This Chicago premiere follows the New Guy in the world's most generic office, made harder by having just come out as transgender, while the boss happens to be a Big Furry Monster. Oh, Buddy is a dark, absurdist comedy about how the bizarre demands of binary gender affect the way...
In this Chicago premiere, a wealthy young woman assumes a false identity to investigate her own arranged marriage, unraveling a web of schemes and seductions that expose the fragile boundaries between class, gender, and desire. Both witty and surprisingly modern, Marivaux's...
While returning to the land of his childhood, a weary traveler encounters a series of strange and indifferent characters. His journey becomes a surreal meditation on memory, identity, and the impossibility of escape. Ionesco weaves commonplace ideas, images, and observations to...
A U.S. premiere based on the novel Magiczna Rana by Dorota Masłowska, this fragmented, darkly comic adaptation explores the contradictions of contemporary life through a series of loosely connected stories. Blending biting satire with lyrical experimentation, it follows...
This world premiere full-length musical satire by Danny Rockett is a baseball-backdropped farce set in an artificially unintelligent dystopia where money, power, celebrity, technology, nepo baby capitalism, and the business of baseball all collide.
Ego Death Theatre Collective enters its third season with a timely production of Year One exploring how strong the bonds of familial love are when put to the test against blind loyalty, nationalism, and complacency. …
On Saturday evening Ballets Jazz Montréal made their Chicago debut performing Dance Me: The Music of Leonard Cohen.…
Porchlight Music Theatre kicks off the 2027-2027 with the campy crowd-pleaser Little Shop of Horrors. Artistic Director Michael Weber directs this traditional and intimate staging that puts human-eating plant Audrey II at the center (with set and props design by Jonathan Berg-Einhorn). Porchlight’…
Arbery’s script, dado’s direction, and this ensemble’s haunting performance all come together for a wickedly brilliant and curious show that speaks what is true for many people that cannot be ignored — and we cannot look away. …
What did our critic think of ANNIE at Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook Terrace, IL?…
Step into the memory palace and experience a one-of-a-kind experience where neuroscience, philosophy, and theater collide. Theater of the Mind, presented by Goodman Theatre, co-created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar, and directed by Andrew Scoville, is a fascinating immersive theatrical journey tha…
Adirondack Chair Circle is a satirical take-down of a group of wealthy conservative Chicago moms dedicated to their cause.…
Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein has come to life once again, further establishing itself as one of the city’s most thrilling holiday traditions in the shadowy hall of the Studebaker Theater.…
What did our critic think of BABES WITH BLADES THEATRE COMPANY'S KING LEAR at Theater Wit?…
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A tortured young man, ferociously insane parents, and a mystical drug addict collide in this dark absurdist comedy with a twist of vaudeville. Featuring Terry Bell, Shawna Franks, Camilla Frontain, and Larry Grimm.
Trap Door continues its tradition of international touring with its twisted and hilarious adaptation of The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey. The production performs in Krakow, Cieszyn as part of the Without Borders Festival, and returns to Teatr Druga Strefa in Warsaw.
Inspired by the short story by Gabriel García Márquez, this world premiere is a darkly comic fable about a mysterious old man with enormous wings who falls from the sky into the yard of an ordinary couple. As neighbors, opportunists, and skeptics descend upon the strange...
Utopia Trip, written by Adam Ranđelović, is a staged reading presented as part of Trap Door Theatre's Season 32 playreading series, Sundays Abroad. The play challenges conventional storytelling while exploring themes of identity, society, and the human desire to escape the...
Trap Door Theatre presents Rag Doll on a Bomb Site, a poignant exploration of a performer’s struggle for recognition in the shadow of trauma. Written, performed, and choreographed by Shelley Cooper, the show delves into the life of Lotte Lenya as she grapples with her past while...
Trap Door Theatre presents the World Premiere of Ghost Fetus, a thought-provoking play written by Suz Evans and directed by Anna Klos. The story explores themes of revenge, faith, and desire through the lens of two queer teens and a conflicted church, featuring a ghost that...
Due to the onset of preeclampsia, eight-months pregnant neurosurgeon May Evans has been placed on bed rest and ordered to “do less”…forcing her husband Sam, a popular online journalist, to try and keep her from sneaking off to make calls to her staff. But as May’s condition...
Trap Door Theatre presents Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine, translated by Carl Weber, directed by Max Truax, with music composed by Jonathan Guillen. There's something rotten in Denmark. This is the basis for Hamletmachine, Heiner Muller's seminal postmodernist meditation on the...
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A Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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Adirondack Chair Circle Steppenwolf's Ensemble Theater (10/22-12/06) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Stolp Island Theatre (10/07-1/03) |
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The Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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Cabaret Up and Coming Theatre Company (11/13-11/22) |
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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf eta Creative Arts Foundation (11/08-11/29) |
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Write Club Chicago Continues its 17th Season of ‘Live Lit’ with “Why, I Autumn…!” at Gman Tavern, November 17 Write (11/17-11/17) |
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Engines and Instruments of Flight: A Fantasia in Three Acts Jackalope Theatre in the Broadway Armory Park (11/11-12/19) |
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Greenroom Improv Raue Center for the Arts (4/17-4/17) |
