Briar Street Theatre

Jan 01 - Dec 31

Blue Man Group is a unique and thrilling multi-sensory experience that fuses innovative theatrical spectacle and powerful original music with hilarious comedy to create a performance experience unlike any other.

Studebaker Theater In Chicago's Fine Arts Building

Jan 17 - Jan 27

The 2019 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival will present more than 80 performances of 24 shows from 11 countries over 11 days at 19 different Chicago-area venues.

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Dec 01 - Jan 20

Massenet adapted Cinderella with an irresistible blend of wit, sensitivity, and elegance. The love duets are the very essence of romance, but there’s hilarity, too.

DePauls Merle Reskin Theatre

Jan 17 - Feb 23

Come and play with MC Dog and her friends in Go, Dog. Go!, adapted from the beloved children’s book.

Under the Gun Theater

Jan 13 - Apr 07

A narrator walks on stage and finds a storybook with no text inside and the actors are nowhere to be found! WHAT DO WE DO?! Have children from the audience volunteer to become a character in.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Dec 06 - Jan 27

High-flying fairies mix with outrageous comedy for a Dream come true! In the forest, misguided passions mix with magic spells as four young lovers and an unsuspecting troupe of aspirational players cross paths with the fairy king and queen, engaged in a war of wills.

Chicago Kids Company at Beverly Arts Center

Nov 02 - Feb 18

Will the Princess Sleep for 100 years? Or can her true love save her with a Kiss? Featuring professional actors, colorful scenery and costumes, sing-along songs, and plenty of audience participation.

Stage 773

Sep 22 - May 31

Storytown is a fully improvised show put on by our “Townies” for you and your family. Performed every Saturday at 10:30 am – you will be laughing right along with your kids.

Chicago Kids Company at Stahl Family Theater

Nov 01 - Feb 27

Meet Roxanne, Petunia, and Babe…three Sister Piggies who set out to build their own houses. Roxanne (the Rock’n Roll Pig) builds hers out of Sticks, Petunia (The Pretty Pig) builds hers out of Straw, and Babe (the sensible, smart Pig) builds hers out of bricks!

Lifeline Theater

Jan 12 - Feb 17

Deep in the desert, two tortoises find each other and become the best of friends. Together, they tackle all the obstacles the landscape can throw their way… until one day they find a hat. They both look great in the hat. But they can’t both have the hat.

Prairie Lakes Theater

Jan 19 - Jan 27

Based on Arnold Lobel's well-loved books, this whimsical musical follows two great friends – the cheerful, popular Frog and the worrywart Toad - through four fun-filled seasons.

Cadillac Palace Theatre

Jan 22 - Jan 27

Inspired by true events, KINKY BOOTS takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan.

Chicago Children's Theatre

Jan 26 - Feb 24

A low-light setting and/or the use of blindfolds gently encourages audience members not to rely on their sense of sight, but instead to tune-in to their other four senses to experience EST, “Extra Sensory Theatre.”

McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage

Feb 01 - Feb 01

Newly restaged for the book’s 25th anniversary, Theatreworks’ production of Charlotte’s Web is based on E.B. White’s loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte.

Wirtz Center’s Upstairs Blackbox Theatre

Feb 24 - Mar 10

A fiercely determined young girl and aspiring pilot named B. has decided that she must realize her destiny to fly before turning 10. In a makeshift airplane built in her backyard treehouse, she recounts the thrilling and legendary victories of her hero, Amelia Earhart.

Emerald City Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre

Mar 01 - Apr 14

A small bear's quest for a missing button leads to the friendship of a lifetime! Learn the importance of empathy and unconditional love along with a young girl and her mother.

Lifeline Theater

Mar 16 - Apr 20

When Joe receives a magical book for his birthday, he and his pals are unexpectedly hurled across time and space. They first arrive in Camelot, a land menaced by an evil knight, a terrible giant, and a fire-breathing dragon.

McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage

Apr 05 - Apr 05

When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic inter-planetary field trip.

McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage

Apr 25 - Apr 25

Before she was a renowned humanitarian, conservationist and animal activist, Dr. Jane Goodall was a little girl with a very special toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Together, Jane and Jubilee went on outdoor adventures and observed all the miracles of nature around them.