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LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY

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Chicago, IL 60611



Review: HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF STARS at TimeLine Theatre Company


by Rachel Weinberg - October 16, 2025

HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF STARS comes at an eerily relevant time. While I didn’t think all elements of the material worked, this play is a good reminder that navigating the immigrant experience without making any mistakes is an impossible feat....

GREAT COMET, Court Theatre, Shattered Globe, and More Take Home Equity Jeff Awards; Full List


by Stephi Wild - September 30, 2025

The 57th Jeff Awards for Equity theater excellence were recently announced. Among the big winners this year were “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” (Writers Theatre), Court Theatre, Shattered Globe Theatre, and more!...

Cast Set for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at Chicago Shakespeare Theater


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 03, 2025

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for Paranormal Activity, an original story based on Paramount Pictures’ terrifying film franchise—now live on stage. ...

Goodman Theatre, Paramount, and More Nominated For 2025 Equity Jeff Awards


by Stephi Wild - August 12, 2025

The Joseph Jefferson Awards will celebrate the 57th Anniversary of its Equity Theater Awards on Monday, September 29. Check out the full list of nominations here!...

Timeline Theatre to Open 29th Season With World Premiere of Sandra Delgado’s HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF STARS


by A.A. Cristi - July 24, 2025

TimeLine Theatre Company will launch its 29th season this fall with the world premiere of Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars, a genre-defying new play written by and starring Sandra Delgado. ...

Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Annual Community Ritual SUNSET 1919 Returns July 27


by A.A. Cristi - July 18, 2025

Lookingglass Theatre Company will present its fifth annual Sunset 1919: A Ritual on Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Eugene Williams Memorial Marker, located 1/4 mile north of 31st Street Beach....

Lookingglass Theatre Company's SUNSET 1919: A RITUAL to Return in July


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 18, 2025

Lookingglass Theatre Company will present the return of the fifth annual Sunset 1919: A Ritual. Learn more about the event and see how to attend upcoming events here!...

YOU WILL GET SICK & More Lead Chicago's June 2025 Top Theatre Shows


by Team BWW - May 29, 2025

Chicago is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for June 2025 include You Will Get Sick & more!...

EUREKA DAY And More Set for TimeLine Theatre Company 2025-26 Season


by A.A. Cristi - May 22, 2025

TimeLine Theatre Company has announced a landmark 29th season—culminating in a long-awaited inaugural production in its new theatre currently under construction at 5035 N. Broadway in Uptown. ...

Cast and Creative Team Set for the World Premiere of IRAQ, BUT FUNNY at Lookingglass


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 12, 2025

Lookingglass Theatre Company has revealed the cast and creative team for its next production, the world premiere of Iraq, But Funny. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets....

Past Shows

Anthony Rapp: Home for the Holidays


Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, is proud to announce multi-award winner Anthony Rapp in the world premiere of a seasonal and intimate cabaret, Anthony ...

Anthony Rapp: Home for the Holidays


There’s nowhere star of Broadway stage and screen, Anthony Rapp, than home in Chicago for the Holidays this December!

Iraq, But Funny
Iraq, But Funny
5/29 - 7/20/2025


Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company is proud to announce its next production, the world premiere of Iraq, But Funny, May 29 - July 20, ...

Circus Quixote
Circus Quixote
1/30 - 3/30/2025


After pausing its operations last year to reorganize and create a new business model, Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company , in association with The ...

Circus Quixote
Circus Quixote
1/30 - 3/30/2025


Somewhere in La Mancha there lived a man who read so many books that his brains dried up…Saddle up with Lookingglass as we go tiltingly, ...

Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon
Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon
5/24 - 8/13/2023


Hooray! Lucy and Charlie just got hitchedand theyre embracing the worst of the American dream. They do what they want. Take what they want. Theyre ...

Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon
Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon
5/24 - 7/16/2023


Hooray! Lucy and Charlie just got hitched…and they’re embracing the worst of the American dream. They do what they want. Take what they want. They’re ...

Villette
Villette
2/8 - 4/23/2023


Youve never met a heroine like Lucy Snow. Suddenly bereft of family, friends, and funds, young Lucy journeys unaccompanied to an unfamiliar land armed only ...

The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
11/13 - 1/8/2023


Chicagos beloved holiday tradition returns to the stage this holiday season, a classic the whole family will treasure! Based on Hans Christian Andersens story about ...

The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
11/13 - 1/8/2023


Chicagos beloved holiday tradition returns to the stage this holiday season, a classic the whole family will treasure! Based on Hans Christian Andersens story about ...

What to Send Up When It Goes Down


Congo Square Theatre Company, one of the nations premier African American ensemble theater companies, presents What to Send Up When It Goes Down in residence ...

The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Christmas Pantomime


True to his loyal and resolute nature, The Steadfast Tin Soldier returns! Hans Christian Andersens story about a little tin soldier who never gives up ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein


Within every man there is a monster; within every monster, a man. But which is which? An eerie evening of ghost stories crackles to life ...

Act(s) of God
Act(s) of God
2/13 - 4/7/2019


Three siblings, two parents, and one very unexpected dinner guest. As a family gathers for an overdue dinner, a mysterious envelope arrives with astonishing news. ...

The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Christmas Pantomime


Unlock this jewel-adorned music box for the whole family! Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses, Treasure Island) ...

20,000 Leagues Under the Seas


Water Tower Water Works: adapt: David Kersnar, Althos Low; dir: David Kersnar....

Plantation!
Plantation!
2/21 - 4/22/2018


Kevin Douglas; music: Rick Sims; dir: David Schwimmer. Water Tower Water Works:...

Hard Times
Hard Times
10/4 - 1/14/2018

Moby Dick
Moby Dick
6/7 - 9/3/2017


Madness rages like the angry sea when man pits himself against leviathan in Herman Melville’s epic and poetic tale, furiously reimagined by director David Catlin ...

Beyond Caring
Beyond Caring
3/22 - 5/7/2017


Unseen. Unheard. Unknown. At the margins of society, on the knife-edge of survival, they work for low wages, in harsh conditions. No safety net. No ...

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