Find Touch Tours, ASL-Interpreted, Audio-Described, Open-Captioned and Autism-Friendly performances on our Access calendar.
Elektra
Runs Nov 13 - Nov 30, 2025
Elektra, Sophokles' powerful tale of religion, justice, revenge, and the struggle between blood and law, was given fresh life by the controversial poet, Ezra Pound, in the aftermath of World War II. This rarely seen American version of the Greek Tragedy challenges us to ask hard questions about our families, our society, and ourselves.
7:30PM Thu, Nov 13, 2025
$15 – $30
7:30PM Fri, Nov 14, 2025
$15 – $40
2:00PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$15 – $40
2:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$15 – $40
2:00PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$15 – $40
2:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$15 – $40
2:00PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$15 – $40
2:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$15 – $40
7:30PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$15 – $40
The Magic of Light
Performance Art
Runs Nov 13 - Nov 16, 2025
“There are those who cannot see and who are not seen. But their music can open our eyes. Light pours in, like magic, and we are brought home…”
Yara Arts Group’s “The Magic of Light” interweaves puppetry, language, music and poetry to illustrate the cultural and spiritual awakening of an artist in the 1870s. Inspired by the haunting epic songs of Ukrainian blind bards (kobzari), a young man embarks on a lifelong quest to record, preserve and illuminate Ukrainian traditions against the tremendous pressures of history. The production is performed with an intimate, transforming puppet stage by puppeteer Tom Lee and features musician Julian Kytasty, a third-generation master of the bandura, a traditional Ukrainian plucked-stringed folk instrument.
7:30PM Thu, Nov 13, 2025
$8 – $15
7:30PM Fri, Nov 14, 2025
$8 – $15
2:00PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$8 – $15
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$8 – $15
2:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
$8 – $15
Carmina Burana
Classic, Music
Runs Nov 14 - Nov 18, 2025
For three performances only, Enrique Mazzola leads the celebrated Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus in Carmina Burana, the sweeping cantata based on 24 medieval poems. Lyric’s talented musicians bring this masterpiece …
7:00PM Fri, Nov 14, 2025
from $71
2:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
from $77
7:00PM Tue, Nov 18, 2025
from $69
The Addams Family – A New Musical Comedy
Musical
Runs Nov 14 - Nov 23, 2025
Eccentric, morbid, spooky and more than a little bit kooky – the far from normal Addams family faces a normal family challenge when their macabre daughter, Wednesday, falls in love with Lucas, a sweet young man from a respectable family who her parents have never met. Worried her family might not approve of this all-too-normal match, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Things take a hilarious turn when the Addams family hosts a dinner for Lucas and his unsuspecting parents. On that fateful evening, relationships are tested, secrets are revealed, and the Addams family tackles both love and change by embracing the wackiness that resides in every family.
7:30PM Fri, Nov 14, 2025
$8 – $30
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$8 – $30
2:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
$8 – $30
7:30PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$8 – $30
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$8 – $30
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$8 – $30
2:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$8 – $30
The Taming of the Shrew
Drama
Runs Nov 14 - Dec 14, 2025
By William Shakespeare Adapted and Directed by Marti Lyons Deception, disguise, and desire. What if we want to be tamed? The richest man in town has two daughters and one big problem: he …
7:30PM Fri, Nov 14, 2025
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
2:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
7:30PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
7:30PM Wed, Nov 19, 2025
7:30PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
2:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
7:30PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
2:00PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
2:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
7:30PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
7:30PM Wed, Dec 03, 2025
7:30PM Thu, Dec 04, 2025
7:30PM Fri, Dec 05, 2025
2:00PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
7:30PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
2:00PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
7:30PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
7:30PM Wed, Dec 10, 2025
7:30PM Thu, Dec 11, 2025
7:30PM Fri, Dec 12, 2025
2:00PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
7:30PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
2:00PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
7:30PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
Which Instrument Should I Play?
Children's/Family, Music
Nov 15, 2025
Five-time Grammy-nominated children’s-music songwriter Justin Roberts joins conductor Andrew Grams and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for an engaging investigation of the timbres and techniques that make each instrument …
12:45PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
from $25
11:00PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
from $25
A Christmas Carol
Drama, Holiday
Runs Nov 15 - Dec 31, 2025
Rediscover a Dickens’ classic with an adaptation that “makes you believe kindness can win” (Chicago Tribune). Follow Ebenezer Scrooge, a businessman whose disdain for the holidays is transformed on Christmas Eve.
2:00PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Wed, Nov 19, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Tue, Nov 25, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Wed, Nov 26, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Wed, Dec 03, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Thu, Dec 04, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Fri, Dec 05, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Wed, Dec 10, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Thu, Dec 11, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Fri, Dec 12, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Wed, Dec 17, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Wed, Dec 17, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Thu, Dec 18, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Fri, Dec 19, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Fri, Dec 19, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sat, Dec 20, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Dec 20, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sun, Dec 21, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Sun, Dec 21, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Tue, Dec 23, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Tue, Dec 23, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Wed, Dec 24, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Fri, Dec 26, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Fri, Dec 26, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Sat, Dec 27, 2025
$43 – $152
7:30PM Sat, Dec 27, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Tue, Dec 30, 2025
$43 – $152
7:00PM Tue, Dec 30, 2025
$43 – $152
2:00PM Wed, Dec 31, 2025
$43 – $152
Fall Youth Circus
Children's/Family, Circus, Dance, Drama, Physical Theater
Runs Nov 15 - Nov 16, 2025
For 5th graders and older, this show includes high-quality training in drama, dance, aerial, and circus arts. Each Youth Circus culminates in a fully-produced show and is one …
4:00PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
from $15
7:00PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
from $15
3:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
from $15
Guenther Steiner: Unfiltered LIVE
Nov 15, 2025
Buckle up and fasten your seatbelts for a hugely entertaining all-areas-access conversation spanning a decade inside Formula 1, with former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner, star of …
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
Simply Three
Music
Nov 15, 2025
Meet Simply Three, the electrifying trio of Julian, Nick, and Zack, who have been rocking stages since 2010! Known for their high-energy performances, they blend classical and contemporary music that includes hits from Adele to Michael Jackson in a way that leaves audiences wanting more.
7:30PM Sat, Nov 15, 2025
$$20 – $$25
Hayato Sumino
Music
Nov 16, 2025
More than a pianist, Hayato Sumino is a phenomenon. Known on YouTube as “Cateen,” the Japanese musician has earned tens of millions of views for his captivating interpretations …
3:00PM Sun, Nov 16, 2025
from $39
A Beautiful Noise
Music, Musical
Runs Nov 19 - Nov 30, 2025
THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY OF A BROOKLYN KID WHO BECAME A CHART-BUSTING, SHOW-STOPPING, AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN ICON Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond himself, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE is the uplifting true story …
7:00PM Wed, Nov 19, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
1:00PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:00PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
2:00PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
1:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
6:30PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:00PM Tue, Nov 25, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
1:00PM Wed, Nov 26, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:00PM Wed, Nov 26, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
1:00PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
2:00PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
1:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$$70 – $$120+
Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley
Holiday
Runs Nov 20 - Dec 21, 2025
Nov 20 – Dec 21 | Thur - Sat 7:30p, Sun 3p Playhouse Theatre $43 Senior* | $45 Adult* Final chapter of the Christmas at Pemberley trilogy – secrets are revealed, …
7:30PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$43 – $45
3:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$43 – $45
3:00PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$43 – $45
3:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Thu, Dec 04, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Fri, Dec 05, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
$43 – $45
3:00PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Thu, Dec 11, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Fri, Dec 12, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
$43 – $45
3:00PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Thu, Dec 18, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Fri, Dec 19, 2025
$43 – $45
7:30PM Sat, Dec 20, 2025
$43 – $45
3:00PM Sun, Dec 21, 2025
$43 – $45
Honeck Conducts Mozart Requiem
Music
Runs Nov 20 - Nov 23, 2025
Mozart’s Requiem was his great send-off to the world — a work of plaintive, yet darkly radiant beauty, left unfinished on his deathbed in 1791. In Mozart’s hands, …
7:30PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
from $49
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
from $49
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
from $49
3:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
from $49
Interdepen/dance
Dance
Runs Nov 20 - Nov 23, 2025
In a world that seemingly fragments people and ideas into small components, this dance production reflects on the relation of parts to the whole. Our foundational interdependence on each other in society and on the health of our natural world provide living examples of connectivity. Essential to dance, a living tradition passes technique and choreography from body to body and depends on the wisdom of the past informing the present. Whether demonstrating kinetic synchronization or building on the experience of artists who developed dance traditions, we present this concert as an inspired model of interdepen/Dance.
This program features José Limón’s Choreographic Offering, his stunning tribute to the dance master and Chicago native, Doris Humphrey, as well as choreography by guest artist, Tracey Franklin. Including original work by Amy Michelle Wilkinson, Raúl Díaz Maroto Casasola and Kara Hoag, Interdepen/Dance engages our faculty and student artistry celebrating wholeness and interconnectivity.
7:30PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$10 – $25
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$10 – $25
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$10 – $25
2:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$10 – $25
The Real Housewives of The North Pole
Comedy, Holiday
Runs Nov 20, 2025 - Jan 04, 2026
The North Pole is in trouble. Santa and all the North Pole power players are indicted for fraud and it’s up to the women to try and save their families from financial ruin.
7:30PM Thu, Nov 20, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Thu, Dec 04, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Dec 05, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Thu, Dec 11, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Dec 12, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Thu, Dec 18, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Dec 19, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Dec 20, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Dec 21, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
6:30PM Sun, Dec 21, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Mon, Dec 22, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Dec 26, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Dec 27, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Dec 28, 2025
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Thu, Jan 01, 2026
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Fri, Jan 02, 2026
$30.00 – $44.00
7:30PM Sat, Jan 03, 2026
$30.00 – $44.00
3:00PM Sun, Jan 04, 2026
$30.00 – $44.00
"Are You Ready for It? A Taylor Experience"
Music, Musical
Nov 21, 2025
Paying tribute to one of the most iconic pop stars of the decade, "Are You Ready For It? A Taylor Experience" is a nationally touring, award-nominated Taylor Swift tribute band that recreates Taylor’s record-breaking Eras Tour in a magical show complete with a live band.
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$35 – $50
A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
Music, Musical, New Work, Opera, Performance Art
Runs Nov 21 - Nov 30, 2025
Billy Corgan achieved stratospheric fame as the founder, frontman, and creative force behind the legendary Smashing Pumpkins. A Grammy winner whose powerful songwriting, commanding vocals, and inventive melodies …
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
7:30PM Tue, Nov 25, 2025
7:30PM Wed, Nov 26, 2025
7:30PM Fri, Nov 28, 2025
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
7:30PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
Club Cabaret: Make 'Em Laugh
Cabaret, Comedy, Music, Variety
Runs Nov 21 - Nov 22, 2025
Club Cabaret is back at the ECC Arts Center with "Make 'Em Laugh," a joyful tribute to musical theatre's wittiest moments with clever classics and hidden gems.
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$$35
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$$35
MFA Collaboration Series: Among the Dead
Performance Art
Runs Nov 21 - Nov 23, 2025
Ana, a Korean American, travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes. When a bellboy named JC shows up at Ana’s hotel with a package containing her father’s WW2 diary, three separate time periods collide in the small hotel room. We meet Luke, a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944 and Number Four, a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Time, space, and Ana’s own origin story are connected by a shape-shifting Jesus in this dark comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises and how they find each other again through SPAM, journals, and Jesus. Mostly Jesus.
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$8 – $20
2:00PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$8 – $20
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$8 – $20
2:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$8 – $20
Rapornzel
Comedy, Holiday, Musical
Runs Nov 21 - Dec 14, 2025
Bawdy British panto for mature audiences only
7:30PM Fri, Nov 21, 2025
$25.00
3:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$25.00
7:30PM Mon, Nov 24, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Sat, Nov 29, 2025
$35.00
3:00PM Sun, Nov 30, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Thu, Dec 04, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Fri, Dec 05, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Sat, Dec 06, 2025
$35.00
3:00PM Sun, Dec 07, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Thu, Dec 11, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Fri, Dec 12, 2025
$35.00
7:30PM Sat, Dec 13, 2025
$35.00
3:00PM Sun, Dec 14, 2025
$35.00
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra presents
NIGHT MOVES
The Planets, E.T., and Star Trek
Classic, Music
Nov 22, 2025
The nighttime sky will never look the same after a concert of this nature! Climb aboard our audio version of the U.S.S. Enterprise as IPO takes you on …
3:00PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$50 – $86
Pat Tomasulo
Comedy
Nov 22, 2025
By day, he’s one of the hosts of the #1 rated WGN Morning News. By night, he’s one of the most in-demand stand-up comedians working in Chicago. Pat Tomasulo brings his dry wit and topical humor back to the MAC for an evening of stand-up sure to have audiences roaring with laughter
7:30PM Sat, Nov 22, 2025
$30 – $40
"Top of the World" - A Carpenters Tribune
Music
Nov 23, 2025
Heralded as one of the best, this Carpenters tribute band brings the most authentic versions of the Carpenters music to the stage.
3:00PM Sun, Nov 23, 2025
$45 – $55