| Big Lake Big City Jun 19 - Aug 11, 2013 |
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Lookingglass Theatre |
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| Detective Bass can't catch a break: his boss is a hard-ass, his partner's a knucklehead, his wife's a cheat, and now he has to chase down a perp who has a screwdriver in his head. An eclectic set of shady characters-crooked coroners, a TV-personality doctor, a femme fatale, and one extraordinarily valuable sculpture-run roughshod through a hilarious maze of double-crosses and double-identities. 2011 Writers Guild Award-winner Keith Huff lampoons the Windy City with a menacing smirk and tongue in cheek in this gritty modern noir directed by David Schwimmer. |
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| Blackademics Jun 19 - Jun 23, 2013 |
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MPAACT at
Theater On The Lake |
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| Two female African-American scholars break down ideas while breaking bread, celebrating black history month in their favorite bistro. They become deeply engrossed in spirited discourse, weaving personal and political, academic and pop culture, and boasts and criticisms. This metaphysical comedy dramatizes one of our longest running debates: what does it mean to be a Black in America? |
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| Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music Jun 19 - Jul 21, 2013 |
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First Folio Theatre |
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| Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music is a powerful story of love, romance, and adventure. Falsely accused of betraying her lover, Imogen must flee to the hills to escape her death. Imogen disguises herself as a man and with the help of the shepherd Belarius and his two sons, she must prove her honesty and chastity, restore her good name, and defeat her evil stepmother. |
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| Tartuffe Jun 20 - Jul 14, 2013 |
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Court Theatre |
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| A devilish comedy about the art of deception and the price of misplaced faith, Moliere’s Tartuffe reveals a tale as outrageous as it is insightful. When the cunning imposter Tartuffe wields a pretense of piety to capture the imagination of aging family-man Orgon, the scoundrel succeeds in insinuating himself into the patriarch’s home, throwing Orgon’s family into utter chaos. As Orgon’s foolish infatuation with Tartuffe’s fraudulent religious fervor grows, the depth of Tartuffe’s deception turns dangerous. Artistic Director Charles directs the French classic Tartuffe with a provocative contemporary approach that will illicit deep laughter of recognition.
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| The Little Dog Laughed Jun 20 - Jul 13, 2013 |
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Kid Brooklyn Productions at
The Den Theatre |
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| The Little Dog Laughed follows the adventures of Mitchell Green, a movie star who could hit big if it weren't for one teensy-weensy problem. His agent, Diane, can't seem to keep him in the closet. Trying to help him navigate Hollywood's choppy waters, the devilish Diane is doing all she can to keep Mitchell away from the cute rent boy who's caught his eye and the rent boy's girlfriend (wait, the rent boy has a girlfriend?). Will there be a happy ending as the final credits roll? |
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| Southern Baptist Sissies Jun 20 - Jul 1, 2013 |
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Ludicrous Theatre at
The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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| Southern Baptist Sissies is the story of four boys who are gay growing up in the Southern Baptist Church and how they each deal differently with the conflict between the teachings of the church and their sexuality. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also includes two older barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter takes the audience from hysterical laughter to tragedy and tears. |
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| Jason and (Medea) Jun 20 - Jul 7, 2013 |
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(re)discover theatre at
Second Stage Theatre |
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| Utilizing contemporary poetic style, heightened movement and modern language, the play follows Jason and Medea through the part of their story that never gets told: the love story. With an ensemble of Chicago up-and-comers, including Bridget Schreiber as Medea; Alex Thompson as Jason; Shariba Rivers as Chalciope; Erika Lecaj as Atalanta; Mark Lancaster as Heracles; Kyle Geissler as Heller; and Kelly Amshoff as Princess, Jason and (Medea) explores sex, gender, love and power in a funny, aching, accessible and timeless context. |
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| The Jungle Book Jun 21 - Aug 4, 2013 |
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Goodman Theatre |
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| The jungle springs to life in a kaleidoscopic song-and-dance-filled spectacle that chronicles young Mowgli’s adventures growing up in the animal kingdom. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s time-honored children’s tales and featuring music from the classic Disney film, this spellbinding world premiere is the theatrical event of the season.
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| Mama's Boy Jun 21 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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Chicago Tap Theatre's at
Stage 773 |
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| Chicago Tap Theatre's Mama's Boy is a tale of love, rivalry and revenge told entirely through tap dance set to live music. This "Tap Opera" -- the company's eleventh to date -- features choreography from Artistic Director Mark Yonally and, for the first time ever for a Chicago Tap Theatre production, legendary Chicago-based choreographer and director Harrison McEldowney in the director's chair. It's also the first-ever Tap Opera to feature all live music, a toe-tapping blend of 1920s, Chicago-style jazz and electronic elements. |
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| My Asian Mom 2.0.1.3 Jun 21 - Jul 20, 2013 |
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A-Squared Theatre Workshop at
The Den Theatre |
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| My Asian Mom 2.0.1.3 is made up of eight 10 minute one act pieces inspired by Asian motherhood. It is a celebration of Asian Moms in all their awkward glory! The show consists of material written by Asian American writers from all over the country, featuring Kathy Hsieh, Christine Toy Johnson, Melisa Tien, Conrad Panganiban, Larry Leopoldo, Lani T. Montreal, Fin Coe and Damon Chua. |
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| Death and Harry Houdini Jun 21 - Aug 11, 2013 |
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The House Theatre of Chicago at
Chopin Theatre |
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| Artistic Director Nathan Allen returns to his very first script having spent the last decade developing The House's voice. The House's original production featured magic, music, dance, and film. Now Allen, along with The House's incredibly diverse ensemble of artists, bring their experience in creating ensemble theater and devising story to the life of history's greatest magician, while reaching deep into its bag of tricks to create an altogether new theatrical event. |
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| Waiting For Lefty Jun 22 - Jul 27, 2013 |
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Oracle Theatre |
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| LEFTY premiered in 1935 at the Group Theatre in New York, of which Odets was a member, and it was a critical success for the company. The play is written as a series of vignettes that spotlight characters trying to make their way during the economic struggles of the early 1930's, and it is loosely based on the events of a New York city taxicab drivers' strike in 1934. The play opens as the cab drivers are on the verge of a strike. Joe Keller is called upon to speak in the absence of their union president, Lefty. The play interweaves stories of corruption in industry with the personal stories of people trying to make a living wage. |
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| Mahal Jun 26 - Aug 2, 2013 |
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Bailiwick Chicago Theater at
Stage 773 |
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| MAHAL is a new play about how one Filipino American family redefines itself after loss and reclaims their culture. One of the first plays about a Filipino American family, MAHAL centers on the Reyes family dealing with the loss of their matriarch. As new relationships blossom and family bonds are tested, a long forgotten secret from the homeland threatens to tear the family apart. Dealing with themes of cultural identity, assimilation, homophobia, interracial and inter-generational relationships, MAHAL examines what it truly means to be an American family. |
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| Lula del Ray Jun 26 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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Manual Cinema at
Theater On The Lake |
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| This feature-length shadow play is performed with overhead projectors, shadow puppets, actors in silhouette, live music and almost entirely without dialogue. When Lula, a lonely adolescent girl, discovers a soulful country music duo on the radio, she leaves home and enters a world of danger and deception to find them. Lula del Ray is a mythic reinvention of a classic coming-of-age story. |
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| Beaten Jun 26 - Aug 11, 2013 |
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The Artistic Home |
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| Focusing on three generations of women fighting to find the way to love each other without hurting each other, Beaten picks up a year after daughter Chloe suffered serious injury at the hands of her true love Jason. Housebound and haunted, Chloe is cared for by her cancer-stricken, pot-smoking, alcohol-swilling grandmother Eileen and her desperately tightly-wound mother Madelynne, whose own complicated relationship pushes and pulls at the recovering girl. Add to the mix, nerd-next-door Greg, who yearns to be Chloe's knight in shining armor, and you have the intimate story of five people who refuse to give in to the idea that love may not beat all. |
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| Belleville Jun 27 - Aug 25, 2013 |
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Steppenwolf Theatre |
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| Twenty-something American expats Zack and Abby live an enviably hip, do-gooder existence in the up-and-coming neighborhood of Belleville, Paris. But a single encounter one morning in the apartment they rent from their Senegalese landlords Alioune and Amina tips the scales of their relationship, revealing that the bubble they’ve built abroad is much closer to bursting than it appears |
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| Facing Angela Jun 27 - Jul 28, 2013 |
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The Ruckus Theater at
Athenaeum Theatre |
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| Angela has lost her face. Acquiring a new face alters more than skin and tissue, cutting into Angela's relationship with her husband, Wes, and mutating her sense of self. As Angela re-constructs, re-invents, and re-defines her identity, Wes ceases to recognize the woman he loves, and doubts whether he really knows himself either. This re-imagining of Barsotti's 2003 play, explored over the course of the season with the cast and company, will delve deep into how we recognize ourselves and those we go to bed with, and the collateral damage of transformative change. |
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