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Rotary Rocks the Raue: James Garner’s Tribute to Johnny Cash SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2026 | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $54. Members get 30% Off. (All-in pricing includes $4 Box Office Fee. An $8 Order fee will be applied at checkout to the entire order) A Show That Walks the Line!...
Brothers Lincoln and Booth, named in jest, are two Black men living in America just trying to get by. Lincoln dresses like his namesake, reenacting his assassination for money and laughs, while Booth stays stuck in their apartment, working tirelessly on his three-card hustle...
Love Story: Unofficial Taylor Swift Tribute SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2026 | 1:00 PM Tickets start at $44, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box Office Fee. An $8 Order fee will be applied at checkout to the entire order) Experience an unforgettable night celebrating the...
Million Dollar Quartet Four Legends. One Night. Music History Made. You may have loved Million Dollar Quartet in 2017 at Paramount Theatre – now imagine it set in Sun Studio itself. The new Stolp Island Theatre was designed to immerse you in the experience so you can say “I was...
A world premiere adaptation of The Christmas Carol is part of Paramount Theatre's 2026-27 Broadway Series.
Chicago-Area World Premiere of Liana Sonenclar's The Years Between Us, Developed with New York Stage and Film, Opens October 15 Three performances only at The Lodge Performing Arts Center Jonathan James Productions presents the world premiere of The Years Between Us , a new play...
🎭 Memphis the Musical brings Rhythm & Blues, rock ’n’ roll, powerhouse vocals and electrifying Broadway energy to Chicago’s Studebaker Theater, October 24 & 25!
Blond Ambition: Tribute to Madonna SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2026 | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $59, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box Office Fee. An $8 Order fee will be applied at checkout to the entire order) Get ready to strike a pose and celebrate the music of one...
When We Were Young and Unafraid is set in 1972 at a bed-and-breakfast turned sanctuary for women escaping abuse. As the characters navigate their individual traumas, they form unexpected bonds, challenging societal norms and confronting their fears. This thought-provoking play...
The Simon & Garfunkel Story is one of four productions in the UIS Performing Arts Center's 2026-2027 Broadway Series, marking the return of Broadway to the newly renovated Sangamon Auditorium in Springfield, Illinois. This production is among three Springfield premieres featured...
A new interdisciplinary performance by Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists acknowledging the impressions we leave in and for one another as we live and pass on. The work blends movement, music, film, and video projection into scenes investigating traces left behind. Co-created and...
Returning for its ninth season, FIRST DRAFT showcases nearly completed new works by twelve diverse Chicago-area choreographers. The program serves as a creative springboard, giving choreographers and dancers the opportunity to create and refine new work while offering audiences...
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster is Manual Cinema's original adaptation of Mo Willems' children's stories, directed by Sarah Fornace. The show follows Leonardo, a monster who tries desperately to be scary but fails, until he finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid...
Led by Timothy David Rey, this year's cohort celebrates the bold, powerful voices of femme playwrights. Inspired by and connected to the production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, the cohort explores storytelling, identity, and the...
RARE SHOW ALERT : This tour is most likely the only time you’ll see these four guitarists sharing the same stage. International Guitar Night connects the world’s best acoustic guitarists for once-in-a-lifetime concert tours. Each year, International Guitar Night brings together...
Directed by Aja Singletary, this production captures the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women. It offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is not merely a concert; it is an event and a work of extremes. The opening and closing O Fortuna is one of the most overwhelming things a symphony orchestra and chorus can produce — a wall of sound that hits you in the sternum. Then, without warning...
A musical adaptation of Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin's award-winning book, adapted by ensemble member James E. Grote with music and lyrics by George Howe and directed by ensemble member Amanda Link. The animals on Farmer Brown's farm have had enough, and when their request for...
Illinoise is directed and choreographed by Tony winner Justin Peck, with story by Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, based on Sufjan Stevens' landmark album Illinois. The dance-musical tells a hauntingly beautiful original story through live music...
The second production of Redtwist Theatre's 2026-2027 season, titled the State of Violence, has yet to be announced. Performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3:30 p.m. Further details will be announced at a later date.
Romeo y Julieta is a bilingual English and Spanish adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Karen Zacarías and Henry Godinez, directed by Godinez. Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers is transported to Miami in the early 1960s, where Cuban exiles navigate conflict between the...
Redtwist Theatre will be announcing the second production of its 2026-2027 season at a later date.
Written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Scott Shallenbarger, this classic play follows Amanda Wingfield as she struggles to recreate the happier past of her youth for her adult children in their cramped St. Louis apartment. Citadel co-founder Ellen Phelps will take on the...
You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! is a Chicago premiere of Keiko Green's dark comedy, directed by Terry Guest and featuring Ensemble Members dado and Sadieh Rifai. Since Greg's terminal diagnosis, he has felt a deep connection to the Earth, and to save himself...
Part of the Artists Lounge Live Concert Series, this concert features Eric Gutman performing the music of Neil Diamond.
Dead Outlaw, a co-production between Porchlight Music Theatre and Theater Wit, is the Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-nominated musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna and a book by Itamar Moses. Based on the true story of bumbling bandit Elmer...
Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is a farcical adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, performed by five actors playing more than forty characters. Holmes and Watson must brave desolate moors to stop a killer dispatching the male...
The year is 1942. War is looming and times are uncertain, but a love that knows no bounds is blooming over a series of heartfelt, hopeful and hilariously handwritten letters. The story begins on the page, starting with Dear Jack and Dear Louise. Written by Ken Ludwig and...
A Chicago Premiere, this new work written by Steven Strafford is a hilarious and heartbreaking family dramedy. The play asks audiences to contend with truths they may be too afraid to name and to laugh at ones they cannot change.
Follow Dorothy, Toto, and their unforgettable friends down the yellow brick road in this magical musical adventure for the whole family.
Grab the remote and turn up the nostalgia. This show brings the small screen to the stage with a vibrant celebration of the iconic intros you couldn’t help but sing along to. Lisa Rock and an all-star lineup of vocalists channel the spirit of TV’s most memorable moments, from...
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre launches a second festival to meet the Chicago community's needs for more paid opportunities for emerging artists to develop their work. A diverse pool of three artists will be selected through an open call to share their work with audiences in a...
Directed by Derek VanBarham and choreographed by Tommy Rivera-Vega, this action-packed musical adventure kicks off the Theatre for Young Audiences season.
Set on a Greek island paradise, a tale of love, friendship, and identity is told through the timeless hits of ABBA. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the father she's never known brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited...
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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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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The Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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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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Memphis The Musical Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building (10/24-10/25) |
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The Years Between Us The Lodge Performing Arts Center (10/15-10/18) |
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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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Las Cafeteras Present: Hasta La Muerte The Hemmens Cultural Center (11/01-11/01) |
