Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Things to do Sept. 4-10: Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival, Naperville Jaycees’ Last Fling, Buffalo Grove Days and moreAug 31, 2026 4:16 pm - Mark your calendar for Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival, Naperville Jaycees’ Last Fling, Buffalo Grove Days and more.
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Concerts Sept. 4-10: Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, Garth Brooks and moreAug 31, 2026 2:58 pm - Upcoming concerts include Snoop Dogg at Ravinia Festival, Wu-Tang Clan at the Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Garth Brooks at the Allstate Arena and more.
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Best bets: Paula Poundstone at Crystal Lake’s Raue Center; Cheap Trick in AuroraAug 31, 2026 2:00 pm - Tickets are still available for Paula Poundstone’s Raue Center show; Cheap Trick headlines RiverEdge Park; free museum admission this weekend for Bank of America cardholders.
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Renowned storyteller heading to Woodstock Opera House Sept. 20Aug 27, 2026 4:06 pm - On Sept. 20, veteran storyteller Susan O'Halloran, 76, will perform personal narratives about race and social justice at Woodstock Opera House, sharing eye-opening stories from her youth in 1960s Chicago including “The Garbage Story” about systemic inequality in city services.
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Magic man: For theater artist Dennis Watkins, magic was always in the cardsAug 26, 2026 10:42 am - Dennis Watkins, host of the long-running close-up magic show “The Magic Parlour” at Goodman Theatre, celebrates 25 years as a Chicago magician and theater artist.
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Schaumburg’s 55th annual Septemberfest also celebrates village’s 70th anniversaryAug 25, 2026 2:19 pm - This year’s Septemberfest over Labor Day weekend in Schaumburg will be an extra special one for a number of reasons. Not only is it the 55th staging of the festival itself, but it will be the village’s largest celebration of its 70th anniversary and accompany the final stages of construction on the new village hall at the heart of the Robert O. Atcher Municipal Campus.
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Spotlight: Janus Theatre revives ever-timely ‘An Iliad’ with all-female castAug 25, 2026 10:59 am - Ten years after it staged Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s “An Iliad,” Elgin’s Janus Theatre remounts the play with an all-female cast; TimeLine launches its 30th season with the premiere of “The Birth of the Pill” about the development of the life-changing oral contraceptive; and Promethean Theatre Ensemble stages “Blood of the Lamb,” a Kafkaesque thrill about reproductive rights.
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Things to do Aug. 28-Sept. 3: Port Clinton Art Festival, Moose-a-Palooza Music Fest and moreAug 24, 2026 2:53 pm - Mark your calendar for the Port Clinton Art Festival, Moose-a-Palooza Music Fest and Fundraiser, Edgewater Music Fest and more.
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Concerts Aug. 28 to Sept. 3: Alabama, Kesha, Isaiah Rashad and moreAug 24, 2026 2:31 pm - Upcoming concerts include Alabama at Ravinia Festival, Kesha at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Isaiah Rashad at the Salt Shed and more.
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The MAC at 40: Celebrating DuPage County’s ‘cultural town square’Aug 22, 2026 11:46 am - The McAninch Arts Center has emerged as a cultural hub in the 40 years since it opened on the College of DuPage campus where it typically attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually.