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Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025 and 2026 season continues with Mozart’s sparkling romantic comedy Così fan tutte, on stage February 1 through February 15, 2026.

Bernadette, The Musical is a powerful and deeply moving theatrical production that brings to life the extraordinary story of Bernadette Soubirous, the young girl whose Marian apparitions in Lourdes forever changed the spiritual landscape of the world.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater welcomed more than 600 students, educators, and young people from across the Chicago area on January 29 for a free student performance of One Knight Only! Sir Ian McKellen Onstage with Gandalf, Shakespeare, and YOU! Check out photos of his visit.

Walkabout Theater Company returns to producing in Chicago with the production that launched the company in 1999, Poor Poor Lear, written by Nina Sallinen and Katja Krohn.

The American Theatre Guild has revealed the 2026–27 Season for the Prairie Home Alliance Theater at Peoria Civic Center.

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

David Adjmi’s STEREOPHONIC pulls back the curtain on making a rock album — with all of the minute details, inane band member conversations, and painstaking, spirited artistic conversations that come with it.

THE WIZ will return to Chicago as part of Broadway In Chicago’s touring season with a limited engagement at the James M.

Babes With Blades Theatre Company will present its 2026 season with the world premiere of yo ho.

Second Site will present its 2026 programming with live immersive performances of THE BEAUTY PROJECT and the release of SITE LINES, a digital anthology of site-specific plays.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre has revealed the full company of the 'musical within a comedy,' The Drowsy Chaperone.

Get a first look inside rehearsals of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Marco Antonio Rodríguez’s world-premiere English-language stage adaptation of Junot Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by Wendy Mateo.

Babes With Blades Theatre Company has unveiled its 2026 season.

Ezra-Habonim has announced the cast and production team for the world premiere of STAR DREK 2240, an original 90-minute sci-fi Purim Shpiel.

The Raue Center for the Arts will present AN IRISH HEARTBEAT, a 10-piece tribute to Van Morrison, in Crystal Lake, IL, on January 28, 2026.

Get a first look at Marriott Theatre's production of Little Shop of Horrors, now on stage through March 15th, 2026.

Timeline Theatre and Broadway in Chicago have gifted audiences with a EUREKA DAY that cements the play as one of the most prescient in the contemporary canon while also reaffirming Chicago’s reputation as an ambassador of daring theatrical works.

STEREOPHONIC,  the 2024 Tony Award-winning Best Play, opens its Chicago premiere today at Broadway In Chicago's CIBC Theatre (18 W.

Due to popular demand, A Red Orchid Theatre has announced two additional weeks of performances of its Chicago premiere of Anna Ouyang Moench's father-daughter Birds of North America, now extended through Sunday, March 8, 2026.

The Den Theatre will host a series of comedy shows in March featuring Kristin Key, Trae Crowder, Liza Treyger, and more at their Wicker Park location.

American Music Institute will offer music lessons in downtown Geneva, Illinois, serving students ages 5 to 18.

Throughout each holiday season, area performing arts organizations take up audience collections at productions to benefit Season of Concern.

The American Youth Chamber Orchestra will present its Spring 2026 Chamber Music Program, featuring a distinguished faculty of musicians.

WH&D has revealed the artists and details for its First DrafT 2026 program, an event which will focus on new works by emerging choreographers.

Emmy and SAG Award winner Brendan Hunt will return to his hometown of Chicago this spring to present his one-man autobiographical show The Movement You Need: An Evening with Brendan Hunt.