Chicago Theatre Week 2026

Tickets for Chicago Theatre Week 202 on sale 

League of Chicago Theatres, in partnership with Choose Chicago, presents Chicago Theatre Week 2026

February 5 – 15, 2026

The value-priced CTW tickets will be $30, $15, or less. All CTW 2026 ticketing will now be hosted exclusively on HotTix.org, with information available on ChicagoTheatreWeek.com.

Chicago Theatre Week is a program of the League of Chicago Theatres, in continued partnership with Choose Chicago.

Productions participating in Chicago Theatre Week include:

3 Stages of Love — Ghostlight Ensemble at Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro

A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Loyola University Chicago

Admissions — Citadel Theatre

Birds of North America — A Red Orchid Theatre

Black and Highly Flavored: A Black Excellence Comedy Revue — The Second City

Black Cypress Bayou — Definition Theatre Company

Bodies of Matter — Gallum at Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Chicago Cultural Center New Play Residency Readings  — Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) at Chicago Cultural Center

Cirque Kalabanté — McAninch Arts Center

Clue: On Stage — Beverly Theatre Guild

Come Back, Little Sheba — American Blues Theater

Così fan tutte — Lyric Opera of Chicago

Dancing Through the Great Migration — South Chicago Dance Theatre at The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University

Deep Schwa — iO Theater

Devil’s Daughter — iO Theater

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors — Lazy Susan Theatre Company at Greenhouse Theater Center

Drunk Shakespeare — Brass Jar Productions at The Lion Theatre

Eureka Day — TimeLine Theatre and Broadway In Chicago at Broadway Playhouse

Gangsters! — The Theatre School at DePaul University

Green Corridors — Trap Door Theatre

Harold Night — iO Theater

Harvey — Saint Sebastian Players at St. Bonaventure Oratory

Hedda Gabler — Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at Theater Wit

Holiday — Goodman Theatre

How I Became a Pirate — Uptown Music Theater of Highland Park at Elm Place Auditorium

Improv the Play — iO Theater

Improvised Shakespeare Chicago — iO Theater

Jaap van Zweden, Himari & Mozart Jupiter — Chicago Symphony Orchestra

José James with Lizz Wright: Marvin Gaye’s I Want You — Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Joyce DiDonato in Emily – No Prisoner Be — Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Kitty and the Beanstalk — Lifeline Theatre

Kohl’s Cash: TGIF (That’s Good Improv Fridays) — iO Theater

La muerte y la doncella — Aguijón Theater

Little Shop of Horrors — Marriott Theatre

Mary Jane — Northlight Theatre

Miss Julie — Court Theatre

Mix at Six: Angel Bat Dawid — Harris Theater of Dance and Music

Morning, Noon, and Night — Shattered Globe Theatre at Theatre Wit

My Life as a Cowboy — Open Space Arts

On Your Feet! — Drury Lane Theatre

PIVOT — Rivendell Theatre Ensemble

Playback in Love: Based on YOUR True Love Story — Chicago Playback Theatre Ensemble

Pot Girls — The Story Theatre at Raven Theatre

Renée Fleming in Recital: Voice of Nature — Lyric Opera of Chicago

Rising Water — Theatre L’Acadie at Facility Theatre

Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile The Musical — The Roald Dahl Story Company at The Studebaker Theater

Salome — Lyric Opera House of Chicago

Salonen Conducts La mer — Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Short Shakespeare! Hamlet — Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Showcase 2026 — New Musicals Chicago at Richard Christiansen Theatre

Teatro ZinZanni Chicago — Cambria Hotel

The 8th Dwarf — Ghostlight Ensemble at Bughouse Theater

The Armando Diaz Experience — iO Theater

The Art of Belonging — CIRCA Pintig — Rizal Center

The Caucasian Chalk Circle — Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University

The Cosmic Underground Show — Cosmic Underground Theater

The Creamboy Show — iO Theater

The Dance of Death — Steppenwolf Theatre Company

The Greatest Night In Show Business : A Play about a night in the life of Judy Garland — HGBIC Productions at The Greenhouse Theater Center

The Hobbit — The Young People’s Theatre of Chicago at Greenhouse Theater Center

The Kitty and Kellie Show with Don’t Quit Productions — The Second City

The Lion King KIDS — Highland Park Players at Heller Nature Center

The Lion in Winter — Parker Players Theater Company at The Barrington Theater

The Lower Depths — Gwydion Theatre Company at The Chopin Theatre

The Outsider — Oil Lamp Theater

The Pets — Bramble Theatre Company at Bramble Arts Loft

The Rat Pack — The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamnet — Chicago Shakespeare Theater

The Seagull — Red Theater at The Edge Off Broadway

The Second City: Laugh Harder Not Smarter — The Best of The Second City at McAninch Arts Center

Trial in the Delta: the Murder of Emmett Till — Collaboraction Theatre Company

Top Girls — Raven Theatre Company

Unnecessary Farce — Buffalo Theatre Ensemble at McAninch Arts Center

Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me — NPR & WBEZ at The Studebaker Theater

Whirled News Tonight — iO Theater

The League of Chicago Theatres, in continued partnership with Choose Chicago, is offering exciting enhancements to make participating in CTW more accessible, efficient, and rewarding, including ticketing on HotTix.org.

A Chicago Theatre Week Kick-off Celebration will be held on Monday, February 2, 2026, at The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave at 5:30pm. The sold-out evening will include sneak-peek performances, light bites, and a cash bar. The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and are currently at the capacity limit.

Chicago Theatre Week Bingo, in partnership Chicago Loop Alliance and DCASE, is back and encourages participation in city/Loop festivities during CTW26. Adding a layer of fun to Chicago Theatre Week, participants can start planning their theatre activities with our Bingo card. When participants get a BINGO (five spaces in a row) and submit proof of attendance for the corresponding shows during CTW26 (photos or tickets confirmation), they will be entered to win a pair of free theatre tickets and a restaurant gift card. Up to 5 winners will be randomly selected.

For the fourth consecutive year, HotTix.org will host Chicago Theatre Week Continued from February 16-22, 2026, which will extend Theatre Week discounts to participating productions for an additional week.

“Chicago Theatre Week is bigger, brighter, and more streamlined than ever. After receiving feedback from participating organizations, theatres will now have updated resources and enhanced customer service from the Hot Tix staff to better deliver unforgettable audience experiences,” comments League of Chicago Theatres Director of Operations Emily Flynn. “We encourage all Chicagoans and visitors to purchase tickets for their favorite theatres or to make a new discovery this February.”

“We’re proud to partner with the League of Chicago Theatres to celebrate this annual celebration of our performing arts community,” said Kristen Reynolds, President and CEO of Choose Chicago. “Chicago’s theatre scene is a cornerstone of our city’s identity — from our Tony Award–winning downtown productions to the groundbreaking storefront theatres and improv spaces in our neighborhoods. Theatre Week invites visitors and residents alike to experience the spirit of Chicago through live performance, showcasing the authenticity, diversity, and bold artistry that define our City’s character and community.”

During last year’s Chicago Theatre Week, sixty participating organizations sold tickets to a total of 400 individual performances of 86 different productions, with 31 neighborhoods and suburbs represented. The program also raised the visibility of the theater industry, as evidenced by the more than 7,000 unique visitors to ChicagoPlays.com and a digital reach of more than one million, including shares from partner theatres. Visitors and residents had the opportunity to sample the extraordinary range of theatrical offerings throughout Chicagoland. Chicago Theatre Week celebrates an expansive audience, with more than 50% of attendees visiting their chosen theater for the first time. The program draws visitors from across the country with 8% of patrons coming from beyond 50 miles of the city, including 37 states, plus Canada. Seventy-five percent of ticket-buyers from outside of the Chicago area who were surveyed said they came to Chicago because it was Chicago Theatre Week.

Chicago Theatre Week is presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago. Subscribe to the Theatre Week email newsletter for updates and announcements.

The official hashtag for Chicago Theatre Week 2026 is #CTW26.

About Chicago theatre 

Chicago theatre is the leader in the U.S. with more than 250 theatres throughout Chicagoland, comprising a rich and varied community ranging from storefront, non-union theatres to the most renowned resident theatres in the country, including 7 which have been honored with Regional Tony Awards, and the largest touring Broadway organization in the nation. Chicago’s theatres serve 5 million audience members annually and have a combined budget of more than $250 million. Chicago produces and/or presents more world premieres annually than any other city in the nation. Each year Chicago theatres send new work to resident theatres across the country, to Broadway, and around the world. For more information, visit www.chicagoplays.com. #ChiTheatre

The League of Chicago Theatres’ Mission Statement

Theatre is essential to the life of a great city and to its citizens. The League of Chicago Theatres is an alliance of theatres, which leverages its collective strength to support, promote and advocate for Chicago’s theatre industry. Through our work, we ensure that theatre continues to thrive in our city.

About Choose Chicago

Choose Chicago is the official destination marketing organization responsible for promoting Chicago as a global tourism and meetings destination—the city that’s Never Done and Never Outdone. Choose Chicago leverages the city’s unmatched assets to enrich the community by attracting meetings, events, and more than 55 million annual visitors, generating over $20 billion in economic impact. Follow @choosechicago and tag #NeverOutdoneChi on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter. For more information, visit choosechicago.com.