When the young protagonist, Ren, moves to a small town called Bomont, he is faced with an oppressive reality: the town has outlawed dancing. The 83rd Annual Dolphin Show follows Ren as he dares to be different, inspiring his new friends and challenging authority. Centering themes of self-expression and change, Footloose explores what can happen when one person decides to take a stand. The Dolphin Show is a non-profit student theatre organization at Northwestern University that annually puts on the largest student-produced musical in the country.
Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violin; Devin Moore, viola; Joshua McClendon, cello
The Boston Musical Intelligencer praises the Isidore String Quartet’s “invigorating and refreshing” playing and “bold virtuosity.” Winner of a …
A comedy of campaign chaos
When the sitting Governor gets kicked out of office for…you guessed it…corruption, it’s time for someone new to take the throne…ergh role. And the …
Based on Oscar Wilde’s one-act play, Salome has been thrilling and fascinating audiences for more than a century. Lyric Opera of Chicago brings Sir David McVicar’s decadent production — which is set …
Join pianist and polymath Kirill Gerstein for a program exploring Liszt and Brahms, two Romantic-era luminaries. Celebrated for his “insightful, boldly projected playing” (Chicago Classical Review), Gerstein opens …
The most Tony Award-winning Show of the year. The most Tony Award-nominated Play of all time. Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds …
The rhythm is gonna get you!
Filled with the exhilarating music of the Miami Sound Machine, this celebration of Gloria Estefan’s greatest hits will have you dancing in the aisles.
On Your Feet! contains some strong language.
Run Time: 2 hours 15 minutes including intermission
Theatre L’Acadie presents an intimate story of survival with the Chicago Premiere of Rising Water by John Biguenet on the 20 year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Directed by Erin Sheets
January 28th …
Over a misty landscape of storybook castles and deeply carved valleys, a solitary horn calls out at dawn. Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony begins its four-movement journey, encompassing birdsong, forest dances and …
In the high stone tower of an isolated naval fortress, Alice and Edgar are about to celebrate 25 years of wedded bliss—if decades of resentment, recrimination and mutual sabotage count as bliss. But when an alluring visitor arrives, the delicate balance of their tedious arrangement falls off its axis, cracks growing into canyons. In Conor McPherson’s wicked take on Strindberg’s masterclass in marital warfare, a twisted love triangle waltzes off the edge of a cliff, plunging us all into the deep.
A lawyer, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There, a wizard conjures up visions …
Jan 29 – Mar 1 | Thur - Sat 7:30p, Sun 3p
Playhouse Theatre
$43 Senior* | $45 Adult*
Crime doesn’t pay, but it sure is funny
By Paul Slade Smith
Directed by …
After the death of his father, meek Jason finds an outlet for his anxiety at the Christian Puppet Ministry, in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet small town of Cypress, Texas. Jason’s complicated relationships with the town pastor, the school bully, the girl next door, and—most especially—his mother are thrown into upheaval when Jason’s puppet, Tyrone, takes on a shocking and dangerously irreverent personality all its own. Hand to God explores the startlingly fragile nature of faith, morality, and the ties that bind us.
A young duckling is teased for being different. After facing loneliness and other struggles, the duckling matures into a stunning swan, realizing true beauty comes from within. Explore …
The Irish… and How They Got That Way is an irreverent musical history of Ireland through the tumultuous 20th and 21st centuries seen through the eyes of Pulitzer …
Dance enthusiasts can look forward to the internatinally celebrated Les ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a playful and virtuosic all-male ballet company that's equal parts comedy and technical brillance.
From Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg comes a sparkling contemporary adaptation of Philip Barry’s classic play that inspired the beloved 1930s film starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. In the wealthy world of the Upper East Side Setons, matters of the heart are a family affair.
Experience the joy of friendship as Purse String Productions performs a never-seen episode of everyone’s favorite Golden Girls. Laugh along as Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia face new challenges that strengthen their friendship and weaken their defense for cheesecake. Be prepared to sing and clap along as the cast of exceptional drag artists perform 80s-era songs to highlight each of their stories. It will be an evening celebrating the spirit of friendship and saying, “thank you for being a friend!”
Two officers, convinced all women are fickle in love, hatch a plan to switch places and woo each other’s fiancées in disguise — but the women know exactly …
Step into history at Chicago’s newest House of Belonging. Collaboraction launches its new Humboldt Park home with a powerful revival of Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till, …
“In piano terms, he’s an Olympian...physical and mental prowess at its summit.” —The Spectator
One of the most distinctive artists and polymaths of his generation, Sir Stephen Hough combines …