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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...
A gaggle of suburban moms, armed with pickleball paddles and hard kombucha, are ready to take on the school board in the fight of their lives: attempting to ban the controversial books available to their kids in the school library. But is this trusted inner circle all on 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.
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...
NOMINATED FOR 6 BTAA AWARDS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
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...
A fitting show the night before the Midterm Elections— HERE: for the holidays on Monday, November 2 at 7:30PM at The Newport Theater; an innocently lascivious performance, intent on sharing the true meaning of the holiday season — gifts, traditions, copious food and drink, and...
A gathering offering festivalgoers an opportunity to connect with Cabaret Connexion artists and fellow music lovers in a relaxed setting.
Join us for new first-person solo pieces inspired by historical figures who contributed to the making of America over the past 250 years: those who helped dream it, build it, and/or lead it. Discover previously untold stories that deserve to be shared. Each month, from November...
American Blues Theater presents an evening of staged readings of six short plays from Women+ on the Edge of Democracy, an initiative created by the Flynn Center and The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The plays respond to the question of what the current state of democracy in...
A special pay-what-you-can staged reading of A QUIET END , Robin Swados’ deeply human drama about three gay men living together during the early years of AIDS. The play examines friendship, chosen family, anger, illness, love and mortality as the men confront an epidemic rapidly...
ISABELLE GEORGES “Oh la la” direct from Paris! a joyful combination of musical theatre, French songs, classical, jazz and Yiddish music Parisian cabaret star Isabelle Georges returns to Chicago with her trademark soaring vocals and theatrical delivery. Michel Legrand’s muse will...
French performer Isabelle Georges presents a cabaret concert followed by an International Song Jam featuring performances in a dozen languages or more.
Direct from Europe : Anne Fromm, Thomas Kellner, and Johanna Paliege Why sit alone in a room. Come to the KABARETT! Step into a relaxed nightclub atmosphere as three German cabaret artists, actors, and singers—Anne Fromm, Thomas Kellner, and Johanna Paliege —invite you on a wild...
Featuring Anne Fromm, Thomas Kellner, and Johanna Paliege, with special guest star Angelina Réaux, a protégé of Leonard Bernstein. The concert explores the distinctive European cabaret tradition known for its wit, artistry, and social commentary.
The Avant Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor and Artistic Director Mina Zikri, opens its 2026/27 season with a program featuring composer/pianist Thomas Nickell's Unstuck in Time. The concert also includes Sergei Bortkiewicz's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 28, performed by pianist...
AnneSophie Guerrier began singing in the Paris metro in 2019, then established herself in Montmartre in 2021 as a street performer by creating “Montmartre en chansons,” sung tours blending heritage and French repertoire. After going viral in 2022 with a video viewed 3.8 million...
Featuring Anne-Sophie Guerrier and Angélique Dessaint direct from Paris, the performance celebrates the enduring legacy of French singer Édith Piaf.
Bourbon Country FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026 | 8:00 PM Tickets start at $39, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box Office Fee. An $8 Order fee will be applied at checkout to the entire order) Bourbon Country delivers a high-energy blend of country favorites and classic...
CALLING ALL CHINGONAS!! Calabaza spice season is here! Get your locas together and start the weekend off un poquito early at Chingona Comedy Hour - your favorite comedy showcase featuring locas and honorary locas from across Chicagoland and the country! Every month, Las Locas...
Las Locas Comedy Presents is back at Lincoln Lodge with Delightfully Unbothered . Each month, a brand new lineup Chicago’s funniest women over 40 regale audiences as they demystify perimenopause, post-divorce dating, and all the other delightful horrors women born in the 1900s...
A celebration of Black music, history and legacy. We begin with Bronzeville where American cabaret was created and flourished more than 100 years ago along the famous “Stroll”. Black Songbook, Vol. I: Bronzeville invites the audience to spend one night on Chicago’s South Side...
Presented by Black Voices in Cabaret, the performance honors the cultural richness of Bronzeville and the contributions of Black artists to the American Songbook and cabaret tradition.
Black Voices in Cabaret presents a celebration of the music and cultural contributions of Bronzeville, one of Chicago's most influential communities. The production brings together an exceptional lineup of Chicago vocalists, including Kenesha Kristine Reed, and features...
Hip-hop trailblazers and Grammy-award winners Arrested Development perform incredible music about self-reflection and revolution. This show features classic hits like “Tennessee”, “People Everyday”, “Mr Wendal”.
Candace Bushnell, the internationally bestselling author whose writing inspired the television phenomenon Sex and the City, brings her acclaimed one-woman show to Springfield. Filled with humor, wit, and candid storytelling, Bushnell shares her perspective on love, friendship...
A Copley Comedy Series stand-up comedy event headlined by Tim Benker, featuring Mike Preston and hosted by Steve Cochran.
The Copley Comedy Series at Paramount's intimate 165-seat Copley Theatre continues with a November 7 show featuring Chicago comedy veteran Tim Benker as headliner, with Mike Preston featuring and Steve Cochran hosting. Benker has performed stand-up from New York to Las Vegas...
The Copley Comedy Series presents headliner Tim Benker featuring Mike Preston, hosted by Steve Cochran. The show takes place at the 165-seat Copley Theatre in downtown Aurora.
Ballets Jazz Montréal makes its Chicago debut with an evening-length tribute to fellow Montrealer Leonard Cohen, marking the 10-year anniversary of his death. Created under the artistic direction of Louis Robitaille with staging by Eric Jean, the work was approved by Cohen...
Giordano Dance Chicago returns to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie with a program featuring the world premiere of Caravan by GDC Resident Choreographer Al Blackstone, a solo work for dancer Sasha Lazarus. The program also includes a rework of Blackstone's...
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The Winter’s Tale—now playing and soon to run in repertory with the even wilder Midsummer Night’s Dream—provides audiences with an emotional, uplifting, and even redemptive story sure to thaw frozen hearts and provide a much needed escape.…
Magic is a timeless art full of secrets, and as Parr reveals through the course of Time Traveler, history is even stranger and more serendipitous than we know.…
What did our critic think of HAYWARD at Gift Theatre?…
Saturday night brought the long-awaited return of Dance Theatre of Harlem to The Auditorium for a celebratory evening of dance that showcased the range and versatility of this 57-year old company, which had not been seen in Chicago since 2016.…
With spooky season upon us, what better way to get into the haunted spirit than with a murder mystery — one that no one has ever seen before, and one that no one will ever see again.…
Backyard Theatre Company’s production of Red Bike is an enchanting, imaginative story from a kid’s perspective about growing up and seeing the town you’ve grown up in change, and the formative stuff and thoughts that shape who we are as a result. …
Whether you leave the theater with intensified despair or renewed hope is up to you — and that’s what makes this terrifying and achingly sad story, with just the right dose of humor, hope, and humanity, a brilliant piece of art. …
Premonitions Inc. is an oddball new cabaret and acrobatics show in the Spiegeltent of the Loop’s Cambria Hotel.…
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Adirondack Chair Circle Steppenwolf's Ensemble Theater (10/22-12/06) |
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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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The Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf eta Creative Arts Foundation (11/08-11/29) |
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Church Hurt The Edge Off Broadway (10/21-11/21) |
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Greenroom Improv Raue Center for the Arts (2/20-2/20) |
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Behind the Hits Masterclass: Guitar and Bass with Carmine Rojas and Eddie Martinez Raue Center for the Arts (5/14-5/14) |
