degenerate teenagers.
A Jukebox for the Algonquin
4/18 - 5/18/2025
Written by Paul Stroili; Directed by Scott Westerman. A Chicago Theatre premiere! All the residents of Placid Pines Senior Care Center want is a jukebox, ...
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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...
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by Misha Davenport - November 22, 2024
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by Rachel Weinberg - November 04, 2024
In Ngozi Anyanwu’s LEROY AND LUCY, two strangers meet at a crossroads in Mississippi...and not much happens. Based upon the myth of Robert Johnson, who supposedly sold his soul to the devil to make it as a blues musician, the play finds Leroy (Jon Michael Hill) and Lucy (Brittany Bradford) in a limi...
Review: BEST KEPT SECRET: TELL EVERYONE at The Second City E.t.c.
by Rachel Weinberg - October 31, 2024
The Second City’s latest e.t.c. revue BEST KEPT SECRET: TELL EVERYONE wants to remind audiences that life is a cabaret, old chum. While some Second City revue themes hang together better than others, BEST KEPT SECRET slyly pays homage to the classic Kander and Ebb musical CABARET and the general ide...
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at North Shore Center For The Performing Arts, Skokie, IL
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