Centerstage - Chicago's Original City Guide

Virtual L™


THEATRE SHOWS All Shows S M T W T F S Reviewed Shows Theater Picks Opening Soon Venues Companies Styles Venue Directory Who's Who of Chicago Find Tickets

	SUBSCRIBE to

	Enter your email to get our weekly newsletter:

Shows Playing on Thursday

Editor's Pick

Reviewed

Closing Soon

82 Performances Found

National Pastime Theater
(MidTangent Productions)

A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale. Back for its fourth and final time, it's Shakespeare—but queer!

Chicago Cultural Center

About Dance. Blend a sizzling dance performance and sharp dance criticism.

Goodman Theatre

Ain't Misbehavin'. The music of Fats Waller gets the stage treatment in this Tony Award-winning revue.

Beverly Arts Center
(Chicago Kids Company Theatre for Children)

Alice in Wonderland. Experience Alice and her magical journey to Wonderland all over again.

Beverly Arts Center

Alice in Wonderland. Alice falls down the rabbit hole.

American Girl Place

American Girls Revue, The. Put stars in her eyes and a song in her heart-with American Girls.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)

American Song. America's favorite folk singer tells his story through music and words.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

Awesome 80's Prom, The. Head back to the '80s at this bitchin' interactive show.

Second City
(Second City)

Between Barack and a New Show. The primaries are coming up fast, so get some more Barack luv on.

Playground Theater

Big Yellow Bus. Ensemble members tickle audience members' funny bones.

Artistic Home

Biography. Eavesdrop on the bitching and dishing of a socialite to the stars.

Storefront Theater
(Backstage Theatre Company)

Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy and Revenge. Murder and revenge take centerstage in this pirate-filled suspense.

Briar Street Theatre

Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Relive the fifties...or experience them for the first time.

Navy Pier Skyline Stage

Cirque Shanghai: Bai XI. Cirque Shanghai returns for a second year of fantastic feats.

Skyline Stage Navy Pier
(Cirque Shanghai)

Cirque Shanghai: GOLD. Cirque Shanghai is back again—with a new act.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

Cool Table, The. Improv comedy with a rock-star vibe.

Prop Thtr
(Prop Thtr/Hawkeye Plainview)

Daniel Day-Lewis and the Big Potatas. It's Daniel Day-Lewis, and he's not playing a psychopath in "No Country For Old Men."

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Jean can't stop answering a dead man's cell phone. And the phone keeps ringing.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Salsation Theatre Company)

Devil Wears Chanklas, The . Yes, in fact the devil does not wear Prada. She actually wears chanklas.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.

Skokie Theatre
(ensemble113)

Election Day. As Election Day approahces, Adam panics.

Goodman Theatre
(Chicago Children's Theatre)

Esperanza Rising. When tragedy strikes a rich Mexican girl, she must start all over again.

Center on Halsted
(About Face Youth Theatre)

Fast Forward. How do LGBTQ youth today deal with teen pregnancy, living with HIV, bullying and parents who try to turn their kids straight?

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Funk It Up About Nothin'. It's Shakespeare—the raptastic version.

Navy Pier Skyline Stage
(Cirque Shanghai)

Gold. The Cirque Shanghai acrobats return—and they're more daring than ever.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Royal George Theatre)

Gutenberg! The Musical!. Two aspiring writers head for Broadway...

IO Theater

Harold, The. IO's signature, long-form improv piece.

Circle Theatre
(Circle Theatre)

Hay Fever. No one can deny that the Bliss family drives their guests nuts.

The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(Emerald City Theatre Company)

How I Became a Pirate. Yar, yar! Walk the plank! And other pirate-like sayings.

Pheasant Run Theatre
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. It's the Off-Broadway musical about falling love, the "suburban mating game" and all the accompanying secrets.

Improv Kitchen

Improv Kitchen. Fill your belly and then watch it jiggle as you giggle.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

It Came From the Neo-Futurarium. Bad film. Awesome theatre. What else do you need?

Theatre Building Chicago
(Bohemian Theatre Ensemble)

Jekyll & Hyde. BoHo revamps this musical theater classic.

Mercury Theater
(Lowey/Leone Productions)

Kid From Brooklyn, The . Danny Kaye rose from an improv comic to become a superstar.

United Center

Kooza. Acrobats, clowns and comedy all under one roof.

Raven Theatre
(Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre of the San Francisco Bay Area)

Ladies Quintet, The . It's all ladies, all life, all the time.

Royal George Theatre Center

Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.

Bailiwick Arts Center
(Split Britches)

Lesbians Who Kill. It's even better than the movie "Monster."

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

Lincoln Lodge, The. Hot, saucy stand-up next to a down-home diner.

Writers' Theatre (Tudor Court)
(Writers’ Theatre)

Lion in Winter, The . Goldman merges fiction and past events to retell a powerful history.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Lonesome Losers of the Night. The Belgian-French speaking songwriter's work gets a new revue.

Water Tower Water Works
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Lookingglass Alice. The acrobatic Alice is back again.

McAninch Arts Center
(Buffalo Theatre Ensemble)

Melville Boys, The. These two brothers couldn't have planned this weekend.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

Menopause the Musical. Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)

Messing With A Friend. Top comedians fill a rotating spot in this two-person improv show.

Chopin Theatre
(Strange Tree Group)

Mysterious Elephant and the Terrible Tragedy of the Unlikely Addington Twins (*Who Kill Him), The. Save the elephant.

Sideproject Theater
(Bruised Orange Theater Company)

Nebraska Project, The . Bruce Springsteen's back. Yep.

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Victory Gardens Theater Greenhouse
(Asuza Productions)

Onto Infinity . A young mathematician loses touch with reality.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)

Perfect Wave, The . Can Kip Hardburn and his surfer dude friends save the summer?

Playground Theater

Playground, The. Savor a night of long-form improv by national troupes.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Eclipse Theatre Company)

Plaza Suite. Three couples. Big decisions. One hotel room.

Live Bait Theater
(Tellin' Tales)

Potholes to the Path of Enlightenment. After six years of this show, we're still on the path to enlightenment. Does it ever end?

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).

Pressure Billiards & Cafe
(Edge Comedy)

Pressure Open Mic. Weekly mixer of comedy and caffeine.

Heartland Cafe
(The PEOPLE*S Theater of Chicago)

Questa. Seven New Yorkers meet one another after suspected "gay bashing."

Profiles Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)

Rag and Bone. Buy and sell hearts on the black market—they'll change your life.

Drury Lane Water Tower Place
(Broadway In Chicago)

Shout! The Mod Musical. Five women in 1960s England make musical history.

Theatre on the Lake
(Bohemian Theatre Ensemble)

Songs for a New World. Welcome back Jason Robert Brown's musical revue.

Trap Door Theatre
(Point of Contention)

Still Photos. Forbidden love flourishes during wartime.

IO Theater

Stranded: The Improvised Musical. Send a duo of improv artists to a stranded island.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Mary's Attic
(Hell in a Handbag Productions)

Summer Camp 2. Summer camp is back. And we don't mean the sleepover kind.

Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf )

Superior Donuts. As Uptown gentrifies, will its standby donut shop go, too?

Oracle Theatre
(Oracle Theatre )

Termen Vox Machina. It's a sci-fi radio drama like no other.

ComedySportz

The Improv Match Game. The glowing box doesn't stand a chance against this improv.

Various
(Various)

Theater Thursdays. Catch new shows and accompanying theater-related events every Thursday.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)

Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.

Playground Theater

Thursday Happy Hour. Comedic actors. Character monologues. What else do you need to know?

Berger Park Coach House
(The Journeymen)

tick, tick...BOOM. The guy who wrote "Rent" actually did do some other work.

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun's Garage. Sip it all in at a 1920s speakeasy.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Tommy’s Place: Unexpected Company . Doesn't fate always bring random people together?

Piper's Alley

Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding. You're invited to this loud, Italian-style wedding.

McAninch Arts Center
(DuPage Opera Theatre)

Tosca. Puccini's tragic love story returns.

Chase Bank Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

Whose Line?. The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.

Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
(Broadway in Chicago)

Wicked. The musical back story of Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Willy Wonka . The Roald Dahl classic hits the stage.

Beverly Arts Center
(BAC Teen Thespians)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The BAC Teen Thespians love chocolate.

Are we missing a show? Let us know!