Performance Run Time: 60–70 minutes, no intermission.
Originally conceived as a medium for Chicago-based multi-media artist and activist Damon Locks’s sample-based sound collage work, Black Monument Ensemble (BME) has evolved from a …
Jealousy. Deception. Murder.
An affair, a fortune on the line, and the perfect murder…But what happens when it all goes wrong? Find out in this riveting new adaptation.
Dial M For Murder contains violence and adult themes.
Run Time: 2 hours including intermission
The stage is set in a hidden venue. 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 …
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before—an influential billionaire installs a crackpot president who hires incompetents into his cabinet and starts a war out of complete vanity. …
For one night only, a legendary band is reuniting. You pick the songs they play—the massive hits, obscure b-sides, and corporate sell-outs. Along the way, they’ll share the stories behind the songs and the untold history of the band’s epic rise and fall. Also...this band doesn’t exist. And all of this is made up.
Following a sold-out run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, A.B.L.E.'s ensemble of disabled and neurodivergent actors brings their critically acclaimed adaptation of Frankenstein back to life at Theater Wit for a strictly limited engagement October 24-26. This original punk-inspired adaptation blends music, movement, and scenes devised a neurodiverse ensemble into a provocative exploration of ambition, isolation, and the balance between the head and the heart.
An evocative tale of two men – one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman – and two women – one, beautiful and trusting; the …
Day by day for more than 50 years, audiences have delighted in this modern musical fable that weaves together music, improv and infectious pop and rock songs. This GODSPELL finds a fractured and disconnected community gathered at a local diner discovering the transformative power of forgiveness and embracing radical love.
Production Sponsor: Whirled Peas Foundation In Partnership with Curt’s Cafe
North Theatre at North Shore Center for Performing Arts
October 23 – November 16
Production Sponsor: Whirled Peas Foundation
In Partnership with Curt’s Cafe
Book by John Michael Tebelak
Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Music by Stephen Schwartz
Directed by Matthew Silar
Music Directed by Justin Kono
North American premiere! An original story set in the world of the Paranormal Activity film franchise, this thrilling new play will haunt you long after the lights go out...
For 65 years, THE SOUND OF MUSIC has been one of our “favorite things.” With its timeless story and irresistibly charming score, this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic isn’t just meant …
Following a violent coup, a young woman named Chelsea becomes Queen of North America. Into her new palace walk three friends from middle school with whom she hasn’t spoken in years. They’ve come to ask Chelsea for a big favor, but before she grants it, she’s going to make them revisit their shared friendship — and its terrible end.
Jean isn’t a nerd, and she’s no dud—she’s simply… there. Until she answers a dead man’s ringing cell phone. That single act hurls her into a whirlwind of eccentric relatives, a drunken widow, a black-market underworld, a Johannesburg airport brawl, a laundromat in the afterlife, and maybe—just maybe—into the arms of the dead man’s brother… or the dead man himself.
Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone isn’t just a surreal comedy about life, love, and death—it’s a sharp commentary on how technology drives and distorts us. Time bends, realities blur, and we’re swept through parallel worlds, peril, and peculiar romance—all by way of one very insistent ringtone.
"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is an American tragedy about Willy Loman, an aging traveling salesman struggling to reconcile his life with the American Dream. His failing career, strained relationships, and fading grasp on reality lead to a mental and emotional breakdown. The play explores themes of disillusionment, family conflict, and the destructive nature of the American Dream. Our production centers the point of view on Linda Loman, as she plays the willing witness to the downfall of her once safe, nuclear family. Alongside the shortcomings of the Loman’s, we see the rise of a different kind of American family through the ensemble cast of Willy’s life. This production begins our season's long examination of economic injustice, beginning with the point of view from the withered American middle class. This production is directed by Scott Westerman.
Our longest-running sketch show is back again to scare you into drinking! DEATH TOLL is a sketch show with one simple rule: drink when someone on stage dies. You'll see torment by a sleep paralysis demon, a creepy doll come to life, and the consequences of your actions when you fall for a serial killer. All these sketches with plenty of death, comedy, and (fake) blood!
Step into the suspenseful world of Gaslight (Angel Street), where secrets lurk in the shadows and reality blurs with deception. When Bella begins to suspect that the flickering lights and missing objects in her home aren’t just in her imagination, her world unravels into a chilling game of manipulation and control. Suspenseful, haunting, and unforgettable—don’t miss this classic mystery that defined a genre and the term “gaslighting.”
Motherhood, marijuana, and the multiverse collide in this Chicago-set story of family, immigration, and American identity.
Like millions of Americans, Clara is doing her best to hold everything together—working …
Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.
12 years ago, Theresa was stolen from her parents. Now a precocious 15-year-old, she has been rescued and returned to a family that had nearly forsaken hope—a family she neither recognizes nor understands. In ensemble member Rajiv Joseph’s unflinching play, a miraculous reunion sets the stage for provocative conversations: what makes a house a home? What nightmares are we willing to face for the sake of our children? And ultimately, what part do we play in the grand saga of human existence?