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Chicago’s theatre scene is stacked this weekend, with companies all over the city putting out bold, beautiful, and wildly different work. If you’re looking to dive into something unforgettable, here are three standout productions worth your time.

Brokeback Mountain – Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakes is delivering a deeply felt, beautifully acted adaptation of Brokeback Mountain that leans into the intimacy and emotional weight of the story. The production is grounded, human, and quietly devastating in all the right ways - the kind of show that stays with you long after you leave Navy Pier.

Andy Warhol Presents: The Co***ne Play – Jackalope Theatre Company at Broadway Armory Park
Jackalope is back with something sharp, chaotic, and impossible to look away from. Andy Warhol Presents: The Co***ne Play is a wild, electric dive into art, excess, and identity, staged with the kind of fearless energy Jackalope does best. It’s bold, messy, funny, and alive - exactly the kind of work that keeps Chicago’s storefront scene vital.

Eugene Onegin – The Joffrey Ballet at the Lyric Opera of Chicago For something sweeping and operatic, Joffrey Ballet’s Eugene Onegin brings lush choreography, emotional storytelling, and a grand sense of scale to the Lyric Opera House. It’s a visually stunning production that blends classical technique with cinematic drama, offering a completely different kind of theatrical experience.

Whether you’re in the mood for something intimate, experimental, or epic, Chicago has you covered this weekend. Get out and see something great.

“This production achieves something rare: it honors the source material while creating an emotionally overwhelming theatrical experience.”

Chicago Shakespeare's Brokeback Mountain Soars Some stories refuse to fade with time, and Brokeback Mountain is one of them. What began as a modest short story by Annie Proulx in The New Yorker in 1997 grew into an award-winning literary work, an acclaimed film, and now a deeply moving stage adaptation by Ashley Robinson at Chicago Shakespeare T...

“The cast brings sincerity and emotional commitment to every moment, giving the story its strongest grounding.”

keerah - Lost Between Myth and Reality Definition Theatre's Amplify New Play Program exists to elevate emerging voices, and Netta Walker's keerah certainly arrives with ambition. Loosely inspired by the mythological lovers Orpheus and Eurydice, the play explores race, identity, love, and memory through the relationship between....

"The Last Word" is an inventive, heartfelt, and thoroughly unique theatrical experience that l have to experience again." https://buzznews.net/theatre/theatre-reviews/item/6460-the-last-word-a-cocktail-of-comedy-mystery-and-heart.html