The all new Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival features a variety of performing artists from around Chicago, celebrating the diversity and creativity of our city. Shows include traditional circus, avant-garde sideshow and burlesque, family friendly juggling and clowning, and several evening-length productions pushing the bounds of traditional dance and circus shows to deliver fully developed narratives. Tickets range from 10-35 depending on the show; some shows include pay-what-you-can amounts. For more information about the specific shows, please visit ccpaf.org.

Schedule:

Thursday

Bookspan Stage:

5:30-7:00 Surface Tension 

7:30-8:30 Bo(ix)y(e) Division-Such Creatures 

Theater 2B:

5:30-7:00 Stop Trying to Make Sketch Happen 

7:30-9:00 The Princess Strikes Back 

Friday

Bookspan Stage:

5:30-7:00 BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest – Tickets

7:30-9:00 Surface Tension – Tickets

9:30-10:30 Bo(ix)y(e) Division-Such Creatures – Tickets

Theater 2B:

5:30-7:00 The Princess Strikes Back – Tickets

7:30-9:00 Freaklesque: A Yes Ma'am Circus Cabaret – Tickets

9:30-11:00 Beef2Beef – LegLand – Tickets

Saturday

Bookspan Stage:

5:30-7:00 Shoop – Whisper Theatre – Tickets

7:30-9:00 Alice in CircusLand – Yes Ma'am Circus – Tickets

9:30-11:00 BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest – Tickets

Theater 2B:

3:30-5:00 Double Feature – Amazing Prizzini Brothers and Poised

5:30-7:00 Masquerade – Laughingstock Theatre 

7:30-9:00 Stop Trying to Make Sketch Happen 

9:30-11:00 Beef2Beef – LegLand

Sunday

Bookspan Stage:

2:00-3:30 Shoop – Whisper Theatre 

4:00-5:30 Alice in CircusLand – Yes Ma'am Circus 

Theater 2B:

2:00-3:30 Double Feature – Amazing Prizzini Brothers and Poised

4:00-5:30 Masquerade – Laughingstock Theatre