| Killer Joe Jan 8 - Feb 28, 2010 |
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Profiles Theatre |
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| Killer Joe focuses on the Smith family, a greedy, vindictive clan of Texans who hatch a plan to murder their estranged matriarch to cash in on her insurance policy. Unable to bring themselves to do the deed, they hire Killer Joe Cooper, a full-time cop and part-time contract killer. Once he steps into their trailer, their simple plan quickly spirals out of control. |
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| Rabbit Hole Jan 8 - Feb 7, 2010 |
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Steel Beam Theatre |
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| Winner of the Pulitzer for Drama in 2007, David Lindsay-Abaire's poignant play is a graceful and reverent look at a family's loss and their journey back from grief to a hopeful future. |
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| Hansel and Gretel Jan 9 - Feb 6, 2010 |
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Steel Beam Theatre |
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| Those who live in candy houses just aren't to be trusted... But that painful truth comes almost too late for our intrepid, albeit hungry, pair of youngsters. |
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| The Artist Needs a Wife Jan 12 - Feb 14, 2010 |
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Side Project |
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| A derelict basement apartment. Decades. In the future. Mott’s DJ career –
and his spunk – have turned to dust. Freud hasn’t been able to paint for
73 (Or is it 23? 95?) years. Maybe it’s time for a new fucking muse. Now.
What to do with the old one?
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| Out Of Order Jan 14 - Feb 20, 2010 |
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Metropolis Performing Arts Centre |
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| Secrets, affairs and a dead body… You know, politics. Conservative Junior Minister Richard Willey will do whatever it takes to keep his affair with the lovely Miss Worthington, a typist for his political opposition, a secret. Willey manages to fool everyone from his angry wife and bumbling, mama’s boy of a secretary, to the suspicious hotel manager and nosy waiter. That is until a dead body is uncovered in the hotel suite he and Miss Worthington are sharing for the evening. Now, Willey must enlist the aid of his uneasy secretary in a grand cover-up scheme which finds the dead body stuffed into a cupboard, dancing in a kick-line and eventually checking into a new hotel suite. |
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| No Exit Jan 14 - Feb 14, 2010 |
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The Hypocrites at
Loyola University Theatre |
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| "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does,"once commented Jean-Paul Sartre. In his groundbreaking existential drama, No Exit, a trio of recently deceased strangers discover themselves locked in a windowless room, forced to cohabitate with each other - and only each other - for all eternity. Sartre masterfully employs this claustrophobic scenario to explore the oppressive side of individual freedom. |
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| The Wedding Jan 14 - Feb 14, 2010 |
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TUTA Theatre Chicago at
Chopin Theatre |
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| When nine middle class self-important guests converge on a young bride and groom’s apartment, each one slowly unravels the horrors of living a pretentious life. As the guests’ uptight facades collapse, a slapstick adventure full of extremely truthful physical and verbal humor is unleashed. Featuring live original music performed by the cast, The Wedding takes you through early Germany just after the fall of the Hapsburg Empire and in the face of rising Nazism on their borders. |
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| The Year of Magical Thinking Jan 14 - Feb 14, 2010 |
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Court Theatre |
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| Didion adapts her own acclaimed memoir to the stage. A fiercely intelligent, courageous, and witty exploration of loss, this monumental one-woman journey will be performed by Mary Beth Fisher in its Chicago premiere. |
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| First Words Jan 15 - Feb 28, 2010 |
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MPAACT at
The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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| Barbara is desperate to communicate with her autistic son. In spite of her husband’s objections, she secretly begins expensive, untested therapy. It may cost her the family she is fighting to keep together. |
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| The (edward) Hopper Project Jan 15 - Feb 21, 2010 |
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Storefront Theater |
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| WNEP Theater brings to life a mosaic of characters inspired by the paintings of American realist artist Edward Hopper. In a series of vignettes and short moments written by WNEP company members, a dozen actors follow Hopper’s New York from dawn to dark and thrust the audience into the quiet desperation and dark comedy of the city. |
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| Hughie/Krapp's Last Tape Jan 16 - Feb 21, 2010 |
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Goodman Theatre |
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| For this Broadway-bound double bill, Robert Falls and Brian Dennehy reprise their 2004 hit production of Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play Hughie. High-rolling gambler Erie and Hughie, the credulous night clerk at his apartment building, were confidants. Hughie admired Erie for his bold lifestyle, and Erie considered Hughie his good luck charm. When Hughie dies unexpectedly, Erie’s luck changes for the worse and he finds himself in dire straights. Then Erie meets the new night clerk, who reminds him enough of Hughie that he takes the gamble that his luck is about to change. Dennehy also stars in Samuel Beckett’s classic one-act, one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape. Every year on his birthday, self-absorbed Krapp records the important—and the banal—moments of the last year. As he prepares to record a new tape on his 69th birthday, he begins to listen to his archives and stumbles upon a tender memory that he recorded half a lifetime ago. This immersion in his own history leads Krapp to question with growing regret whether his present lives up to his past. |
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| Dreamgirls Jan 19 - Jan 31, 2010 |
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Cadillac Palace Theatre |
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| Catch the Dream! Direct from the world-famous Apollo Theater in New York City, a brand new, sensational stage production of Dreamgirls comes to Chicago! Full of onstage joy and backstage drama, Dreamgirls tells the rags-to-riches story of a 1960s Motown girl group, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. With music by Academy Award-nominee Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tony® and Grammy® Award – winning Tom Eyen, Dreamgirls features the unforgettable hits: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” “One Night Only” and “Listen.” |
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| Freedom Trail Jan 19 - Jan 22, 2010 |
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Theatre At The Center |
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| Freedom Train follows the dramatic story of Harriet Tubman, a slave off of a Maryland plantation whose bravery took her across the lands to freedom. Her route later became known as the famous Underground Railroad, which is now familiar to all as the passage used by hundreds of people to escape slavery. Freedom Train takes the audience through creek beds and over hills in the dark of night as Harriet tells her story about how she, and subsequently other slaves, escaped in a fascinating series of highly theatrical scenes that use dance, dialogue, and music of the period. |
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| Mamma Mia! Jan 19 - Jan 24, 2010 |
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Rosemont Theatre |
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| An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she’s raised alone. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends—practical and no-nonsense Rosie and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya - from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities. |
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| Annie Jan 19 - Jan 24, 2010 |
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Auditorium Theatre |
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| Leapin’ lizards! Annie is coming to Chicago! The timeless tale of Little Orphan Annie is back, giving a whole new generation the chance to experience this classic musical about never giving up hope. Boasting one of Broadway’s most memorable scores, including “It’s the Hard-Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “N.Y.C.” and the ever-optimistic “Tomorrow,” Annie is a delightful theatrical experience for the entire family. Don’t miss this all-new production that Variety calls “a winner!” |
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| 'Master Harold'... And The Boys Jan 20 - Mar 21, 2010 |
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TimeLine Theatre Company |
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| Recipient of a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play in 1982, ’Master Harold’ ... and the Boys is considered Athol Fugard’s masterpiece, valued for both its universal themes of humanity and its skilled theater craft. Set in South Africa during the 1950s era of apartheid, it depicts how institutionalized racism can become absorbed by those who live under it. A white 17-year-old spends time with two African workers he has known all his life, and through their conversations on one rainy day we see what unites and divides them. The play’s beautiful and haunting dialogue and message of hope also inspire the recognition that there is much work to be done to bring people of different races together. |
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| Awake and Sing Jan 21 - Feb 28, 2010 |
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Northlight Theatre |
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| In a cramped Bronx tenement during the Great Depression, a working-class Jewish family copes with financial hardship even as they dream of a brighter future. Bessie Berger’s fierce determination keeps her family afloat, whatever the cost. Gritty, passionate, funny and heartbreaking, Odets' 1935 masterpiece (the Tony Award winner for best revival in 2006) beautifully captures both the hopes and the struggles of an unforgettable American family. |
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