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Hellcab – Profiles Theatre

Will Kern’s annual favorite returns for another road trip through the Second City this holiday season. Set during an exhausting, 14-hour shift on

Holmes and Watson – City Lit

Specializing in theatrical adaptations of great novels and noteworthy literature, City Lit is reviving Terry McCabe’s previously presented 2006

Camelot – Drury Lane Oakbrook

When audiences recall this musical from 1960, the overstuffed, problematic follow-up to Lerner and Loewe’s brilliant, previous Broadway hit,

The King and I – Marriott Theatre

Throughout this bewitching musical classic, based upon Margaret Landon’s historically-based 1944 novel, Anna and the King of Siam, all forms

Titanic – Griffin Theatre Company

Because the audience already knows the sad, tragic conclusion to this show, the sight and sound of this large (and largely talented) cast of

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

It all begins with a dead cat named Wee Thomas and two frantic Irish men shouting and blaming each other for what just happened. Donny and

Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent, black and white, German expressionist film was the cinematic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic horror

The BFG – Emerald City Theatre

One night, while sitting alone in her dark, dreary orphanage bedroom, little Sophie is suddenly snatched from her bed by a 24-foot giant with

Amazing Grace – Broadway in Chicago

Chicago’s become the go-to town for preBroadway tryouts. In this new, much-hyped Broadway bound world premier, with music and lyrics by

Animal Farm – Steppenwolf for Young Audiences

In this scintillating, impossible to forget world premier by Althos Low (the pen name for Chicago’s adaptation development group, Shangai Low