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Chicago is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Check out our top picks for July 2023!

Jackie Burns will take over the role of Céline Dion in Titanique, beginning Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Barrington Stage Company has revealed additions to the Summer Series of Mr. Finn’s Cabaret on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center for August. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

Check out photos from the opening night celebration of Alex Edelman's Just For Us!

Although one may learn some new tidbits about the artists, it really isn’t the thinnish volume of connective tissue incorporated between the 22 musical numbers, but those very Rock-a-Billy songs themselves, that offer the primary reason to see MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET.

ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Toby's in Columbia wearing flip-flops and a Hawaiian shirt. Each familiar Jimmy Buffett number is performed with signature Toby’s exuberance, as guests join in singing. A sea of audience-chosen tropical prints boosts atmosphere, and the live miniature orchestra is terrific. It's a three hour airport-free island vacation!

The White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center closes out its eighteenth season with an excellent production of a story ripped from the scrolls of Genesis, chapters 37-50. It is an early sung-through musical collaboration by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT.

Read BroadwayWorld's interview with Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk Award winner Lauren Patten as she discusses her upcoming concert at Sony Hall.

As a comedienne, matchmaker, writer, and fitness instructor, Olivia Atwood is pretty busy. Her latest project, Liv, LIVE, is Atwood's Off-Broadway debut and set to run at the SoHo Playhouse in July. We sat down with Atwood to discuss her unique background, her love for comedy, and her upcoming show we can't wait to check out. 

Langhorne Players will continue their 2023 season with the absurdist comedy, Dead Man's Cellphone, by two-time Pulitzer finalist, Sarah Ruhl.

The summer heats up as the Indiana University Department of Theatre & Dance presents the 2023 IU Summer Theatre production of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine's contemporary classic about timeless storybook characters whose wishes come true, for better or worse.

Eclipse Theatre and Summerhall have announced the recipients of the third annual Eclipse Award - Faizal Abdullah, Subira Joy, Lula Mebrahtu, Mwansa Phiri, Blink Dance Theatre and Jian Yi.

Kumu Kahua Theatre, in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press announce the July prompt for their monthly play writing contest, Go Try PlayWrite.

The world premiere of Hold Fast will be a tour of rural Scottish village halls and community spaces in Strathspey this September. The show is a wild, tender celebration of our enduring relationships with the landscape and each other. Developed specifically for village halls by Herald Angel Award winner artist Ellie Dubois (No Show; Nosedive) and composer Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow), Hold Fast is a spellbinding family show exploring our communities and the water running through it.

Be transported to nineteenth-century France as the team behind hit productions of Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Shrek, Wicked and The Phantom of the Opera bring one of the world's most iconic musicals - the multi-award-winning classic, LES MISERABLES back to the Riverside Theatres stage this July/August after a sell-out season in 2020.

Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater, edited by John Patrick Bray, has been published by Applause Theater and Cinema Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

Nenda Neururer will star as Leela, completing the cast of It’s Headed Straight Towards Us, a comedy written by stars of The Young Ones, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer.

The Orchard Project Festival weekend will include work-in-progress showings of new work as well as free workshops, concerts, and conversations that share a joy of storytelling, creativity, and process that The Orchard Project is known for.

Tibbits Summer Theatre is presenting Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' through July 8 at Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater.

This summer, fall in love again as City Theatre presents this timeless and most passionate tale.