Destinos 2025: Physical Theater Festival’s Scratch Night/Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance

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Destinos 2025
The eighth edition of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival features more than a dozen productions—many of them world premieres—across more than eleven venues, with work ranging “from movement-driven experimental work to deeply rooted historical dramas.”
Opens October 1

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Medea
(Lyric Opera of Chicago)
Enrique Mazzola conducts Cherubini’s operatic reconstruction of Euripides’ ancient tragedy, featuring performances by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Matthew Polenzani.
Opens October 11

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Veal
(A Red Orchid Theatre)
dado directs the world premiere of Jojo Jones’ story about old friends reuniting with the Queen of North America, anointed such following a violent coup.
Through November 2

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Death of a Salesman
(Gwydion Theatre Company)
One of the most exciting storefront theaters to emerge post-pandemic takes on a household name of American theater.
Opens October 2

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Strange Cargo: The Doom of the Demeter
(City Lit Theater Company)
Timothy Griffin’s work stretches Bram Stoker’s chapter about Count Dracula’s cargo ship journey to England into a seafaring nightmare for the Halloween season.
Opens October 10