Hot Tix

01/24/2025

Selling Fast! Fun Home 
Porchlight Music Theatre at Ruth Page Center for the Arts
 
Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and a Pulitzer finalist, “Fun Home” is a refreshingly honest, emotional and revolutionary musical. Based on Alison Bechdel’s critically-acclaimed graphic novel, “Fun Home” shares how Bechdel unlocks memories, milestones and mysteries of her youth as she begins to write her first graphic novel. With a compassionate score and a brilliant script, “Fun Home” tells the story of seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

12/24/2024

💝 One of the most transformative things we can do is open ourselves up to the experience of live theatre. To connect with stories about hope, love, and humanity.
 
During this Holiday Season we hope you experience the art and magic of live theatre, for it is the greatest gift that takes our past and present, into the future.
 
With over 200 theatres across the Chicagoland area you can give the gift of live theatre. Visit us at chicagoplays.com to find shows happening in your neighborhood! And visit us at hottix.org to find Chicago’s Best Theatre Deals.

12/06/2024

Half-Price Holidays is hot on Hot Tix! There are over 50 shows offering these special holiday deals! Visit hottix.org to find the perfect holiday gift!

The Hip Hop Nutcracker - Broadway In Chicago at CIBC Theatre 
Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol at Studebaker Theater 
Who’s Holiday at Theater Wit
Into the Woods - Kokandy Productions at Chopin Theatre 
The Long Christmas Dinner - TUTA Theatre at Bramble Arts Loft 
Throbbin’ Wood at PrideArts Center 
Louise May Alcott’s Little Women - Northlight Theatre at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

12/02/2024

We're just TWO DAYS AWAY from Half-Price Holidays!

Hot Tix is back with our limited time only promotion offering half-price tickets to shows this holiday season. The special promotional prices will be available Thursday, December 5 – Sunday, December 15, or while supplies last.

11/28/2024

Get excited for another round of interactive bingo on Sunday, December 1 at 3PM!!

Brought to you by Vicki Quade, creator of Late Nite Catechism and Holy Ghost Bingo, Christmas Bingo: Its a Ho-Ho-Holy Night is an interactive comedy perfect for the holidays! Play Bingo while answering quirky questions about Christmas traditions, complete with angel wings and halos.

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11/27/2024

Hot Tix at Block37 service desk will be closed Thursday, November 28th.

11/27/2024

Last Chance - Annie at the Chicago Theatre

Everyone’s favorite red-headed orphan is back, thanks to the new Annie national tour that’s traveling the nation! Tickets for every Annie Chicago performance are on sale now, so you and your family can catch the infectiously fun tale of a spunky young orphan who sets out to find her long-lost family amid the urban jungle of Depression-era New York.

Find your discounted tickets at hottix.org

11/22/2024

📢 Giving Tuesday is Almost Here! 📢

Hot Tix isn’t just about great deals—it’s about making theatre accessible for everyone. This Giving Tuesday, you can take your support further by adding a donation to your ticket purchase.

🎟️ Your small gift helps fund discounted tickets, professional development for artists, and advocacy that keeps theatre thriving.

Mark your calendars for November 26—let’s make a difference together!

10/18/2024

Refracted Theatre Company at The Den Theatre
$21

After another female candidate loses the American presidential election, three women invent a way to circumvent elections and place a woman in power permanently: all hail the Queen of America! A femme-futurist political satire, this production will challenge all of your notions around storefront theater in Chicago, as you double over in laughter and tremble with fear.

📸 Joe Mazza / Brave Lux

10/16/2024

Last Chance - Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Gift Theatre at Filament Theatre
$20 - $25

This darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln (Manning) and Booth (Fenner), names given to them as a joke by their father. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history.

📸 Brave Lux

10/11/2024

Last Chance - WHIM Chicago @ Stage 773
$80

Oct 11th & 12th, 2024, enjoy two wild nights of bloody, live entertainment featuring the Chicago Vampire Queen Competition and a live DJ afterparty event! One vampire candidate will ascend to become the Chicago Vampire Queen.

09/26/2024

Selling Fast - East Texas Hot Links at Court Theatre

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, East Texas Hot Links is simultaneously a gripping character study, a lyrical masterpiece, and a juggernaut of suspense. It is 1955 in the piney woods of East Texas and racial tensions are high, yet the Top o’ the Hill Café remains a haven. There, regulars share stories, joke, unwind, and trade friendly barbs. The café is a refuge that keeps the outside world at bay, until a mysterious omen forces the outside in.

Court’s 2024/25 season opener is a tribute to Resident Artist and Director Ron OJ Parson’s (Two Trains Running) first production in Chicago, his deep collaboration with playwright Eugene Lee, and the founding of Onyx Theatre Ensemble, the storied theatre company that first produced East Texas Hot Links in Chicago thirty years ago. By returning to Top o’ the Hill Café decades later, Parson asserts East Texas’s place in the modern theatrical canon and honors the legacy of Onyx.

09/07/2024

ONE NIGHT ONLY on HOTTIX.ORG

Screen & Stage
Chicago Sinfonietta at Auditorium Theatre

Popular and classical music collide in this electrifying opening night to the Sinfonietta’s 37th season! Laura Karpman’s film suite from The Marvels showcases powerful female superheroes, while Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi captures a daring heroine’s whimsical journey with Kiki’s Delivery Service.

Guest vocalist Laurin Talese enchants with iconic hits from Broadway and her own original composition. Pulsating dance rhythms infuse Horacio Fernández’s Latin American-inspired Tumbao, and mambo along to Bernstein’s irresistible Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, a timeless commentary on love and belonging.

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09/05/2024

Join for SCREEN & STAGE, their first subscription concert of Chicago Sinfonietta’s 2024-25 Season. Maestra Mei-Ann Chen curated musical selections from global pop culture, offering patrons a lively experience at the intersection of popular and classical music. 

The concert begins honoring the newest female superheroes to hit the big screen with Laura Karpman’s film suite Higher. Further. Faster. Together. from the blockbuster movie The Marvels. Next, we cross the seas to explore Japanese fandom with Joe Hisaishi’sKiki’s Delivery Service, whose risk-taking heroine charms and enchants with whimsical melodies from the anime film, a globally popular piece for over 40 years!
Vocalist Laurin Talese takes the stage for a sweeping Broadway tribute and shares her own original composition, “This Love,” arranged for orchestra.

Then 20-something Mexican composer Horacio Fernández invokes a Latin dance club scene with Tumbao (Latin Suite for Orchestra), featuring pulsating rhythms inspired by Salsa, Bachata, and Reggaeton. Never have you heard Reggaeton on an orchestral stage!

The performance closes with a perennial classic and audience favorite, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Comprising dance themes and motifs from the original stage work, it captures the essence of the story’s tension, passion, and energy. Through vivid orchestration and rhythmic complexity, Bernstein intertwines elements of jazz, Latin, and classical music, creating a vibrant tapestry of sound that will leave you energized and ready to “Mambo!”

Saturday, September 7 at 7 PM | WENTZ HALL, NAPERVILLE
Sunday, September 8 at 3 PM | AUDITORIUM THEATRE

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09/03/2024

🎟️ Get Your Fall Theatre Fix for Just $20! 🎟️
 
Hot Tix is back with a special, limited-time offer! Grab $20 tickets to Chicago theatre fall shows. Only available from Thursday, August 29 to Sunday, September 8, or while supplies last! 🎭
 
Participating shows: 
✨ Some Like it Hot - Broadway In Chicago at Cadillac Palace Theatre
✨ [title of show] - PrideArts at Pride Arts Center
✨ The House of Ideas - City Lit Theater
✨ Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations - Broadway In Chicago at CIBC
✨ This is Our Youth - Gwydion Theatre Company at Greenhouse Theater Center
✨ 1776 - Marriott Theatre
✨ Alice by Heart - Kokandy Productions at Chopin Theatre
 
Don’t miss your chance to see these incredible performances at an unbeatable price. Note: A service charge applies for BIC shows, and all sales are final – no refunds or exchanges.

08/23/2024

Have you heard of our sister site, ChicagoPlays.com? ChicagoPlays provides a comphrensive calendar of all the upcoming and currently playing shows at Chicago's over 200 theatres. Once you've found a show you want to see, don't forget to check HotTix.org for discounted tickets!

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You can experience some incredible theater in Chicago for as little as $15 a ticket.​

08/13/2024

We're thrilled to have joined the Bud Billiken® Parade It Takes A Village Back to School Festival this year! Thank you to all who visited our booth and participated in our theatre trivia! We look forward to connecting with you all next year!