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Celebrate the holidays with Merry Measures, a sparkling cabaret produced by the Chicago Cabaret Professionals. This annual tradition brings together top local performers for festive, heartwarming performances that benefit a local charity. Each night features a unique cast, offering music, storytelling, and holiday cheer. Your ticket purchase helps support the local charity, Season of Concern.

Celebrate the holidays with Merry Measures, a sparkling cabaret produced by the Chicago Cabaret Professionals. This annual tradition brings together top local performers for festive, heartwarming performances that benefit a local charity. Each night features a unique cast, offering music, storytelling, and holiday cheer. Your ticket purchase helps support the local charity, Season of Concern.

FUSION presents a holiday fundraiser for OPEN SPACE ARTS, directed by Kevin Wood, also featuring additional CCP members David Meulemanns and Aaron Holland as well as other performers. Ticket information at Openspacearts.com OPEN SPACE ARTS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is dedicated to combating homophobia and transphobia through the transformative power of creativity and cultural expression. Our mission is to foster inclusivity, promote understanding, and empower marginalized communities by utilizing various artistic mediums to challenge discriminatory beliefs and attitudes.

Join us for our next Ladies Nite Production Show. Show is at 8 pm. Our performers explore Comfort and Joy thru prose, poetry, song and storytelling. Performers are Anita Kallen, Catherine Thomson, Willa Moore, Sheri Flanders, Patricia Mosley, Anne Farley Gaines, Victoria Montalbano, Michele Williams, Sami Scot. Show at 8 pm and singing open mike open to all performers and guests at 9 pm. Good food, street parking. $10 cover charge for guests. Hope to see you there. Michele Williams Curator and Sami Scot Music Director and Pianist

Robin Watson, Will Washington and the Robin Watson Combo bring the house down at Epiphany Center of the Arts with "Mo‘ Better Motown" jazz, blues and funk style!

Enter a world of sex, seduction, and awkward flirting with MY Cabaret’s LIVE in the Rouge Room. Stars & Garters is about to get a little gay!

Muffy Fishbasket (M) and Mrs. Yuka Layme (Y ) combine the best elements of drag & live cabaret to bring you a night of music, sass, shade, and booze! This is an evening you won‘t want to forget. So, gather that tipping cash and get those tickets for this interactive DRAGARET experience you’re not likely to find anywhere else!

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General Seating - First Come, First Sat.

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An intimate, seated dinner experience featuring Carla Gordon, Michael Joseph Mitchell, David Meulemans, and Derrick Bounds!

Together is a cabaret concert about how two entertainers (Daniel Johnson and David Stephens) met at Gay Pride in New York City and what happened next in their long-term relationship; eventually making their life together in Oak Park...and beyond. With songs by Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Dave Frishberg, Cy Coleman and many more from Stage and Screen and TV, these seasoned cabaret singers (Soulful Seventies Sounds and Wilde and Woolley) will amuse and transport with stories from their lives as out gay men. This version of our show will have a holiday flair appropriate for seasonal entertainment. We are honored to share the stage with Mark Burnell celebrated keyboard artist and in-demand music. Free will donations accepted. RSVP at https://www.dmsentertainments.com/event-list

Get ready to swing into the season with Ring-A-Ding-Swing, It’s Christmas!—a festive holiday musical celebration with Gary Thomas and his jazz quartet, The Tom-Toms. Inspired by the classic TV specials of the 1960s, this show brings the swagger of Sinatra, the charm of Dean Martin, and the sparkle of Andy Williams to life with a toe-tapping lineup of swingin’ Christmas favorites. It’s a merry mix of nostalgia, smooth vocals, and cool jazz that’ll have you feeling like it’s Christmas Eve, 1967.

A special evening of holiday piano and vocals at Niche Cafe & Wine Bar. Enjoy my musical mix along with wine, spirits, craft beer, coffee creations and small plates in this lovely listening room from 8:30-10:30 pm. It‘s a beautifully curated Lake Geneva venue located just outside the Geneva National Resort. See you there!!

The HERstory duo is back with a brand new show! After celebrating suffragists, trailblazers, and songwriters in earlier shows, Anita and Catherine now bring to Indian Trails Public Library their musical tribute to the amazing women who have shaped Chicago‘s vibrant history and culture. With music by Schwartz, Parton, Strouse, Cornelia, Sondheim, and others, they spotlight an array of women – from the famous and infamous to the “hidden figures” who have left an indelible mark on our city. With Kevin Wood at the keyboard, Catherine and Anita deliver their signature blend of inspiring stories interwoven with captivating music - all to celebrate the incredible achievements of Windy City “SHEroes” from all walks of life!

Get ready to swing into the season with Ring-A-Ding-Swing, It’s Christmas!—a festive holiday musical celebration with Gary Thomas and his jazz quartet, The Tom-Toms. Inspired by the classic TV specials of the 1960s, this show brings the swagger of Sinatra, the charm of Dean Martin, and the sparkle of Andy Williams to life with a toe-tapping lineup of swingin’ Christmas favorites. It’s a merry mix of nostalgia, smooth vocals, and cool jazz that’ll have you feeling like it’s Christmas Eve, 1967.

A new open mic opportunity produced and hosted by Kevin Wood. This is intended as a safe place for singers, stand up comedians, and other entertainers to hone their craft and take risks in choosing and performing their material. Limited number of performers each evening selected on a "first come" basis. Sign up begins at 4:30 with a 5 p.m. start time for the open mic.

Anne & Mark Burnell host their annual Eve of the Eve with selected guest artists. A popular Chicago tradition of kicking off the New Year one day early with music, cocktails, and lite bites!!