| Here Lies Henry Feb 28 - Mar 28, 2020 |
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Interrobang Theatre Project at
Rivendell Theatre
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| Henry's got a lot he has to tell you, he just can't guarantee that it's all true. In the spotlight, with only the audience as his witness, Henry grapples with his choices and failures in a scramble to make sense of his life before it's too late. Daniel MacIvor's gripping one-man play offers a provocative take on love, death, beauty, truth, and of course, good old-fashioned lying. |
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| Mrs. Warren's Profession Feb 28 - Mar 29, 2020 |
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Promethean Theatre Ensemble at
Otherworld Theatre
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| George Bernard Shaw's satirical take on the limited opportunities for women in late 19th Century British society. One of Shaw's earliest plays, it is representative of Shaw's gift for delivering biting social criticism with humor. Promethean's production will be performed in a brand-new world premiere adaptation by Melanie Spewock that streamlines Shaw's text and makes it more woman-centric, focusing on the mother-daughter relationship between Mrs. Warren and her daughter Vivie. |
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| What the Constitution Means to Me Mar 4 - Apr 12, 2020 |
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Broadway Playhouse
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| This boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of American women. At fifteen-years-old, Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that dictated their rights and citizenship. See the play The New York Times calls "not just the best play on Broadway this season, but also the most important." Casting for the national tour of What the Constitution Means to Me will be announced shortly. |
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| Thirteen Days Mar 6 - Apr 19, 2020 |
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City Lit Theater
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| A world premiere adaptation of THIRTEEN DAYS by Robert F. Kennedy, his memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 16, 1962, long-range Soviet missiles carrying nuclear warheads aimed at the United States were discovered in Cuba. For the next thirteen days, President John Kennedy maneuvered his way through conflicting counsel from his advisors, some of whom urged a military response likely to bring on World War III, ambiguous and sometimes deceitful information from the Soviet Union's representatives, and ever-shifting facts on the ground. City Lit has received permission from the Kennedy family to insert as dialogue into our script excerpts from recently-made-public transcripts of JFK's strategy sessions during the climax of the Cold War, the thirteen days the world came its closest to nuclear war. As with City Lit's acclaimed production last season of Archibald MacLeish's J.B., the roles in THIRTEEN DAYS will be played by a diverse ensemble of women. All the characters in the book are white males; none of the actors onstage will be. |
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| Grey Gardens Mar 6 - Apr 26, 2020 |
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Theo Ubique
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| The hilarious and heartbreaking story of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two were once bright names on the social register of Long Island society but became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. |
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| Teenage Dick Mar 6 - Apr 19, 2020 |
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Theater Wit
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| Theater's most famous disabled character comes to a Chicago stage like you've never seen him before-in the vicious, no-holds barred brutal politics of high school. Richard, picked on because of his cerebral palsy (and his semi-creepy tendency to monologue), is determined to become class president. But the road to power is never smooth, and Richard must decide: is it better to be loved or feared? |
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| Hundred Days Mar 6 - Apr 12, 2020 |
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Kokandy Productions at
Chopin Theatre
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| HUNDRED DAYS is an uncensored, exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson explore a fundamental question: how do we make the most of the time that we have? |
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| In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play Mar 6 - Apr 5, 2020 |
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Idle Muse Theatre Company at
The Edge Off-Broadway
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| 1880s New York, The Gilded Age of America. The second Industrial Revolution has ignited a desire to change the fabric of daily life. When her physician husband creates a unique piece of machinery to massage the growing affliction of "female hysteria," Catherine Givings embarks on some new discoveries of her own. As Dr. Givings garners the attention of new patients, Catherine finds her own attention inexplicably drawn to what occurs "in the next room" and what it means for her. In this intimate and humorous journey of self-examination and sexuality, human connection is not only a climax, but a vital part of life itself. |
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| School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play Mar 7 - Apr 12, 2020 |
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Goodman Theatre
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| Paulina, Part III
This biting and buoyant comedy, "ferociously entertaining, as heartwarming as it is hilarious" (The Hollywood Reporter), arrives in Chicago on the heels of a critically acclaimed, extended run Off-Broadway. As the reigning queen bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school sets her sights on the Miss Universe pageant, a new student unexpectedly changes the game. This "gleeful African makeover of an American genre" (The New York Times) spotlights the universal similarities-and glaring differences-of teenage girls around the globe. |
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| Hit Her With The Skates Mar 10 - Jun 21, 2020 |
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Royal George Theatre
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| HIT HER WITH THE SKATES is a coming of age story with a twist. It's 1994 and Rock star, Jacqueline Miller has a lot to celebrate. She's headlining her first national tour, has a hit record and is riding high. In the midst of this, she has agreed to kick off the gala re-opening of her beloved childhood roller rink, Windy City Skates. When complications hit her head on, Jacqueline takes a retrospective journey back to 1977 and finds herself again when she meets up with her 12-year-old self and all of the people who have made her who she is. From the wisdom of the Ouija Board to the power of All-Skate Saturday, the family-friendly musical HIT HER WITH THE SKATES explores the magic and hope of finding your one true love while still being true to yourself. |
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| The Lady from the Sea Mar 12 - Apr 12, 2020 |
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Court Theatre
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| When a sailor returns to fulfill his promise, a lighthouse keeper's daughter must choose between her landlocked marriage and the mesmerizing allure of the sea. Hailed as a watershed moment in Ibsen's writing, The Lady from the Sea dissects issues of duty, marriage, and agency with raw emotion and disarming resonance. Director Shana Cooper injects the text with a visceral physicality that thrillingly reflects and refracts Ibsen's structure and characterization. |
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| Intimate Apparel Mar 12 - Apr 19, 2020 |
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Northlight Theatre
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| In 1905, a black seamstress named Esther sews her way out of poverty stitch by delicate stitch, creating fine lingerie for her Manhattan clientele while longing for a husband and a future. She finds common ground with the Jewish merchant who sells her fabric, yet both know their relationship cannot be. So when correspondence with a lonesome Caribbean man leads to a marriage proposal, she accepts. But as her new marriage quickly turns to regret, Esther turns back to her sewing machine to rebuild her life and refashion her future. |
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| Morning In America Mar 12 - Mar 29, 2020 |
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Connective Theatre Company at
Nox Arca Theatre
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| For this original production, Connective Theatre Company ensemble member Taylor McWilliams-Woods asked Americans from across the political spectrum how they define America and why we should-or should not-fight for it. She shaped responses from thirty of those interviews into MORNING IN AMERICA, a piece that combines the structure of Eve Ensler's THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES as well as Moises Kauffman's THE LARAMIE PROJECT in order to tell the stories of real Americans and to share their perspectives on the current state of the country and their hopes for its future. |
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| Summer and Smoke Mar 13 - Mar 28, 2020 |
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The Impostors Theatre Company at
Flat Iron Arts Building
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| She’s called to a spiritual existence; he’s committed to an earthly one. Alma (Spanish for 'soul') loves the boy
next door, John Buchanan. The two each have a rather different philosophy for life, though. While Alma is moved
by graces and troubled by petty, every-day cruelties that accompany living, John cares only for human impulse
and immediacy. He brandishes his chart of the human anatomy to prove his point: there’s no room in a body for
a soul. Circling one another, the pair illustrates the double-edged sword of human nature, darkness making way for
lightness and vice versa, only to cut one another short. A gothic Southern town caked in heat makes for a
brooding observer. In the quietly unsettling fashion unique to Tennessee Williams’ works, Summer and Smoke
explores the connection between two people bound by a breathing tether. Stretch it too tightly, and it’s doomed
to snap. |
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| The Two Character Play Mar 13 - Mar 29, 2020 |
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Theatre L’Acadie at
Athenaeum Theatre
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| One chilling morning, siblings, Felice and Clare find themselves deserted by their acting
troupe, left only with set pieces and each other’s company to keep themselves warm.
As their situation becomes increasingly more desperate, the two resort to reliving one of
their “greatest” performances, The Two Character Play . Throughout the performance,
reality and fiction begin to blur, and the players begin to question not only themselves,
but their circumstances. The play, which Tennessee WIlliams calls, "...my most
beautiful play since Streetcar, and I've never stopped working on it....It is a cri de coeur,
but then all creative work,all life, in a sense is a cri de coeur." |
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| Neither Mar 14 - Apr 19, 2020 |
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Lifeline Theatre
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| In the land of This and That there are only two kinds of animals, these and those. Then, one day something different hatches! But it isn't this or that. Is it both, or is it neither? What do you do when you feel you don't belong? Based on the book by Airlie Anderson, explore the things that make us unique in this world premiere musical that teaches that it's our differences that make us special. |
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| The Bachelor Live on Stage Mar 14 |
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Cadillac Palace Theatre
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| Each stage show will introduce an eligible hometown bachelor to local ladies from the audience searching for a chance at love. And, for the first time ever, Bachelor Nation will have a say in the rose ceremony. Along with the audience, Ben will guide the bachelor in his journey to find love, from the first impression rose to group date challenges and the coveted one-on-ones. Watch it all unfold live on stage. If the leading lady accepts the final rose, the night could end with the start of a beautiful romance. The Bachelor Live on Stage has something for everyone, whether you're looking to find love or just want to enjoy the drama of the evening. |
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