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TWISTED MELODIES Added to Northlight Theatre's 2024-25 Season


by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2024

Northlight Theatre has announced Twisted Melodies, written and directed by Kelvin Roston Jr as the final production of the 2024-2025 season. ...

Photos: Meet Tiffany Topol The Star of BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL At Paramount Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - April 05, 2024

From teenage songwriter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical celebrates the inspiring true story of a 1970s pop music icon, April 24- June 16 at Paramount Theatre. See first look photos of the show's star Tiffany Topol!...

Cast Set For NATIVE SON at Lifeline Theatre


by Stephi Wild - March 29, 2024

Casting has been announced for Chicagoan Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s powerful introspection on race and justice like never before. Native Son runs at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. in Rogers Park, from May 10 – June 30, 2024....

Northlight Theatre Receives $3 Million Gift From The Finnegan Family


by A.A. Cristi - March 28, 2024

Northlight Theatre has announced a leadership gift from past President/Chairperson of the theatre’s Board of Trustees Paul Finnegan for its new theatre building at 1012-16 Church Street in downtown Evanston....

LITTLE WOMEN & More Set for Northlight Theatre 2024-25 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 14, 2024

Northlight Theatre has revealed the 2024-2025 season. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets....

NORTH SHORE LIVE Opens in Chicago This Weekend


by Stephi Wild - March 13, 2024

North Shore Live – will run March 17- April 28, 2024. North Shore Live offers exciting offerings for all interests and ages....

Cast Set for Rolling World Premiere of BROOKLYN LAUNDRY at Northlight Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 01, 2024

Northlight Theatre is continuing its 2023–2024 season with the rolling world premiere of Brooklyn Laundry by John Patrick Shanley. See performance dates and learn how to purchase tickets....

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company to Present PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE SONG: Romance on Stage, Screen, and Beyond


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 26, 2024

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will present “Punch-Drunk Love Song: Romance on Stage, Screen, and Beyond,” Saturday, March 9, at 8 p.m. Learn more about the event! ...

50th Anniversary Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony Reveals Production Team


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 21, 2024

At the milestone 50th Anniversary Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theater, more than 100 recognized artists and new emerging faces and voices will be honored. Learn more about the ceremony!...

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Comes to Aurora's Paramount Theatre in April


by Stephi Wild - February 21, 2024

Paramount Theatre will present its 2023-24 season finale, the Broadway smash hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Performances are April 24-June 16....

Past Shows

Birthday Candles
Birthday Candles
9/7 - 10/8/2023


Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. ...

Lerner And Loewe's Camelot
10/21 - 11/13/2022


The legendary love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot leaps from the pages of T.H. White's novel in Lerner and Loewe's award-winning, soaring ...

The Catastrophist
The Catastrophist
3/11 - 3/31/2021


How do you plan for catastrophe? Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIMEs 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work tracking Ebola ...

Fireflies (Love)
1/21 - 2/28/2021


Donja R. Love University of Maryland-Eastern Shore...

Northlight Theatre presents an Interplay reading of Such Small Hands


Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, presents an Interplay reading of Such Small Hands, written ...

The Lifespan of a Fact
9/24 - 11/1/2020


Northlight Theatre Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, based on the book by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal...

Intimate Apparel
3/12 - 4/19/2020


At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients including a sincere socialite from tony Fifth ...

How a Boy Falls
1/23 - 3/1/2020


How a Boy Falls...

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley


From the authors of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley comes a charming new companion piece!While the Bennets and Darcys are celebrating upstairs, the servants below ...

Mother of the Maid
Mother of the Maid
9/12 - 10/20/2019


Isabelle Arc is a hard-working, pious peasant woman with an odd and extraordinary daughter. When adolescent Joan announces shes having visions, her mother isnt quite ...

Into the Breeches!
Into the Breeches!
5/9 - 6/16/2019


It’s 1942 and with the men off at war, the Oberon Play House is lacking its director and leading men. The season will be canceled… ...

Nina Simone:
Nina Simone:
3/14 - 4/22/2019


In the aftermath of 1963’s 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Nina Simone rocked the nation with “Four Women,” her tribute in song to the four ...

Landladies
Landladies
1/24 - 3/2/2019


Self-made landlord Marti and her new tenant Christine strike up a complicated relationship in this compelling world premiere. Despite a tentative friendship, neither can afford ...

Nina Simonoe: Four Women
1/24 - 3/2/2019


Christina Ham; dir: Kenneth L. Roberson....

Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park
11/8 - 12/16/2018


When shy but clever Fanny Price is sent away by her overburdened parents, she must learn to navigate life as the poor relation at her ...

Curve of Departure
Curve of Departure
9/13 - 10/23/2018


In a cramped motel room in New Mexico, a “ragtag little group of humans” gathers in anticipation of the funeral of a man they loved ...

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
3/15 - 4/22/2018


Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely ...

Skeleton Crew
1/25 - 3/4/2018


As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing ...

Sanctions
9/14 - 10/22/2017


Bruce Grahm; dir: BJ Jones. World Premiere...

Relativity
5/11 - 6/18/2017


Mark St. Germain; dir: BJ Jones. World Premiere...

By the Water
3/16 - 4/23/2017


Hurricane Sandy has just ravaged the lifelong home of Marty and Mary Murphy. But the storm has ripped apart more than just the walls: with ...

Faceless
1/26 - 3/5/2017


Selina Fillinger; dir: BJ Jones....


A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, MISS BENNET continues the story, only this time with bookish ...


A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, MISS BENNET continues the story, only this time with bookish ...

The City of Conversation
9/15 - 10/23/2016


Anthony Giardina; dir: Marti Lyons....

The City of Conversation
9/15 - 10/23/2016


Anthony Giardina; dir: Marti Lyons....

Butler
3/11 - 4/17/2016


The Civil War, 1861. An escaped slave seeks sanctuary, but the laws of the land are unrelenting. With sharp wit and tongue-in- cheek humor, Butler ...

Mothers and Sons
1/22 - 2/28/2016


Terrence McNally; dir: Steve Scott....

You Can't Take It With You
11/6 - 12/13/2015


A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker. The date for the families to meet is misunderstood and ...

Funnyman
9/11 - 10/18/2015


Bruce Graham; dir: BJ Jones....

Shining Lives: A Musical
5/8 - 6/14/2015


book: Jessica Thebus; lyrics: Jessica Thebus; music: Amanda Dehnert, Andre Pluess; dir: Jessica Thebus....

Outside Mullingar
3/13 - 4/19/2015


This is a new romantic comedy from the Pulitzer-, Oscar-, and Tony Award-winner John Patrick Shanley, writer of Doubt and Moonstruck. Anthony and Rosemary are ...

White Guy on the Bus
1/23 - 3/1/2015


Bruce Graham; dir: BJ Jones....

Chapatti
3/7 - 4/13/2014


Romance is a distant memory for two lonely animal-lovers living in Dublin. When forlorn Dan and his dog Chapatti cross paths with the amiable Betty ...

Tom Jones
1/17 - 2/23/2014


North Shore Center: adapt: Jon Jory; dir: William Brown....

Detroit '67
11/8 - 12/15/2013


Shiva Theater: - Dominique Morriseau; dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah....

4000 Miles
4000 Miles
9/13 - 10/20/2013


Amy Herzog; dir: Kimberly Senior....

Stella & Lou
5/3 - 6/9/2013


- Bruce Graham; dir: BJ Jones....

Stones in His Pockets
3/8 - 4/14/2013


- Marie Jones; dir: J.R. Sullivan....

The Whipping Man
1/18 - 2/24/2013


- Matthew Lopez; dir: Kimberly Senior....

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5/4 - 6/10/2012


An original musical based on the lives of four people and a musical they create. This production about "two guys writing a musical about two ...

Ten Chimneys
3/9 - 4/15/2012

Black Pearl Sings
2/13 - 2/19/2012


Featuring beautiful, a cappella renditions of rare American folk songs, this play with music tells the Depression-era story of two extraordinary women dependant on one ...

Black Pearl Sings!
1/13 - 2/19/2012


In 1935 Texas, Susannah, an academic and song collector for the Library of Congress, visits a high-security prison where she meets Pearl, an African-American woman ...


Susie McMonagle, Heidi Kettenring and Christine Sherrill - These celebrated women of song have graced countless stages in Chicago, on Broadway, and around the country. ...

Season's Greetings
11/11 - 12/18/2011

Snapshots
9/16 - 10/23/2011

The Outgoing Tide
The Outgoing Tide
5/12 - 6/19/2011


World Premiere! In a summer cottage on Chesapeake Bay, Gunner has hatched an unorthodox plan to secure his family's future but meets with resistance from ...

Sense & Sensibility
Sense & Sensibility
3/10 - 4/17/2011


World Premiere! Featuring a fresh new adaptation of the classic novel by Jane Austen - author of Pride and Prejudice and Emma! A lack of ...

Eclipsed
Eclipsed
1/13 - 2/20/2011


Amid the wreckage of the Liberian civil war, the "wives" of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community - until the balance ...

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Music of the Baroque: Heaven & Earth in Chicago Music of the Baroque: Heaven & Earth
Saints Faith, Hope, & Charity Catholic Church (5/12 - 5/12)
Las Locas Comedy Presents: Chingona Comedy Hour - May 2024 in Chicago Las Locas Comedy Presents: Chingona Comedy Hour - May 2024
Laugh Factory (5/2 - 5/2)
Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin in Chicago Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin
Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre (4/10 - 5/12)
The Supertramp Tribute in Chicago The Supertramp Tribute
Raue Center For The Arts (5/17 - 5/17)
Jesus Christ Superstar in Chicago Jesus Christ Superstar
Peoria Civic Center (4/16 - 4/17)
Ross Johnson: A Funny Thing Happened...Tomorrow! in Chicago Ross Johnson: A Funny Thing Happened...Tomorrow!
Rhapsody Theater (5/1 - 6/5)
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