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THEATER WIT

1229 W Belmont, Chicago IL 60657
Chicago, IL 60647

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, ...


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Chicago Writers' Bloc 2024 New Play Festival Begins In May At Theater Wit


by A.A. Cristi - April 15, 2024

Discover new musicals and plays from Chicago-area writers at the 2024 New Play Festival, hosted by Chicago Writers' Bloc at Theater Wit from May 5 - 19....

TWISTED MELODIES Added to Northlight Theatre's 2024-25 Season


by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2024

Northlight Theatre has announced Twisted Melodies, written and directed by Kelvin Roston Jr as the final production of the 2024-2025 season. ...

PlayGround Returns With BEST OF PLAYGROUND(CHICAGO) '24 April 29


by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2024

Discover the selected plays and playwrights for PlayGround's annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND(CHICAGO) ’24....

The Physical Theater Festival Chicago Returns This July


by Stephi Wild - March 29, 2024

Physical Theater Festival Chicago has announced the complete lineup for its 11th anniversary celebration, July 13 - 21. ...

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....

LITTLE WOMEN & More Set for Northlight Theatre 2024-25 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 14, 2024

Northlight Theatre has revealed the 2024-2025 season. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets....

Chicago Theatres Celebrate Women's History Month In March With A Wide Selection Of Productions


by A.A. Cristi - February 29, 2024

Celebrate Women's History Month with Chicago Theatres featuring a variety of productions honoring the vital role of women in American history....

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company to Present PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE SONG: Romance on Stage, Screen, and Beyond


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 26, 2024

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will present “Punch-Drunk Love Song: Romance on Stage, Screen, and Beyond,” Saturday, March 9, at 8 p.m. Learn more about the event! ...

INANIMATE Comes to Theater Wit Next Month


by Stephi Wild - February 26, 2024

Discover the unique and captivating story of a woman's unconventional romance with a Dairy Queen sign in Theater Wit's presentation of 'INANIMATE.' A must-see objectum-sexual romantic comedy in Chicago from Mar 22 to May 4....

Full Cast and Creative Team Set For GOD AND MONSTERS at Theater Wit


by Stephi Wild - February 22, 2024

The full cast and creative team has been announced for the new stage production of Gods & Monsters at Theater Wit. Learn more about the show and who is starring here!...

Past Shows

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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