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Penn & Teller, magic’s legendary duo, will bring their 50th Anniversary Tour to The Chicago Theatre on Friday, October 24, 2025 at 8:00PM.

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre’s Education Department is launching new hobbyist programs beginning this spring and running through the fall.

The Driehaus Museum and Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced a partnership on a new three-part chamber concert series in the historic Murphy Auditorium.

Arts Judaica, the live theater/music/education organization that was launched in 2024 with the Chicago premiere of the stage drama THE BERLIN DIARIES, has announced four showcase performances of Wendy Kout’s play SURVIVORS.

The Jellicle Ball is about to begin under the big top when Paramount Theatre brings audience circus-themed revival of Cats, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, directed by Trent Stork, April 30-June 15, 2025.

Chicago Opera Theater has unveiled its 2025/26 Season.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is pure F-U-N at Paramount’s Copley Theatre in downtown Aurora.

Open Space Arts will extend the run of its production  of “it's been ten years since everyone died.

Audiences of all ages can step into the world of opera at Explore Your Lyric, an immersive, hands-on event where visitors choose their own adventure by navigating through a host of special opportunities and performances.

Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre has revealed its 2025 season, including a world premiere, a play festival and more.

Oil Lamp Theater has opened the SPARK CENTER for the Performing Arts.

If you enjoy the music of The Kinks, you’ll enjoy SUNNY AFTERNOON.

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners will the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage beginning Sunday, March 30 for a limited run of five performances.

The Story Theatre is over the moon to kick off Season V with a reimagined production of At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen by Governing Ensemble member and Joseph Jefferson Award-winning playwright Terry Guest, directed by Joseph Jefferson Award-winning director Mikael Burke.

THE WHOLE SEAMUS THING will run for six performances only, from April 11th through April 19th at Bramble Arts Loft, 5545 N Clark St, Chicago.

The Music Institute of Chicago's “One Composer, One Community,” which focuses on the life and music of a single, under-represented composer during the course of an academic year, is featuring the late composer Florence Price.

IT’S BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE EVERYBODY DIED misses the mark on both scares and astute social commentary, but through no fault of its talented and refreshingly diverse cast.

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

American conductor James Gaffigan will embark on three upcoming U.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has revealed the cast of Hymn.