The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey written by James Lecesne and directed by Kurt Johns. The solo performance portrays a colorful array of characters in a small Jersey Shore town all contributing to the unraveling mystery of Leonard Pelkey, a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant fourteen-year-old boy who goes missing.

Get ready to sing and sway with Jersey Boys at the historic Auditorium Theatre! For a limited engagement, go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award®-winning true-life musical phenomenon.

A Whole New World of Alan Menken was a magical experience to say the least. The Oscar, Tony, and Grammy-award winning composer and pianist performs a one-man retrospective show, a must-see performance for any Broadway lover!

From the Tony Award®-winning creators of the Broadway classic Ragtime, this new show transports you from the fall of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past.

Raven Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of award winning playwright Anna Jordan’s compelling drama YEN, directed by Elly Green.

Lively charismatic and will have you dancing out of your seat! You don’t want to miss Broadway in Chicago’s The Choir of Man. The limited one-week engagement comes to Chicago after hitting numerous international music festivals.

Dangerously funny and wickedly relatable, Roddy Doyle exposes the human condition in his work Two Pints. Set in The Pub at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, audiences listen in on the conversation between two men at a bar which over the course of a few rounds, their characters’ banter evolves from ramblings about tonsils and TV carpark shows to life and death.

Twilight Bowl written by Rebecca Gilman illustrates brilliantly the twilight years of female adolescence.

The Joffrey Ballet presents the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s historic reimagining of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, Anna Karenina. This performance marks the Company’s first commissioned full-length score, composed by Russian multi award-winning composer Ilya Demutsky.

Trinity Irish Dance Company makes its first full-length Chicago appearance in over ten years in a one night only performances that enchanted audience members by showcasing TIDC’s longstanding traditions, immense creativity and outstanding caliber of dance.

In honor of World War I’s 100th anniversary of armistice, director Peter Jackson breathes new life into film and materials on the brink of antiquity in his new documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old. Fathom Events and Warner Bros.

A far cry from the grand halls of Downton Abbey, where Olivier Award-winner Brendan Coyle’s beloved character Mr. Bates enchanted TV viewers across the world, Coyle (Downton Abbey, Mary Queen of Scotts, Paths to Freedom) delves into the mysteries and myth of vampires and our own humanity in Conor McPherson’s gripping St. Nicholas.

Vibrant reimagining of Midsummer Night’s Dream comes to life in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Courtyard Theater this holiday season. Internationally acclaimed director Joe Dowling takes this classic tale and infuses it with a musical blend of enchanting rock, jazz, blues and doo-wop tunes.

Suspend your imagination for an evening with Mary Zimmerman’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass Theatre this holiday season. Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen, Zimmerman’s family-friendly performance transforms the classic tale into a visual and poetic journey.

“Our ancestors are dead, but they do not want our customs to die as well,” says Auntie Anne portrayed by the incomparable Steppenwolf ensemble member Cheryl Lynn Bruce. Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Familiar is a hilarious, fast-paced, endearing portrayal of a family searching to preserve their past while building a new future.

Halloween took over the Auditorium Theatre this past week with Disney In Concert, as the Chicago Philharmonic honored the 25th anniversary of Tim Burton’s classic stop-motion film with a live accompaniment screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Obie Award-winning David Cale gives a incredibly endearing performance in the world premiere of We Are Only Alive For A Short Amount Of Time directed by Robert Falls. A musically dashed memoir of hope, family and transcendence. Cale’s work has been hailed by the New York Times as a combination of “reality, fantasy and an almost clairvoyant insight into personality”.

Hubbard Street Dance’s Fall Engagement marks the companies fifth decade as one of the country’s leading contemporary dance companies and celebrated with a phenomenal collaboration on September 27, 29, & 30, 2018 at Harris Theater. This World Premiere features a live performance by Grammy-award-winning Chicago music sensation Third Coast Percussion with music composition by pop music icon Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and choreography by three cutting-edge emerging choreographers, Emma Portner, Lil Buck and Jon Boogz.

The 1953 Pulitzer Prize and coveted Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, Hemingway declared his best work is yet to come. Five years later, Ernest Hemingway sits in front of his typewriter in a Spanish hotel room with the looming deadline. Insightful and provoking, Pamplona explores the struggles the writer dealt with in declining health, overwhelmed by his troubled fourth marriage and tormented by the ghosts of his past.

In 1954, a humble truck driver checks in to Sun Records to record a song for his mother and leaves with the chance at a career that skyrocketed to stardom. Heartbreak Hotel journeys through Elvis Presley’s rise to fame and the growing pains of showbiz.