The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! Join Chicken Little and her friends --Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey and others-- as she journeys to tell The King the news!
Welcome to HELL’S KITCHEN, the hit musical from 17-time Grammy® Award winning Alicia Keys—inspired by her life, her music, and her community.
Your journey begins with Ali, a 17-year-old girl …
When soldier and aspiring musician Hampton Weems comes home from Afghanistan, he finds the South Side of Chicago is also occupied territory—and he’s accidentally joined the resistance. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and The Nightwatchman) Tom Morello brings a ground-breaking new punk/metal/hip-hop musical to our intimate Owen Theatre about a young artist finding his voice, why violence is as American as cherry pie, and how young radicals—across generations—are still motivated by love.
From the creators of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, your favorite Rock 'n' Roll legends return this Christmas for a brand-new holiday musical experience. Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley come together again to celebrate the holidays at Sun Records studio, filled to the brim with Christmas cheer and enough musical talent to power a city grid. Jam-packed with the sounds of the season and the chart toppers that made the “Million Dollar Quartet” famous, the gang is up to their usual antics as we journey through stories of Christmas past, present, and future.
A heavenly musical comedy.
Based on the hit 1992 film, this divine, feel-good comedy will have you rejoicing with the whole family this holiday season.
Sister Act contains depictions of guns and violence, simulated gunshot.
Run Time: 2 hours 30 minutes including intermission
This duo of passionate one-act operas explores the depths of spurned lovers’ grief and the lengths they’ll go to in avenging betrayal. Deadly love triangles unfold against starkly …
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
Kenneth Sawyer Goodman – playwright, businessman, and Naval Lieutenant – didn't live to see his vision of a uniquely Chicago theatre conservatory come to pass. Finally realized at the Art Institute of Chicago and now a part of DePaul University, The Theatre School celebrates its Centennial by inviting audiences to share the experiences of students over the last hundred years living his dream while discovering their own. The Theatre School partners with Birch House Immersive to create a journey through our building that honors that past and looks to the future.
o Full Price: $30
o DPU Student: $5
o DPU Faculty/Staff: $15
o DPU Alumni: $20
o Demon Rush: $1
o Non-DPU Student: $10
o Senior: $20
o TTS Student (paid): $5
o TTS employee: $15
o Preview: $15
Special Events:
Sunday, November 9 - Post-show discussion (following 2:00 PM performance)
Friday, November 14 - Post-show discussion (following the 9:00 PM performance)
Sunday, November 16 - ASL Interpreted (available at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM performances).*
* Contact Manager of Audience Services for specific accessiblity needs.
Vienna: a cacophony of music and intrigue. The emperor’s composer, Antonio Salieri, holds court until the flamboyant entrance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: prodigy and wild child. The two artists begin a vicious and thrilling duet, a rivalry that will define their lives and their legacies for years to come. Winner of 5 Tonys and 8 Academy Awards, Amadeus is the ultimate ode to ambition and musical genius, a brilliant requiem for a villain in history—but a hero in his own story. Vi saluto!
Performance Run Time: 1 hour 35 minutes, including intermission.
The unique timbre of the viola — rich, dark, and soulful — has made it the instrument of choice for …
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. …
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 …
Ghostlight Ensemble presents Topher Payne's "Angry Fags" — a revenge story about good gay guys gone bad, set amidst the political turmoil of a fictional world very much like our own.
Warbling birds, trickling streams, summer storms, barking dogs, icy landscapes — Vivaldi pioneered the art of painting nature through music with his blazingly original Four Seasons. Concertmaster Robert Chen …
At the tail end of the 1960s, a quintet of young adults keep the last flame of the revolution burning. As they prepare their next national action, they learn that their hearts may be bigger than their guts. A play about rebellion, maturity, and where the hippies go after the drum circles disperse.
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.
The Scottish Witch Trials— sanctioned by the state (King James I, of the King James Bible fame!) fuelled by the church, fed by hysteria, and buried by history. Imagine a country where fear is rampant, where gangs of thugs police the streets, and innocent people are snatched up and separated from their loved ones. A country where religious zealots and radical conservatives dominate society. A country where mob mentality and conspiracy theories keep citizens at a suspicious distance from one another. Sound familiar? This country was Scotland in 1591. The threat of the devil loomed and ordinary women bore the brunt of the terror. PRICK reclaims the story of thousands of innocents who were “strangled to the death and burnt to ashes.” Inspired by the Witches of Scotland campaign that worked to remember all the victims, PRICK traverses magic and memory, fact and fiction, past and present. With haunting puppets created by Madeline Helling.
Proboscis Theatre Company will present this Chicago and Midwest premiere November 6-16, 2025. Proboscis brings their signature physical and visual style to the story of women fighting back against intimidation, violence, and brutal oppression in seventeenth century Scotland. This production will highlight Prick’s contemporary relevance with humor, razor sharp satire, poetically choreographed puppetry, all while providing an unflinching look into the horrors that women have faced for centuries. Their use of highly physical acting, live music and video will create an uncannily vivid theatrical experience that will leave a moving imprint long after the curtain falls.
“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.