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Dream Theatre presents Agamemnon, the first chapter to the Agon trilogy, March 11-April 11, 2010. Photo by Giau Truong.

Agamemnon

Aladdin Jr.

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University presents the exclusive Chicago engagement of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater March 24-28, 2010. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Avenue Q

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández plays the Auditorium Theatre March 13 and 14, 2010. Photo by Robert Shomler.

Ballet Folklorico de Mexico

Broadway In Chicago presents the NETworks Presentations tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at the Cadillac Palace Theatre March 23-April 4, 2010. Photo by Peter Coombs.

Beauty and the Beast

Broadway In Chicago launches a U.S. national tour of the Tony Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical with an extended run in Chicago. Performances will begin March 2010 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre. (L to R) Cesar Corrales, Tommy Batchelor, Giuseppe Bausilio and John Peter Viernes. Photo credit: Amy Boyle.

Billy Elliot the Musical

Critically acclaimed improv troupe, BLACKOUT, takes its high-energy, long form improv show, BLACKOUTpresents White People, to iO’s Cabaret Theatre for an open run Saturdays at midnight.

Blackout presents White People

Chicago’s wildly popular entertainment phenomenon, Blue Man Group continues its open run at Briar Street Theatre. Photo by David Hawe @BMP.

Blue Man Group

Drury Lane Oakbrook presents Bobby Vinton May 10 & 11, 2010

Bobby Vinton

Brown Line to the Loop Sketch Comedy brings you a brand new run of "Survival of the Fittest" every Wednesday in February and a couple in March.

Brown Line to the Loop

Theo Ubique presents Chess, a rock musical about life and heart, March 7-April 25, 2010 at No Exit Café. Photo by Johnny Knight.

Chess

Navy Pier announces the return of Cirque Shanghai to Chicago this summer for a fifth straight season with a new world premiere production, Cirque Shanghai: Cloud Nine, which will play Navy Pier’s Pepsi Skyline Stage May 28-Sept. 6, 2010.

Cirque Shanghai Cloud Nine

The ComedySportz Theatre Celebrates 1 year at 929 W. Belmont!

ComedySportz

Fireworx Productions presents Cougars! The Musical April 3-May 22, 2010 at the Greenhouse Theater Center

Cougars the Musical

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre presents Arthur Miller's The Crucible, March 20-April 25, 2010. Photo by Paul Metreyeon.

The Crucible

Seanachaí Theatre Company presents the first show at its new home, The Irish American Heritage Center, Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel February 25-April 4, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Jackie Jasperson.

Dancing at Lughnasa

William Petersen stars in Endgame by Samuel Beckett at Steppenwolf Theatre Company April 1-June 6, 2010. Photo by Callie Lipkin.

Endgame

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents the musical Footloose February 11-March 21, 2010

Footloose

Broadway In Chicago announces the Chicago premiere of the international hit Fuerza Bruta: Look Up beginning May 21, 2010 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

The Annoyance Theatre's debut Drag Queen Dramedy Glitter in the Gutter, inspired by John Waters, Designing Women and Dionne Warwick, plays January 21-March 11, 2010

Glitter in the Gutter

Polarity Ensemble Theatre presents the world premiere of local playwright Lisa Rosenthal’s family drama The Good Harvest March 23-May 2, 2010

The Good Harvest

Babes With Blades presents A Gulag Mouse March 29-May 1, 2010 at the Trap Door Theatre. Photo by Melanie Bolen.

A Gulag Mouse

Novelist Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed The Handmaid’s Tale will be brought to life in a premiere staging at the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University March 5-14, 2010

The Handmaid's Tale

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Lookingglass Theatre presents Hephaestus: A Greek Mythology Circus Tale at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre, April 7-May 23, 2010.

Hephaestus

The Neo-Futurists zoom in on the second show of their 2009-2010 prime-time season, I Am A Camera, February 6-March 13, 2010

I Am A Camera

Laugh Out Loud Theater, the place for improv comedy in Chicago's northwest suburbs, presents Instant Musical! every Thursday night at 8:00pm from January 7-April 1, 2010

Instant Musical

Idle Muse Theatre Company presents Jerry and Tom February 18-March 21, 2010 at The Side Project.

Jerry and Tom

Rising young Mexican-American conductor Alondra de la Parra will make her Chicago debut to lead the The Chicago Sinfonietta in the fourth concert in its 2009-2010 season, Las Américas, on Sunday, March 28 at Dominican University and Monday, March 29 at Symphony Center. Photo by Courtney Perry.

Las Americas

Village Theatre Guild presents Later Life by A.R. Gurney March 19-April 10, 2010

Later Life

Cock and Bull Theatre first production is The Legend of Ginger Bred; A Story of Sex, Salvation & Baked Goods March 11-20, 2010 at Gorilla Tango Theatre

The Legend of Ginger Bred

WildClaw Theatre presents the world premiere stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s Legion March 15-April 18, 2010 at Chicago’s Viaduct Theater.

Legion

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company presents Christopher Hampton's sizzling play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, March 17-May 2, 2010 in the Upstairs Mainstage of the Greenhouse Theater Center. Photo by Johnny Knight.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Northlight Theatre presents Hugh Leonard’s A Life, featuring Tony Award winner John Mahoney with an all-Chicago cast. The production runs March 18-April 25, 2010.

A Life

Broadway In Chicago presents Disney’s The Lion King at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre for a six week engagement beginning September 29, 2010. Photo by Joan Marcus.

The Lion King

Luna Negra Dance Theater presents its Spring 2010 program at the Harris Theater on Saturday, March 27, 2010 including "Paloma Querida" featuring Martha Perdomo. Photo by Cheryl Mann.

Luna Negra Dance Theater

Gift Theatre’s weekly improvised show, Natural Gas will be adding Friday night performances throughout January in addition to their regular Wednesday 8pm slot!

Natural Gas

Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” comes to The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University to perform classic Broadway hits Sunday, March 14 at 4 p.m.

Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway

The Flaming Dames bring your favorite ladies from cartoons, comics, and the silver screen to life...and take it all off in Nerdlesque Friday nights at 10:15 pm March 26-May 7, 2010 at The Spot. Photo by Pete Guither.

Nerdlesque

Emerald City Theatre presents Peter Pan February 20-June 6, 2010 at the Apollo Theatre

Peter Pan

Hobo Junction Productions presents the musical comedy The Regulars May 7-June 13, 2010 at the Apollo Theater.

The Regulars

InnateVolution Theater Productions presents the world premiere of Right As Rain by April Smallwood, March 17-April 12, 2010 at North Lakeside Cultural Center

Right as Rain

Comedian Ron White comes to the Rosemont Theatre March 27, 2010

Ron White

There's a new nun in town and Vicki Quade, creator of the hit show Late Nite Catechism, introduces us to Mother Superior in her new show, Saints & Sinners. Performances are at 5 p.m. Saturdays in rotating performances at the Royal George Theatre.

Saints & Sinners

Bailiwick Chicago presents Show Us Your Love! a One-Act Musical Revue playing every Sunday through March 28, 2010 at 7:30pm at Mary's Attic

Show Us Your Love

Broadway in Chicago launches the National Tour of Shrek the Musical beginning July 13, 2010 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Shrek the Musical

Jessie Mueller stars in Marc Robin’s Sleeping Beauty at The Marriott Theatre For Young Audiences, 10 Marriott Drive in Lincolnshire, from March 3 through April 25, 2010. Photo by Peter Coombs.

Sleeping Beauty

Broadway In Chicago presents the international sensation Stomp at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre April 27- May 2, 2010. Photo by Steve McNicholas.

Stomp

The National Pastime Theater presents a rare revival of Elmer Rice’s 1929 Pulitzer Prize winning play Street Scene March 19-May 1, 2010.

Street Scene

Wheaton Drama presents To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday March 26-April 18, 2010. Photo by Jo-Ann Ledger.

To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday

Goodman Theatre presents the world premiere of A True History of the Johnstown Flood by Rebecca Gilman March 13-April 18, 2010

A True History of the Johnstown Flood

Emerald City Theatre presents The True Story of the Three Little Pigs January 16-March 26, 2010 at the Apollo Theatre

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Trust March 3-April 25, 2010

Trust

Broadway in Chicago presents Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps May 18-30, 2010 at Bank of America Theatre. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

The 39 Steps

The Neo-Futurists celebrate 21 successful years of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes) by offering a collection of their best plays.

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind

The ladies of Vaudezilla perform a variety of burlesque shows at various locations and dates throughout Chicago

Vaudezilla

Walking with Dinosaurs, the Arena Spectacular will be coming to the Allstate Arena July 28-August 1, 2010.

Walking With Dinosaurs

Broadway in Chicago announces the return of Chicago's favorite musical hit Wicked December 1, 2010 to January 23, 2011 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Wicked

Chicago Opera Vanguard presents the Chicago premiere of Winterreise by composer Franz Schubert March 5-21, 2010 in the Fasseas White Box Theatre at the Menomonee Club Drucker Center, 1535 North Dayton Street, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Winterreise