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Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Reveals HEDDA GABLER Cast And Creative Team


by A.A. Cristi - October 27, 2025

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will continue its 30th anniversary season with Hedda Gabler, adapted by Christopher Shinn from the literal translation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, and directed by Artistic Director Marti Lyons....

Veronica Garza to Bring R-rated Cindy-Lou Who Back To Theater Wit in November


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 22, 2025

Remember little Cindy-Lou Who, who was not more than two? What became of that tot, after that Grinch and what-not? Find out when Cindy-Lou Who returns to Chicago's Theater Wit for her fifth season of bawdy holiday hilarity in Who's Holiday!...

Cast and Creative Team Set For Remy Bumppo's HEDDA GABLER at Theater Wit


by Stephi Wild - October 21, 2025

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company's 30th anniversary season will continue with Hedda Gabler, adapted by Christopher Shinn, based on the literal translation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and directed by Artistic Director Marti Lyons....

Cast and Creative Team Set for Sanaz Toossi's WISH YOU WERE HERE at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 26, 2025

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has revealed the cast, creative and production teams for the Chicago premiere and first production in its 30th anniversary season, Wish You Were Here. Learn more!...

HEDDA GABLER and More Set for Remy Bumppo Theatre Company 30th Anniversary Season


by A.A. Cristi - May 28, 2025

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has announced its 2025–2026 season, marking its 30th year of producing language-driven theatre in Chicago. The milestone season will include the Chicago premiere of Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi, a revival of Hedda Gabler adapted by Christopher Shinn, and the return ...

Cast Set For Chicago Premiere Of Nick Payne's INCOGNITO at Tin Drum Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 29, 2025

Tin Drum Theatre Company has revealed the cast of the Chicago premiere of Nick Payne's mind-bending drama, Incognito, coming this summer to Theater Wit....

Theater Wit to Present a Conversation with Joshua Harmon and Itamar Moses


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 24, 2025

Theater Wit, in collaboration with the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern and Northlight Theatre, will host CityTalk: A Series of Conversations on Assimilation, Antisemitism and Culture. Learn more!...

Theater Wit to Host CityTalk: A Series of Conversations on Assimilation, Antisemitism, and Culture


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 13, 2025

Theater Wit, in collaboration with the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern and Northlight Theatre, will host CityTalk: A Series of Conversations on Assimilation, Antisemitism and Culture. Learn more!...

LOBBY HERO Extended At Shattered Globe Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - February 18, 2025

Shattered Globe Theatre has added a one-week extension for its current hit production of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero. Originally scheduled to close March 1, Lobby Hero will now run through Sunday, March 8. Shattered Globe has also added a 2 p.m. matinee this Saturday, February 22. ...

Kenneth Lonergan's LOBBY HERO To Get Revival At Shattered Globe


by A.A. Cristi - December 03, 2024

Charm, romance and humor abound in the 2001 comedic masterpiece Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Manchester by the Sea....

Past Shows

Incognito
Incognito
7/17 - 8/3/2025


A poignant exploration of love, loss, and identity—raising the question of whether forgetting who we are would be a curse or a gift.

Lobby Hero
Lobby Hero
1/24 - 3/1/2025


It’s the graveyard shift at a high-rise, apartment lobby in Manhattan. A rudderless security guard, his demanding supervisor, a rookie cop, and her self-assured partner ...

Chicago Writer''s Bloc 2024 New Play Festival


Staged readings of ten new works by Chicago writers. The festival features five new musicals and five new plays from 14 local Chicago playwrights, lyricists, ...

Radial Gradient
Radial Gradient
1/27 - 3/11/2023


Three women enter a research study hoping to create positive change after a hate crime takes place at a liberal university in America. Timelines in ...

National Merit
National Merit
8/25 - 9/25/2022


In NATIONAL MERIT, seven students embark on an intensive PSAT prep program in the hopes to become National Merit Scholars. As the pressure rises, these ...

Rasheeda Speaking
Rasheeda Speaking
4/22 - 6/4/2022


Whether its the doctors inability to remember her name, or the toxic fumes radiating from the Xerox machine and lab next door, Dr. Williams office ...

Brilliant Works of Art
Brilliant Works of Art
9/10 - 9/30/2021


Law student Abby Gates has no qualms about becoming a sugar baby to get her tuition bills paid until it means keeping a secret from ...

Limelight
Limelight
11/29 - 11/30/2019


The Limelight Cafe has been serving Chicago with a smile since 1939. It is a shock when the bank forecloses on the cafe. Will the ...

Cyrano
Cyrano
3/3 - 4/15/2018


CYRANO, adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner, is based on the play by Edmond Rostand, and directed by BoHo Artistic Affiliate Steve O’Connell. This ...

Real Housewives of Lakeview the Musical: A ONE NIGHT CONCERT READING


Meet the Wives: Joanne, Babette, Penny, Lulu, and Beezus: The Real Housewives of Lakeview. These ladies have it all. Scandalous surprises and bitter betrayals mix ...

Marie Christine
Marie Christine
10/21 - 12/10/2017


Set in the twilight years of the 19th century, Michael John LaChiusa's dark musical chronicles the journey of Marie Christine, a racially mixed woman imprisoned ...

The Fisherman
2/18 - 4/1/2012


For brothers Carl and Chucky Lund, retirement means building a cabin on Pequot Lake, the perfect place for fishing while listening to the Twins lose ...

The North Plan
2/23 - 2/26/2012


What would ordinary Americans do if the U.S. government fell into tyranny? Quentin Tarantino meets All the President’s Men in Jason Wells’ The North Plan. ...

Tartuffe
1/13 - 2/12/2012


In the midst of societal upheaval, when the lines between church and state are being drawn between those for whom religion is the bedrock of ...

Icarus
Icarus
6/25 - 7/23/2011


Beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder. It's something that runs deeper than the roots of an oak tree, down to some ...

Dirty Blonde
Dirty Blonde
4/1 - 5/1/2011


Dirty Blonde, which draws its title from the West film quip "I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde," tells the story ...

The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man
1/7 - 2/6/2011


BoHo Theatre presents The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance, directed by June Eubanks. In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves discovers the misshapen, stunted John Merrick ...

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CIBC Theatre (7/7 - 7/19)
Water for Elephants in Chicago Water for Elephants
James M. Nederlander Theatre (6/23 - 7/5)
Superior Donuts in Chicago Superior Donuts
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DOM WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL in Chicago DOM WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
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