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Fight City
Power corrupts in Factory Theater’s action-packed dystopian-future tale
Lela & Co.
Robin Witt stages the U.S. debut of British playwright Cordelia Lynn, a taut two-hander about warfare’s effect on non-combatants
Triassic Parq
Circle Theatre’s remounted musical spoof takes on science, faith and dinosaur sex with songs
Little Fish
Kokandy Productions stages the Chicago premiere of Michael John LaChiusa’s esoteric 2003 musical about a hesitant young woman in the big pond of NYC
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At the Table
A blazing young ensemble brings its best to the table in this prickly portrait of friends and enmities
Hir
What you think you know—about gender, family dynamics or Steppenwolf—is up for debate in Taylor Mac’s charming and challenging work
Moby Dick
A powerful, thrilling and acrobatic new adaptation that, like Ahab, just can’t quite capture the whale
Aladdin
Disney unleashes its lavish magic as the Broadway musical kicks off its national tour in Chicago
Spamilton
Musical-satire mastermind Gerard Alessandrini’s latest follows its source material into an open Chicago run
Hamilton
Nobody’s throwing away their shot in this top-shelf Chicago staging of the most talked-about new musical in years
