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WFMT will celebrate its 70th anniversary on Monday, December 13 with a day of exciting performances featuring an impressive roster of special guests.

Blank Theatre Company is thrilled to announce their 2022 season featuring two full-length productions and a scheduled cabaret event.

Raue Center For The Arts will welcome the Elgin Symphony Orchestra to the stage this December! Celebrate the holidays this year with ESO's Holiday Spectacular Concert at 8 p.

Get a sneak-peek at Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol back on stage in the heart of the Chicago Loop following a year of darkened stages.

Rehearsals have begun for the two centerpiece “developmental productions” featured in Goodman Theatre's 17th annual New Stages Festival, a free celebration of new works by some of the country's finest established and emerging playwrights.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater is once again the ultimate destination for the holiday season.

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Raven Theatre, Chicago's newest Equity-affiliated theatre, is pleased to continue its 2021-22 Season with Jonathan Harvey's sweet and charming coming-of-age play Beautiful Thing, directed by Mikael Burke.

Tara Vaughan celebrates the women who made music history in She Rocks at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre January 7, 2022.

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre announces the cast for the “Best Musical” Tony Award-nominated Blues in the Night, conceived by Sheldon Epps+, with the music of Bessie Smith, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Gordon Jenkins, Alberta Hunter and others, January 15, 2022 - February 2

Thumbprint Studios is proud to present Forbidden Spaces: A Virtual Cabaret of Original Works on December 11, 2021, at 8 PM CST/6 PM PST.

Theatre 68 and the Venus Cabaret Theater have announced the extension of the critically acclaimed production, “I'm Not A Comedian… I'm Lenny Bruce,” now running until Jan.

There is a famous story about after the first performance of Rent.

Last year, the world’s biggest-selling soprano and legendary GRAMMY® Award-nominated artist Sarah Brightman entertained her first-ever Christmas livestream concert Sarah Brightman: A Christmas Symphony, and it warmed hearts worldwide as the ultimate holiday event.

Organizers of the 4th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival announced today the line-up of contemporary puppet acts and artists from Chicago and the U.

Hell in a Handbag Productions has announced its 20th anniversary benefit: Bette's Bawdy Brunch, a festive afternoon of food, drink and show-stopping entertainment from Handbag diva Caitlin Jackson, reprising her popular role as Bette Midler.

The Music Institute of Chicago will present a free musical celebration of Dr.

Actors Training Center now celebrating its 15th Anniversary, has announced its inaugural holiday musical, Little Women the Musical, based on Louisa May Alcott's celebrated and popular novel, as part of ATC's Musical Theatre Intensive (MTI), running Friday, Dec.

FROZEN is a fun and sparkly production to ring in the holiday season, and this touring cast is first-rate.

The Second City returns to the McAninch Arts Center just in time for the holidays with “It's a Wild, Wacky, Wonderful Life” at 4 p.

Porchlight Music Theatre is partnerIng with Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence and its second season of productions.

Three of the world's most accomplished Verdians—soprano Tamara Wilson, tenor Russell Thomas, and conductor and Lyric Opera of Chicago Music Director Enrique Mazzola—will marshal their powerful musical forces alongside the Lyric Opera Orchestra for a special concert event: Verdi Voices on Sunday,

Turning to the stage to raise funds for the funerals of their dearly departed members, these sisters sing, tap, and puppet their way through a variety show where we learn about their personal stories and the apparently unpredictable life of a nun.

Music Theater Works will present 'Billy Elliot: The Musical' at the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts In Skokie (9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60076) from December 23, 2021 through January 2, 2022 as the final production of the 2021 Season.

PARADISE SQUARE takes the theme of the proverbial American melting pot deeply to heart.