The Winter’s Tale—now playing and soon to run in repertory with the even wilder Midsummer Night’s Dream—provides audiences with an emotional, uplifting, and even redemptive story sure to thaw frozen hearts and provide a much needed escape.…
Magic is a timeless art full of secrets, and as Parr reveals through the course of Time Traveler, history is even stranger and more serendipitous than we know.…
What did our critic think of HAYWARD at Gift Theatre?…
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.…
With spooky season upon us, what better way to get into the haunted spirit than with a murder mystery — one that no one has ever seen before, and one that no one will ever see again.…
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. …
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. …
Premonitions Inc. is an oddball new cabaret and acrobatics show in the Spiegeltent of the Loop’s Cambria Hotel.…
Vladimir is a powerful and potent story of defiance, strength, and sacrifice.…
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…
The Gift Theatre, is proud to present the world premiere of Cygnus, written by Susan Soon He Stanton, award-winning writer and producer of HBO’s “Succession” and directed by Co-Artistic Director Brittany Burch, February 6 - March 16, at Filament Theater, 4041 N. Milwaukee Ave...
As the alienated members of a defunct heavy metal band gather for their lead guitarist's funeral, their tense reunion soon becomes a supernatural rescue mission into the beyond. This Chicago premiere production is by Marco Ramirez, veteran writer of FX television's Sons of...
The Chicago premiere of "Mine" is a dark thriller where reality and certainty are blurred in the intense emotions of new parenthood. When young mother Mari becomes convinced that the baby sleeping in her arms is not actually hers, she struggles to discover the truth no matter...
The Gift Theatre ensemble explores the challenges of loss and letting go with Noah Haidle's "Vigils". In a gently whimsical take on a heartbreaking scenario, a young widow keeps her deceased husband's soul in a box by her bed, but then has to make a tough choice when the...
The writer of Middletown and Thom Pain (based on nothing) gives us a series of short plays in which a coach gives a postseason press conference to own up to his failures; a man and woman pour out their lonely hearts online, not really connecting; and an airline spokeswoman...
It’s London in the summer of 1945. Christine Foskett tends bar at La Vie en Rose, a homey private club where servicemen and bohemians drink rye, gin-and-French and black-market brandy. Ackland beautifully explores the necessity for escape and the awful loneliness that goes along...
The Gift will produce a festival of short plays written specifically for The Gift by artists whose work they have produced over the past ten years. Playwrights include Eric Bogosian, David Rabe, Craig Wright, J.T. Rogers and Gift Ensemble members Andrew Hinderaker, William...
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Adirondack Chair Circle Steppenwolf's Ensemble Theater (10/22-12/06) |
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Stolp Island Theatre (10/07-1/03) |
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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 Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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Topdog/Underdog Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater (9/17-11/01) |
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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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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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Las Locas Comedy Presents: Delightfully Unbothered - November 2026 The Lincoln Lodge (11/06-11/06) |
