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Jeff and Hunter, two gay writers struggling to make it in New York, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions ...

Showcase of the vibrant and diverse talents within the queer community, including exhibitions by 13 LGBTQ+ visual artists, along with nightly performances by musicians and ...

 A series of 10-minute plays interspersed with standup and spoken word performers....

HIT THE WALL offers a poignant and powerful exploration of the 1969 Stonewall riots. The play's recurring phrase, "I was there," lends a sacred weight ...

The musical GAY CARD is the hilariously heartwarming story of Logan Kapler, a one-friend loser who has never belonged. But now he's starting college with ...

IN THE FAMILY is a drag theater production written by Tirrany Reigns and co-directed by Ramona Mirage and Tirrany Reigns, produced in tandem with PrideArts. ...

The Chicago premiere of the musical GIRLFRIEND, by Todd Almond and Matthew Sweet, based on Sweets album of the same name. Set in Nebraska in ...

Tommy Miller, closeted Hollywood heartthrob is nominated for an Oscar and is a shoo-in to win Best Actor. His bibulous sister Molly and musical theater ...

Kyra Leigh (she/her/hers), seen most recently at PrideArts in last summers THE THINGS I COULD NEVER TELL STEVEN. Leigh has also appeared with PrideArts in ...

Scott Gryder (he/him/his), accompanied by Nick Sula (he/him/his), performing Gryder and Sula Celebrate Kander and Ebb' - songs from CHICAGO, CABARET, and lesser-known gems by ...

Joe Lewis (he/him/his) and Korinne Yonan (she/her/hers) performing a set they call A 21St Century Romance : the Love Story Between Fag and Hag. The ...

Carl Herzog (he/him/his), a Jeff Award nominee in 2019 for Theo Ubiques THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, accompanied on the piano by Bryan McCaffrey. Herzog ...

World Premiere. A dream play of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last day on earth, by American writer Sally Deering. This biographical play offers insights into her ...

Worried about the supply-chain crises and rising cost of Christmas trees, Karol decides to cancel her famous holiday party. It's up to her friends and ...

, PrideArts will bring the British theatrical genre of panto to Chicago for the companys holiday show. A tradition with roots going back to Commedia ...

Michael awakens from a three week-long coma that has affected his memory. He struggles to find the way back to his true self as a ...

In this comic fantasy, four lovers find true love with the help of several bewitching fairies over a warm summer night. This virtual reading will ...

Four young students of an exclusive girls boarding school, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide ...

Jeffrey, a gay actor/waiter, has sworn off sex after too many bouts with his partners about what is safe and what is not. In gay ...

Four gay boys of the Baptist Church try to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas. The ...

Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are linked by a sex scandal thats rocked their town. When one of them sets out to ...

Taking inspiration from Diana Son's STOP KISS, SHUT UP KISS ME is a love story set in the hours and days after the first date ...

In Shakespeares classic comedy of gender identity and mistaken identities, a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria separates the twin siblings Viola and Sebastian. After ...

Full casting was announced today for PrideArts' JANUARY 26 reading of Tarell Alvin McCraney's MARCUS; OR THE SECRET OF SWEET. Curtain time will be 7 ...

Pride Arts today announced four more titles and directors in its winter series of one-night only live virtual readings. Following the previously announced JANUARY 12 ...

The final play of the virtual fall season will be Anton Chekov's THE PROPOSAL, to be streamed twice only - on Thursday, DECEMBER 17 and ...

Filmed at the Knitting Factory stage in downtown Manhattan, A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT features Kate and Anna McGarrigle in a live performance of THE ...

A one-act comedy that premiered in London in 1898, He and She meet for the first time in an asylum and each mistakes the other ...

In A PAIR OF LUNATICS, which premiered in London in 1898, He and She meet for the first time in an asylum and each mistakes ...

n celebration of Trans Awareness Month this NOVEMBER, PrideArts will honor transgender pioneers and showcase ten Chicago trans performers who are reshaping our history. Artistic ...

A three-character one-act farce that premiered in London in 1847. BOX AND COX is a hilarious romance of real life in one act....

With the plague of the 17th century brewing and a government ban that closed theatrical spaces, a new art form was found: Closet Drama - ...

A college student comes out to his religious mother. This is a workshop/reading. Tickets are free but space is limited, please reserve your seats in ...

Second annual cabaret celebrating the queer community in Chicago and bringing more visibility to the female/non-binary who love women. Thirty performers will sing music from ...

Pride Arts today announced it will resume its "Pride in Place" series of one-night only live virtual readings, beginning with an adaptation of Shakespeare's gender-bending ...

Shakespeares story of the lender Shylock who proposes collateral of a pound of flesh against a loan will be set in 1938 Italy, when racial ...

Eric Bogosians play is a series of 12 monologues by 12 different men who are all unhappy with the way they feel society has left ...

Eric Bogosians play is a series of 12 monologues by 12 different men who are all unhappy with the way they feel society has left ...

With music by Cindy OConnor and book and lyrics by Larry Todd (Johnson) Cousineau, this winner of the National Playwrights Award and the ACTF Musical ...

Ronnie Larsen, producer of the long running off-Broadway hit MAKING PORN, and director/bookwriter of the musical NOW & THEN, which just completed a five-run run ...

This musical tells with humor and heart the relationship of the characters Daniel and Greg from their twenties through their middle and later adult years. ...

Scott Gryder, of Pride Films and Plays current production of BUYER & CELLAR will lead a cabaret of Ms. Streisands songs on Monday, April 22 ...