Wednesday, 14 January 2026 14:31
Invictus Theatre Company announces its 2026 season
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Invictus Theatre Company, whose summer 2025 production of the two-part epic, ANGELS IN AMERICA, was named top Chicago theatre production of the year and "the best non-Equity production here since before the pandemic" by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE's Chris Jones, has announced programming for its 2026 season. All performances will be…
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Saturday, 10 January 2026 13:21
Echoes in the Opera House: BrightSide's 'Phantom' A Concert Triumph
Written by Kimberly Katz
As a lifelong Phantom of the Opera devotee in every form it takes, I was genuinely delighted to see BrightSide Theatre tackling Phantom in Concert. As the title promises, this version reimagines Gaston Leroux’s classic novel as a sweeping musical experience. With actors reading from scripts accompanied by a full…
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Tuesday, 06 January 2026 14:15
Black Ensemble Theater announces plans for the 50th Anniversary Season
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Black Ensemble Theater celebrates 50 years of its mission-based theater with a full season of musicals and special events. The season opens with the return of one of its biggest national hits The Jackie Wilson Story, followed by Muddy Waters: The Hoochie Coochie Man, the celebration of You Can't Fake the Funk: A Journey Through Funk Music and the…
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Monday, 22 December 2025 14:22
Kokandy Productions Announces 2026 Season
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Hot off their record-breaking runs of Jekyll & Hyde and Amélie the Musical, Kokandy Productions is back in 2026 with three full productions, including their first play with music. The season begins with the revolutionary "love-rock" musical HAIR, taking over the Chopin Theater Mainstage for an exhilarating summer of hope and fury. Splashes of tie dye…
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Thursday, 18 December 2025 13:14
Million Dollar Quartet - Paramount’s Stolp Island Theatre - Through May 31st
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Paramount Theatre’s smash hit musical Million Dollar Quartet has been extended once more due to popular demand. Previously set to run through January 4, 2026, Chicagoland audiences can look forward to Million Dollar Quartet rocking for three more months, March 4-May 31, 2026. See Paramount’s wildly acclaimed, immersive staging of…
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Wednesday, 17 December 2025 13:01
Music Theater Works Announces International Recognized Drag Artist and "RuPaul's Drag Race's" Mrs. Kasha Davis as "Edna Turnblad" in its 2026 Production of HAIRSPRAY
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Producing Artistic Director Kyle Dougan-LeBlanc and Music Theater Works are proud to announce that Mrs. Kasha Davis will star as “Edna Turnblad” in the upcoming production of Hairspray, Dec. 17, 2026 - Jan. 3, 2027, directed by Keely Vasquez, choreographed by Reneisha Jenkins and music directed by Linda Madonia, in the George Van Dusen Theatre, at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts…
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Monday, 15 December 2025 11:24
Review: Couch Penny Ensemble's 'Everybody' at Greenhouse Theater Center
Written by Maddie Burroughs
A quick disclaimer for this review: Couch Penny Ensemble's Everybody, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is written with a caveat for anyone who dares to perform it. At the start of each performance, the actors are randomly assigned their roles by lottery, creating 120 possible cast combinations. In other words, the Everybody I…
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Monday, 15 December 2025 11:14
Review: Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol at Studebaker Theater
Written by Maddie Burroughs
As someone who is ever the cynic about telling the same old stories every year under the guise of tradition, A Christmas Carol rarely draws me in. Manual Cinema’s latest production, however, takes a Christmas classic and makes it new again. Told through the eyes of a narrator who shares…
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Friday, 12 December 2025 14:54
Jane Lynch & Kate Flannery Return to Steppenwolf in THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS
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Steppenwolf Theatre is pleased to present five-time Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, the hilariously charming Kate Flannery and The Tony Guerrero Quartet in The Trouble With Angels, a raucous night of comedy, song and unapologetic mischief playing four performances only, April 9 – 11, 2026 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater, 1650 N. Halsted St in Chicago. Tickets cost $79 - $149*. A special Steppenwolf…
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Thursday, 11 December 2025 13:29
Playwrights’ group THE VIVERO granted a three-year residency at City Lit Theater
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Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the cast for Porchlight in Concert production Follies, starring (in alphabetical order) Michelle Duffy (Broadway's Leap of Faith, Drury Lane's Sister Act) as "Phyllis Rogers Stone," Alexander Gemignani (Broadway's Assassins and Sweeney Todd) as "Buddy Plummer," Angela Ingersoll (Jeff Award winner for…
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Friday, 12 December 2025 12:21
Porchlight Music Theatre Announces Cast for PORCHLIGHT IN CONCERT FOLLIES, April 25 and 26, 2026
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Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the cast for Porchlight in Concert production Follies, starring (in alphabetical order) Michelle Duffy (Broadway's Leap of Faith, Drury Lane's Sister Act) as "Phyllis Rogers Stone," Alexander Gemignani (Broadway's Assassins and Sweeney Todd) as "Buddy Plummer," Angela Ingersoll (Jeff Award winner for…
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Monday, 08 December 2025 12:14
Outrageous, Heartfelt, and Hilarious: Jinkx & DeLa’s Holiday Magic Lands in Chicago
Written by Maddie Burroughs
Now in its eighth year, global drag icons and RuPaul’s Drag Race stars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon are back on tour with The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show – a hilarious, unhinged, and queer production that pushes the boundaries of the holiday spectacle. The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show has touched…
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Monday, 08 December 2025 13:42
Bah Humbug, Here We Go Again! Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs “A Christmas Carol” Again at Theater Wit
Written by Ken Payne
At Theater Wit, a Jeff Award–winning solo performance reimagines Charles Dickens with both comic absurdity and aching humanity. The great author, improbably alive more than two centuries after his birth, finds himself trapped in a ritual that has long outlived him: the annual retelling of A Christmas Carol. Since 1853,…
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