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Hate crimes, love, Islam, culture, language and life are all open to discussion in the critically-acclaimed play, Unveiled: A One Woman Play by Rohina Malik at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC), located at 425 Fawell Blvd.

An American banker has been taken hostage by an isolated militant group in Pakistan.

Raven Theatre is pleased to launch its 35th anniversary season with the Chicago premiere of CHOIR BOY, by recent Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney who, together with writer-director Barry Jenkins, won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for the Academy's Best Picture winner, Moonlight.

SafeHouse Chicago, 60 East Ontario, will be hosting its first-ever Halloween bash on Saturday, October 28th from 10 p.

Chicago actor and playwright Tim Campos performs his current one-person show Screw It: Doin' Time on the Line at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, New York City, Friday October 20, 2017 as part of the United Solo Festival.

McAninch Arts Center (MAC) located at 425 Fawell Blvd.

Interrobang Theatre Project launches its 2017-18 Season, exploring the urgent question What is Truth?, with the Midwest premiere of Dawn King's darkly comic and politically relevant British drama FOXFINDER, directed by Literary Manager Margaret Knapp.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announces a bold new look by Grip for the start of the 2017/18 season.

About Face Theatre and Theater Wit will present the Midwest premiere of the romantic comedy SIGNIFICANT OTHER by Joshua Harmon, playwright of the hit comedy Bad Jews.

It's the biggest trial in Purgatory, and Judas is on the stand surrounded by a Fellini-esque cast of character witnesses, from Satan to Sigmund Freud.

Broadway In Chicago has announced its 2018 season line-up set to feature two new Pre-Broadway musicals: PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, based on the beloved Garry Marshall film, and THE CHER SHOW based on the life of the legendary Cher.

One of Stephen Sondheim's most beloved musicals, this dark comedy features classic Brothers Grimm characters along with the Baker and his wife who wish 'more than anything' for a child.

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the 2017 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards! Regional productions, touring shows, community theatre and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017.

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Matei Visniec playwright, poet and journalist, was born in Romania, and now lives in Paris.

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

You can take the girl out of the country, but can you ever really take the country out of the girl?

26 PRESENTS: NET-FLIX AND KILL, the third installment of '26,' opening September 30 and running up to the Today before Halloween, will take on a horror theme for its twenty-six scenes of horror-comedy and straight up horror written by various guest writers.

Legendary soprano Kathleen Battle makes her debut at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, the Theatre for the People, today, September 30, with the program Underground Railroad: A Spiritual Journey.

With a million tickets sold in more than 30 countries and acclaimed reviews worldwide PIAF ! THE SHOW A musical celebration of the life and music of the legendary French chanteuse EDITH PIAF returns to America as part of the extended world tour.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to continue its 15th Anniversary Season with the world premiere of BEWILDERED, a musical parody of the classic TV sitcom Bewitched, told from the perspective of Gladys Kravitz, Samantha Stephens' iconic nosy neighbor.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York has selected the world-renowned opera company's premiere production of the 1774 Paris version of Gluck's Orph e et Eurydice, created by the legendary choreographer John Neumeier and featuring The Joffrey Ballet, to

The music of American composer, pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington will be celebrated at Music Theater Works, October 6-15, 2017, at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.

Just in time to get you in the Halloween spirit, Akvavit Theatre presents GHOSTS & zombies, by Henrik Ibsen and Gustav Tegby, in a new American translation by Chad Eric Bergman*, directed by Co-Artistic Director Breahan Pautsch*.

BoHo Theatre closes out its successful 2017 season with the passionate musical MARIE CHRISTINE by Michael John LaChiusa at the Theater Wit, directed by Lili-Anne Brown.