Northlight Theatre brings a heavenly visit to town this year, as The Angel Next Door swoops down to the Skokie stage. Director Linda Fortunato stages an exciting adaptation of award-winning writer Paul Slade Smith's play, which itself is a rehashing of Ferenc Molnar's 1926 work Play At The Castle (Jatek a Kastelyban). A zany romantic comedy about theater lovers, for theater lovers!

Academy Award-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) brings the world premiere of Windfall to the Steppenwolf Theatre! An examination of how institutional power, urban bureaucracy and cold hard cash are used to shape how we deal with grief and trauma, the production is directed by Awoye Timpo and features a cast including Michael Potts, Esco Jouley, Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Namir Smallwood and Jon Michael Hill.

See the tale of star-crossed lovers like never before, as this 'smashed' hit show comes to you! A uniquely hilarious take on the Bard's classic which has had audiences all around the world in stitches, in this production of Romeo and Juliet one actor takes five shots of whiskey before the show, then attempts to perform, seriously, one of the major roles in the classic play. Not only that, but at certain points in the performance they'll have to down yet more. Hilarity and mayhem is all but guaranteed to ensue, as the remaining sober actors attempt to keep the play on track!

A family comedy for the ages! Based on Edward Streeter's beloved 1949 novel, Father of the Bride has charmed audiences for decades with its heartfelt humour and timeless warmth. Adapted for the stage by Caroline Francke, this classic American comedy offers a funny, relatable, and touching journey through the beautiful - and sometimes bonkers - road to "happily ever after".

Chuck Smith directs the Goodman Theatre's 2026 run of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the award-winning 1982 drama written by Pulitzer-winning African-American playwright August Wilson. With music direction by Harry J. Lennix, the production is a poignant meditation on race relations, art, and exploitation, as well as the civil rights struggle. This hard-hitting classic is not to be missed.

Join Chicago Shakespeare Theater for the riotous comeuppance of Sir John Falstaff! The third play of Shakespeare's to include the errant 'fat Knight' Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor is a buoyant and breezy comedy that blends belly-laughs, disguises, mishaps, and hijinks-a-plenty to create a hilarious swan song for what is said to be Queen Elizabeth I's favorite of his characters. Directed by Phillip Breen - the absolute authority of Merry Wives, this is surely one of Shakespeare's most genuinely hilarious works.