Dates: 9/19/2026 - 9/20/2026
📍 Theatre: Navy Pier
600 East Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Tickets: FREE
Now in its 6th year, this is the Midwest's (and maybe beyond!) largest free performing arts festival. For 2 days (12PM-9PM on Saturday, Sept 19 & 12PM-6PM on Sunday, Sept 20) Navy Pier presents over 100 of Chicago's best and brightest performing arts groups, companies and artists from musical theatre, opera, dance, jazz, hip hop, tap, symphonies, and lots more on 5 stages with back-to-back performances and it's all FREE. In the weeks leading up to Chicago Live!, free classes and community engagement activities are also offered. This is a tremendous opportunity to see and experience Chicago's most well known artists and companies and emerging companies and artists as well. Check www.navypier.org for details as they are released!
Hedwig Dances will present excerpts of MOON STUDIES and META | MOR | PHOS by Artistic Director Jan Bartoszek at Navy Pier's Chicago LIVE! event on the East Stage, free and open to the public.
Red Clay Dance Company will present its 18th season, opening with Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at Northwestern University's Wirtz Center, followed by a spring concert in Chicago.
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre will begin an in-residence tenure at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, with programming including a new choreography festival and returning artists.
Porchlight Music Theatre announced its 32nd season, including LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, the Chicago premiere of DEAD OUTLAW, and the world premiere of SHAKE IT AWAY: THE ANN MILLER STORY at the Biograph Theater.
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre (CRDT) has announced its 2025–2026 season, a dynamic slate of programming that reflects the company’s mission to explore identity through movement and music.
About Face Theatre will present OM Mission, a special, limited engagement event for Pride Month, to be held at The Den Theater for two weekends only. Learn more!
Navy Pier has announced the return of its free performing arts festival 'Chicago Live!,' slated for Saturday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 22. This year's event will be the largest to-date, welcoming more than 100 Chicago-grown performing groups in back-to-back performances across five Pier stages.
Navy Pier, Chicago's iconic cultural destination, will have American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters and audio description during Chicago Live! from noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24 and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25.
Navy Pier has announced its full lineup for the upcoming Chicago Live! event. Chicago Live! Is the Pier's annual two-day live performance festival highlighting Chicago's vibrant performing arts scene, held through the generous support from the Pritzker Foundation.
In September, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater performs free at Navy Pier and launches its fall roster of Dance Education programs.
Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre’s Education Department has announced the return of its Youth Classes this fall, September 24 - December 18.
Navy Pier, Chicago's iconic cultural destination, announced today that it will bring back Chicago Live! as an annual two-day performance festival, with generous support from the Pritzker Foundation.
Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the cast of New Faces for the final performances of the sixth season of the popular New Faces Sing Broadway series and the conclusion of its 27th season with New Faces Sing Broadway 1971.
Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the final performances of the sixth season of the popular New Faces Sing Broadway series and the conclusion of its 27th season with New Faces Sing Broadway 1971.
Porchlight Music Theatre has announced the return of its free concert series Broadway in Your Backyard, July 19 - September 6, as part of Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks series.
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Fleetwood Max Raue Center For The Arts (10/03-10/03) |
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Mean Girls Paramount Theatre (8/26-10/11) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Stolp Island Theatre (10/07-1/03) |
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Rotary Rocks The Raue: James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash Raue Center For The Arts (10/24-10/24) |
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Topdog/Underdog Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater (9/17-11/01) |
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Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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God in a Hole Bramble Arts Loft (10/01-10/17) |
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Memphis The Musical Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building (10/24-10/25) |
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Boy My Greatness Chicago Dramatists (11/13-11/23) |
