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Unfolding Disability Futures

Unfolding Disability Futures is a multi-organization, site-specific performance and installation by local disabled artists throughout The Plant, a former meatpacking facility. Over the past decade, this space has been revitalized […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Pay What You Can
  • Quiet Spaces

SEAGULL at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

On a long summer weekend in the Russian countryside at an estate bursting at the seams with guests, three generations collide in ensemble member Yasen Peyankov’s extraordinarily funny and lyrical […]

  • Captioning

Unfolding Disability Futures

Unfolding Disability Futures is a multi-organization, site-specific performance and installation by local disabled artists throughout The Plant, a former meatpacking facility. Over the past decade, this space has been revitalized […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Pay What You Can
  • Quiet Spaces

Unfolding Disability Futures

Unfolding Disability Futures is a multi-organization, site-specific performance and installation by local disabled artists throughout The Plant, a former meatpacking facility. Over the past decade, this space has been revitalized […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Audio Description
  • Free Event
  • In Person
  • Pay What You Can
  • Quiet Spaces

CHOIR BOY at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Pharus Young is now a senior at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, an institution committed to building “strong, ethical black men,” where he endeavors to be the […]

  • Captioning

Life After

“Musical theater perfection…exquisite from start to finish” (BroadwayWorld). Frank Carter famously authored self-help books. But Alice, his 16-year-old daughter, finds cold comfort in his positivity platitudes when he tragically never […]

  • Audio Description
  • Touch Tour

CHOIR BOY at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Pharus Young is now a senior at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, an institution committed to building “strong, ethical black men,” where he endeavors to be the […]

  • ASL Interpreted

Let’s talk about mental health: Re-Wired Project at Access Living

Join us for THE RE-WIRED PROJECT to create work that represents our disability and/or Deaf community, culture and values. Let’s talk about mental health: Re-Wired Project at Access Living THE […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • In Person

Let’s talk about mental health: Re-Wired Project at Access Living

Join us for THE RE-WIRED PROJECT to create work that represents our disability and/or Deaf community, culture and values. Let’s talk about mental health: Re-Wired Project at Access Living THE […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Captioning
  • Free Event
  • In Person

ShakesFest: A Chicago Shakespeare Community Cabaret

Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks presents ShakesFest: A Chicago Shakespeare Community Cabaret with FREE pop-up performances in neighborhood parks. Performers, musicians, and dancers take center stage in this exuberant musical […]

  • ASL Interpreted
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Large Print Programs

Where We Belong

Goodman Theatre Presents the Woolly Mammoth Production of Where We Belong In Association with the Folger Shakespeare Library An indigenous theatre-maker journeys across geographic borders, personal history, and cultural legacies; […]

  • Spanish captioning

Life After

“Musical theater perfection…exquisite from start to finish” (BroadwayWorld). Frank Carter famously authored self-help books. But Alice, his 16-year-old daughter, finds cold comfort in his positivity platitudes when he tragically never […]

  • ASL Interpreted

CHOIR BOY at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Pharus Young is now a senior at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, an institution committed to building “strong, ethical black men,” where he endeavors to be the best leader of the school’s prestigious choir in its 50-year history. But in a world built on rites and rituals, should he conform to the […]

  • Captioning

Life After

“Musical theater perfection…exquisite from start to finish” (BroadwayWorld). Frank Carter famously authored self-help books. But Alice, his 16-year-old daughter, finds cold comfort in his positivity platitudes when he tragically never comes home one night. As she puzzles out the events of the day that changed her family forever, Alice’s relentless search for the facts reveals […]

  • Spanish captioning