Performing Arts
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Al Larson Cultural Center’s season opens Sept. 19 with Neil Diamond tributeSep 15, 2026 6:35 pm - Al Larson Cultural Center's 2026-27 season opens Sept. 19 with Broadway's Eric Gutman performing Neil Diamond hits, followed by monthly comedy shows, tribute performances including Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton, and holiday productions like "The Nutcracker" running Dec. 3-13.
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Best Bests: Common headlines free Chicago Live Fest at Navy Pier, Six Flags serves up scaresSep 15, 2026 12:03 pm - Common headlines a free concert Saturday during Chicago Live Fest at Navy Pier, Six Flags Great America opens Fright Fest, Monster Jam rolls into Rosemont’s Allstate Arena, and the Cleve Carney Art Museum debuts “Linework: Chicago Comics and Community.”
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Des Plaines Theatre roof repairs to cost $94,000, city saysSep 15, 2026 9:01 am - Roof repairs are needed at the city-owned Des Plaines Theatre.
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Spotlight: Rhino Fest returns for its 37th yearSep 15, 2026 7:24 am - The Rhinoceros Theater Festival returns for its 37th year, Morton Arboretum’s walking plays series resumes with an adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” and Theatre Y presents the Chicago premiere of a two-hander “I Am the Wind.”
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Writers’ monumental ‘Leopoldstadt’ takes top honors at equity Jeff AwardsSep 14, 2026 11:15 pm - Writers Theatre’s regional premiere of Tom Stoppard’s sprawling, semiautobiographical drama “Leopoldstad” earned five equity Joseph Jefferson Awards Monday, more than any other production.
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Things to do Sept. 18-24: Naperville Irish Fest, West Dundee Heritage Fest, Mundelein Arts Festival and moreSep 14, 2026 4:12 pm - Mark your calendar for the Naperville Irish Fest, Heritage Fest in West Dundee, the Mundelein Arts Festival and more.
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Girl power: Big vocals, savvy casting fuel Paramount’s ‘Mean Girls’Sep 10, 2026 2:02 pm - Paramount Theatre’s regional premiere of “Mean Girls” benefits from outsize performances from the actors playing the musical’s titular queen bees and wannabes.
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Humanity endures: Marriott’s ‘Come From Away’ a testament to compassion, kindnessSep 09, 2026 12:22 pm - Marriott Theatre’s first-rate revival of the Sept. 11, 2001 inspired musical “Come From Away” is a timely reminder of how compassion and decency can prevail in the wake of a tragedy.
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Spotlight: Citadel stages ‘Eureka Day,’ Metropolis revives ‘Ride the Cyclone’Sep 08, 2026 2:53 pm - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre revives the darkly comic musical “Ride the Cyclone;” Citadel Theatre revives “Eureka Day,” an incisive satire on wokeness; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre pairs Duke Ellington with William Shakespeare and Lifeline Theatre adapts a young adult classic this week in Chicago area theater.
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Things to do Sept. 11-17: Festival of the Vine, Platzkonzert Germanfest, DuPage Comic Con and moreSep 08, 2026 1:00 pm - Mark your calendar for Festival of the Vine in Geneva, Platzkonzert Germanfest in Hoffman Estates, DuPage Comic Con in Wheaton and more.