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THEATER WIT

1229 W Belmont, Chicago IL 60657
Chicago, IL 60647

Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends
10/19 - 11/23/2024


Bluebird arts kicks off its sixth season with Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies. Dinner with Friends is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that delves into ...


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WHO'S HOLIDAY Comes to Theater Wit


by Stephi Wild - November 14, 2024

Cindy-Lou Who, now 40, returns to Chicago’s Theater Wit for her fourth season in Who’s Holiday!, a comedy with a twist of rhyme, opening this month and running this holiday season....

Shattered Globe Theatre Welcomes Playwright Sarah Ruhl for BECKY, NURSE OF SALEM Discussion


by A.A. Cristi - October 29, 2024

Join playwright Sarah Ruhl for a discussion on BECKY NURSE OF SALEM at Shattered Globe Theatre on Nov. 1 at 7:15 pm, ahead of the 8 pm show....

Photos: Remy Bumppo Theatre Company's DEAR ELIZABETH


by A.A. Cristi - October 21, 2024

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s Dear Elizabeth, the first production of its 2024 - 2025 season, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Remy Bumppo Creative Producer Christina Casano, is now playing through November 17, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. See photos from the production....

Shattered Globe To Present Works From Sarah Ruhl, Kenneth Lonergan and More for 2024/25 Season


by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2024

Shattered Globe Theatre announced its 2024-25 season featuring Sarah Ruhl’s BECKY NURSE OF SALEM, Kenneth Lonergan’s LOBBY HERO, and a new adaptation of Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Brendan Pelsue....

Bluebird Arts to Present DINNER WITH FRIENDS By Donald Margulies Beginning in October


by Blair Ingenthron - August 25, 2024

Bluebird Arts, Chicago's only English-Russian Cross-Cultural Theatre has announced their Cast and Creative Team for their upcoming production of DINNER WITH FRIENDS by DONALD MARGULIES, opening SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2024 at THEATER WIT....

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Reveals Cast And Creative Team For Sarah Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 24, 2024

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company revealed the cast and creative team for Sarah Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Physical Theater Festival to Present 11th Annual Event in July


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 18, 2024

Experience innovative performances at the 11th Annual Physical Theater Festival, featuring a diverse lineup of physical theater artists from around the world....

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Reveals 2024 - 2025 Season


by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2024

Artistic Director Marti Lyons and Remy Bumppo Theatre Company have announced the 2024 - 2025 season. Learn more about the lineup here!...

DEAR ELIZABETH & More Set for Remy Bumppo Theatre Company 2024 - 2025 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 09, 2024

Discover the 2024 - 2025 season at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. See the full programming and learn how to purchase tickets. ...

JUMP Opens Next Month at Theater Wit


by Stephi Wild - March 15, 2024

Shattered Globe Theatre will present Jump, a Midwest premiere by Charly Evon Simpson, directed by SGT associate artistic director AmBer Montgomery. Performances are April 19-June 1, 2024 at Theater Wit. Press opening is Monday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m....

Past Shows

Chicago Writer''s Bloc 2024 New Play Festival


Staged readings of ten new works by Chicago writers. The festival features five new musicals and five new plays from 14 local Chicago playwrights, lyricists, ...

Radial Gradient
Radial Gradient
1/27 - 3/11/2023


Three women enter a research study hoping to create positive change after a hate crime takes place at a liberal university in America. Timelines in ...

National Merit
National Merit
8/25 - 9/25/2022


In NATIONAL MERIT, seven students embark on an intensive PSAT prep program in the hopes to become National Merit Scholars. As the pressure rises, these ...

Rasheeda Speaking
Rasheeda Speaking
4/22 - 6/4/2022


Whether its the doctors inability to remember her name, or the toxic fumes radiating from the Xerox machine and lab next door, Dr. Williams office ...

Brilliant Works of Art
Brilliant Works of Art
9/10 - 9/30/2021


Law student Abby Gates has no qualms about becoming a sugar baby to get her tuition bills paid until it means keeping a secret from ...

Teenage Dick
2/28 - 4/18/2020


High school is hard enough, but when you have a power hungry 17-year-old threatening to overthrow anyone in his way to becoming junior class President, ...

Limelight
Limelight
11/29 - 11/30/2019


The Limelight Cafe has been serving Chicago with a smile since 1939. It is a shock when the bank forecloses on the cafe. Will the ...

Cyrano
Cyrano
3/3 - 4/15/2018


CYRANO, adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner, is based on the play by Edmond Rostand, and directed by BoHo Artistic Affiliate Steve O’Connell. This ...

Real Housewives of Lakeview the Musical: A ONE NIGHT CONCERT READING


Meet the Wives: Joanne, Babette, Penny, Lulu, and Beezus: The Real Housewives of Lakeview. These ladies have it all. Scandalous surprises and bitter betrayals mix ...

Marie Christine
Marie Christine
10/21 - 12/10/2017


Set in the twilight years of the 19th century, Michael John LaChiusa's dark musical chronicles the journey of Marie Christine, a racially mixed woman imprisoned ...

The New Sincerity
2/25 - 4/17/2016


Alena Smith; dir: Jeremy Wechsler....

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice


Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice takes place in a small factory town in Northern England, circa 1990. It tells the story ...

The Fisherman
2/18 - 4/1/2012


For brothers Carl and Chucky Lund, retirement means building a cabin on Pequot Lake, the perfect place for fishing while listening to the Twins lose ...

The North Plan
2/23 - 2/26/2012


What would ordinary Americans do if the U.S. government fell into tyranny? Quentin Tarantino meets All the President’s Men in Jason Wells’ The North Plan. ...

Tartuffe
1/13 - 2/12/2012


In the midst of societal upheaval, when the lines between church and state are being drawn between those for whom religion is the bedrock of ...

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
12/9 - 12/31/2011


Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa’s eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the press descends, the other reindeer ...

Date Me!
Date Me!
12/8 - 12/18/2011


DATE ME! , written by Noémi Schlosser, introduces you to two dateless girlfriends (Schlosser and Michelle Adrienne Slonim) who find themselves marooned at the bar ...

Sound of Silence
Sound of Silence
12/1 - 12/17/2011

Icarus
Icarus
6/25 - 7/23/2011


Beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder. It's something that runs deeper than the roots of an oak tree, down to some ...

Dirty Blonde
Dirty Blonde
4/1 - 5/1/2011


Dirty Blonde, which draws its title from the West film quip "I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde," tells the story ...

The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man
1/7 - 2/6/2011


BoHo Theatre presents The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance, directed by June Eubanks. In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves discovers the misshapen, stunted John Merrick ...

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