John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.
Chicago’s acclaimed TimeLine Theatre Company returns to the Broadway Playhouse (following previous hit productions OSLO and THE LEHMAN TRILOGY)!
At Berkeley, California’s ultra-progressive Eureka Day School, every decision is …
A Tony Award®-winning hit satire of progressivism, parenting, and public health.
At Berkeley, California’s ultra-progressive Eureka Day School, every decision is made by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak hits, …
The Sci-Fi Cult Musical Favorite
The deviously delicious smash hit musical Little Shop of Horrors has devoured audience’s hearts for decades. The charming, quirky, tongue-in-cheek comedy from Howard Ashman …
PROSPERA : A Sci-Fi Retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest
Directed & Adapted by Tiffany Keane Schaefer
Theater Three
Otherworld Theatre Company
Visiting Company
Twenty years ago, Admiral Prospera was betrayed and exiled to …
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 …
Founded in 2007 by groundbreaking choreographer Andrea Miller, GALLIM is one of New York's leading contemporary dance companies. Based in Brooklyn, the company centers process, play, and exchange — full of …
This Broadway adaptation of Ibsen’s timeless drama presents a sympathetic, yet striking and powerful, Hedda in the classic tale of her struggle to find a means of escape from a loveless, ordinary existence. Beginning with the return from her honeymoon, Hedda finds herself bored of her husband, and longing for the days when she was free to exercise her wild and independent whims. With the return of an old flame and a proposition from an amorous judge, she begins a dangerous game, amusing herself by manipulating and destroying everyone around her in an attempt to regain control of her life.
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.
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 …
Embark on a thrilling voyage over two striking visions of the ocean — Debussy’s ravishing La mer and Gabriella Smith’s showpiece for cello, Lost Coast. Inspired by a hiking trip along …
In the heat of civil war, the Governor of the region and his wife flee an angry uprising, abandoning their infant son in the midst of the chaos. The responsibility to rear the child falls upon Grusha, a servant girl, who sacrifices everything to respectfully raise the young boy as her own. But when the biological mother returns, a debate arises as to who is the rightful mother of the boy. Written at the close of World War II, Brecht’s masterpiece explores the impact of war on ordinary people who find their humanity amidst a chaos they did not invite. This show focuses on storytelling and performance with basic production elements.
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.
On April 23, 1961, moments before she was to hit the stage, Judy Garland and those closest to her work through her nerves in order to prepare her for what would be called The Greatest Night in Show Business
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 …
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, …
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 …
The Black Excellence Revue brings the heat with a high-energy celebration of Black joy, featuring new songs, bold sketches, and The Second City’s iconic improv. With a hilarious, …
Written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Loosely based on Dracula by Bram Stroker
Directed by company member Matthew Masino
“Over-the-top and bloody hilarious... a must-see!” – DC Theater Arts
In the …
Using elements of absurdity and dark humor, Green Corridors is a poetic, harrowing journey through a world fractured by war. Ukrainian playwright Natalka Vorozhbyt’s deeply human storytelling, brought to life by Kay Martinovich, invites us to bear witness to displacement, resistance, and the echoing pain of conflict and offers a poignant and urgent reflection on displacement, survival, and identity.
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 …