Articles filed under Theater
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Lake Park High Theatre opens season with ‘Bedtime Stories’ for kidsSep 11, 2026 8:42 am - Lake Park High School is putting on "Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)" Sept. 16, featuring 17 student actors and 20 crew members. The play follows a father who improvises classic fairy tales for his three children.
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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.
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Spotlight: Comedy classic ‘The Front Page’ heralds Northlight’s Evanston homecomingSep 01, 2026 1:26 pm - Northlight Theatre inaugurates its new home in Evanston with the premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of “The Front Page,” based on the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and the 1940 screwball comedy “His Girl Friday.”
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Fall theater preview: Plenty of intriguing musicals and plays coming to suburban, Chicago stagesSep 01, 2026 9:57 am - World and regional premieres are among the productions scheduled to run on suburban and Chicago stages this fall.
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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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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.