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Tuesday 11am - 4pm Wednesday 11am - 4pm Thursday 11am - 4pm Friday 11am - 4pm Saturday 11am - 4pm Sunday 11am - 4pm

Studebaker Theater

Name: Studebaker Theater
Address: 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60605, US
Telephone: +13127533210

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A jewel of Chicago theater since 1898, located in the heart of the historic Fine Arts Building.

06/11/2026

It’s Broadway-scale illusion—no magic word needed! 💥

Champions Of Magic is now dazzling Chicago! Don’t miss the show of the summer!

Get tickets at tinyurl.com/FABChampions.

06/06/2026

A magical Chicago summer begins! 🪄🔥

Champions Of Magic bring their biggest illusions ever to the Studebaker stage tonight and continue all summer long—extended by popular demand!

Be part of Chicago’s event of the summer and experience jaw-dropping illusions you’ll have to see to believe: tinyurl.com/FABChampions

06/03/2026

🪄 Chicago’s show of the summer starts this weekend! And Wait Wait Don't Tell Me introduces a new scorekeeper.

Make it a summer you won’t forget at the Studebaker!

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05/27/2026

🎙️ 📣 Just announced and on sale now!

Seven Thirty Theatre returns to the Studebaker this fall with Memphis!

Following their hit production of Dream Girls, Seven Thirty Theatre is back with this Tony-award winning musical about a young couple navigating their dreams, families, and a divided world during the birth of rock ‘n’ roll.

Grab your tickets now to this phenomenal performance, October 24 and 25: tinyurl.com/FABMemphis

05/22/2026

Senator Chris Murphy joins WBEZ and Zeenat Rahman next week to unpack his new book, Crisis of the Common Good! 📚

Take advantage of a book bundle with Exile in Bookville for a discounted signed copy and read how long-term shifts in economic priorities and cultural norms have reshaped how the public experiences work, community, and civic life

Get your tickets: tinyurl.com/FABChrisMurphy

05/14/2026

Music of Remembrance brings their world premiere opera, Dialogue of Memories, to the Studebaker on May 23 and 24! 🎶

Based on the real friendship between Elie Wiesel and Howard Reich (together in the first photo), this groundbreaking new work illuminates how we can reach understanding across generations and open doors of memory, hope, and compassion.

Don’t miss this moving new work! Get your tickets now at tinyurl.com/FABMemories.

First photo courtesy of Chicago Tribune.

05/08/2026

Extremely limited seating! 🚨 Bluebird Improv promises a show that’s never been seen before and will never be seen again on May 16.

Laugh along with Matt Walsh, Marc Evan Jackson, Stephnie Weir, Brad Morris, and Joe Canale, some of the best improvisers on the planet!

Grab your tickets now: tinyurl.com/FABBluebird

05/01/2026

This month brings some of the best improvisers on the planet, an exciting K-pop group, and Bill Kurtis’s last Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! before he retires!

🌻🎟️ Save your seat now to concerts, comedy, and more!

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04/29/2026

Legendary anchorman and America’s favorite judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis is retiring from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! 🎙️

The iconic broadcaster has lent his rich voice to NPR’s weekly quiz show for 12 years and is ready to hand it off to a new generation.

We’ll certainly miss Bill taking our stage on Thursdays, but we’ll gladly welcome him back when he fills in for judges and scorekeepers.

See the legend at a live taping before his last show on May 23! tinyurl.com/FABWaitWait

04/23/2026

We love a night at the movies! 🍿We’re throwing it back to when the Studebaker showed films for !

In 1982, M&R Amusement converted the Studebaker Theater and the smaller World Playhouse theater into a multiplex: the Fine Arts Theatres. It opened on Christmas Day in 1982 with “Moonlighting” and “Veronika Voss.” At first, it showed mostly art and independent films, including Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense,” “Paris, Texas,” “Blue Velvet,” “Metropolis,” and many more.

In 1988, M&R sold their theater chain, and the Fine Arts Theatres started showing more Hollywood films until closing in 2000.

Although the Studebaker was only briefly a movie theatre, the World Playhouse became one of Chicago’s first dedicated art and foreign film theatres in the 1930s and continued to be for decades.

Address

410 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
60605

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 4pm
Wednesday	11am - 4pm
Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 4pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

Telephone

+13127533210

Website

http://fineartsbuilding.com/studebaker

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