| The Russian Play: an Improvised Black Comedy May 27 - Jun 17, 2013 |
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The Mental Notion Society at
Studio BE |
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| The Russian Play is an improvised one-act play about a citizen's journey in trying to "make it" in the cruel world of Soviet-era Russia. |
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| Fat Pig May 28 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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Steppenwolf Theatre |
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| How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized-and then some. As Tom explains his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) co-workers, Fat Pig questions whether anyone can really see past the surface. |
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| The Drunken City May 29 - Jun 15, 2013 |
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Steppenwolf Theatre |
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| The sparkle of glittery pink cocktails lures three brides-to-be into the city for an epic bar crawl. After a stirring encounter with a handsome stranger, the evening takes a surreal turn that threatens the very future they came to celebrate. In the ups and downs of modern love, sometimes what looks like a drunken party foul might actually be a new beginning. |
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| Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls May 30 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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The Brown Paper Box Co at
Heartland Studio Theatre |
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| In this quirky comedy, a group of twentysomethings change careers, geographical borders, and even species in a quest to find a place for themselves. ALOHA, SAY THE PRETTY GIRLS questions the nature of love, identity, and evolution in this wild and wonderful world. The play received its world premiere at the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. |
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| The Internationalist May 30 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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Steppenwolf Theatre |
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| Lowell, an American on a business trip abroad, is met at the airport by a beautiful colleague. They spend the night together and he thinks he's in one of those great American movies with travel, romance, adventure and life-changing experience. The next day at the office he discovers that he's actually in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, there is no moral, and most importantly: no subtitles. |
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| Lives of the Pigeons May 30 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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The Side Project |
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| The Side Project Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Lives of the Pigeons by Sherod Santos. A nationally renowned poet, Santos' book The Pilot Star Elegies was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry. Lives of the Pigeons marks his first full-length play. Gus and Max spend a day in the park, like every other day, on a day that, with the arrival of a mysterious man with a cane, is like no other. Mixing the styles of Pinter, Beckett and Albee, with a dash of Mamet, Santos serves up an intriguing look at long-term friendship and the nature of absolution. Adam Webster directs. |
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| Harry's Halfway House May 30 - Jun 23, 2013 |
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Rebekah Theatre Project at
City Lit Theater |
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| Harry's Halfway House is unlike any boarding house you've ever known. Not that you've known that many, of course. We're not suggesting you, uh ... anyway, the characters of this eccentric comedy have taken winding, often hazardous paths to end up under this roof. The residents haven't given up on their dreams, they've just misplaced them. |
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| Spectrum May 30 - Jun 1, 2013 |
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Matter Dance Company at
Stage 773 |
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| As the spectrum of color features all hues, Spectrum features a range of dance styles, from tap to hip-hop to contemporary to modern. Given the eclectic styles of Matter Dance Company choreographers, MDC promises to bring their audience a show that will surprise, delight, inspire and span the spectrum of movement. Spectrum features the work of Carisa Barreca, Katie Eberhardy, Gail Adduci Gogliotti, Stephanie Gruender, Chelsea Harkelroad, Jessica McVay, Gloria Mwez, Kristin Nelson, Jacquelyn Pavilon, Greg Poljacik, Niki Wilk Mahon, and Mandy Work. |
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| Chicago is Burning May 31 - Jun 10, 2013 |
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Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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| Set in Bronzeville in Chicago, the exhilarating drama with music Chicago is Burning takes you to the underground ball competitions where anyone in the communities in this African American and Latino, gay and transgender subculture can be a star or a supermodel for one night. They’ve come to strike a pose, vogue, walk, dance, compete, love, bitch and be themselves. The multiple award-winning young playwright Marcus Gardley and Victory Gardens Artistic Director Chay Yew team up for a celebration of a new kind of American family built across lines of race, class and gender. |
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| The Three Musketeers May 31 - Jul 21, 2013 |
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Lifeline Theatre |
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| In pursuit of his dream of becoming a Musketeer, young d'Artagnan travels to Paris, where he befriends the legendary Three Inseparables: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. His acts of bravery catch the eye of King Louis XIII, but ensnare d'Artagnan in the deadly schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful, yet depraved, Milady Clarik. When Constance, the love of his life, is kidnapped on the eve of war, d'Artagnan must weigh his loyalties to king and country, comrades-in-arms, and the callings of his heart. Journey from Paris to London, from countryside taverns to glittering palaces, from a humble Gascon farm to the siege of La Rochelle, in an epic tale of passion, intrigue, and adventure. |
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| Kiss of the Spider Woman May 31 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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BoHo Theatre at
Theater Wit |
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| Condemned to a brutal Latin American prison for the crime of homosexuality, Luis Molina has learned to escape the humiliation and torture of his surroundings with an elaborate fantasy world. His fantasies recall the glamorous diva Aurora from the movies of his youth. But his ability to escape reality is tested by his new cellmate, a Marxist revolutionary named Valentin. For despite falling in love with Valentin, Molina has been co-opted by the prison warden and the secret police to get information out of his cellmate in exchange for early parole. Can Molina's fantastical tales of Aurora and her Spider Woman character help him navigate the dangerous events of the real world? |
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| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) May 31 - Jun 23, 2013 |
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Eclectic Theatre at
Athenaeum Theatre |
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| Can three comedians perform all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in two hours or less? It won't be easy-but with its breakneck pace and audience interaction, it's guaranteed to be a hilarious ride! |
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| A Cole Porter Songbook May 31 - Jul 21, 2013 |
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Theo Ubique at
No Exit Cafe |
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| Hot off the success of 2012′s Time after Time: The Songs of Jule Styne, Theo Ubique tackles renowned composer-lyricist Cole Porter's vast and enormously entertaining catalog. Porter's sophisticated music and notoriously witty lyrics come alive in unique Theo Ubique style under the direction of 4-time Jeff-award winning director Fred Anzevino, with new arrangements by music director Aaron Benham and choreography by David Heimann. |
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| The Second City Guide to the Opera May 31 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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Lyric Opera |
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| Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Second City-hot on the heels of their hugely successful, sold-out January 5 collaboration, The Second City Guide to the Opera-will present a run of shows at the Civic Opera House, with audience members seated onstage. |
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| Par for the Corpse May 31 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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Oil Lamp Theater |
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| Comedy and suspense collide in this whodunit from playwright Jack Sharkey, performed at the intimate Oil Lamp Theater. In Par for the Corpse, writer Alexandra Ellis lives in an isolated Catskill retreat with Gert, her housekeeper and factotum. When Alexandra invites a group of friends to her home for dinner one wintry evening, a blizzard unexpectedly strands the group -- but the blizzard soon proves to be the least of their problems. The dinner party takes a dark and murderous turn when one of the guests is poisoned and the group quickly realizes they have a killer in their midst. Soon everyone, even the hostess, becomes a suspect. Murky motives are revealed and unexpected plot twists play out as the hostess and her guests examine clues and make deductions in an effort to solve the crime. |
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| Hitch Cocktails May 31 - Aug 23, 2013 |
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Annoyance Theatre |
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| Crime and drinking don't mix -- unless it's at the totally inventive Hitch Cocktails. Each show, the actors will take suggestions from the audience to craft a thriller in the style of the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. It's a night chock-full of murder, car chases, beautiful women and exciting music. And, since this is high-class crime, there's a real wet bar onstage, of which the actors are forced to partake throughout the performance -- sure to make any chase across Mount Rushmore all the more precarious. With a live jazz band providing the soundtrack and parlor games for the audience, Hitch Cocktails will have everyone in on the action. |
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| Ain't No Crying the Blues (In The Memory of Howlin Wolf) Jun 1 - Aug 11, 2013 |
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Black Ensemble Theater |
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| When Rick Stone (Cooley High) first performed as Howlin Wolf, Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "It's Rick Stone who consistently knocks your socks off in his terrifically sustained performance. And as he moves through Wolf's hits-Red Rooster, Goin' Down Slow, I Ain't Superstitious, Baby Please Don't Go and more-it's the audience that begins howlin' loudest." Now Rick Stone returns to do it again in this new story reflecting the life and times of one of the greatest blues singers the world has ever known - Howlin Wolf. |
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