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The Way It Is...Now
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Dionne Lea is returning to Chicago with her 2023 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Award-nominated cabaret, The Way It Is...Now. From women's power to Black power, marriage ...
The animal kingdom comes alive through charming works for orchestra under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Kraemer. Dogs bark in Vivaldi’s “Spring” Concerto ...
The animal kingdom comes alive through charming works for orchestra under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Kraemer. Dogs bark in Vivaldi’s “Spring” Concerto ...
Jesus Christ Superstar
4/16 - 4/17/2024
Jesus Christ Superstar is an iconic musical phenomenon with a world-wide fan base. In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, a new mesmerizing production comes to ...
Madame's jealous butler Edgar cat-naps Duchess and her Aristokittens and abandons them in the Parisian countryside. What's a cat to do? Luckily, Thomas O'Malley and ...
Disney's Beauty And The Beast
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Disney's Beauty and the Beast, an international sensation that has been produced in 37 countries worldwide. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage ...
Disney's Beauty And The Beast Jr
4/18 - 4/20/2024
The Brainy and Beautiful Belle yearns to escape her provincial life...and her brute of a suitor, Gaston. However, Belle gets more adventurous than she wanted ...
Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr
4/19 - 4/20/2024
In a magical kingdom fathoms below, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, ...
Little Shop Of Horrors
4/18 - 4/20/2024
A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ...
Mamma Mia!
4/17 - 4/20/2024
MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel–good show that has audiences coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now it's your turn to have ...
Mamma Mia!
4/18 - 4/20/2024
MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel–good show that has audiences coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now it's your turn to have ...
Mean Girls High School Version
4/12 - 4/20/2024
Get in, high schools - we're licensing Mean Girls High School Version! Consider this your invitation from Regina George herself to license the fiercely hilarious ...
Mean Girls High School Version
4/18 - 4/20/2024
Get in, high schools - we're licensing Mean Girls High School Version! Consider this your invitation from Regina George herself to license the fiercely hilarious ...
Mean Girls High School Version
4/18 - 4/20/2024
Get in, high schools - we're licensing Mean Girls High School Version! Consider this your invitation from Regina George herself to license the fiercely hilarious ...
Newsies
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Read all about it! Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the premiere of a brand new musical, NEWSIES, adapted for the stage from the ...
Peter Pan Jr
4/20
Wendy Darling loves to tell stories to her brothers, Michael and John. But when her father announces she must move out of the nursery, Peter ...
Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka Jr.
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir is a golden ticket to adventure....
Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka Jr.
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir is a golden ticket to adventure....
Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka Jr.
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir is a golden ticket to adventure....
WE’RE BACK!! Every month, Las Locas Comedy & Pa Fuera Productions hosts an extra loca night of comedy at The Pocket at Surge Logan Square. ...
The Addams Family School Edition
4/18 - 4/20/2024
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 ...
The Way It Is...Now
4/19 - 4/20/2024
Dionne Lea is returning to Chicago with her 2023 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards nominated cabaret, The Way It Is...Now. From women's power to Black power, ...
1776
4/12 - 4/21/2024
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 ...
A Year With Frog And Toad
4/12 - 4/21/2024
Spend The Summer With Frog and Toad Kids will love A Year With Frog and Toad, a musical based on Arnold Lobel’s popular children’s book ...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
4/17 - 4/21/2024
Celebrating over 55 years of partnership with the Auditorium Theatre, the illustrious Alvin Ailey returns to its Chicago home for a must-see six-performance program with ...
Disney's Finding Nemo Kids
4/20 - 4/21/2024
Disney’s Finding Nemo is a musical adaptation of the beloved 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo, with new music by award-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and ...
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by Zac Thriffiley - April 09, 2024
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