<em>Bachelorette</em>

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... 

<em>[title of show]</em>

Theatre: Musical

[title of show]

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... 

Lifeline Theatre: <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>

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... 

New Leaf Theatre: <em>Arcadia</em>

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,... 

<em>Sixty Miles to Silver Lake</em>

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... 

<em>The March</em>

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... 

Chicago Shakespeare Theater: <em>Timon of Athens</em>

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... 

Dog & Pony Theatre Co.: <em>The Whole World Is Watching</em>

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... 

Chicago Craft Beer Week

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... 

<em>Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)</em>

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... 

<em>The Iceman Cometh</em>

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... 

<em>The MeMo Organization Cabinet</em>

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... 

<em>This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s</em>

Art: Group Show

This Will Have Been

Today @ MCA Chicago

Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time... 

<em>Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection</em>

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... 

<em>Heaven and Hell</em>

Cultural Hybrid: Group Show

Heaven and Hell

Today @ Loyola University Museum of Art

A companion to the exhibition at Intuit, LUMA features the idiosyncratic visions of heaven from outsider artists, with Intuit showing hell....