THEATER and OPERA
Traitor (A Red Orchid Theatre; January)
All My Sons (Court Theatre; January)
Coriolanus (Shakespeare Project of Chicago; January)
Boy (TimeLine Theatre; January)
Inheritors (Remy Bumppo Theatre; January)
Rose (Greenhouse Theatre Center; February)
Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (Remy Bumppo Theatre; February)
Women Beware Women (Shakespeare Project of Chicago; February)
Skeleton Crew (Northlight Theatre; February)
An Enemy of the People (Goodman Theatre; March)
A Moon for the Misbegotten (Writers Theatre; March)
Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; March)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Court Theatre; March)
hang (Remy Bumppo Theatre; March)
The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Northlight Theatre; April)
The Originalist (Court Theatre; May)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera; May)
Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; May)
Waiting for Godot (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; June)
Suddenly, Last Summer (Raven Theatre; June)
Buried Child (Writers Theatre; June)
Hamlet (The Gift Theatre; June)
Victims of Duty (A Red Orchid Theatre; July)
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (Lookingglass Theatre; August)
Curve of Departure (Northlight Theatre; September)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Steppenwolf Theatre; October)
Nell Gwynn (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; October)
Mansfield Park (Northlight Theatre; November)
Il trovatore (Lyric Opera; November)
Twelfth Night (Writers Theatre; November)
A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol (Chicago Shakespeare Theater; December)

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE / FATHOM EVENTS / RSC Live
King Lear (National Theatre Live; September)
Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre Live; December)

MUSIC
Elgin Symphony Orchestra (March)

MUSEUMS, ZOOS, ETC.
John G. Shedd Aquarium (January, June)
Lyric Opera tour (January)
Art Institute of Chicago (January, July, December)
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (January)
Allerton Park (March)
Oriental Institute (May)
Lincoln Park Zoo (June)
Field Museum (June)
Milwaukee County Zoo (July)
Brookfield Zoo (July, December)
Bristol Renaissance Faire (July)
Museum of Science and Industry (August)
Spurlock Museum of World Cultures at Illinois (November)
Lincoln Park Conservatory (December)