THEATER
■ Pygmalion (January; Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
■ Hamilton (January; PrivateBank Theater: Broadway in Chicago)
■ A Disappearing Number (January; TimeLine Theatre Company)
■ King John (January; Shakespeare Project of Chicago)
■ The Book of Joseph (February; Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
■ Staged reading of Rhinoceros (February; Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
■ The Changeling (February; Shakespeare Project of Chicago)
■ Eugene Onegin (March; Lyric Opera)
■ Love’s Labor’s Lost (March; Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
■ The Hard Problem (April; Court Theatre)
■ Born Yesterday (April; Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
■ Harvey (May; Court Theatre)
■ Relativity (May; Northlight Theatre)
■ Shakespeare in Love (May; Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
■ Not about Nightingales (May; Raven Theatre)
■ Pass Over (June; Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
■ Great Expectations (June; Remy Bumppo Theatre Company and Silk Road Rising)
■ Native Gardens (June; Victory Gardens Theater)
■ Ah, Wilderness! (July; Goodman Theatre)
■ Parade (July; Writers Theatre)
■ Moby Dick (August; Lookingglass Theatre)
■ I ♥ Juliet (August; Illinois Shakespeare Festival)
■ The Audience (August; TimeLine Theatre)
■ A View from the Bridge (September; Goodman Theatre)
■ Fun Home (September; Victory Gardens Theatre)
■ Machinal (September; Greenhouse Theatre)
■ The Crucible (October; Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
■ The Rembrandt (October; Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
■ The Skin of Our Teeth (October; Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
■ The Belle of Amherst (November; Court Theatre)
■ The Taming of the Shrew (November; Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
■ The Book of Will (November; Northlight Theatre)
■ Hard Times (November; Lookingglass Theatre)
■ Puff: Believe It or Not (December; Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
■ The Importance of Being Earnest (December; Writers Theatre)
■ A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol (December; Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
■ Red Velvet (December; Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE / FATHOM EVENTS / RSC Live
■ No Man’s Land (March)
■ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (June)
■ Julius Caesar (June)
■ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (June)
■ Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (July)
■ Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika (July)

MUSIC
■ Elgin Symphony Orchestra, featuring Angelo Xiang Yu, violinist (January)
■ Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, October)

MUSEUMS, ZOOS, ETC.
■ Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (January, May, December)
■ Adler Planetarium (January)
■ Spurlock Museum (January)
■ The Mansion and Allerton Park (February, November)
■ Krannert Art Museum (February, October)
■ Smart Museum of Art (March)
■ The Arboretum at the University of Illinois (April, May, September)
■ Roger Ebert’s Film Festival 2017 (April)
■ Chicago Shakespeare Theater Scholar Luncheon (May)
■ Art Institute of Chicago (May, July)
■ Milwaukee County Zoo (May, December)
■ Bristol Renaissance Faire (July)
■ Field Museum (August)
■ Museum of Science and Industry (August)
■ Brookfield Zoo (November)
■ Lincoln Park Conservatory (December)