Theatre: Comedy

Bachelorette

Today @ Profiles Theatre

Leslye Headland's runaway off-Broadway hit makes its Midwest premiere at Profiles Theatre in a brazen production helmed by Artistic Director Darrell... 

Theatre: Musical

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Today @ Northlight Theatre

Meta-entertainment is a tricky business. For every self-referential winner — Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation screenplay comes to mind — the road is... 

Theatre: Drama

Pride and Prejudice

Today @ Lifeline Theatre

Stop us if you've heard this one: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... 

Art: Installation

Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)

Today @ Gallery 400

Despite how Gallery 400 frames the show, Spectral Landscapes is less a coherent study of artists whose work is about color... 

Theatre: Drama

Arcadia

Today @ Lincoln Park Cultural Center

An accomplished production of a contemporary classic. Tom Stoppard's heady play, equal parts serious intellectual investigation (into the nature of chaos,... 

Theatre

Sixty Miles to Silver Lake

Today @ The Flat Iron

After the breakout success of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal at ATC last year, Collaboraction premieres the playwright's beautifully crafted, deceptively... 

Theatre: Drama

The March

Today @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company

The Civil War ended long ago, but its story is still being told. Consider it now at Steppenwolf, where veteran ensemble... 

Theatre: Drama

Timon of Athens

Today @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Although one of Shakespeare's lesser known and rarely produced plays, under the sharp direction of Barbara Gaines, Timon of Athens now... 

Theatre

The Whole World Is Watching

Today @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Just in time for NATO, Dog & Pony's extraordinarily powerful world premiere follows the events of late August 1968 in Chicago... 

Food/Wine: Festival

Chicago Craft Beer Week

Today @ Various Chicago locations

You may have read a trendpiece or twelve about the ongoing craft-beer renaissance and Chicago's high stature therein. And if you... 

Comedy

The Hot Karl

Today @ The ComedySportz Theatre

Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,... 

Theatre: Drama

The Iceman Cometh

Today @ The Goodman Theatre

Goodman delivers Eugene O'Neill's monumental, four-act play with beautiful staging and an all-star cast (Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy), completely embracing one... 

Art: Multimedia

The MeMo Organization Cabinet

Today @ Chicago Cultural Center

A companion exhibition to the death-themed Morbid Curiosity, "speculative designer" Jessica Charlesworth presents The MeMo Organization Cabinet, "MeMo" being short for... 

Art: Group Show

Morbid Curiosity

Today @ Chicago Cultural Center

Morbid Curiosity looks death straight in the eye in the sprawling exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center that includes about 1,000... 

Art: Photography

Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance

Today @ Columbia College Chicago

The exhibition Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance looks at human conflict and the ways individuals and groups endure long-term hardship. The fourteen international...