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Ragtime paints a nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn-of-the-century America. Based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime intertwines three distinct stories that poignantly illustrate history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and love and hate. Learn more...

This one-man show, Will Rogers: An American Original, explores the life and times of America's most popular humorist. In the course of a career that included both Cactus Jack's Wild West Show and the Ziegfeld Follies, Will Rogers invented the American stand-up comedy, using his trick roping skills to punctuate his delivery. His observations on government, the economy and society are as timely now as when he first made them. Learn more...

Direct from her cabaret engagement at New York's Café Carlyle, Christine Ebersole appears at the Harris. Christine, a Windy City native, has received virtually every Off-Broadway award, as well as her second Tony Award for her "dual role of a lifetime" in the widely popular Grey Gardens. She'll perform Sondheim classics, show tunes and favorites from Grey Gardens Learn more...

NightBlue reinvents Rent, the Tony and Pulitzer-winning powerhouse rock musical based on Puccini's La Boheme that tells the story of a group of young artists living in New York City's Lower East Side in the 1990s and their ceaseless struggle for artistic expression and survival in the face of poverty and disease. Learn more...

Zach and Larry are ready to cast for their next upcoming Broadway production, but Zach decides to change up things at the audition for their dancing chorus. As each one hopes to become part of a singular group, they all tell their individual life stories that make them all so very different. Learn more...

After years of maintaining a close, platonic friendship, David and Beth begin a love affair with heartbreaking consequences. Through a series of theatrical, voyeuristic scenes which all take place on or around a single bed, two troubled marriages unravel and a very fragile but authentic new start begins for everyone concerned. Learn more...

Sideshow Theatre Company presents the Chicago premiere of Medea with Child, from Pulitzer Prize nominee Janet Burroway. Based on Euripedes' classic tragedy, Medea with Child is a modern, magical, witty retelling of the story of the epic repercussions of a woman scorned. Learn more...

Three boys meet while fleeing the horrors of war. As they team up on their perilous journey, they exchange heroic survival stories, songs and laughter. Thus begins an extraordinary journey that eventually takes the boys of the Dinka tribe to, of all places--Fargo, North Dakota--where drought, crocodiles and guerrillas are replaced with malls, video games, and Skittles. Theater patrons are invited to bring their used books to donate to help build a library in Southern Sudan. Learn more...

Lay of the Land is Tim Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial. Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on queer people all over the country, Lay of the Land gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial. Learn more...

Noble Fool Theatricals presents Over the Tavern in Pheasant Run's Mainstage Theater. Over the Tavern is a hilarious and touching family comedy about growing up in the 1950s that would even make the Cleavers at a loss for good advice. Learn more...

Autobiography, animal behavior and bald-faced lies create this poetic meditation on midlife crisis in the key of canine. After years as a self described "professional homosexual," our heroine gives up preaching to the perverted and pestering the religious right. She takes a real job at a prestigious university, acquires a small pack of dogs, and discovers that as we age, the thin membrane that divides the animal from the human dissolves entirely. Learn more...

Founded in 1997, Baby Wants Candy has performed completely improvised musicals to sold-out crowds from Singapore to Edinburgh. BWC has consistently wowed audiences and critics alike with some of the funniest and smartest improvisation around. Learn more...

"This is the future" begins this darkly comic fable about urban developers, criminals, law enforcement, and even a witch, all fighting for the soul and vision of a city. Set in an urban landscape ripe for redevelopment, the parable blends off-kilter characters, fast-paced storytelling and stinging social satire in a tale of greed, corruption and civic responsibility. Learn more...

The great General Agamemnon has returned victorious from the Trojan War and sets his sights on Cassandra, the Trojan princess cursed with the power to see the future but who is never believed. After rescuing Cassandra from one of his own ill-intentioned soldiers, Agamemnon imprisons her on his boat, claiming to want only her gratitude. What follows is a harrowing story of betrayal and barbarity Agamemnon is the first chapter of Jeremy Menekseoglu's Agon Trilogy. Learn more...

The small town of Elroy, South Carolina is thrust into the evangelical spotlight when what seems to be the image of Jesus appears on a refrigerator in a trailer park. The discovery sets into motion a frenzy of conflict, communion and good old fashioned commerce. When the National Investigator turns the appearance into front-page headlines, their trailer park becomes a Mecca for miracle seekers, soul searchers and disciples with a decidedly political agenda. Learn more...

The Ghosts of Treasure Island is a rollicking new musical that follows young cabin boy Jim Hawkins as he fights to survive on a mysterious island, accompanied by a band of singing pirate ghosts. Jim races to find notorious Captain Flint's fabled treasure before mutinous shipmates can steal the fortune for themselves. Learn more...

Stage Door is set in New York of the 1930s, where a group of savvy actresses bring to life the Footlights Club, a boarding house for ambitious young actresses who will do anything for work. This funny, touching, and relevant piece about love for the theatre, the pressures of Hollywood, and sticking to one's principals (or not) is filled with razor sharp wit and served up with colorful irony. Learn more...

Rob Becker's insightful hit comedy Defending the Caveman focuses on the ongoing battle for understanding between the sexes. Filled with hysterical observations of contemporary feminism, masculine sensitivity, and other gender-related issues, Broadway's longest-running solo play comes to Pheasant Run in a production from Noble Fool. Learn more...

Good movie? Bad movie? Condemned movie? If you're confused, asked Sister. She knows the difference. Join this new class in its world premiere as Sister delves into the world of movies. Sister has something to say about all of the current movies, or, as she says it, "The filth that passes as entertainment today." Learn more...