Tuesday, 13 October 2026 12:59
'Sanctuary Stories' Ventures Into Emotional Drama Behind the News on Immigration
Written by Bill Esler
Sanctuary Stories plumbs the line between theater and journalism, and the powerful human dramas both can depict. Funded by a Northwestern Medill School of Journalism grant to create a verbatim-based theatrical documentary, it is produced, directed and narrated by Craig Duff, a professor there. Duff’s background as a video journalist includes…
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Saturday, 10 October 2026 13:16
BrightSide’s Addams Family Musical Revives the Wonderfully Weird World of the Addams Clan
Written by Ken Payne
They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're altogether ooky, The Addams Family. Yes, ooky. BrightSide Theatre’s production of The Addams Family Musical at the Theater at Meiley Swallow Hall feels like stepping back into the wonderfully odd world of a family we’ve all grown up with. There’s an…
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Thursday, 08 October 2026 01:14
Avalanche Theatre stages the world premiere of They Broke Up by Skyler Tarnas November 6–22, 2026
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Avalanche Theatre announces the world premiere production of They Broke Up by Chicago playwright Skyler Tarnas, November 6–22, 2026. Opening November 7 at 7:30pm) at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 5779 Ridge Ave. They Broke Up is Avalanche's first world premiere presented at their new home as a resident company at Rivendell…
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Thursday, 08 October 2026 00:59
Oil Lamp Theater Announces the cast and creative team for the return of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY, Nov. 20 - Dec. 27
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Oil Lamp Theater is proud to announce the cast and creative team for its next production and the final production in its 2026 season, It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, November 20 - December 27, adapted by Joe Landry and directed by Becca Holloway at Oil Lamp Theater,…
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Thursday, 08 October 2026 00:54
Adults-only holiday fun: Who's Holiday! brings R-rated Cindy-Lou Who back to Theater Wit for her sixth year, Nov. 27-Dec. 27
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Christmas Day is in our grasp. Why the vodka? Glad you asked! Who's Holiday! brings R-rated Cindy-Lou Who back to Theater Wit for her sixth consecutive year of adults-only holiday fun. Step inside Chicago’s #1 holiday bedazzled mobile home to meet Cindy Lou-Who, now 40, as she reveals the shocking…
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Thursday, 08 October 2026 00:48
Two-Time Tony Award-Winning Actress Victoria Clark To Receive the Sarah Siddons Society Award at Annual Benefit on Monday, November 9, 2026
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The Sarah Siddons Society is pleased to present its 2026 Award to actress and director Victoria Clark, who recently starred in Kimberly Akimbo as Kimberly on Broadway, for which she won the 2023 Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as a Grammy nomination. Clark also originated…
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Wednesday, 07 October 2026 15:10
Goodman's Dead Girl’s Quinceañera: When Fifteen Meets the Adult World
Written by Wesley David
At fifteen, the world can feel like a television show you haven't quite figured out how to turn off. For Salma (Jacqueline Guillen), it may be even more difficult. She watches too much television—especially detective shows—and has begun to see the world through the eyes of a detective. So when…
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Thursday, 08 October 2026 12:42
Chicago City Opera Delivers a Rare Operatic Haunting with Der Vampyr
Written by Ken Payne
With Halloween creeping closer, there’s something fitting about revisiting one of opera’s earliest flirtations with macabre horror - especially in a production presented and performed by Chicago City Opera (COT). Der Vampyr may not enjoy the mainstream familiarity of later supernatural works, but its mix of moonlit superstition, doomed romance,…
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Sunday, 27 September 2026 14:29
Collaboraction to premiere Mud Life, drawn from Willie Round’s experience as a writer and rapper on Chicago’s west side, October 21-November 15
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Mud Life, a world premiere drama by Chicago writing duo G. Riley Mills and Willie Round, drawn from Round’s life experiences as an emerging writer, rapper and producer, opens Collaboraction Theatre’s 2026-27 season, October 21 - November 15.Round and Mills are the Emmy Award-winning writing team behind Collaboraction’s acclaimed immersive…
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Wednesday, 07 October 2026 12:20
Steppenwolf Theatre's ADIRONDACK CHAIR CIRCLE In Rehearsal – Playing October 22 – December 6, 2026 – World Premiere!
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the nation's premier ensemble theater company, is pleased to launch its 51st Season with the world premiere of Chicago playwright Stephanie Alison Walker's biting satire Adirondack Chair Circle, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Downstate, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), playing October 22 — December 6, 2026 in Steppenwolf's Ensemble…
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Wednesday, 07 October 2026 12:11
Hell in a Handbag Productions Announces 25th Anniversary Season!
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Hell in a Handbag Productions is thrilled to announce its 25th Anniversary Season, featuring three "camptacular" shows guaranteed to delight lovers of their signature theater style. For a quarter-century, Handbag has served Chicago audiences its unique brand of camp and ridiculousness – earning a fiercely dedicated following and a recent induction into…
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Wednesday, 07 October 2026 12:07
Chicago’s Theater Wit introduces new Watchword closed captioning system, dramatically improving access in all three of its theaters
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Chicago’s Theater Wit is now offering new, state-of-the-art closed captioning service, marking a dramatic improvement in making live theater more accessible for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing.Until now, captioning typically involved a staff person backstage, projecting the text of the script on the set, or on patrons’…
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Wednesday, 07 October 2026 12:02
Paramount Theatre’s reimagined A Christmas Carol promises to be a dazzling new, all-ages spectacle for Chicago’s holiday theater season, November 11-January 3
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“God bless us, everyone,” because there’s a fresh, new, reimagined version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol debuting in Chicago this holiday season. Downtown Aurora’s award-winning Paramount Theatre is conjuring up an elegant and innovative new spectacle version of A Christmas Carol, based on the novella by Charles…
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