Step back into the spirit of the 1940s with a high-energy USO-style celebration honoring the legendary entertainers who lifted the hearts of troops during wartime. This nostalgic salute pays tribute to icons like The Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, and Rosemary Clooney...
November 13-22, 2026 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm Sundays at 3 pm $14 adults | $12 seniors | FREE for ECC students The Man Who Came to Dinner is a fast-paced, witty comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a larger-than-life radio personality who arrives as a...
Get ready for an unforgettable night with The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra! Their new show, “Broadway to Bourbon Street,” fuses Broadway’s biggest hits with the soulful energy of New Orleans. Featuring favorites from "Guys and Dolls," "West Side Story," "Hairspray," and more, this...
Kilts and tartans abound as U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion Seán Heely and a cast of nationally acclaimed Celtic performers take you on a magical winter tour through the Scottish Highlands and across the rugged Irish coast. The fiddle and bagpipes will sweep you away to...
Take a ride on the "Midnight Train to Georgia" over "River Deep, Mountain High" while award-winning vocalist CeCe Teneal delivers the "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" you deserve in "Divas of Soul," a unique concert event! This spectacular celebration of 50 years of chart-topping music from...
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...
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...
This award-winning comedy show has received rave reviews and great audience acclaim throughout the country, becoming one of the longest-running one-man shows in Broadway history. Once again, we meet the people we’re all too familiar with — the family members who make you...
The ECC Arts Center is partnering again with Chamber Music on the Fox to present Third Coast Percussion , Chicago’s Grammy Award-winning percussion quartet and Grammy-nominated composer collective. An evening with Third Coast Percussion reveals a new world of musical...
Step into smooth grooves, heartfelt lyrics, and unforgettable melodies! “American Songs & Stories” brings together the timeless sounds of pop, country, soul, and jazz in one electrifying performance, recalling the days when radio played it all, and great music brought everyone...
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.…
Vladimir is a powerful and potent story of defiance, strength, and sacrifice.…
Michael R. Jackson’s wildly inventive and unique 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop now makes its Chicago premiere. A Strange Loop is a “big Black and queer-ass American Broadway show,” in the main character Usher’s words, about the lead trying to write a musical called A Str…
What did our critic think of JIMMY BUFFETT'S ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Music Theater Works At The North Shore Center For The Performing Arts?…
Dead Girl’s Quinceañera brings a missing person case to the stage — and the detectives are a group of three Latina teen girls in Miami, Florida. Phanésia Pharel’s play capitalizes on the pop culture obsession with true crime and murder mysteries — though Dead Girl’s Quinceañera is ultim…
Opening its 15th season, BrightSide Theatre in Naperville is presenting The Addams Family Musical which runs through October 18,. The musical, written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, is the first time the familiar characters created by Charles Addams appea…
Operation Mincemeat is an absolute smash. I adore this inventive and fun musical. It’s extremely original, and it’s the kind of show that gives me hope for the future of new one-of-a-kind musicals like it. Written by David Cummings, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts, Operation Mince…
Chopin in Winter is an imaginative work of art for those with an acquired taste of deep storytelling combined with some of the most beautiful piano compositions from the Romantic era. …
Steppenwolf opens its 51st season with a blistering and captivating production of Suzan Lori-Parks’s Topdog/Underdog. This play has long been on my theater bucket list, and it’s absolutely what I think of when I think of a “Steppenwolf play”: A gritty family drama about brothers undergoing h…
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EARLY SHOW ALERT Vita thinks her family has gone loco planning a celebration for deceased loved ones. Why throw a party for the dead? But when a spirited candy skeleton suddenly springs to life, Vita finds herself on a magical, musical journey to unravel the true meaning of Día...
Take a vibrant musical journey through the golden age of storytelling and beyond. Acclaimed vocalist Joan Curto and her all-star band celebrate the timeless artistry of singer-songwriters from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, while shining a spotlight on today’s rising voices carrying...
Embark on a captivating journey through the music of The Beatles with BritBeat — The Immersive Beatles Experience. This one-of-a-kind show blends live performance with stunning multimedia visuals, bringing the band’s legendary catalog to life. With a dynamic video backdrop and...
With over 200 million views on his music videos, Luca Stricagnoli has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative and distinctive guitarists in the world. Hailing from Italy, this acoustic fingerstyle virtuoso consistently stuns audiences with his high-energy, visually...
From Afro-Mexican to Americana, from Soul to Son Jarocho, from Roots to Rock and Hip Hop, Las Cafeteras are a sonic explosion of Afro-Mexican rhythms, electronic beats, and powerful rhymes that document stories of a community seeking to “build a world where many worlds fit.” The...
Fusing Bruno Mars-caliber stage presence with top-tier vocals and wall-to-wall choreography, the men of UPTOWN combine the smooth stylings of R&B with the fresh hits of today in a unique and modern show that gets every crowd on their feet! Born in New York City, the epicenter of...
The world’s foremost gender-skewing comic ballet, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an all-male ballet company famous for its humorous and highly skilled performances of classical ballet. In over 50 years of dazzling audiences, the Trocks parodies traditional ballet in a...
Get ready to swing into the season with the retro cool of Under the Streetlamp's Hip to the Holidays.
ECC Arts Center favorite Jim Witter celebrates the music of Christmases past with Christmas Memories.
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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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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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Sketch Playlist iO Theater (9/17-12/17) |
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Steve Solomon's My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy ECC Arts Center (4/09-4/09) |
