December 2020

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Calvary Church of Naperville Laser Light show (FREE)

Calvary Church of Naperville Laser Light show

  • When: Dec. 13-18 from 6 to 9 p.m.
  • Where: Calvary Church parking lot
    • 9s200 State Route 59, Naperville, Illinois 60564
  • Who: Everyone!
  • It's free!
  • Upon arrival, tune in to 92.9 FM

Aurora Festival of Lights (FREE) Aurora, IL

Aurora Festival of Lights

Santa's Rock N Lights ($) Grayslake, IL

Santa's Rock N Lights

  • Thu Dec 10, 2020 - Sun Jan 3, 2021

Morton Arboretum Illumination ($) Lisle, IL

Morton Arboretum Illumination

  • November 20, 2020–January 3, 2021

Illumination is Currently SOLD OUT - Additional Tickets Added On Mondays

The Morton Arboretum continues to evaluate its capacity for Illumination, with safety in mind. See trees in a different light at a reimagined Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum. Designed with your safety in mind, this year’s new driving experience (20–30 minutes long) features an unparalleled spectacle of color, light, and music you won’t experience anywhere else.

You will be delighted to see returning favorites reenvisioned, including Symphony Woods, Woodland Wonder, and Crystal Promenade, and five newly designed sights displayed along a two-mile road among the Arboretum's magnificent trees. Immerse yourself in a captivating tunnel of lights, an awe-inspiring magical woodland filled with dazzling color and starlike light, and a landscape filled with thousands of lights dancing to a musical soundtrack, all from the warmth of your car.

Also new this year, the exhibition will stay open later, until 10:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 11:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and it will be open on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas, in addition to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, as in previous years.

Expressing the Arboretum’s mission and identity as The Champion of Trees, Illumination is a must-see exhibition and holiday tradition enjoyed by all.

In-Person

Art on the Mart (FREE) North Loop / Chicago

Art on the Mart

Brookfield Zoo ($) Brookfield, IL

Holiday Magic at Brookfield Zoo

  • Holiday Magic 2020 Dates
    • Friday through Sunday, November 27-29
    • Wednesday through Sunday, December 2-6, 9-13, & 16-20
    • Saturday through Thursday, December 26-31

Lincoln Park Zoo ($) Lincoln Park / Chicago

Lincoln Park Zoo Zoolights

  • SELECT DATES
    • November 21–January 3

Live-stream and video-on-demand events

Trans-Siberian Orchestra ($)

Trans-Siberian Orchestra livestream

  • Fri Dec 18th livestream event

Join us for your favorite rock holiday tradition this season as Trans-Siberian Orchestra brings an electrifying 90-minute performance of its beloved album, “Christmas Eve and Other Stories” directly into your home.

This live stream event on trans-siberian.com will take place on December 18th at 8 PM EST and features the story and the music that started it all (but don’t worry - we didn’t forget about the lasers!).

In addition to the full album concert, fans will view special pre-show content including behind-the-scenes footage and classic interview segments.

Don’t miss this all-new take on the story that launched a winter tradition for all ages, “Christmas Eve & Other Stories.”

Batavia Fine Arts Center

The Fox Valley Nutcracker (FREE)

  • DECEMBER 20 – 24, 2020

You have come to make the Fox Valley Nutcracker a family tradition, not even COVID-19 will stop that. Fox Valley Ballet is very proud to stream The Fox Valley Nutcracker directly to your home. This holiday tradition showcases students and families from local dance studios alongside professional dancers, in the beloved holiday classic The Nutcracker. Featuring beautiful dance, lavish sets, festive costumes, and Tchaikovsky’s magical score. Spend part of your holiday season with The Fox Valley Nutcracker. This performance will be offered FREE

b2wins – HOME TOGETHER FOR THE HOLIDAYS ($)

  • LIVE – DECEMBER 18 & 19, 2020

Fun-loving twin brothers provide a one-of-a-kind spin on holiday classics in this holiday live concert event designed to take away all your 2020 worries. Classically trained violinists turned pop music enthusiasts, b2wins take you on an unforgettable journey with outside the box renditions of iconic seasonal songs. This exclusive, interactive live-stream concert is fun for the whole family and allows YOU to be part of the show with sing-alongs, games, prizes, requests, and lots of holiday surprises.

Perfect for the entire family this fun night is truly live and streamed to you in your home as the performers fill your heart, spirits, and ears with the sounds of the season.

Price: $12.00 per device! That’s right, per device – not person. The entire family can watch for one price.

THE HOME … for the holidays ($)

  • VIDEO ON DEMAND – DECEMBER 4-24, 2020

From the executive producer and multi-Tony, Emmy, and Olivier winner Jim Kierstead, producer of ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Hades Town’ comes a new uproarious musical comedy. Christmas and retirement will never be the same in this all-new, hilarious holiday musical, “The Home … for the Holidays”. From the franchise Assisted Living: The Musical®, this new musical is a runaway hit. The Home is a fun-filled, 85-minute holiday romp with 18 of the eccentrics who populate Pelican Roost, the party school of retirement communities. You’ll never think of the Little Drummer Boy the same. Just what we need this holiday season, there are no sad songs, so whether you spin a dreidel, sing a carol, beat a Kwanza drum, or howl at the solstice moon … The HOME is where the fun is.

The production features a 7-piece band and was taped before a live audience on November 7th.

This performance is a video on demand. Purchase and watch on your own schedule between now and December 24, 2020, at midnight. Video on demand available for 24 hours from the time of purchase.

“LIVELY AND WICKEDLY FUNNY.”

“YOU’LL LAUGH YOUR HEAD OFF.”

Price: $17.00 per device! That’s right, per device – not person.

Ten online holiday shows from Chicago theatres ($)

Ten online holiday shows from Chicago theatres

A Christmas Carol audio play (FREE)

A Christmas Carol audio play (FREE)

  • Audio play
  • Goodman Theatre
  • Streaming Dec. 1 – 31

Experience Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol anew with our FREE audio streaming version. The voices you love—including Larry Yando as Scrooge—and our signature soundscape come to vivid life in your home starting December 1 at 7pm CST through December 31.

It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!

  • Virtual performance
  • American Blues Theater
  • Streaming now through Jan. 2

The Rip Nelson Holiday Quarantine Special

  • Virtual performance
  • Hell in a Handbag Productions
  • Streaming Dec. 4 – Jan. 9

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

  • Virtual performance
  • Lookingglass Theatre Company
  • Streaming Dec. 1 – 27

CMS At Home: Brandenburg Concertos

  • Virtual concert
  • The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
  • Presented by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance
  • Streaming Dec. 17 – 21

The Nutcracker

  • Virtual performance
  • Ballet Chicago at The Athenaeum Theatre
  • Streaming Dec. 18 – 31

That’s Weird, Grandma: Happy Holidays

  • Virtual performance
  • PlayMakers Laboratory
  • Streaming now – Dec. 28

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins

  • Virtual performance
  • Strawdog Theatre Company
  • Streaming Dec. 5 – 20

The Ruffians’ Burning Bluebeard

  • Virtual performance
  • Porchlight Music Theatre
  • Streaming Dec. 4 – Jan. 3

A Celtic Family Christmas “At Home”

  • Virtual performance
  • Auditorium Theatre
  • Streaming Dec. 12 – 31

Royal Albert Hall, London, England

Carols at the Hall ($)

Carols at the Hall

  • SUNDAY 20 DEC 2020  19:30 GMT - live stream
  • video on demand - Ends Thursday 31 Dec 2020 23:59

This year we're bringing Christmas to you!

Recorded in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall in front of a capped 1,000 capacity audience, join us for what’s set to be London’s finest carol concert of the season.

These special concerts have become a festive favourite over the years and 2020 will be no exception.

Watch from home as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Richard Cooke, along with the Royal Choral Society and the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain sing the world’s favourite carols, with organ accompaniment on the Voice of Jupiter – our 9,999 pipe organ.

WATCH PARTY We'll be watching together at 19:30 BST on 20 December as Carols at the Hall is premiered. Celebrate with us and singalong from home as carols fill our auditorium and homes around the world this christmastime.

If you can't watch on 20 December, don't worry, the event will be available to watch on demand until 31 December.

Handel's Messiah ($)

Handel's Messiah

  • THURSDAY 17 DEC 2020  19:30 GMT - live stream
  • video on demand - Ends Thursday 31 Dec 2020 23:59

This year, Covid restrictions may mean that you can't join us in our auditorium, but you can join us online for the annual Christmas performance of Messiah.

The choir will be on stage with a live audience capped at just 1,000 people, and having performed at the Hall every year since 1872, this is one Christmas tradition that you don't have to miss in 2020.

WATCH PARTY We'll be watching together at 19:30 BST on 17 December as Handel's Messiah is premiered. Join with us as the splendour of this beloved masterpiece fills our auditorium and homes around the world this christmastime.

If you can't watch on 17 December, don't worry, the event will be available to watch on demand until 31 December.

Featuring the sublime voices of the Philharmonia Chorus, accompanied by majestic sounds of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, combined with special guest vocalists Francesca Chiejina, Katie Bray, Trystan Llŷr Griffiths and Dingle Yandell.

Francesca Chiejina Soprano Katie Bray Mezzo-Soprano Trystan Llŷr Griffiths Tenor Dingle Yandell Bass-Baritone Eduardo Strausser Conductor

Philharmonia Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

To Be Sorted

https://www.hottix.org/shows/strawdog-theatre/hershel-and-the-hanukkah-goblins/

https://www.hottix.org/shows/broadway-in-chicago/a-killer-party-a-murder-mystery-musical/

One-man Christmas Carol

https://www.choosechicago.com/blog/theater-dance/10-hot-shows-to-see-in-chicago/

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