OKTOBERFEST AT HOFBRÄUHAUS CHICAGO CONTINUES THROUGH OCT. 31 

Eighth Annual Celebration Offers Guests Safe and Authentic Bavarian Entertainment Experience 

To help raise funds to help it survive the current economic stresses of the pandemic, First Folio Theatre will be holding its online fundraising auction beginning October 21 and continuing through to 10:00 PM on Monday, November 2.  A link to the auction site can be found at www.firstfolio.org. 

Festivities to Include Live Music, Dancing, Silent Auction, Raffles with Celebrity Co-hosts Samantha Chatman of ABC 7 Chicago and DJ Sam Chatman of 95.1 FM

TICKETS NOW ON SALE NOW FOR MANUAL CINEMA’S CHRISTMAS CAROL, A VISUALLY INVENTIVE ADAPTATION OF DICKENS’S HOLIDAY CLASSIC, PERFORMED AND STREAMED LIVE DIRECTLY TO HOMES, DECEMBER 3-20

Socially distanced Wicker Park & Bucktown Trick-or-Treat at The Bucktown Green on Saturday, Oct. 31 from 2 - 4 p.m. | Outdoor trick-or-treating event with candy from 25 neighborhood businesses and Photo Wall invites families and children to safely celebrate Halloween

In its continuing mission to help address the absence of live theater performances, First Folio Theatre will offer a streaming video recording of MADMEN & PRISONERS: TWO TALES BY POE, adapted for the stage by David Rice and directed by Skyler Schrempp.

GOODMAN THEATRE OFFERS A CHRISTMAS CAROL—AN AUDIO PLAY FREE FOR CHICAGO AUDIENCES, DIRECTED BY JESSICA THEBUS, STREAMING DECEMBER 1 – 31, 2020

***LARRY YANDO AS EBENEZER SCROOGE, TOGETHER WITH AN ALL-CHICAGO CAST AND THE GOODMAN’S SIGNATURE SOUNDSCAPE, BRING TO VIVID LIFE CHARLES DICKENS’ CLASSIC STORY OF KINDNESS, COMPASSION AND REDEMPTION***

CHICAGO’S “BLACK LIVES, BLACK WORDS” ACTIVIST THEATRE COMPANY ROUNDS OUT VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING WITH LAST TWO PLAYS IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER | Virtual Production Series Highlights Powerful Black Voices with World Premieres of “Call for the Wailing Women” and “The Emancipation of Yankee Oluwale”

Lyric Opera of Chicago announces fall community and education programming
Amidst the ongoing global pandemic, Lyric unveils plans to keep students and community partners engaged in the arts

Free Streaming Radio Play! TWISTED TALES OF POE | Based on Tales of Edgar Allen Poe | Adapted by Philip Grecian | Directed by Aaron Mays | October 26th – 31st