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The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid
11/6 - 1/12/2025


Dive beneath the waves with Ariel, a young mermaid with a captivating voice and an insatiable curiosity, as she defies her father and makes a ...

Disney's Frozen the Broadway Musical


Paramount Theatre presents the Midwest Regional Premiere of Disney's Frozen the Broadway Musical, running from October 30 to January 19. Emily Kristen Morris makes her ...

The King in Concert


The King in Concert Starring Jimmy Holmes and the Change of Habit Band SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2024 | 7:00 PM TICKETS* Tickets: $49 / $55 ...

 Les Misérables
Les Misérables
12/17 - 1/5/2025


Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon,  LES MISÉRABLES  makes a triumphant return to Chicago. This brilliant staging has taken ...

Les Miserables
Les Miserables
12/17 - 1/5/2025


Cameron Mackintosh presents the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, Les Miserables, direct from an acclaimed two-and-a-half-year return to ...

The Berlin Diaries
The Berlin Diaries
12/20 - 1/5/2025


The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a ...

Monday Night PlayGround: Holiday Surprise


PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND in association with Theater Wit January 6, 2025, 7pm CT Theater Wit & Simulcast Topic:  Holiday Surprise Admission: ...

Courtney Reed Live at The Hemmens


The City of Elgin and The Hemmens Cultural Center are proud to announce the return of Broadway Star , Courtney Reed , to the Hemmens ...


Nathan Gunn, the Grammy Award-winning baritone, collaborates with the JAM Orchestra for a concert celebrating the most iconic music from Broadway. Alongside vocalists Lara Brooks, ...

Las Locas Comedy Night at BABS Comedy Club


Las Locas Comedy celebrate all the badass women in our lives with a hot night of all-loca comedy featuring Chicagoland’s and the USA’s top Latina/e/x ...

The Prom School Edition
1/9 - 1/11/2025


The Prom is a comedic musical with a heartwarming message, created by a talented team. The music was composed by Matthew Sklar, with lyrics by ...

Every Brilliant Thing
10/31 - 1/12/2025


Every Brilliant Thing tells the story of a child who begins listing the many joys of life to help their mother cope with depression. As ...


The Strata-East Rising Concert at LPR will pay tribute to the influential jazz label Strata-East Records on January 13, 2025. Featuring a dynamic lineup of ...

Oops All Bards: A D&D Musical Improv Show


Join us for a one-of-a-kind musical improv D&D show, an episodic adventure following a band of heroes! A quest where every spell is harmonized, every ...

Lucy's Comedy


LUCY’S COMEDY With headliner Steven Haas and featuring Caitlin Checkeroski, hosted by Mike Preston January 17, 2025 @ 8:30p Tickets:  $25* | RaueNOW Members: $17.50* Best ...

Greenroom Improv


GREENROOM IMPROV Saturday, January 18, 2025 @ 7:00 PM Ticket Price: RaueNOW Membership Adult: $14 RaueNOW Membership Student: $9.10 Standard Adult: $20 Standard Student: $13 ...

Marvel Studios' Black Panther In Concert


After an electric sold-out debut in 2022, Chicago Philharmonic brings back Marvel Studios’ Black Panther in Concert. In 2018, Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” quickly became ...

Sabado Night Laughs & Stand Up En Español Chicago


Every month, Las Locas Comedy & Pa Fuera Productions hosts an extra loca night of comedy at The Pocket at Surge Logan Square. In January, ...

 Shucked
Shucked
1/7 - 1/19/2025


SHUCKED  is the Tony Award®–winning musical comedy  The Wall Street Journal  calls “flat out hilarious!” And nobody knows funny like economists. Featuring a book by ...


Disney's Frozen the Broadway Musical will make its Midwest Regional Premiere at Paramount Theatre in Aurora, running from December 18, 2024, to January 19, 2025. ...

SHUCKED
1/7 - 1/19/2025


SHUCKED is a Tony Award-winning musical comedy featuring a book by Robert Horn and a score by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. Directed by Jack ...

The Totality of All Things
12/5 - 1/19/2025


The Totality of All Things centers around Judith Benson, a well-respected journalism teacher in a small Indiana high school, whose beliefs are challenged when an ...

The Totality of All Things
The Totality of All Things
12/5 - 1/19/2025


Award-winning Redtwist Theatre is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the headlining production in Twisted Playfest, The Totality of All Things, written ...

Cinderella
Cinderella
1/10 - 1/20/2025


Magical Starlight Theatre's January 2025 “Cinderella” – a timeless tale that weaves together profound messages about kindness and the transformative power of love.

Minkowski Conducts


Renowned French conductor Marc Minkowski makes his Music of the Baroque debut with music by three orchestral gods—Handel, Rameau, and Mozart. Handel’s concerto grosso was ...

Think Floyd


Think Floyd SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 | 7:00 PM  TICKETS* Tickets: $49 / $55 / $59 RaueNOW: $34.30 / $38.50 / $41.30 Think Floyd USA, ...


The 38th Annual Young Playwrights Festival at Pegasus Theatre Chicago showcases the boundless creativity of high school playwrights through three world premieres that explore themes ...


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Review: LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL at Music Theater Works At The North Shore Center For The Performing Arts


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - December 23, 2024

This story is definitely geared to young females. They do identify with it. It was apparent in the audience. It is about respecting yourself but also treating each other with respect. Believe in yourself. Have faith in others but ultimately, have faith in yourself. We all need to remember these impo...

Review: TEATRO ZINZANNI at Cambria Hotel


by Rachel Weinberg - December 12, 2024

TEATRO ZINZANNI is still kicking it in the indoor Spiegeltent Zazou nestled on the fourteenth floor of the Cambria Hotel in the Loop. It’s still a reliably entertaining variety show, and this particular edition includes many returning performers....

& JULIET National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago


by Rachel Weinberg - December 05, 2024

& JULIET is an unserious jukebox musical that’s deeply serious about its commitment to fun....

Review: RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA at Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire IL


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - November 24, 2024

This is the crucial moment in the current childrens’ theatre production at Marriott Lincolnshire of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical, Cinderella. The cast of ten, under the direction of Laura Rook, brings delight and joy to the littlest members of the audience, many of the girls dressed as ...

Review: FALSETTOS presented by Court Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company


by Rachel Weinberg - November 25, 2024

FALSETTOS, originally written as two-one act musicals set in 1979 and 1981, respectively, feels simultaneously dated and prescient. In this co-production from Court Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company, director Nick Bowling leads a first-rate ensemble that preserves the musical as a period piece bu...

Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at Theo Ubique


by Misha Davenport - November 22, 2024

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Review: FROZEN at Paramount Theatre Aurora, IL


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - November 10, 2024

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Review: WHITE CHRISTMAS at Marriott Theatre


by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - November 07, 2024

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Review: LEROY AND LUCY at Steppenwolf Theatre Company


by Rachel Weinberg - November 04, 2024

In Ngozi Anyanwu’s LEROY AND LUCY, two strangers meet at a crossroads in Mississippi...and not much happens. Based upon the myth of Robert Johnson, who supposedly sold his soul to the devil to make it as a blues musician, the play finds Leroy (Jon Michael Hill) and Lucy (Brittany Bradford) in a limi...

Review: BEST KEPT SECRET: TELL EVERYONE at The Second City E.t.c.


by Rachel Weinberg - October 31, 2024

The Second City’s latest e.t.c. revue BEST KEPT SECRET: TELL EVERYONE wants to remind audiences that life is a cabaret, old chum. While some Second City revue themes hang together better than others, BEST KEPT SECRET slyly pays homage to the classic Kander and Ebb musical CABARET and the general ide...



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