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Ruth Page Center for the Arts

Chicago, IL 60610

Ruth Page Center for the Arts is a theatre in Chicago, IL.

Upcoming Shows

How the Light Gets In: dances for these times

Oct 24 – Oct 25, 2026

Winifred Haun & Dancers opens its season with two world premieres and the return of Trashed. Artistic Director Winifred Haun premieres The Middle of Forever, a new work for eight dancers exploring the longing to perceive what lies just beyond reach. Chicago choreographer Regina...

FIRST DRAFT 2027: New Works by Chicago Area Dancemakers

Mar 6 – Mar 7, 2027

Returning for its ninth season, FIRST DRAFT showcases nearly completed new works by twelve diverse Chicago-area choreographers. The program serves as a creative springboard, giving choreographers and dancers the opportunity to create and refine new work while offering audiences...

Inaugural New Voices Festival

Mar 25, 2027

Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre launches a second festival to meet the Chicago community's needs for more paid opportunities for emerging artists to develop their work. A diverse pool of three artists will be selected through an open call to share their work with audiences in a...

Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre 2027 Spring Concert Series

Apr 29 – May 1, 2027

The capstone of CRDT's season, this is the only opportunity all year to see the full company perform the year's new work in full production alongside repertoire favorites. The season features resident choreographers Sherry Zunker and Omar Roman de Jesus, who will create new...

Persistent Spring 2027

May 28, 2027

Winifred Haun & Dancers joins the Chicago Movement Collective for the fourth annual Persistent Spring, celebrating the accomplishments of emerging professional dancers from Winifred Haun & Dancers' training program, 3rd Coast Contemporary Dance, and CMC's Claire Bataille Legacy...

Articles

Review: Dance Theatre of Harlem's FIREBIRD at The Auditorium

Review: Dance Theatre of Harlem's FIREBIRD at The Auditorium

by Lauren Sheely · October 20, 2026

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.…

Review: Backyard Theatre's RED BIKE at Berger Park Coach House

Review: Backyard Theatre's RED BIKE at Berger Park Coach House

by Angela Lin · October 19, 2026

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. …

Review: Tin Drum Theatre's A DARK WOOD at Greenhouse Theater Center

Review: Tin Drum Theatre's A DARK WOOD at Greenhouse Theater Center

by Angela Lin · October 18, 2026

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. …

Review: PREMONITIONS INC. at Kermess

Review: PREMONITIONS INC. at Kermess

by Rachel Weinberg · October 16, 2026

Premonitions Inc. is an oddball new cabaret and acrobatics show in the Spiegeltent of the Loop’s Cambria Hotel.…

Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Raven Theatre

Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Raven Theatre

by Rachel Weinberg · October 15, 2026

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…

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Goodman Theatre

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Goodman Theatre

by Rachel Weinberg · October 7, 2026

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…

Past Shows

20 total · showing 11–20

Ruth Page’s “The Nutcracker Suite”

Ruth Page’s “The Nutcracker Suite”

Nov 22

The Ruth Page Center for the Arts is proud to present its annual live production of “Ruth Page’s The Nutcracker” featuring original choreography by the legendary Ruth Page and directed by the artistic team of Victor Alexander, Dolores Long, Birute Barodicaite, Dori Rothschild...

All-Levels Open House

All-Levels Open House

Aug 3

CHICAGO – Ruth Page Center for the Arts hosts its FREE semi-annual Open House commemorating the start of the 2025 - 2026 school year, Sunday, August 3 from 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., 1016 N. Dearborn St. Led by Ruth Page School of Dance faculty, this event offers free classes for...

Center Stage at Ruth Page

Center Stage at Ruth Page

Mar 21 – Mar 22, 2025

Ruth Page Center is proud to present its annual celebration of its founder and dance icon Ruth Page’s birth (1899 – 1991), Center Stage at Ruth Page, Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22 at 7 p.m., at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts Theater, 1016 N. Dearborn St. This...

Ruth Page's The Nutcracker

Ruth Page's "The Nutcracker"

Nov 23 – Dec 22, 2024

CHICAGO – The Ruth Page Center for the Arts is proud to present its annual live production of “Ruth Page’s The Nutcracker” featuring original choreography by Ruth Page and directed by the artistic team of Victor Alexander, Dolores Long, Birute Barodicaite, Dori Rothschild...

The Other Witch

Nov 9

The Other Witch, created by award-winning choreographer Nejla Yatkin, will have its live debut at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts in Chicago on November 9, 2024. This deeply evocative work blends dance, ritual, and multimedia to explore themes of otherness and transformation...

Cycles

Cycles

Jul 12 – Jul 13, 2024

Prepare for an evening of dance works that collectively explore periodicity, repetition, revolution, redefinition, and revisiting. "Cycles" features works by four Chicago dancemakers: Gabriela Chavez, Ginger Farley, Carrie Hanson, and Rigo Saura, and is set to take the stage at...

Porchlight Revisits: The Apple Tree

Porchlight Revisits: The Apple Tree

Dec 7 – Dec 8, 2022

The songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me created this witty, tuneful and charming piece that was Tony nominated for Best Musical. Made up of three musical miniatures, each directed by a different person, Porchlight Revisits The Apple Tree includes “The...

RENT

RENT

Oct 29 – Nov 27, 2022

Over the last 25 years, this Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT has become a cultural phenomenon with millions of fans around the world. Porchlights production celebrates this legacy and adds a new page to the story of a year in the life of a diverse group of...

Pump Boys & Dinettes

Pump Boys & Dinettes

Nov 4 – Dec 12, 2021

Porchlight's 27th season kicks off with a stop at the Double Cupp Diner for Pump Boys & Dinettes, one of the longest running shows in Chicago Theatre history and a country fried phenomenon filled with toe-tapping music on guitar, piano, bass and a kitchen utensil or two! This...

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