Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu.
Cindy Lou Who, now 40, holds court from her trailer home, retelling the story of the sordid events after she met the Grinch in this adult romp!
The fight is on for reproductive justice and Artemisia goes on the offensive with this world premiere about the struggle for abortion rights in America. Told through 8 radically different female characters, Title X is a searing, poignant play that documents women's fight for autonomy over their own bodies and lives from 1978 to now.
Hell in a Handbag Productions is thrilled to ring in the holiday season with the return of its favorite seniors in The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, The Obligatory Holiday Special, playing November 26 – December 30, 2022 at The Hoover-Leppen Theatre at The Center on Halsted.
The Class of 2023 looks forward to seeing you at Mercury Theatre on December 5 for Ball State’s Chicago Showcase.
Lakeview Orchestra presents 'Holidays on Stage & Screen', a family-friendly concert of holiday favorites featuring 'HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS' by Dr. Seuss.
Ballet Chicago’s “The Nutcracker” is celebrating 20 years at the Athenaeum!
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 2017 and 2020 intertwine as participants unravel their complicated shared friendships and histories.
Turn back the clock to 1956 for an intimate cabaret performance with the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences revealing a portrait of the lady and her music.
In two parts of 45 minutes, Piaf! The Show tells the story of the career of the singer EDITH PIAF through her unforgettable songs in an original scenography and projections of unpublished images of Edith Piaf never published before.
In a Cuban American cigar factory just outside Ybor City in 1929, a charismatic lector reads Anna Karenina aloud to pass the hours. As Anna’s passions are enunciated, the workers’ hidden desires bubble to the surface, becoming a powderkeg that must eventually explode in the Florida heat. Nilo Cruz’s passionate classic shines an unrelenting light on the search for identity in the American landscape.
Save the date for Chicago Theatre Week 2023! The Mercury Theater Chicago in the Belmont Theater District will be showing a production during the week!
The comedy/drama The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced playwrights in the U.S., reveals what many don’t know about the man behind such literary masterpieces as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet
Rattled by a personal crisis, a playwright flees to Florence to study the letters between Galileo Galilei and his eldest daughter, Maria Celeste. Caught up in the threats against her father, Maria Celeste must abandon her work and join a convent. Alternating between timelines, Jessica Dickey’s captivating world premiere is a personal examination of faith, forgiveness and the cost of heeding one’s truth.
Determined and tenacious, the residents of Ipswich, UK mobilize to overcome the immense fear and media circus that unfolds following the serial murder of 5 sex workers in their small town. This experimental and innovative new musical is based on a true story, using verbatim dialogue recorded during interviews with the people of Ipswich. Brought to the American stage for the first time ever, London Road is an uplifting story that reveals how a devastating tragedy can spark empathy and engender community resilience.
Twain’s timeless classic sweeps audiences down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim escape from slavery to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River.
Closing the Saint Sebastian Player's 2022-2023 season is a comedy by the late Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally, It’s Only A Play.