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In The Back/On The Floor
IN THE BACK/ON THE FLOOR examines the issues that minimum wage workers face through the lives of several employees at a big-box retail store. Though…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
LIGHTS at The Annoyance Theatre
In an effort to give back, two self-important performers (Anna Weatherwax and Traer Schon) take to the stage to examine the importance of live comedic…
Thursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Annoyance Theatre & Bar
851 W. Belmont Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
Lane Call: A Night of Closing Coming to Rogers Park The Factory Theater this Summer
The Factory Theater, 1623 W. Howard St., is proud to present the final production in its 28th season, Lane Call: A Night of Closing, June…
Thursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Factory Theater
1623 W. Howard StTheatre & Performing Arts
No Man’s Land
In the drawing room of his stately Hampstead mansion, the wealthy, aging Hirst hosts his newfound acquaintance, the enigmatic Spooner, for an evening of endless…
Thursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 N. Halsted St.Theatre & Performing Arts
Pippin
Music Theater Works, recently launched its 43rd season with the highly recommended “Avenue Q,” announced the cast and creative team for its second production in…
Thursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie
9501 Skokie Blvd.Theatre & Performing Arts
The Story Theatre Presents: The (W)rights of Summer
The (W)rites of Summer is a new play festival like you’ve never seen before. Featuring three elevated staged readings of world-premiere plays by local Chicago playwrights–as…
Lincoln Park
Event detailsThursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1700 N HalstedTheatre & Performing Arts
Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Oak Park Festival Theatre, Oak Park’s premiere Equity theatre and the oldest professional classical theatre in the Midwest, today announced its summer show, William…
Thursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.Austin Gardens, Oak Park
167 Forest AvenueTheatre & Performing Arts
Migguel Anggelo’s LatinXoxo
A queer, artful mashup of theater, humor, physical movement, and sumptuous song selections – spanning decades of pop hits, his own compositions, and Spanish boleros…
Thursday, July 20th
8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.The Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted St.Theatre & Performing Arts
All For the Planet: One Planet for All
Water People Theater (WPT) announces its WPT STUDIO Kids’ All for the Planet: One Planet for All, a bilingual (English/Spanish) musical, summer creative lab for…
Friday, July 21st
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.The Merle Reskin Theatre
60 E. Balbo AveTheatre & Performing Arts
Pinocchio
Chicago Kids Company – Theater for Children (CKC) presents Pinocchio, a one-hour musical adaptation! Can you help Pinocchio make the right choices and become a…
Friday, July 21st
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th StreetTheatre & Performing Arts
Working – A Musical
Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes…
Friday, July 21st
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Jedlicka Performing Arts Center
3801 S. Central AveTheatre & Performing Arts
Cymbeline – Kelvyn Park
Midsommer Flight’s annual summer production of free Shakespeare in Chicago parks continues with CYMBELINE. The play has true love, adventure, disguised identities, adulterous schemes, an…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Infinite Wrench
Don’t miss the longest running late-night show in Chicago! At The Infinite Wrench you’ll see 30 original plays in 60 minutes written and performed by…
Friday, July 21st
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Neo-Futurist Theater
5153 N. Ashland Ave.Theatre & Performing Arts
PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
Otherworld Theatre Company, the premier sci-fi and fantasy theatre company in North America, stages Matt Cox’s PUFFS, or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain…
Friday, July 21st
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Otherworld Theatre
3914 N. Clark St.Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Spongebob Musical
When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save…
Theatre & Performing Arts
To Love and Be Loved
Inspired by the quote… “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the…
Friday, July 21st
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th StTheatre & Performing Arts
The Art of Bowing
A world premiere! Three actors stumble onto an empty stage as they realize the theatre has died. In a last-ditch effort to revive it, they…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Rockefeller Special
A true story of the man that made the monopoly, the fighter for the free market, the All-American asshole. John D. Rockefeller is on full…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical
From humble beginnings in his hometown of Kenner, Louisiana, Lloyd Price overcame incredible obstacles on his way to a revolutionary musical career. He became the…
Friday, July 21st
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Fine Arts Building | Studebaker Theater
410 South Michigan AvenueTheatre & Performing Arts
Another Marriage
You meet. You marry. You have kids. That’s the way it always goes. Or is it? What if your story changes? What would it cost? Another…
Friday, July 21st
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 N. Halsted St.Theatre & Performing Arts
HAIR
Book & Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Music by Galt MacDermot The American musical that changed theatre forever, Hair celebrates the sixties in…
Theatre & Performing Arts
In The Back/On The Floor
IN THE BACK/ON THE FLOOR examines the issues that minimum wage workers face through the lives of several employees at a big-box retail store. Though…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Comedy Dance Chicago
Comedy Dance Chicago is “a super high-energy laugh riot!” Need a good laugh? This unique and hilarious show is for you! A combination of sketch,…
Friday, July 21st
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.iO Theater
1501 N. Kingsbury St.Theatre & Performing Arts
Lane Call: A Night of Closing Coming to Rogers Park The Factory Theater this Summer
The Factory Theater, 1623 W. Howard St., is proud to present the final production in its 28th season, Lane Call: A Night of Closing, June…
Friday, July 21st
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.The Factory Theater
1623 W. Howard St
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