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Black Button Eyes Productions is pleased to conclude its 2021-22 season this winter with the world premiere musical Mary Rose, featuring book, music and lyrics by Producing Artistic Director Ed Rutherford and Jeff Bouthiette, adapted from play of the same name by J.

Vicki Quade's interactive holiday hit Christmas Bingo: It's a Ho- Ho-Holy Night returns to Metropolis Performing Arts Centre December 20, 2021.

The Chicago Latino Theater Alliance is adding all-new Latino flair to Chicago's free, outdoor holiday entertainment offerings by introducing Destinos al Aire, A Holiday Extravaganza!, launching Friday, November 26 at Millennium Park, followed Friday, December 3 at the Humboldt Park Boathouse, and F

Venus Cabaret Theater, the intimate performance space at Mercury Theater Chicago, presents the monthly Comedy Night Series as part of The Dark Night Series.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will welcome audiences back for in-person performances for the first time in 20 months with its acclaimed and extraordinary revival of Bug by Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning ensemble member Tracy Letts, in the Downstairs Theater November 11 – December 12, 2021 (o

After 20 months away from the stage, TimeLine Theatre Company will return to live, in-person theatre with its free FIRST DRAFT: Playwrights Collective Festival, spanning two weekends, Friday-Sunday, December 3-5 and December 10-12, at Theater Wit, 1229 W.

The Music Institute of Chicago brings back a holiday tradition with “Duke It Out!,” featuring the classical (Tchaikovsky) and jazz (Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn) versions of The Nutcracker in a music and dance performance Saturday, December 11 at 2 p.

Chicago Tribune Media newspaper columnist Phil Potempa is reunited again with his longtime editor Crista Zivanovic to perform their Charles Dickens dinner show with five performances in 2021 as the highlight of the December holiday events at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road

First Folio Theatre’s Board of Directors has announced that Founding Executive Director David Rice will be stepping down in the spring of 2024.

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Theater Wit, Chicago's “smart art” theater, is ready to place a bold, brassy star atop Chicago's holiday entertainment tree with the Chicago premiere of Who's Holiday!, about a booze-guzzling, cigarette-smoking, adult Cindy Lou Who reminiscing about the night she first met The Grinch.

 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, returns for its 10th year and will take place February 17-27, 2022.

Victory Gardens Theater opens its 2021/22 Mainstage Season with Queen of the Night, written by travis tate and directed by Victory Gardens Artistic Director Ken-Matt Martin.

Chicago's leading Latinx theater company, Teatro Vista, announced plans today for its 2021-22 season, the first guided by new Co-Artistic Directors Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo.

Music lovers of all genres – classical, pop, rock, musical theatre and more – will relish the epic journey celebrating the power of music that is Nat Zegree's concert FROM MOZART TO POP CHART.

Set in 1997, Radio Golf is the final play of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, a series of ten plays documenting the African American experience throughout the twentieth century.

Chicago has the largest Polish-American population of any city in the United States.

When retirement centers were on lock down last year due to Covid, Chicago Cabaret sent their holiday concert out to 85 Chicago area nursing homes for staff and residents to enjoy a musical celebration.

Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago's foremost producer of contemporary and re-imagined opera, continues its 2021-2022 season with the Chicago premiere of the seasonal treat, Becoming Santa Claus, in three performances only, December 11, 17 & 19, at the Studebaker Theater, 410 S.

Midsommer Flight's perennial holiday production of TWELFTH NIGHT will return in December, in a new immersive “choose-your-own-path” concept to be directed by Kristina McCloskey and associate directed by Stephanie Mattos.

The Joffrey Ballet's critically-acclaimed reimagined classic, The Nutcracker, by Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, is certain to be a highlight of the Joffrey's first-ever season at the historic Lyric Opera House, 20 North Upper Wacker Drive, in 26 performances, December 4 – 2

As a Chicago community, we come together to celebrate even if there's six feet of snow.

Considered by many to be the most charming musical ever written, Millikin University's School of Theatre & Dance will present 'She Loves Me' at Kirkland Fine Arts Center on Millikin's campus.

A boy and girl falling in love, a vengeful mother-in-law hunting an alleged kidnapper, and .

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre returns to live performances and the launch of its 27th Mainstage season with Pump Boys & Dinettes, now playing through December 12 at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N.