With his Fifth Symphony, Shostakovich outwitted Soviet authorities with the finesse of a double agent. Threatened by Stalin’s regime, the composer skillfully appeased Soviet officials with this gripping …
Gather your friends, grab your phone, and share your ideas. At BLANK! The Musical, you create an entire Broadway-style production. This incredible show is completely improvised. There’s no script …
Five professional actors meet as members of The Drunk Shakespeare Society. One of them has 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform a major role in …
Broadway’s Spellbinding Sensation Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is coming to Chicago on its first-ever North American Tour. Join the next adventure and experience the wizarding world like never before at this record-breaking, Tony Award-winning hit, hailed as “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade” (Forbes).
Ruth Guerra is just your average Mexican American, middle-aged girl that grew up in the hood on Chicago’s Southside and loves a good drink or ten, her jams …
Have you ever wanted to escape? The Second City presents the 112th Mainstage Revue The Devil is in the Detours, a hilarious and unhinged descent into a dimension where chaos reigns. Join our electric six-person ensemble as they sing, dance and rock the hell out in this interactive and immersive sketch and improv comedy revue. Don’t miss out on the wildest comedy experience of your life.
Originally from Ecuador, Los Angeles-based magician Siegfried Tieber headlines at The Magic Parlour for 12 performances only. Combining sleight-of-hand, psychology, and humor, Siegfried Tieber is one of Dennis’ …
This darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln (Manning) and Booth (Fenner), names given to them as a joke by their father. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history.
It is Winter 1934. The great Orient Express is traveling through Europe when its journey is halted by a great snowdrift blocking the tracks. Passengers aboard the opulent Orient Express awake to frightful news: Overnight, one of the passengers, an American business mogul, is found stabbed to death in his bed behind his locked compartment door. Thankfully, debonair detective Hercule Poirot is on board the train and on the case. He promptly begins interviewing suspects, securing alibis and forming theories about the killer, who remains at large and could be closing in on the next victim. As the plot thickens and the travelers grow restless knowing they are suspects, Poirot presents two viable scenarios about who murdered the mogul and why, thus taking the audience on a wildly glamorous crime-solving ride.
Inspired by true events, Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones, is a drama about censorship, book banning and Civil Rights set within the framework of 1950s racial tensions.
After another female candidate loses the American presidential election, three women invent a way to circumvent elections and place a woman in power permanently: all hail the Queen of America! A femme-futurist political satire, this production will challenge all of your notions around storefront theater in Chicago, as you double over in laughter and tremble with fear. For more information, visit www.refractedco.com/coronation
Indulge in the irresistible charm and lively musical numbers of “First Date.” When conventional, high-strung Aaron is set up on a blind date with cool girl Casey, all of their inner critics and anxieties hilariously come to life. Reserve a seat for this delightful, romantic romp through all the blunders and bloopers of dating.
Grace is an interactive performance and a deeply personal look at artificial intelligence, games, technology, and the people who make them. It is an investigation of how we interact with natural language processing programs everyday–and how they will never love us back. It is about identity and how it is constructed in person and online. And it’s about what happens when your voice travels around the world in ways you never imagined.
A three-time Tony Award-winning masterwork and "cultural landmark that only seems to grow with relevance" (Los Angeles Times).
Science and religion go head-to-head in this iconic courtroom showdown. A …
At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant cleaning lady, is done talking about feelings; it’s time to talk money. Over the course of 20 years, and three relationships, Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security, but never both. Award-winning playwright Martyna Majok’s Ironbound is a darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability—as she fights to survive in America.
Successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued from a car crash by his "number one fan". Must see psychological thriller of staged adaptation of Stephen King's MISERY, starring …
Davy, a jaded college sophomore, has been struggling to keep up with her work and social life as she faces an illness she’s written off as a cold. As her symptoms escalate, her TikTok influencer roommate April and budding “situationship” Carter encourage her to get help. But Davy’s hopes for an easy recovery fade when her doctor urgently requests she seek follow-up testing. Unable to face a potentially devastating diagnosis, Davy ignores her doctor’s recommendations and soon starts spiraling in this intimate, folk-punk musical about the value of survival in a world weighed down by grief, loneliness, and fears of an uncertain future.
An open-hearted, "utterly absorbing, very funny, darn near perfect play" (The Daily Beast) about leaving your comfort zone to find fulfillment.
Meet Kenneth, a 38-year-old longtime bookstore worker, who …
After learning that his wife is pregnant, Elias is plagued by doubts about his ability to be a good father. He goes to Wrigley Field to face his fears and finally talk to his father about the childhood experiences that followed him into adulthood. Told with humor and heart, Que Te Vaya Bien is a universal story that illustrates that no matter where you are from, all families share the same discordant expectations and disconnects. All shows in English with Spanish supertitles.