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Shake off the winter blues and laugh away the stress of the week with Bob Saget! He will be performing at 8 p.

Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell scores again with a light-hearted, uplifting GOTTA DANCE.

Interrobang Theatre Project is pleased to continue its 2015-16 Season, exploring 'Unnatural Disasters,' with RECENT TRAGIC EVENTS, a dark comedy set against the backdrop of 9/11, by Emmy-nominated playwright Craig Wright, directed by Co-Artistic Director Georgette Verdin*.

Goodman Theatre begins the new year with a new music-and-movement-filled play: Another Word for Beauty, a world premiere by Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera(The Motorcycle Diaries) inspired by an annual beauty pageant at El Buen Pastor womens prison in Colombia.

Vicki Quade and Nuns4Fun Entertainment are proud to announce the opening of Bible Bingo: A Comedy with God, Games & Goofy Prizes, for two performances only on January 9, at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

LE SWITCH will feature AFT Artistic Associates Mitchell Fain and Elizabeth Ledo with La Shawn Banks, Stephen Cone and Collin Quinn Rice.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces the full cast and creative team for Shakespeare's intimate tragedy of heartbreak and revenge, OTHELLO.

Vicki Quade and Nuns4Fun Entertainment are proud to announce the return of the comedy, Bible Bingo: An Act of Charity in Two Acts, to the Royal George Theatre, starting January 8.

Rasaka Theatre Company, in residence at Victory Gardens Theater, Continues its 2015-16 season with the Midwest premiere of Shane Sakhrani's A WIDOW OF NO IMPORTANCE, directed by Lavina Jadhwani.

On April 6th 2016 The Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre will present the World Premiere of Hazel, a new musical based on the popular comic strip character and 1960's TV show.

Get set for a high-octane ride with thrilling choreography, rockin' tunes and explosively colorful costumes - plus some really cool hairdos - when the Paramount Theatre, 23 E.

Happy Holidays! It's the last week to vote for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Chicago Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 18.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway.

 Barrel of Monkeys is pleased to bring back THAT'S WEIRD, GRANDMA: THE MUSICAL, an all-musical revue featuring stories conceived and written by Chicago Public School students, adapted into songs and performed by Barrel of Monkeys Company Members and directed by Geoff Rice.

This winter, Hans Fleischmann re-imagines his groundbreaking conception of Tennessee Williams' classic drama in a new The Hypocrites production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE, playing January 22 - March 6, 2016 at The Den Theatre's Heath Main Stage, 1329 N.

Get set for a high-octane ride with thrilling choreography, rockin' tunes and explosively colorful costumes - plus some really cool hairdos - when the Paramount Theatre, 23 E.

TEN, The Gift Theatre's annual season kickoff celebration of ten 10-minute plays curated by artistic director Michael Patrick Thornton and associate artistic director Paul D'Addario, returns this year as TEN (+5) to honor the 15 year anniversary, January 1-10, 2016.

Pegasus Theatre Chicago shines the spotlight on the next generation of authors at its 29th YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, featuring three world premiere works written by Chicago high school students and staged in a professional production.

Chicago's Redmoon Theater has just announced -- somewhat unexpectedly -- that it will be closing after 25 years in the Windy City.

Broadway In Chicago is currently presenting the return engagement of DISNEY'S THE LION KING.

Red Theater Chicago presents the Chicago Premiere of Year of the Rooster, by Eric Dufault at The Frontier, (1106 W Thorndale Ave, Chicago, IL 60660), January 9-February 7, 2016.

What happens when you put Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson and Gladys Knight together in the same room for a day? Well you certainly get some great nostalgic music that's for sure.

Big Deal Productions/Buffalo Grove Park District Performing Arts is excited to present STEEL MAGNOLIAS, running January 14-17, 2016, at the new, state-of-the-art Buffalo Grove Park District Community Arts Center, 225 McHenry Road, Buffalo Grove, IL.

The EEK! Theatre Company brings you the Christmas comedy showcase 'A Very Merry Mother-F@#$ing Christmas', a collection of sketches and comedy acts to celebrate the ha-ha-ha-lidays.