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Jackalope Theatre will welcome back live audiences with the announcement of the 13th Annual Living Newspaper Festival.

Enjoy an energizing West African cultural experience with Ayodele Drum and Dance, at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre June 16, 2022.

Ravinia Festival is pleased to announce an expanded summer series on its Carousel stage following a successful inaugural year in 2021.

Legendary Chicago comedy institution The Second City has announced the creation of The Victor Wong Fellowship, a program to train and mentor up-and-coming comedians.

Chicago's favorite evening of big voices for a big cause, returns with the 7th annual Belting for Life.

Raven Theatre has announced its 40th Anniversary Season, kicking off this fall with a fresh take on Noël Coward’s iconic 1930 comedy Private Lives, directed by Ian Frank.

This spring Porchlight Music Theatre is presenting the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening, at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts.

Chicago Children’s Theatre, Chicago’s largest professional theater company devoted exclusively to children and young families, continues its 2021-2022 “Season of Resilience” with the world premiere of Carmela Full of Wishes, running through May 22, 2022.

Nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Rock of Ages is now playing at Paramount Theatre, taking audiences back into the iconic music era of the ‘80s, where rock ‘n’ roll dreamers turn their fantasies into reality.

The Gift Theatre is welcoming back live audiences with the Chicago premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s drama At the Vanishing Point, directed by Lavina Jadhwani, playing April 28 – May 22, 2022 at Filament Theatre, 4041 N.

Chicago is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings.

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In the Shakespearean canon, ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL defies categorization; it doesn’t neatly fit alongside Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, or history plays.

How to rescue a bar in 1987? Read our critic's review of the production.

A Chicago original and international hit, Late Nite Catechism turns 29 in the city where it all started.

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, in residence at Northeastern Illinois University, brings their popular “Flamenco Passion” performances to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd.

After four sold-out Skokie Theatre concerts, Chicago musical favorite Russ Goeltenbodt returns to the theater for his first concert in five years - Live At 65.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater is presenting William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well in the Courtyard Theater through May 29, 2022.

Due to popular demand, the Neal Brennan: Unacceptable tour has added a fourth stand-up performance on Saturday, May 14 at 9:30 pm on The Den Theatre’s Heath Mainstage, 1331 N.

Porchlight’s SPRING AWAKENING brings out moments of the raw emotion and many of the angsty vibes in the musical with Hlava’s Wendla and Kelch’s Mortiz as powerful anchors in this ensemble of angsty teens (though, aside from Hlava, all the actors are past their teen days).

Join City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) and City Colleges of Chicago Foundation for five engaging discussions, online, that work together to build back a stronger community and Chicago.

The season will open with Bruce Norris’ Tony, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning “Clybourne Park,” directed by Kurt Naebig (Sept.

The National Indo-American Museum (NIAM), which builds bridges across generations and connects cultures through the diverse colorful stories of Indian Americans, closes its inaugural exhibition, E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora, with a weekend of events May 14 and 15 at its home, the Umang and Pa

'This is not your average Hamlet.

The Den Theatre has announced Emmy Award-nominated comedian Michelle Wolf, playing three stand-up performances May 26 – 28, 2022 on The Heath Mainstage, 1331 N.