Heartbreaking love story based on the novella that inspired the Oscar-winning film comes to the stage with soulful new music in this North American premiere.
Timeless jazz, acclaimed ensemble
The legendary Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and its trailblazing leader Wynton Marsalis return to Symphony Center, their home in Chicago. “Technically precise and emotionally …
Now extended through June 21 due to popular demand!
This musical revue, complete with down home country humor and big-hearted emotion, includes hits Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet …
An award-winning new take on the historic masterwork about citizens standing up to power.
When a respected doctor in small-town Norway makes a deadly discovery that threatens the health …
Produced by Almanac Projects
65min / All Ages
Performances of I Think It Could Work will be at Theater Wit
1229 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Contact: (773) 975-8150
Philadelphia Fringe Festival …
Based on the ancient Greek tragedy and first produced under Nazi censorship in 1944 Paris, Anouilh’s retelling of Sophocles’ play explores the conflict between individual conscience and political necessity. Two strong-willed heroes debate the meaning of power and responsibility. Their pride and stubbornness doom them – and their loved ones – to an inevitable but inspiring end.
65 min / Ages 6+
What if the Wright brothers went wrong? Beau & Aero is an acrobatic, slapstick, latex-heavy comedy featuring two incompetent aviators on their quest for …
Los Angeles. Harare. Worlds apart. In The Continuum traces two parallel lives breaking apart — comic, kaleidoscopic, and life altering. Over the course of a single weekend, Abigail …
65 min / Ages +14
A sold-out hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and performed at the U.S. Capitol Center, this powerful, fast-paced solo piece is inspired by …
Hot on the heels of last year’s SMASH HITS, Duck Soup! and Chicago Cop Macbeth, the Conspirators now return to lovingly dismantle Molière’s classic Commedia-inspired masterpiece, Tartuffe, or, The Charlatan.
Welcome to the Solidarity and Truth Summit. A gathering of the most persecuted, tortured, and misunderstood people in the entire world. They call themselves Targeted Individuals, and they are victims of a vast and covert program of systematic torture, surveillance, and harassment by global intergovernmental powers. Over the course of this weekend in the woods they will discuss strategies to take down the deep state, bring awareness to their plight, and despite their suffering, stay human.
When Eden and Michael become accessories to murder, they face a crisis that is compounded by the fact that the murderer is their pet Rottweiler, and the victim …
Jazz, blues and orchestral sounds converge in a rousing celebration of the American story. The CSO joins forces with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for Liberty (Symphony No. 5), …
May 7 - Jun 7 | Thur - Sat 7:30p, Sun 3p
Playhouse Theatre
$43 Senior* | $45 Adult*
One woman. One Cake. One Hundred Years of Life.
By Noah Haidle
Directed by …
When a prodigal son returns to blue collar New England, his homecoming sets off a spiraling crisis for two families, threatening not only their relationships but their very identities. In Mia Chung’s wildly inventive Catch as Catch Can, three actors take on six roles, bridging generation and gender, in a theatrical tour-de-force that upends the kitchen sink drama and asks what happens when we refuse to play the roles we’re prescribed. Spanning hilarity, stunning virtuosity and outright horror, this ferocious Chicago premiere—featuring an all-ensemble cast—must be witnessed to be believed.
“Everybody got a secret.”
Expect one devilish twist after another in Covenant, a mythic and suspenseful new play hailed as “blackout-and-blood-curdling-scream deliciousness” (New York Magazine), “undeniably spooky (and) absolutely enjoyable” …
Following the incredibly favored Anna Karenina, choreographer Yuri Possokhov and composer Ilya Demutsky have teamed up again for the Chicago premiere of Eugene Onegin, a full length-production inspired by Alexander Pushkin's poetic novel.
A Jewish family braves the darkest and most consequential chapters of the 20th century in this epic masterpiece from the late Tom Stoppard. Under the direction of Carey Perloff, a frequent collaborator and dear friend of Stoppard’s, this new production features script revisions the two made expressly for our theatre. Don’t miss the largest production in Writers Theatre history and the final play from one of our era’s greatest playwrights.
In an anonymous meeting room, a group of people —always eight—gather to sing. Best known for the Broadway hit NATASHA, PIERRE, & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, Dave …
A brother and sister parse through their late father’s journal in an attempt to learn why their birthright has been left to a family friend instead. As their research proves futile, the secrets of their family history inevitably are revealed. A play about architecture, love triangles, and when the most critical moments of history are left unrecorded.