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Little Red Riding Hood
Chicago Kids Company – Theater for Children (CKC) presents Little Red Riding Hood, a one-hour musical adaptation! Don’t Stray From the Path! That’s the advice…
Wednesday, May 24th
10:30 a.m. – Friday, August 4th
11:30 a.m.Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N. Knox Ave.Theatre & 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…
Saturday, July 1st
2:30 p.m. – Sunday, July 23rd
4:30 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 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…
Wednesday, July 19th
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…
Wednesday, July 19th
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th StreetTheatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Dance’s 11th Annual Chicago Dance Month Returns with Live at Lunch Performances at The Green
See Chicago Dance, the dance industry’s nonprofit service organization, is proud to announce that its popular annual offering, Chicago Dance Month, returns this June. Now…
Wednesday, July 19th
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.The Green at 320
320 S. Canal St.Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts | Grant Park Music Festival Vocal Fellows
DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERTS | GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL VOCAL FELLOWS Taylor Mackenzie Adams, soprano Miya Higashiyama, mezzo-soprano Eric Botto, tenor Anthony Pilcher, baritone…
Wednesday, July 19th
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago
55 E. Wacker DriveTheatre & 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…
Wednesday, July 19th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Fine Arts Building | Studebaker Theater
410 South Michigan AvenueFestivals, Fairs & Special Events, Theatre & Performing Arts
Rhythm World 33: Navy Pier’s Polk Bros Park Lake Stage
Our dazzling performance at Navy Pier is with Stone Soup Rhythms, Rhythm World Faculty and special guests! Chicago Human Rhythm Project brings you a taste of…
Wednesday, July 19th
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Navy Pier’s Lake Stage
600 E Grand AveTheatre & Performing Arts
Deeply At Dusk: Funk In Futurism
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater’s professional company returns to the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks with its summer performance series Deeply at Dusk.…
Wednesday, July 19th
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Chicago Park District
Palmer Park, Galewood Park, South Shore Cultural CenterTheatre & 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…
Wednesday, July 19th
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…
Wednesday, July 19th
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 N. Halsted St.Theatre & 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…
Wednesday, July 19th
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…
Wednesday, July 19th
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie
9501 Skokie Blvd.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…
Thursday, July 20th
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…
Thursday, July 20th
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th StreetTheatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight’s “Broadway in your Backyard” at Riis Park
This summer Porchlight Music Theatre welcomes the return of the free summer concert series, Broadway in your Backyard, running from June 27 – August 8,…
Thursday, July 20th
6:00 p.m.Riis Park
6100 W. Fullerton Ave.Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Lady J Huston Show
Lady J Huston is respected as one of the most spectacular entertainers on the music scene! She is renowned for her captivating Vocals Trumpet and…
Thursday, July 20th
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
7400 Grant RdTheatre & 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…
Thursday, July 20th
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…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Dumb and Drummer
Chicago’s best comedians doing their best material over live jazz! Every third Thursday at The Lincoln Lodge Theatre, Hosted by Jamaal Sanders, Hunter Hirsch, and…
Thursday, July 20th
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.The Lincoln Lodge Theater
2040 N. Milwaukee Ave.Theatre & 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…
Thursday, July 20th
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.The Den Theatre
1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.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…
Thursday, July 20th
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…
Thursday, July 20th
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 N. Halsted St.

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