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Best Shows This Spring

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Hadestown at CIBC Theatre

Hadestown

Cleaning up during the 2018/19 awards season, plucky folk opera Hadestown garnered eight Tony Awards (including the coveted Tony for Best Musical), four Drama Desk Awards, six Outer Critics Circle Awards, and a Drama League Award. This came as no surprise given the production received much acclaim during both its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs, praised for its soaring imagination, vibrant retelling of a classic story, and a sumptuous score that evokes smoky New Orleans jazz and bubbling Americana-tinged folk. Don't miss out when the lauded musical hits the road on this hotly anticipated national tour!

May 6 - 18, 2025

CIBC Theatre

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Moulin Rouge! The Musical at Cadillac Palace Theater

Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Hey sister... the Broadway sensation, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is heading out on tour! The scintillating spectacle continues to load up the windmill and its elephant since it hit the road on its first-ever national tour in 2022. Garnering rave reviews from Broadway's toughest critics Moulin Rouge! is the most gorgeous Broadway event of the year, don't miss it when it lands in your town!

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook Terrace

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Tracing the career of Carole King, and endorsed by the beloved Grammy winner herself, Beautiful was the feel-good Broadway hit of 2014, scoring two Tony Awards. Described by The New York Times as "A complex, revitalizing portrait of the real, conflicted person within the reluctant star", enjoy this new staging from Drury Lane Theatre, here to inspire from January 2025.

Hamlet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Hamlet

Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance and Peru's Teatro La Plaza combine to present an extra special production of Hamlet, in a boundary-breaking way you've never seen before! Featuring a cast of performers with Down syndrome, the unique adaptation re-imagines the famous question of "to be or not to be?" through the perspective of issues of discrimination and representation, reframing Shakespeare's classic to explore the lived experience of the performers themselves.

Ballet Folklorico de Mexico: De Amalia Hernandez at Auditorium Theatre

Ballet Folklorico de Mexico: De Amalia Hernandez

Seen by millions of dance fans worldwide, Ballet Folklorico de Mexico has traveled to more than 60 countries and regularly garners rave reviews with every new show they produce. The oldest celebrated dance company in Mexico, Ballet Folklorico was founded in 1952 by Amalia Hernandez, as her own personal ambition to rescue the 60+ dancing traditions of Mexico. They have created more than 40 productions since then, each highlighting the historical and cultural importance of Mexico's different regions.

Twyla Tharp Dance at Harris Theater

Twyla Tharp Dance

Multi-award winning Twyla Tharp is known in the world of dance as a visionary and innovative choreographer, now she returns with a new program that displays her hallmarks of humour, generous spirit and zeal, tied together with immaculate techniques and decades of experience from this pure iconoclast.

Apr 10 - 12, 2025

Harris Theater

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Anne-Sophie Mutter at Symphony Center Orchestra Hall

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter has achieved much in her four-decade long music career, let alone being named of the greatest violin virtuosos of our time. She was awarded the esteemed Siemens Music Prize in 2008, was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London at just 22-years old, and has received four Grammy awards for solo orchestral and chamber music performances.

Sunny Afternoon at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Sunny Afternoon

The hit musical heads this side of the pond for its North America debut, giving Chicago theatregoers the first chance to discover the story of The Kinks - sprinkled with a little Olivier-winning musical stardust of course! Written by Joe Penhall with music and lyrics provided by the Kinks' Ray Davies, Sunny Afternoon was a hit in London in 2014, where the production scooped up four 2015 Oliver Awards, including Best New Musical.

Mar 21, 2025 - Apr 27, 2025

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

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Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit In Concert at Harris Theater

Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit In Concert

In your town, there lives a theater. Not a nasty, empty theater with no music or shows. this is the theater set to show this fantastic concert experience, with an orchestra and seating galore, which means happiness. In fact, such it was that the grand theater would be staging a show, featuring the finest compositions from the epic tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and would be accompanied by the voice of one of Middle Earth's strongest wizards, Saruman, who may be known to some as Sir Christopher Lee. With promises of moving performances of elves and the terrifying and thrilling melodies of Mordor, some would say that to miss the performance would be to miss the last boat to Valinor.

A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This season, don't miss the Bard's wondrous supernatural rom-com as the magic comes to you in this local production. A delightful and dizzying tale that still enraptures audiences after 400 years, prepare to enter a realm where a tiff between fairy royalty gets very, very out of hand, affecting supernatural folk and mortals alike!

Joffrey Ballet - Golden Hour at Civic Opera House

Joffrey Ballet - Golden Hour

Joffrey Ballet presents four warm, glowing pieces, including two world premieres and two favorites for which this company is the perfect vessel. Australian Dani Rowe's Princess and the Pea is a brand new balletic adaptation of the much-loved fairy tale. Cathy Marston's Heimat is a glorious interpretation of Wagner's symphonic poem Siegfried Idyll.

Mar 1 - 2, 2025

Civic Opera House

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Lyric Opera - The Listeners at Civic Opera House

Lyric Opera - The Listeners

The Lyric Opera plays host to Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's story of how a simple ringing in the ears can turn a group of people into a terrifying cult. When Claire begins hearing a maddening low-frequency droning sound that never stops, she enlists the help of a group of people who have formed to try and stop the noise that has been permeating her life. Unbeknownst to her, though, the groups actions may lead to catastrophe...

Mar 30, 2025 - Apr 11, 2025

Civic Opera House

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