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Collaboraction Theatre will present a free staged reading of Lawndale King, Willie Round’s powerful new play about Dr.

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Raue Center For The Arts will present a performance of 'A Neil Diamond Story' by Denny Svehla.

Raue Center For The Arts is inviting audiences to celebrate the enduring legacy of one of America’s most beloved rock icons with PETTY KINGS – A Tribute to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will continue its 50th Anniversary Season with August Strindberg’s master class in marital warfare The Dance of Death, adapted by Conor McPherson.

Watch as Cratchit asks Scrooge for Christmas Day off in Goodman Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol.

Fully Committed, the one actor tour de force comedy by Becky Mode, will play The Den Theatre in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, March 13 through 28, 2026.

Hot off their record-breaking runs of Jekyll & Hyde and Amélie the Musical, Kokandy Productions is back in 2026 with three full productions, including their first play with music.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced the cast for Short Shakespeare! Hamlet, an original and accessible 75-minute adaptation directed by CST Artistic Director Edward Hall.

Music Theater Works’ Annie, in the George Van Dusen Theatre, at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, is now playing through January 4, 2026.

Chicago Children’s Theatre has announced the launch of the Chicago Sensory Theatre Summit, a new international convening focused on sensory-centered and accessible theatre.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is coming to Chicago in a new English-language stage adaptation by Marco Antonio Rodríguez, continuing The Goodman’s Centennial 2025/26 Season

American Blues Theater will continue its 40th anniversary season with the reimagined classic Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge and directed by Associate Artistic Director Elyse Dolan.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will welcome the return of one of the foremost vocal artists of our time when Renée Fleming appears in recital for Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, inspired by her 2023 Grammy Award–winning Best Classical Vocal Solo album.

Music Theater Works will cast RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and drag performer Mrs.

MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS by Chip Davis will play the James M.

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Chicago Theatre Week, an annual celebration of the rich tradition of theatre-going in Chicago during which visitors and residents can access value-priced tickets, will take place this winter.

New Year! New Show! Welcome to 2026 where the laughter runs hot and the jokes run cheap.

Chicago Opera Theater will present the second Discovery Concert of the 2025-26 season.

Before the humbug, SCROOGE was just a young man with lively friends, prepared to celebrate the holidays.

A Red Orchid Theatre will continue its 33rd Season with the Chicago premiere of Anna Ouyang Moench's father-daughter drama Birds of North America, directed by Artistic Director Kirsten Fitzgerald.

The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is fast approaching, so get set for 12 straight days of incredible stories told by puppet artists and companies from around the world playing all over Chicago.

Love Is Improvised returns to Judy’s Beat Lounge for a new run after previously selling out its engagement.