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Irving Berlin's White Christmas


Pageantry and spectacle come to life in this iconic holiday production. WWII is over, former GIs Bob and Phil have become a highly popular song ...

Elton Rohn
Elton Rohn
12/27


Elton Rhon SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2025 | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $59, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box Office Fee. An $8 ...

American English


American English The Beatles in Bloom WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2025 | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $53, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box ...

Amadeus
Amadeus
11/6 - 1/4/2026


Steppenwolf Theatre's 50th Anniversary Season continues with Peter Shaffer's  Amadeus,  extended again by popular demand. In its four-star review,  The Daily Herald  called it "absolutely ...

Mrs. Claus! A Holiday Musical at the Beverly Arts Center


Chicago Kids Company’s Holiday Classic returns for the 26th Year!  Our biggest and most colorful show will put you in the Holiday Spirit in no time.  Join the ...

Mrs. Claus! A Holiday Musical at the Stahl Family Theatre


Chicago Kids Company’s Holiday Classic returns for the 26th Year!  Our biggest and most colorful show will put you in the Holiday Spirit in no time.  Join the ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/25 - 12/24/2025


Metropolis Performing Arts Centre presents the annual production of A Christmas Carol, located in the heart of downtown Arlington Heights, 111 W Campbell St., November ...

A Christmas Carol
11/28 - 12/27/2025


Drury Lane Theatre will present a heartwarming production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, perfect for the whole family. Set in Victorian-era London, the story ...

Elton Rohn
Elton Rohn
12/27


Elton Rohn SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2025 | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $59, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box Office Fee. An $8 ...

FREE CHICAGO WORKSHOP MIC
FREE CHICAGO WORKSHOP MIC
9/28 - 12/28/2025


Chicago’s brand new Stars & Garters, 3914 N Clark St, presents Chicago Workshop Mic produced by Devon MacNerland, now playing every Sunday at 6 p.m. ...

Gaslight
Gaslight
11/28 - 12/28/2025


In this turn-of-the-century Victorian mystery, strange things start to happen as the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Bella devolves into something sinister. Why is ...

It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play


Oil Lamp Theater is proud to present the final production in its 2025 season, It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, November 20 - ...

It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!


American Blues Theater celebrates its 24th Annual Production of It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! from Frank Capra’s film and directed by Executive Artistic ...

Lights, Camera, Distraction!
Lights, Camera, Distraction!
12/7 - 12/28/2025


Lights, Camera, Distraction! is an acid trip to the movies every Sunday in December. This hour-long sketch show spoofs, subverts, and satirizes the silver screen ...

Lights, Camera, Distraction!
12/7 - 12/28/2025


Lights, Camera, Distraction! is an hour-long sketch show that playfully spoofs and satirizes iconic moments in cinema history. Written and directed by Chris Kivlahan, the ...


Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol returns to Chicago's Studebaker Theater for the holiday season, running from December 12 to December 28, 2025. This unique adaptation of ...

The Long Christmas Dinner
The Long Christmas Dinner
12/1 - 12/28/2025


THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER - nine decades long in just one 75-minute act - showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family. Wilder ...

American English


American English The Beatles in Bloom WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2025 | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $53, Members save 30% (All-in pricing includes $4 Box ...

Mondo Burlesco
Mondo Burlesco
9/10 - 12/31/2025


Chicago’s brand new Stars & Garters, 3914 N Clark St, is proud to host MONDO BURLESCO, every Saturday at 10 p.m. on the Mainstage.   ...

New Year's Rockabilly Eve Featuring the Cast of Million Dollar Quartet Christmas


 Marriott Theatre’s special event for New Year’s Eve will be NEW YEAR’S ROCKABILLY EVE, FEATURING THE CAST OF MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS – a one-of-a-kind evening ...

Chaos Theory of Everything
Chaos Theory of Everything
6/11 - 1/1/2026


Strap in and spiral out – The Second City’s 49th e.t.c. Revue takes sketch and improv comedy to brilliantly unhinged new heights. The Chaos Theory ...

New Year's Eve Spectacular Spectacular


Chicago’s recently opened premier retro entertainment venue, Stars & Garters, 3914 N. Clark St., is pleased to present the New Year’s Eve Spectacular Spectacular! Celebrations ...

You Win Some, You Dim Sum: a comedy show at the Lincoln Lodge | January 3, 2026


We don't celebrate our wins enough!! Carve out some time in your week to come to You Win Some, You Dim Sum, a show where ...

Annie
Annie
12/18 - 1/4/2026


Music Theater Works is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the fourth and final production of its 2025 season, Annie, in the ...

Million Dollar Quartet
7/10 - 1/4/2026


Million Dollar Quartet is an immersive jukebox musical set in a recreation of Sun Studio on December 4, 1956. This production brings together the iconic ...


Million Dollar Quartet Christmas features the beloved rock 'n' roll legends Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley reuniting at Sun Records ...

Sherlock Holmes and The Christmas Clowns


Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the country to spend the holidays with an old army comrade of Watson’s. What they don’t know is ...

The Real Housewives of The North Pole


Hell in a Handbag Productions  is pleased to present the world premiere of  The Real Housewives of The North Pole , a holiday parody written ...


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Latest Chicago Reviews


Review: HAIRSPRAY at Actors Theatre Of Little Rock


by Theresa Bertram - December 23, 2025

To wrap up Season 3 for Actors Theatre of Little Rock, they ended with Hairspray—a show I’ve been wanting to see live for a long time. From December 3–20, this cast brought the beat to the Quapaw United Methodist Church basement, transforming the space into an immersive, joy-filled playground bursti...

Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS at Arizona Broadway Theatre


by Zach Wetzel - December 23, 2025

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS brings sizzling entertainment to Arizona Broadway Theatre this holiday season! The run has closed, so this critic was very glad to have made it to the closing performance! ...

Review: OPERATION OUCH: QUEST FOR THE JURASSIC FART!, Southbank Centre


by Christiana Rose - December 23, 2025

​​​​​​​Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart! arrives at the Royal Festival Hall with all the confidence and chaos audiences have come to expect from television’s favourite medical mischief makers. Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken deliver a high energy family show that balances silliness with...

Review: A HOT COCOA NUTTY NUTCRACKER at Hot Springs World Class High School Theater


by Theresa Bertram - December 23, 2025

There’s something truly special about seeing young artists take the stage with confidence, joy, and clear artistic intention, and A Hot Cocoa Nutty Nutcracker—presented by the Hot Springs School District 7–12 Dance Program on December 11 and 12—did exactly that....

Review: MOMIX's ALICE Returns to The Joyce Theater


by Elizabeth Blosfield - December 23, 2025

MOMIX has brought ALICE back to The Joyce Theater this holiday season, beginning with a packed opening night on December 16. The show will run through January 4. ...

Review: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS at the Covey Center is a True Family Affair


by Tyler Hinton - December 22, 2025

The national tour of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS: LIVE ON STAGE, currently playing at the Covey Center for the Arts, is a true family affair. The antics of Snoopy and the other characters delight the smallest in the crowd, while the young and young alike are enamored by the simple storytelling and upl...

Review: A CHRISTMAS IN OCHOPEE at New Native Theatre


by Jared Fessler - December 22, 2025

What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS IN OCHOPEE at New Native Theatre?...

Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE...MOSTLY, Oran Mor


by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 22, 2025

A brand new festive show, based on the classic film. From Morag Fullarton, creator of the 5 star hit shows A Bottle of Wine & Patsy Cline, Doris, Dolly & The Dressing Room Divas and Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut...

Review: WICKED at The Hippodrome


by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025

For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...

Review: OEDIPUS! A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY at 54 Below Re-Imagines the Classic Tale


by Gregory Fletcher - December 23, 2025

Relocated to the backwoods of West Virginia, this musical re-imagines the classic Greek tale. Try counting all the Broadway references hidden in the dialogue--there's a lot, amusingly so. OEDIPUS returns to 54 Below on Father's Day in June!...



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