| Doo Lister's Blues Oct 1 - Nov 21, 2010 |
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National Pastime Theater |
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| This powerful play looks back at the meeting of the political turmoil of the 1960s with the rise of an emerging Black music experience. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, Doo Lister’s Blues traces a songwriting Chicago barber's creative metamorphosis from Motown to militant, with results that challenge the validity of the evolution of Black popular music. |
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| At Home At The Zoo Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2010 |
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Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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| America’s greatest living playwright pairs his provocative classic, A Zoo Story, the one-act that launched his career fifty years ago, with a new prequel titled Homelife. The lives of three New Yorkers are changed forever as revelations and confrontations of one sunny afternoon send them down surprising new paths. With shocking secrets to reveal, sharp truths to confront and hearts bursting with all the complexities of humanity, experience the intensity that is true Albee. |
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| Nightmares on Lincoln Ave Too - Totally Tubular Tales of Terror Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2010 |
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Cornservatory |
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| This year, Corn is turning its satirical sights on the scary kid shows of the 90s! Do you look back on the 90’s Nickelodeon explosion with warm fuzzies in your heart and Gak in your hair? Did you get scared stiff by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” Paralyzed by “Goosebumps”? Terrified by “Troll 2”? Or were you way too cool for any of those things? No matter whether you loved that stuff, hated it, or have never even heard of it, we guarantee that you will snicker and scream your way though this goopily, gorily hilarious blast from the past. |
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| Dracula: A Tragedy Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2010 |
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Redtwist Theatre |
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| This October, come face-to-face with evil. London, 1893: insanity is spreading like a red infection over the East End. Human ashes spill from an abandoned ship. Wild-eyed streetwalkers recite Shakespeare sonnets to feed their starving children, and mad killers send bloody notes to newspapers promising a flood of innocent victims. Through the dense fog in the dark streets of a dying city, stalks a force of monstrous evil, as a bloodied band of outsiders sacrifice all to save their country from an unspeakable fate. Redtwist Theatre presents DRACULA: A TRAGEDY, a new adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic horror novel that asks if justice can live in the same world as terror, and what happens to a country when its nightmares come to life. You are invited to enter Dracula's madhouse: you will see the teeth; you will smell the decay; you will feel the fear. |
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| Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde Oct 2 - Oct 31, 2010 |
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Morton Arboretum |
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| Just in time for October, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stalk the woods of the Arboretum. Dr. Jekyll is searching to find a potion that will eliminate the “bad” in people. He mixes a concoction that he believes will work and tests it on himself. Instead of removing his “bad,” he actually brings out an alternate “bad” persona, Mr. Hyde. Around the same time, a series of murders occurs in London. Coincidence? Come find out! |
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| It Takes a Village, People! Oct 2 - Nov 6, 2010 |
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Salsation Theatre Company at
Gorilla Tango Theatre |
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| It Takes a Village, People! is the first gay-themed production from Salsation Theatre Company, NFP, Chicago's home for "comedy with a Latin flavor!" The show explores the intersection between love, family and the Latino experience in the village of gay life. A young man struggles to find love in a germ-filled world. Another finds the military-industrial complex an unlikely ally in his quest to come out to his parents. And speed dating speeds up as the search for love gets serious in this wig-filled sketch comedy revue! |
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| Salem! The Musical Oct 2 - Nov 13, 2010 |
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Annoyance Theatre |
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| Salem! The Musical is a bewitching musical set in the Puritan town of Salem in 1692 - just when things were getting interesting. New to the neighborhood, bumbling businessman Reverend Parris and his daughter get wrapped up in the most musical witch-hunt in history. |
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| I Do! I Do! Oct 3 - Nov 14, 2010 |
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Light Opera Works at
McGaw YMCA |
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| I DO! I DO!, follows Michael and Agnes starting on their wedding
day and explores their life together over the next 50 years, as the couple
goes through wedding night jitters, raises a family, negotiates mid-life
crises, quarrels, separates, reconciles and grows old together. |
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| 1985 Oct 5 - Nov 7, 2010 |
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Factory Theater at
Storefront Theater |
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| PAPA BEAR IS WATCHING YOU. Winston Smith is sick of losing. His Chicago
sports teams let him down time and again, and he’s through. Or is he? Is
it even possible to disavow himself of his team loyalty? Bear down,
Chicago, and discover what happened to the Cubs in ’84; what treachery
existed behind the ‘79 Disco Demolition; how the Eastland Disaster saved
the NFL; and why the ’85 Bears lost that game in Miami. On this 25th
anniversary of the celebrated Super Bowl Shuffle season, Factory Theater
imagines an Orwellian Chicago where winning isn’t everything, it just
might be the only thing. |
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| Billy Connolly Live! Oct 5 - Oct 9, 2010 |
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Royal George Theatre |
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| Best known in the United States for his starring role in the popular 1980’s sitcom Head of the Class, Connolly has broken box office records in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, New York and Canada and was honored on the Avenue of the Stars (the UK’s version of The Hollywood Walk of Fame) alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, John Cleese and The Rolling Stones. He also stars in the upcoming film Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black and Jason Segel. Connolly’s audiences are as diverse as his material and Chicagoans will get a unique chance to see him up close and personal at the intimate Royal George Theatre. |
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| Scorched Oct 6 - Nov 7, 2010 |
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Silk Road Theatre Project at
Chicago Temple |
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| Carried aloft by poetic language and evocative imagery, Scorched unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere connecting the origins of one family in startling and unforgettable ways. A brother and sister raised in Quebec must return to their mother’s war-torn country to carry out her last wishes – finding the father and brother they never knew they had. |
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| Too Much Memory Oct 6 - Nov 13, 2010 |
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SiNNERMAN Ensemble at
Side Project |
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| Too Much Memory is a contemporary exploration of human desperation, political histrionics, hilarious confrontations and tragic relationships, by Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson, directed by Anna Bahow. A multi-media “adaptation of an adaptation of a translation” of the Antigone tragedy, set in a political family that struggles with modern dilemmas and motivations, the piece won the Overall Excellence Award for best play at the NY Fringe Festival |
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| State of Union Oct 7 - Nov 13, 2010 |
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Strawdog Theatre |
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| The story follows fictional Republican presidential candidate Grant Matthews and his estranged wife Mary as they reunite to go under the media microscope. Matthews begins as a truth talking, idealist, man-of-the- people but quickly falls prey to the American political machine. State of the Union was adapted for a 1948 film directed by Frank Capra, starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. |
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| Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Oct 7 - Nov 14, 2010 |
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Black Elephant Theatre at
Raven Theatre |
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| Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde tells the true story of famed author Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest), who in 1895 was accused of posing as a “sodomite” by the father of his young companion, Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. Wilde fought the scandalous charge in court, but the tables were quickly turned and he found himself, in two subsequent trials, defending his art, career, morality, life, and love. Playwright Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project) weaves together period news articles, biographies of Wilde's friends and enemies, as well as interviews with contemporary scholars, to shed new light on the often misunderstood life of one of the world's first global celebrities; and to recreate the harsh reality of Victorian England, where the act of love between men was a crime. |
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| McMeekin Finds Out Oct 7 - Nov 14, 2010 |
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Route 66 Theatre Company at
Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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| Randy Steinmeyer and Kate Buddeke star as Guy and Pam McMeekin, who are recovering from a car wreck, which has left Guy’s hands, and Pam’s legs, in casts. Stuck at home since the event, both have begun to tire of the other (especially since Guy has taken up reading about the human brain and philosophizing about life). But their uneventful Sunday is turned on its head when their seventeen-year-old daughter Carla (played by Route 66 Theatre Company’s Producing Director, Blair Robertson), an angel with a broken wing and a smart mouth, comes home and tells her parents she thinks she has done something bad...something very bad. What transpires is a laugh out loud comedy with a Pittsburgh twist involving a football, an interrogation, tasers, hammers, duct tape and a hilarious family of characters sorting out the truth the best way they know how. |
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| Musical of the Living Dead Oct 7 - Oct 31, 2010 |
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The Cowardly Scarecrow Theatre Company at
Charnel House Chicago |
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| Musical of the Living Dead is an original musical comedy satirizing popular zombie and horror films, which is sure to be enjoyed by the horde of zombie-lovers in the Chicago area. It’s the perfect way to spend an evening during the Halloween season!
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| Bash Oct 7 - Oct 31, 2010 |
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Brikenbrak Theatre Project at
The Viaduct |
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| What kind of secrets lie within the most ordinary of people? The businessman, the college student, the stay at home mom…the people you see every day can harbor monstrous secrets in their hearts. “Bash” is an examination of horrific truths in three short plays. |
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