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Ava's Change4Youth, a program of Pride Action Tank (PAT), will launch Oct.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets for the return of LES MISERABLES go on sale to the general public Friday, August 4, 2017.

Silk Road Rising (Chief Programming Officer and Mission Trustee, Jamil Khoury and Founding Executive Director, Malik Gillani) is proud to announce the U.

Chicago theatre talent comes together for Unidos: Puerto Rico Benefit Concert.

Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the first production in the fifth season of Chicago's lost musicals in staged concert series, Porchlight Revisits Woman of the Year, starring Meghan Murphy and Brandon Dahlquist, music by John Kander, lyrics byFred Ebb and book by Peter Stone, with dir

Stone Soup Shakespeare starts its 8th Season with a staged reading of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Richard III on Wednesday, October 11.

The Music Institute of Chicago is preparing to undertake significant capital restoration of Nichols Concert Hall, a cultural anchor on Chicago's North Shore located at 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston.

The Chi Phil Chamber Players are ready to serve up another season of innovative concerts at City Winery Chicago, starting with D a de los Muertos on October 29.

Due to popular demand, Steppenwolf Theatre Company extends its widely loved Chicago premiere production of The Rembrandt written by Jessica Dickey and directed by Hallie Gordon.

Cherry Orchard Festival, a leading presenter of international artists, theater companies and orchestras, presents the Chicago premiere of the critically-acclaimed play 'Brodsky / Baryshnikov,' conceived and directed by Alvis Hermanis, Feb.

Improvised Jane Austen (Chicago Reader Recommended & PerformInk's Critics' Pick) performs Sunday, October 29th at the McKaw Theater in Rogers Park.

As a child born with physical and learning disabilities who wore a brace on her left leg until she was eight, Mary Heffernan discovered her passion for music and acting watching Disney Sing-Along songs.

Artists Lounge Live presents Angela Ingersoll (acclaimed star of End of the Rainbow) in her breathtaking concert Judy Garland: Come Rain Or Come Shine.

Short Story Theatre presents an evening of warm, wise and wonderful true stories on Thursday, October 26th at 7:30 p.

Northlight Theatre will honor actor Harry Lennix with the 2017 Speak Up! Award at the Theatre's premier fundraising event, Staging the Future Together, on Saturday, November 4, 2017, at 6:00pm, at The Evanston Golf Club, 4401 Dempster, Skokie, IL.

The Theatre School at DePaul University is pleased to present Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, written by Madeleine George and directed by April Cleveland (MFA Directing candidate, Class of 2019) in the Sondra & Denis Healy Theatre.

The New Colony concludes its 2017 Season with the world premiere of Michael Allen Harris' prison drama PUNK, co-directed by Diana Raiselis and Katrina Dion, playing October 4 November 5, 2017 at The New Colony's resident home, The Den Theatre's Upstairs Main Stage, 1333 N.

An unmarried man contemplates his future and former Follies performers revisit their haunted pasts in two of Stephen Sondheim's musical theater masterpieces.

The Theatre School at DePaul University will present Lights Up! a fundraiser supporting student scholarships, on Monday, November 6th.

First Folio Theatre presents the World Premiere of Joseph Zettelmaier's THE MAN-BEAST, running now through November 5, 2017.

The enormously successful, hugely popular and critically- acclaimed THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH PRESENTS: THE DONALD J.

Under the deft direction of Audrey Francis, Steep Theatre Company treats audiences to an intimate, intense Chicago premiere of Ayad Akhtar's THE INVISIBLE HAND.

Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) has announced its 2018 season, opening with THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (June 9-17), followed by ANYTHING GOES (August 18-26), JUDY GARLAND: COME RAIN OR COME SHINE, STARRING ANGELA INGERSOLL (October 5-14), and INTO THE WOODS (December 22-31).

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents The Consul, a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Gian Carlo Menotti.

Chicago Deep Dish, a new science-fiction and fantasy reading series, features debut novelist Cath Schaff-Stump and novelist Mary Robinette Kowal, with brief readings from Chris Bauer, Richard Chwedyk, Meg Khoury and host Mary Anne Mohanraj.