Reviews
Chicago Magic Lounge: David Parr: Time Traveler
The Chicago Magic Lounge presents their latest Wednesday night residency with David Parr’s Time Traveler. He picks up boxes filled with different paraphernalia from different time periods to create a classic Chicago-style sleight of hand show.
Rough House: House of the Exquisite Corpse VI
Rough House presents House of the Exquisite Corpse VI: Lullabies now through November 1, 2026. Six rooms each with a different interpretation of a lullaby performed by puppets creates an immersive experience in the sixth edition of Rough House’s Halloween house.
Tin Drum Theatre Company: A Dark Wood
Tin Drum Theatre Company presents A Dark Wood now through November 1, 2026. A dystopian future that feels like it’s closer than we’d like, the script and cast build this alternate universe piece by piece.
Music Theater Works: Escape to Margaritaville
Music Theater Works presents Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville now through November 1, 2026. Meeting at the Margaritaville resort, two unlikely people find connection and everyone helps find the lost shaker of salt.
Shattered Globe: Vladimir
Shattered Globe Theatre presents Vladimir now through November 14, 2026. A journalist trying to uncover fraud and embezzlement during Vladimir’s first term becomes a target, bringing up the question is it worth it?
Goodman Theatre: Dead Girl’s Quinceañera
Goodman Theatre presents Dead Girls Quinceañera now through November 8, 2026. Three friends try to solve the mystery of why their other friend disappeared on the night of her quinceañera.
Oil Lamp Theater: Dial M for Murder
Oil Lamp Theater presents Dial M for Murder now through November 1, 2026. Two lovers try to keep their past affair a secret while one of their husbands tries to exact revenge on his wife.
iO Theater: Improv: The Play
Now playing at the iO Theater, Improv: The Play takes two seemingly individual forces and combines them into one theatrical and comedic experience
Steppenwolf: Topdog/Underdog
Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Topdog/Underdog now through November 1, 2026. Two brothers working through racism, poverty, and their own demons depend on each other as they live together and attempt to one-up each other.
Metropolis: Ride The Cyclone
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre presents Ride the Cyclone now through October 25, 2026. A perfect show for the spooky- minded as six teenagers try and escape the afterlife.
Refracted Theatre Company: I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire
Refracted Theatre Company presents I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire now through October 31, 2026. A tween girl’s obsession with Tobey Maguire turns into a full-on kidnapping situation, but for heartfelt reasons.
Apollo Theater: Vape! The Grease Parody
The Apollo Theater presents Vape! The Grease Parody now through January 3, 2027. This parody musical exploits all the absurdities and underlying innuendos of the original musical.
Goodman Theatre: The Attic
Goodman Theatre presents The Attic, Things I’ve Seen While Lying on My Back now through October 11, 2026. A memoir shown through circus arts, the show is mesmerizing and heartfelt.
Broadway in Chicago & Kokandy: Jekyll & Hyde
Broadway in Chicago and Kokandy Productions present Jekyll & Hyde now through November 8, 2026. Remounting Kokandy’s sold out run, the cast still gives passionate and powerful performances in a gothic-glam show perfect for the Halloween season.
American Blues Theater: Black Girl From a White Suburb
American Blues Theater presents Black Girl From a White Suburb now through October 4, 2026. Adapting company member, Tania Richard’s, autobiography into a stage play, we see defining moments in her life that show her experience as a Black woman in predominantly white spaces.
Paramount Theatre: Mean Girls
Paramount Theatre presents Mean Girls now through October 11, 2026. Bathed in hot pink and feeling like a Broadway show, this production is a good fit for anyone looking for their chance to see the classic on stage.
Kokandy Productions: Sunday in the Park With George
Kokandy Productions presents Sunday in the Park with George extended through November 29, 2026. The musical follows the life and relationships of Georges Seurat as he created in famous work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Strawdog Theatre: Advance Man
Strawdog Theatre Company presents part one of The Honeycomb Trilogy: Advance Man, a sci-fi play that has us putting pieces of the puzzle together of this top secret project. Now through September 27, 2026.
American Players Theatre: The Chairs
American Players Theatre presents The Chairs now through September 27, 2026. The Old Man and The Old Woman find themselves at the edge of nothingness orating and waiting for the famed Orator to arrive in this absurdist tragicomedy.
American Players Theatre: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
American Players Theatre presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona now through October 3, 2026. Set in the South, this production highlights the passions of young love.