| I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Jun 5 - Aug 11, 2013 |
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Marriott Theatre In Lincolnshire |
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| I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE goes through your funny bone and straight to your heart! You’ll fall head over heels for this hilarious musical comedy about that terribly wonderful, simply complex thing called love. From dressing for a first date, marriage and babies, in-laws and the injustice of long lines for the ladies room, this musical romp through our every day relationships will have you rolling in the aisles with laughter. You’ll leave wondering…“Were they talking about me?” |
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| Why Do Fools Fall In Love? Jun 6 - Jul 28, 2013 |
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Fox Valley Repertory |
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| Millie's getting married! And when three of her girlfriends (boy-crazy Sally, very shy Florence, and young tag along Dee Dee) throw her a bachelorette party, the girls end up sharing more than a great time - after tequila shots and Snowball sugar highs, they dive into the age old questions about love, marriage, and the overwhelming dating game. Featuring classic 1960s songs like "My Boy Lollipop," "I Will Follow Him," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and more, this uplifting comedy reaffirms that true friendship will unveil its everlasting strength-and it does so with a rockin' beat! |
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| The Pride Jun 6 - Jul 13, 2013 |
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About Face Theatre at
Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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| Two story lines, fifty years apart. Set in London, Alexi Kaye Campbell's time-shifting play THE PRIDE maps the progression of the gay rights movement from the repression of the fifties to the freedom of today through the fate of two twisted love triangles. In 1958, Philip is married to Sylvia but in love with Oliver. In 2008, Oliver is addicted to public sex with strangers, so Philip leaves him. Sylvia has to pick up the pieces. THE PRIDE is a sharp, witty portrait of urban gay couples and the punishing consequences of liberation. |
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| Brothers Beckett Jun 6 - Jun 30, 2013 |
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Black at
Athenaeum Theatre |
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| Kevin
Beckett
(Maurice
Demus),
Yale
alumnus,
is
awaiting
the
arrival
of
his
beloved
girlfriend,
Tuesday
(Rachael
Hancz),
who
will
be
spending
a
perfect
week
with
him
and
his
roommate/brother,
Brad
(Anthony
Conway).
When
Kevin
divulges
to
Brad
that
he
plans
on
proposing,
Brad
enlists
the
help
of
friend
and
neighbor
Doug
(Sean
Gallagher)
to
find
any
way
possible
to
keep
his
brother
from
moving
out
of
their
bunk-‐
bedded,
pink-‐walled
studio
apartment
while
winning
over
his
own
object
of
affection
board
game
buddy
Joyce
(Amanda
Lipinski).
A
hilarious
and
irreverent
riff
on
friendship,
family,
and
adult
boys
who
don't
want
to
grow
up,
Brothers
Beckett
is
a
satirical
portrait
of
slacker
siblings
laced
with
sharp
banter
and
dark
humor. |
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| Defending the Caveman Jun 7 - Jun 9, 2013 |
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Theatre At The Center |
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| With hilarious insights on contemporary feminism, masculine sensitivity and the erogenous zone, Defending the Caveman addresses the common themes in relationships that go straight to the funny bone. It is an international hit with productions in 30 countries, including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Iceland, Sweden and Germany. Comedian Rob Becker wrote Defending the Caveman over a three-year period during which he made an informal study of anthropology, prehistory, psychology, sociology and mythology. This prehistoric look at the battle of the sexes played for two years on Broadway and is full of hilarious scenarios that celebrate the differences between men and women. |
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| Circus Circus Jun 7 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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The Den Theatre |
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| Circus Circus follows Robert as he is arrested for marijuana and sent to Circus Circus State Penitentiary. Through Robert you will be exposed to the loss, degradation, and chaos that he is faced with on a daily basis, under the tight control of the spectacularly extravagant and wonderfully sinister, Warden Gordon. He allows you access because like any good ringmaster, Warden Gordon enjoys showing off. Robert sits patiently, locked up alongside violent offenders, child molesters, and rapists. Some of these offenders even have a shorter prison sentence than him, and it's all because he was arrested for marijuana. This is the crux of the piece. The characters negotiate this tension, struggling against the realization that a non-violent offense may receive more time than a violent crime. The play explores what happens every day, though few understand its pervasiveness in the prison system. Every day this continues, our prison system continues to become over-crowded with non-violent marijuana offenders. |
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| They're Playing Our Song Jun 7 - Jun 15, 2013 |
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Beverly Arts Center |
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| Based on the real-life relationship between award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carol Bayer Sager and set in 1979, this romantic musical comedy runs from harmony to dissonance and back again. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing Jun 7 - Jun 23, 2013 |
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Fury Theatre at
Berger Park Coach House |
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| Sigh no more, ladies! Much Ado is a playful romp of deceptive matchmaking, rumors and one of Shakespeare's most recognizable songs! Can Beatrice, Benedick, Hero and Claudio find everlasting happiness in Messina? Or will Don John, the Prince's half brother, stir up irreparable and malicious mischief? Directed full of life and action in the Fury Theatre style and staged on the green at the historic Berger Park Cultural Center, the Bard's characters will sing, swoon, swagger and have audiences young and old singing "Hey nonny nonny!" |
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| H.M.S. Pinafore Jun 8 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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Light Opera Works at
Cahn Auditorium |
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| H.M.S. PINAFORE, Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy of manners, has been a calling card of Light Opera Works ever since the company presented it as its inaugural production in 1981. The Pinafore sails once more onto the stage of Evanston's Cahn Auditorium in a new production, with 26-piece orchestra, June 8 to 16. The score includes: "I'm Called Little Buttercup," "When I Was a Lad," "I Am the Captain of the Pinafore" and many others. |
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| Kate's Dates Jun 9 - Jul 14, 2013 |
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Waltzing Mechanics at
The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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| Kate Loftus lived in Los Angeles and dated many different men. The problem was that too few of them were worth a second date. Dinners, movies, wedding receptions and baseball games - none of them added up to lasting romance. So Loftus created a blog to chronicle each wretched rendezvous. Adapted from her true stories and interviews with relationship experts across America, this original documentary comedy follows one woman's hilarious roller coaster of love. |
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| Slaughter City Jun 9 - Jul 14, 2013 |
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Prop Theatre |
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| From the brilliant imagination and fiery conscience of playwright Naomi Wallace comes Slaughter City, her harrowing and illuminating play now staged by Prop Theater Group. Plunge head-first into the bloody world of "Slaughter City," a slaughterhouse where the workplace politics are almost as nasty as the work itself. Tensions are already running high when the mysterious Cod crosses the picket-line to work alongside Roach, Maggot and Brandon. It's not long before union machinations, racial tensions and transgressive sexuality are all on the chopping block in this tale of moral butchery. A prescient meditation on industrial exploitation at any point history -- whether it's a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 or at the Dhaka garment factory in 2013 -- Slaughter City demonstrates how hard a "hard day's work" can truly be. |
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| West Side Story Jun 11 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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Ford Oriental Theatre |
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| The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY returns to Chicago! Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction is recreated for the tour by David Saint, the Associate Director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).
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| Uncle Bob Jun 11 - Jul 21, 2013 |
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Mary-Arrchie Theatre at
Angel Island Theater |
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| Uncle Bob is a man who is diagnosed with AIDS and is being visited by his nephew, Josh. This visit is not exactly a welcome one but a necessary one as these two people need to cling together in order to give some meaning to their lives. As they jaw at one another and literally fight with each other, desperate measures are taken to actually come to a common ground where they can actually listen to one another. They find that they cannot live with each other or without each other. Uncle Bob is a story about family, love, life and truth and whatever it takes to get to that truth. |
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| The Bear Suit of Happiness Jun 12 - Jun 16, 2013 |
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The New Colony at
Theater On The Lake |
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| In 1943, Woody, a young gay American, enlists in the army. After being shipped to a remote Pacific Island, he is given an order: "Put up a show to entertain the men. Keep it simple. Needs music. And they like drag." Woody becomes a one-man war as he fights to write a show worthy of his fellows' last laughs. Torn between fantasy and reality, his silly camp show grows to be a dream of an impossibly hospitable world. |
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| Amadeus Jun 13 - Jul 13, 2013 |
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Oak Park Festival Theatre |
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| The winner of both the Drama Desk and Tony awards for Best Play when it was produced on Broadway in 1981, Amadeus tells the story of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as told through the eyes of his confessed murderer, Court Composer Antonio Salieri. |
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| Boeing Boeing Jun 13 - Aug 4, 2013 |
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Drury Lane- Oakbrook |
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| Set in Paris in the 1960's, this comedy follows the the flighty tale of Bernard, a jet-setting architect who is juggling three flight attendant fiancees with the help of his reluctant housekeeper. When his old pal, Robert, arrives at his swanky bachelor pad, Bernard proudly unveils his ingenious scheme. Despite his clever arrangement, Bernard's life starts to unravel when a new turbo-charged Boeing is introduced. In a hysterical whirlwind of mayhem, Bernard finds out that one woman is all he can handle. |
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| Mine Jun 13 - Aug 11, 2013 |
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The Gift Theatre |
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| New mother Mari has a devoted husband, a reassuring midwife and a mom who can't wait to babysit. But she can't shake the feeling that there's something strange about her newborn daughter. Chicago's The Gift Theatre Company births a world of new motherhood, where doubt and certainty blur, in the Chicago premiere of Laura Marks' thrilling, haunting and terrifying Mine, directed by Marti Lyons. |
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