1 Blues in the Night (Porchlight Music Theatre) Tony Award-nominee Felicia P. Fields headlines this Tony-nominated musical about a fateful 1930s night in a Chicago hotel on the South Side. Opens January 15
2 Relentless (Timeline Theatre) Ron OJ Parson directs a world premiere by Chicago’s Tyla Abercrumbie about two sisters in Philadelphia in 1918. Opens January 19
3 Proving Up (Lyric Opera) The opera visits the Goodman Theatre to present a “haunting, supernatural story of Nebraska homesteaders in the 1870s.” Opens January 22
4 Gem of the Ocean (Goodman Theatre) Chuck Smith helms this August Wilson revival on the stage where it premiered. Opens January 22
5 Queen of the Night (Victory Gardens) New Victory Gardens artistic director Ken-Matt Martin directs an exploration of “masculinity and queerness through the lens of multigenerational Blackness.” Opens January 29
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