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Current Productions

Wild Door Theater Presents “Maybe Tomorrow”, April 13 – May 24, 2026

Wild Door Theater Presents “Maybe Tomorrow”, April 13 – May 24, 2026

Apr 13, 2026 – May 24, 2026

Past Productions

Chicago Ballet Company’s Sleeping Beauty Features Internationally Award-winning Cast

The Love of Three Kings

The Love of Three Kings

AN EVENING WITH JOSH GAD

AN EVENING WITH JOSH GAD

Cinderella

Criminal

Professor Brian Cox: Horizons

Captain Sandy: Lead-Her-Ship Tour

Fate, Tragedy and Triumph

An Evening with The Hollies

Small Town Murder

Dance Slam

The You and Me Tour

Serenade and the Sea

Still Inspired: Future Artists

Still Inspired: Interwoven

Ballet Chicago’s The Nutcracker

Ballet Chicago’s The Nutcracker STREAMING EVENT

Harry Potter and the Big Gray Wolf

The Art Deco Nutcracker

Back Onstage!

Dance Transformations

Daniel Sloss: HUBRiS

Whose Live Anyway?

Visceral Dance Center Fall Engagement

The Irrepressible Seventh Symphony

12 Angry Pigs: The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf

Jane Austen’s Persuasion

An Evening with Paula Poundstone

Cat & Nat: Reunion Tour

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Skyline Studios Summer Broadway Camps

Heather McMahan

Heather McMahan

Mother Goose Lost

Maks & Val: Stripped Down Tour

Il Segreto di Susanna

Welcome to the Night Vale

Ballet Chicago’s Nutcracker 2020 Hybrid STREAM

Ballet Chicago’s Nutcracker 2020 Archival STREAM

Simon Sinek’s Mindset Tour

Welcome to Night Vale

Ben Rector

The Chicago Moth GrandSLAM: THE DEEP END

The Rite of Spring and Other Works

“30 Feet Together, 6 Feet Apart”

Todd Rundgren

Going Attractions

Celentano Tribute Show

Sightings and High Tide

Brendan Schaub

Ross Mathews Name Drop Tour

Julius Dein

Still Inspired (?): Influence

If/Then

Whisper House

DC 2020 Dances from the Heart

Dances From the Heart

Galantines Day Screening: Ginger The Movie

The Inextinguishable Symphony

The Chicago Academy for the Arts 2020 All-School Showcase

Labor of Love

Senior-Choreographed Dance Concert

The Nutcracker

Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them

Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them

Small Town Murder

Small Town Murder

Small Town Murder

Holidisco

Farrenc Symphony No. 3

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Los Panchos

Accidental Death of a Black Motorist

Super Scientific Circus: I Love Science

Straight Up With Stassi Live

Stories of Dance

Comedy Dance Workshop

Dance Chicago 25th Anniversary Party

DC 2019 Dance Chicago 25th Anniversary Party

DC 2019 Stories of Dance: Refuse by Stefany Cotton Choreography

DC 2019: What It’s Like to Be Human by Tapman Productions

DC 2019 Stories of Dance: Captured by Charlique C. Rolle & Kimberly Baker

DC 2019 Stories of Dance: INFJ by the Modern Marvels Dance Company

Cuban Visions 6: The Personal Is Political

Who Killed Joan Crawford?

DC 2019 Future Stars

The Chicago Moth GrandSLAM: Uncharted Territory

Celebración a la Vida

Richard III

Richard III

Dance Chicago 2019 Dance Slam

Frankie Quiñones

Bleak Creek Conversations With Rhett & Link: A Special Limited Event Series

51st Annual Equity Jeff Awards

Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls: No Man’s Land

70 Scenes of Halloween

Happier Hour: An Evening With Gretchen Rubin & Elizabeth Craft

Pop-Up Magazine: The Escape Issue

The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra

Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite

The Golden Ratio Live

Culture Shock International Choreographer’s Youth Showcase

One Stvari (Those Things)

Crime Junkie Podcast Live

I Will Fly Like a Bird

Chicago Dance Ballroom Soiree

Ladies First

Shockheaded Peter

Sister Africa

Max Amini: Live in Chicago

Pants, Pants, Pants

2017 Windy City Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness Competition

Megastasis

Survivor Story: A Workshop

BLACK!

Kids Write It!

New Dances 2017

Megastasis

New Dances 2017

Iron Irene

Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies

Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies

Gidion’s Knot

Gidion’s Knot

Gidion’s Knot

Define Yourself 2017

The Radiant

Visceral Studio Company 2017 Performance

The 4th Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival

Naši dani (Our Days)

How I Ate a Dog

How I Ate a Dog

Force Continuum

Andrés López: La Pelota de Letras Renovada

The Liar

Ten Yeared

Redeemed: The Fall and Rise of Chuck Colson

Adam Saleh Live (North American Tour)

The Drag Queens of Comedy

Listen to Your Mother

The Chicago Moth GrandSLAM XV

Festa Della Liberazions

Chicago Academy for the Arts: Spring Dance Concert

The Dollop: A Live Podcast

Falling

Chicago Improv Festival

Harmontown

Forging From Fire

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Liaison

Liaison

Scarlet

Scarlet: A Dance-Film Hybrid

She Kills Monsters

Hobo King

The History Boys

Chicago Academy for the Arts All-school Showcase

The Greatest Pirate Story (N)ever Told!

Eurydice

Dances From the Heart

The Little Flower of East Orange

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Thicker Than Water

Still

Decade

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu

The Heiress

Dylan Moran

Cook’s Science Live

Amour

Haydn’s L’isola Disabitata

Oh, Coward!

Three Hotels

Ascendence Dance Chicago: Resilient Benefit Showcase

Einstein’s Gift

Seussical, Jr.

Our Lady of 121st Street

Max Amini

Maria Bamford

2016 DFAC Windy City Naturals

The Chicago Moth GrandSLAM XIII: Comfort Zone

The Importance of Being Earnest

The 2016 Diamond Dancers Arts Showcase

New Dances 2016

The North Pool

We Will Tap You!

Recent Tragic Events

Oh, Hello with Nick Kroll & John Mulaney

Women of Ireland

The Lisbon Traviata

Six Stories Up in the Art Institute

The Seagull

Barefoot in the Park

Between Heaven and Earth

Instrumental

AYA: An Aerial Ballet in Three Acts

Rotations

Chicago Arts Orchestra’s 10th Anniversary Concert: ¡Musica Viva!

The Dueling Gentlemen: A Love Letter To Vaudeville

Supreme Love

Internet Cat Video Festival

Andina

The Beauty of Introspection

SubUrbia

A Perfect Ganesh

Annie Jr.

Batty Old Biddies

Batty Old Biddies

Matawan

Masculus

Thodos New Dances 2015

Lilly Singh: A Trip to Unicorn Island

Nocturne

Brilliant Percetion: A Magical Predicament

Circo Tap

Circo Tap

Circo Tap

Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival

Crimes of the Heart

Twisted Melodies

Visceral Studio Company Performance 2015

Modrun Dance: All Comedy All the Time

La Raison d’Etre

La Raison d’Être

The 2nd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival: The Simpsons and Onion Writers In-Converation

Lips Together, Teeth Apart

Spring Affair

Playing Our Part: An Evening With the Chicago Artists Chorale

Hedwig Dances’ 30th Anniversary Concert

Listen To Your Mother

Tiger at the Gates

Creation’s Birthday

Louise Goffin with Butch Norton

My Brother, My Brother and Me

Picture Imperfect

Lisa Lampanelli

Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliot Smith

The Adventures of Tapman

The Santa and Mrs. Claus Show

ShoeStrings

Chicago Tap Theatre Presents: Unleash The Beats

The Tempest

Redemption

The Lark

Haunting Julia

Global Rhythms: Che Malambo’s North American Debut

Bedroom Farce

Brothers Beckett

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The Saint of Bleecker Street

Woman in Mind

The Ruling Class

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

Chicago Tap Theatre Presents: Liaison

Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation

Richard II

Beautiful Thing

Changing Habits: The Nun Monologues

Jane Austen’s Perusasion

Macbeth

Henry Moore Is Melting

Foreverendia

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Dance Chicago 2012

Rob Delaney

$Do the Math National Tour$

Do the Math National Tour

Music From a Sparkling Planet

Trajectories: Part One

Ben Gibbard

HooDoo Love

HooDoo Love

Instanbul State Opera and Ballet

Ah Wilderness

The Jammer

Made in Puerto Rico

Inaside Chicago Dance Project

Inaside Chicago Dance Project

Beyond the Horizon

Jeff Mangum

Titanic

The Nutcracker

Mrs. Hyde & The Case of the Gaslight Buggerings

The Solid Gold Cadillac

Rabbit Hole

The Rotogravure

Look, What I Don’t Understand

The Dreams in the Witch House

Haram Iran

Dance Chicago 2008

Promiscuous Stories

American Buffalo

Twelfth Night

The Girl in the Train

Hamlet

Macbeth

The Misanthrope

The Altruists

The Pajama Game

The Quiltmaker’s Gift

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

Wake Up, Apocalypse, (Awake!)

Camino Real

Zombies from the Beyond

The Good Person of Setzuan

Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical

Sueno

Good Worker

Our Country’s Good

Debbie Does Dallas

The Psychic Life of Savages

The Last Five Years

Sordid Lives

Sin

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

The Shape of Things

Venus

The Grotesque History of Marie Antoinette

An Ideal Husband

House of Yes

sisters 3.0

Echo Boom

Chicago Improv Fest

White Hot Black Comedy

The Cocktail Party

How I Learned to Drive

Hello, Dolly!

Valentine Dances

Dance Chicago 2005

Dona Rosita, The Language of the Flowers

Antebellum

Death of a Salesman

Safe

Rogue Oresteia

Steel Magnolias

City of Angels

Barefoot in the Park

Life is a Dream

The Nose

In Common Hours

PAC/Edge Festival

White Suit Science (Refitted!)

Luna Negra Dance Theater

Macbeth

Teibele And Her Demon

A Christmas Carol: A Radio Broadcast

Dance Chicago Festival

All My Sons

Rooms

The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide

Defying Gravity

The Dastardly Ficus and other Comedic Tales of Woe and Misery

Requiem in a Light-Aqua Room

Impossible Marriage

Eikon

Lot’s Wife

Club Illyria

Twelfth Night

Lysistrata 3000

Grease

The Wrestling Season

disgruntled employees

Dracula (DePaul University)

Schadenfreude

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Fool for Love

the go

Ghetto

Landscape of the Body

4 By Guare

Brimstone and Treacle

Women and Water

Schadenfreude at the 2002 Chicago Improv Festival

The Rimers of Eldritch

The Course Acting Show

2.000000

An Empty Plate in the Cafe of Grand Boeuf

Shockheaded Peter

Red Herring

Childe Byron

Four Women of Thebes

Captain Raspberry

Variations on Death

How To Be Sawed in Half

The Lark

Driving a Bargain

Merrily We Roll Along

La Gran Scena Opera

Mustache, The

Dance Chicago’s “Dances From the Heart,” Jan. 24 at The Athenaeum Center For Thought and Culture

Dance Chicago’s “Dances From the Heart,” Jan. 24 at The Athenaeum Center For Thought and Culture

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