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DORIAN
11/28 - 12/21/2025


Modern remix of Dorian Gray and the life of Oscar Wilde.

Dorian
Dorian
11/28 - 12/21/2025


Modern remix of Dorian Gray and the lfie of Oscar Wilde.

My Life as a Cowboy
My Life as a Cowboy
1/23 - 2/8/2026


Seventeen-year-old  Conor  feels stuck in the London suburb of Croydon and dreams of doing something unexpected—entering a country-and-western dance competition. He’s joined by  Michael , ...



Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards; HAIRSPRAY Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 15, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards; RVC Starlight Theatre Leads Favorite Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 08, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Open Space Arts' To Extend Run Of Chicago Premiere Of DORIAN


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2025

Open Space Arts will extend the run of its Chicago Premiere of DORIAN, by by one week, adding three performances. Open Space Arts' DORIAN is directed by 20-year veteran Chicago director, actor, and playwright Aaron Holland....

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards; JEKYLL & HYDE Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND Comes to Invictus Theatre Company Next Month


by Stephi Wild - October 07, 2025

Invictus Theatre Company's follow-up to its enormously successful production of ANGELS IN AMERICA will be THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND, by Marcus Gardley, a former playwright-in-residence at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre....

Open Space Arts To Stage Chicago Premiere Of DORIAN


by A.A. Cristi - September 30, 2025

Open Space Arts will present the Chicago premiere of DORIAN, a modern remix of The Picture of Dorian Gray fused with Oscar Wilde’s prosecution for homosexuality. Running November 28–December 14, the intimate production will be directed by Aaron Holland and staged in the company’s Uptown theater....

GANGSTA BABY US Premiere Extended at Open Space Arts Through October


by A.A. Cristi - September 23, 2025

Open Space Arts’ U.S. premiere of GANGSTA BABY, written by Cameron Raasdal-Munro and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE, has extended through October 19, 2025. ...

Tickets for 20 to Offer $20 Tickets to Chicago Theatergoers


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 29, 2025

The League of Chicago Theatres is presenting the return of Tickets for a 20. Now through Sunday, September 14, theatregoers can grab $20 tickets to some of Chicagoland’s most exciting shows, exclusively through Hot Tix....

GANGSTA BABY To Make American Premiere At Open Space Arts This Fall


by A.A. Cristi - August 19, 2025

Open Space Arts will present the American premiere of GANGSTA BABY, the acclaimed London pub-theatre drama by Cameron Raasdal-Munro, September 19–October 5, 2025....

Photos: ANGELS IN AMERICA At Invictus Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - June 23, 2025

Production photos have been released for Invictus Theatre’s production of Tony Kushner’s monumental two-part play, ANGELS IN AMERICA, with a single cast performing both parts of the play in repertory. Check out photos from the show. ...

Past Shows

Dorian
Dorian
11/28 - 12/21/2025


Modern remix of Dorian Gray and the lfie of Oscar Wilde.

DORIAN
11/28 - 12/21/2025


Modern remix of Dorian Gray and the life of Oscar Wilde.

Gangsta Baby
Gangsta Baby
9/19 - 10/19/2025


Junior is a queer sex worker in Hastings suffering from PTSD. His life is plunged into further turmoil during a booking with a new client ...

THE REAL BLACK SWANN: CONFESSIONS OF AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK DRAG QUEEN


The story of William Dorsey Swann, the first known drag performer and queer activist in U.S. history.

Scandalous Boy
Scandalous Boy
5/23 - 6/28/2025


The story of the love between the emperor Hadrian and Antinous in pre-Christian Rome but framed in a twenty-first century setting with the statue of ...

Nocturnal Admissions


A thrilling and provocative screenplay by Christian Reda, winner of the 2025 Queer Expression Writing Contest for Stage and Screen. This gripping romantic melodrama blends ...

100 Days
100 Days
4/30 - 5/4/2025


a riveting 90-minute program of new short plays called 100 DAYS responding to the current political climate. Curated by PlaywrightPower.com and directed by its co-founder ...

Breaking the Code


Staged reading of Hugh Whitemore’s powerful 1986 drama about Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician who pioneered modern computing and played a pivotal role in World ...

it's been ten years since everyone died. a play about final girls


Ten years ago, four young people were hunted by ruthless killers—and against all odds, three of them survived. Now, they are brought together once more, this ...

it's been ten years since everyone died. a play about final girls


Ten years ago, four young people were hunted by ruthless killers—and against all odds, three of them survived. Now, they are brought together once more, this ...

AS IS
3/28 - 4/13/2025


AS IS is a poignant drama by William Hoffman that explores the emotional landscape of a group of friends in New York City during the ...

Mr. Parker
Mr. Parker
1/31 - 3/2/2025


Terry Parker is a middle-aged man navigating life after a profound personal loss. As he works to rediscover his identity and adjust to unexpected changes, ...

MR. PARKER
MR. PARKER
1/31 - 3/2/2025


Open Space Arts presents the Chicago premiere of Michael McKeever's heartfelt drama, MR. PARKER, running from January 31 to February 16, 2025. The play follows ...

The Berlin Diaries
The Berlin Diaries
12/20 - 1/5/2025


The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a ...

MERCY KILLING
11/1 - 12/1/2024


MERCY KILLING is a dark comedy by Alandra Heilman that explores the twisted life of Mercy, a barista in San Francisco who also happens to ...

Mercy Killing
Mercy Killing
11/1 - 11/17/2024


Mercy is a barista is San Francisco. She’s also a serial killer. But it’s fine, the only person who knows is Thana, the Grim Reaper ...


PLOT POINTS IN OUR SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT is a two-character play by Miranda Rose Hall that explores the complexities of a love affair between a cisgender ...

Light Switch
Light Switch
9/13 - 10/13/2024


Henry Sullivan, 27, single, gay, and autistic, lives his life vicariously through the heroes and heroines of the 19th-century British novels he devours. But no ...

C*CK
C*CK
4/4 - 5/11/2024


A comic discussion of identity and sexuality.

Sunsets: Two Acts on a Beach


An evening of two plays set next to a men’s room on a Florida gulf coast beach – the sort of place where seaside frolics ...

Rosenberg
Rosenberg
10/21 - 11/5/2023


Sam Goodstein prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason in the trial of the century. Their conviction led Sam and his wife Judith to success, ...

Massage Therapy
Massage Therapy
9/16 - 10/1/2023


Over the course of one year, a gay massage therapist and his female client grow to form an unusually strong bond. At first skeptical of ...

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