4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
TimeLine begins its first full season at its new home, Kokandy brings "Jekyll & Hyde" to a bigger stage and more.
Mark Pracht's adaptation of the 1949 book rewrites masculinity in a Western setting, with a phenomenal performance by lead Michael B. Woods.
Chicago author Jonathan Eig discusses “The Birth of the Pill” with Jessica Huang, who adapted his book into a play staging its world premiere this month at TimeLine.
Ginger Krebs brings “Protected By Invisible Fence” to the MCA.
The Chicago premiere of Tim Venable's play starts as a Zoomer screwball and ends as an indictment of the way adults fail to protect their children.
On Sunday evening, the opera company performed selections from five of the six staged operas that will make up its 2026-27 season, among other works.
Jackalope's seventeenth edition of the festival turned five recent news stories into short plays, accompanied by filmed commentary from two news anchors.
The production, which shows the relationship between a human woman and her AI sister over decades, does little to push any conversation of this technology forward.
At the Empty Bottle, drag, puppetry, acting, singing and dancing combine to make "Ripley" an ultimate work of art.
Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrates choreographer Merce Cunningham's collaborations with artist Robert Rauschenberg, plus four other dance productions not to miss.
Big shows hit big stages as the fall theater season kicks off.
This production of Leonard Bernstein’s classic goes big in every way, featuring tremendous singers and actors, fabulous costumes, explosive choreography and a nimble twenty-two-piece orche…
The evening of performances gave Chicago audiences a sampling of the productions that will appear on the company's stages in the year to come.
“I start with anger because it’s the most taboo.”
Instrumental Theatre Company introduces the Chicago Theatre Composers Club.
Howard's nonprofit helps people with multiple sclerosis find a way to laugh through the pain and live for today.
Non:op’s "Inventory of Lost Books" immerses itself in design and abstraction.
"We’ve been through this before. We've been through erasure. We’re asking the legacy bearers how they got through it."
Bring a tissue to this retelling of a modern classic at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, which adds details that greatly expand the experience.
Endings are never easy, but rarely does a play that begins so well move so decisively in the wrong direction as does Marina Carr’s 2009 work, an Irish dramedy that’s almost salvaged by a…
The world premiere from Babes With Blades Theatre Company is a comic twist on the fabled romance between the noted pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny.
Comedy-lovers will revel in this four-day festival founded by Ariel Julie, featuring more than twenty shows across nine of the city’s most iconic comedy venues.
The annual benefit to alleviate the cost of medical care for folks in Chicago’s dance community, now in its thirty-fifth year, was born during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
The Chicago comedy legend on winning an Emmy and growing up in the city's stand-up scene.
Benanti bridges the gap between Broadway and stand-up in this playful one-woman show.
