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(Title of Show) is a based-on-real-life meta-comedy cataloging the painful and often random creative process. Written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell in just three weeks, the musical tells the […]
A raucous night of theater just as the bard intended awaits audiences of the Olde School Shakespeare Collective’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. Hosted at My Buddy’s bar, […]
Like the film it parodies, Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw is not for the faint of heart. Playing at The Den Theatre, Saw the Musical is coming […]
Based on the 2019 book by Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre is a horror story that will unnerve and confuse viewers, leaving them to unravel the film’s threads late into […]
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical made its Broadway debut in 2017 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and went on a national tour in 2019. The show’s source material, […]
The Trap Open Series is designed to bring non-traditional dramatic takes to Trap Door Theatre’s stage for short runs. The latest in the series is Antigonick, translated and adapted by […]
Main street movie theaters have defined small downtown areas since the 1920s, but independent theaters across the country have been shutting their doors at alarming rates. Thankfully, Wayfarer Theaters is […]
Otherworld Theatre’s world premiere staging of Garters opens with four ensemble members (Chloe Basset, Bruce Holtman, Quinton Walker, and Kylie Carroll) welcoming the audience with a fourth-wall-breaking prologue. The four remain in […]
Turret, a new show written and directed by Chicago playwright Levi Holloway, is born from a cinematic legacy of horror, apocalypse, and suspense, and it uses the mechanisms of live […]
In 1993, A Red Orchid Theatre (and its talented ensemble of writers, directors, and actors) established itself as a pillar of Chicago’s independent theater scene. In 2024, two of its […]
A Red Orchid Theatre’s newest production Turret is a world premiere written and directed by Levi Holloway, whose recent works have included a Broadway run of his play Grey House, […]
Chicago’s newest theater, Blue In The Right Way, is staging its inaugural production, Women Beware Women, a half-modernized, half-classical mashup of Thomas Middleton’s original work of the same name, written […]