& JULIET Returns to Chicago July 2026
& JULIET WILL RETURN TO CHICAGO BY POPULAR DEMAND WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2026 – SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2026
AUDITORIUM THEATRE, 50 E. IDA B. WELLS DRIVE
Full Casting Announced for Steppenwolf Theatre's Broadway Transfer of PURPOSE
Full Casting Announced for Steppenwolf Theatre’s Broadway Transfer of its Hit World Premiere PURPOSE By Tony Award Winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Directed by Two-Time Tony Award Winner Phylicia Rashad || Featuring Steppenwolf ensemble members Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis and Jon Michael Hill with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix and Kara Young || Limited Broadway Engagement Begins Previews February 25, 2025 || Opening Monday, March 17, 2025 at the Helen Hayes Theater
National Tour of PARADE Coming to Chicago
NATIONAL TOUR OF THE 2023 TONY AWARD-WINNING BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL PARADE COMING TO BROADWAY IN CHICAGO’S CIBC THEATRE AUGUST 5 – 17, 2025 || 2023 TONY AWARD® WINNER FOR BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL & GRAMMY AWARD® NOMINEE FOR BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM || MAX CHERNIN and TALIA SUSKAUER To Lead the National Tour of PARADE
Chicago Children's Theatre presents "A Year with Frog & Toad"
Two amphibian best friends sing, dance and play their way through four seasons of adventure in Tony-nominated kids’ musical "A Year with Frog and Toad", April 13th - May 26th at Chicago Children’s Theatre
Cast and production team announced for BrightSide Theatre production of Ira Levin’s comedic thriller DEATHTRAP
Cast and production team announced for BrightSide Theatre production of Ira Levin’s comedic thriller DEATHTRAP, March 8th - 24th
|| BrightSide Theatre Youth Theatre to additionally perform MEAN GIRLS JR. Saturday matinees and Sunday evenings during the first two weekends of DEATHTRAP
Three BIG announcements from Aurora's Paramount Theatre
Paramount to bring Regional Premieres of Disney’s Frozen and Waitress to downtown Aurora in 2024-25; The Full Monty and Cats round out Paramount’s 13th Broadway Series
Paramount’s third BOLD Series brings Peter and the Starcatcher, An Act of God and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee to the intimate Copley Theatre
Opening Summer 2024: Stolp Island Theatre, Paramount’s new, immersive theater experience, debuting with Million Dollar Quartet
DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to Open North American Tour in Chicago
A Newly-Reimagined Production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast to Open North American Tour at Cadillac Palace Theatre in July 2025 in Celebration of the Beloved Title's 30th Anniversary
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice produced by The Gift Theatre
The Gift Theatre to opens season with THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE Written by Jim Cartwright || Directed by Devon de Mayo and Peter G. Andersen || September 14 – October 15, 2023 at Filament Theatre
Music Theater Works Announces Two Day Tap Workshop
MUSIC THEATER WORKS ANNOUNCES MUSIC THEATER WORKSHOP - TAP, A TWO DAY TAP WORKSHOP WITH THE PRODUCERS CHOREOGRAPHER DARRYL KENT CLARK AND CHICAGO TAP THEATRE’S MOLLY SMITH, AUGUST 14th AND 15th ||
The Tap Workshop for Ages 10 - 18 years old is a Complementary Event to Music Theater Works’s 150th Production THE PRODUCERS A Mel Brooks Musical, August 10 - 20
Court Theatre Announces 69th Season
COURT THEATRE ANNOUNCES 69th SEASON || Season includes The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson || Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Associate Artistic Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent || Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, directed by Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director Charles Newell || and the World Premiere of Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution by Nambi E. Kelley, directed by Tasia A. Jones