Spring is buzzing with events across the North Shore, from must-see theater to compelling exhibitions, concerts and more.
Over 10,000 fresh, colorful blooms fill the indoor galleries during the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Orchid Show.
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Dates: Through Mar. 23
1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe / Website
Blending tradition and modernity, for 2025 this beloved annual exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden features blooming displays echoing India's diverse regions, landscapes, people and culture. The show includes a floot-to-ceiling peacock made of orchid blooms, a banyan tree interwoven with orchids and vibrant colored powders paying homage to Holi, the festival of colors.
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Dates: Through Mar. 30
10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire / Website
Kicking off its 50th anniversary season, Marriot Theatre will present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a reimagining of the biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob, 11 brothers and the coat of many colors. Directed and choreographed by Jeff Award nominee Amber Mak, the production features classic songs like "Any Dream Will Do" and "Close Every Door."
Shemekia Copeland is bringing her electric blues sound to SPACE, performing songs from her 12th studio album, Blame It On Eve.
Date: Mar. 30
1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston / Website
Grammy-nomiated blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland is set to take the stage at beloved Evanston venue SPACE for a night of deeply soulful roots music. Crowned "Queen of Blues" at the 2011 Chicago Blues Festival, she'll bring the themes and infectious beats of her latest album, Blame it on Eve, to life.
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Dates: April 3-May 4
325 Tudor Court, Glencoe / Website
In this Writer’s Theatre production, quiet life in 1833 County Donegal, Ireland is disrupted when the British Army arrives to re-map the country and impose the English language on society. When the army appoints the schoolmaster’s son as their translator, the fate of the town’s cherished culture hangs in the balance.
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Dates: Apr.10-May 11
9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie / Website
Nightlight Theatre, in co-production with Theater Wit, chronicles the story of a Jewish couple in 1944 Paris anxiously awaiting news of their missing family. Over 70 years later, the couple's great-grandchildren are confronted with the same fear for their safety. Tony-nominated Joshua Harmon's production explores themes of family, home and history as five generations nagivate the effects of deep-rooted prejudice.
Among the featured works in the Illinois Holocaust Museum’s Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy art exhibition is Wendy Maruyama’s “The Tag Project.”
Dates: Through June 1
9603 Woods Drive, Skokie / Website
With its latest exhibition, the Illinois Holocaust Museum highlights the lasting impacts of Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of Japanese Americans during Word War II. The exhibition features a range of artworks, including paintings and other mediums, by artists like Kristine Aono, Roger Shimomura and Wendy Maruyama, who explore personal and collective experiences of the incarceration camps.
Photography by: Orchid PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN; Shemekia Copeland photo by PER OLE HAGEN/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES; A Sansei Sense of Legacy art exhibition photo COURTESY OF THE ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
