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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Elephant in the Womb somehow strikes a perfect balance between inappropriate humor, social commentary, and tasteful fourth wall breaking that will leave you feeling uncomfortable, pensive, and warm and fuzzy all at once.…
Next Friday, the Country will pause to remember, mourn and honor those victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001. The town of Gander, Newfoundland, is called the Rock. During the week that followed, it truly was a rock. The current production at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire is the emotional b…
It was a bold choice for Kokandy’s artistic director Derek Van Barham to stage such a huge musical in the tiny cabaret space at the Chopin Theater. Fortunately, Sondheim’s brilliant score and lyrics are gorgeously delivered in Kokandy’s version.…
What did our critic think of ADOLESCENT SALVATION at Theater Wit?…
The current production at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace is Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story. It was the first of the jukebox musicals premiering in 1989. It was conceived and written in England. It ran in London’s West End for 12 years. An interesting fact: Paul McCartney holds the copy…
I Love You Because is your typical rom-com with cute duets, silly jokes, and flawed characters that showcase exactly how love can be messy.…
During a time where our country remains divided, this energetic and thoughtful piece of art reminds us of the beauty that can be found when we come together across our differences, no matter where we come from or where we call home.…
The Outsiders remains an exhilarating and inventive musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s acclaimed 1967 novel. I enjoyed this tour so much on first viewing that I came back six months later!…
The Notebook’s company does their best with the material they’re given, but without the impactful soundtrack to accompany it, the show ultimately falls short of delivering the emotional depth you might expect or desire from a generational love story.…
The Gift Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary 'Homecoming Season' with the Chicago premiere of Marble. First performed at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 2009, the play was inspired by a conversation between Irish playwright Marina Carr and actor Fiona Shaw, and Giorgio de Chirico's painting 'Mystery an…
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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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
The Other Witch” by Nejla yatkin to Premiere Live at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago on November 9, 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...
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...
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...
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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Fleetwood Max Raue Center For The Arts (10/03-10/03) |
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Mean Girls Paramount Theatre (8/26-10/11) |
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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 Dave Matthews Tribute Band Raue Center For The Arts (9/25-9/25) |
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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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Mozart's Summit North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie (9/27-9/27) |
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The Last Light on Halsted CIBC Theatre (9/18-9/27) |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Young People's Theatre of Chicago (9/26-10/25) |
