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Neverwhere – Lifeline Theatre

One night Richard Mayhew, a young Scottish office worker, discovers Door, an injured young woman lying alone on the street, covered in

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Lookingglass Theatre

Concluding their 30th Anniversary season with a big splash, Lookingglass Theatre brings to life one

Bull in a China Shop – About Face Theatre

While traveling in China, Mary Woolley writes to her lover, Jeannette Marks, about being captivated

A Little Night Music – Boho Theatre

Following the success of his concept musicals, “Company” and “Follies,” Stephen Sondheim went to work on his ninth show, adapting

Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies – Velvet Fox Productions

Regarded by many as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, Bette Davis was known as

Waiting for Godot – Chicago Shakespeare World Theatre

When the audience enters the Courtyard Theater auditorium, they find the heavily raked stage has been shortened, a few new rows of

Cry It Out – Northlight Theatre

Molly Smith Metzler, a mother herself, wrote this cathartic, somewhat autobiographical play based on her own personal

Buried Child – Writers Theatre

The rain falls steadily, nonstop, relentlessly on the gray roof of an old, dilapidated house on a failed plot of farmland in

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years -Goodman Theatre

The Delany sisters, two charming, lovable African American spinster ladies (who preferred being called “colored” or “Negro”),

Flies! The Musical – Pride Films and Plays

Only a pair of twisted, yet very creative minds could’ve conceived of a musical version of William Golding’s young adult