| Aladdin |
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater |
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| Take your family to a magical, far away land, and join Aladdin, Jasmine and the lovable Genie in this exciting musical adventure full of unforgettable songs based on the Academy Award-winning Disney film. Soar on a magic carpet with the jovial Genie, and tag along with our clever hero Aladdin as he fights for his true love, the beautiful Princess Jasmine. Oh, and there’s the kingdom of Agrabah to rescue from the villainous Jafar’s evil grasp, too. Featuring “A Whole New World” and “Friend Like Me,” Disney’s Aladdin will enchant audiences young and old alike. Recommended for ages 5 and up. |
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| The Alcyone Festival |
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Halcyon Theatre at
Lincoln Square Theater |
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| Each summer Halcyon Theatre produces The Alcyone Festival, celebrating female playwrights. Because female playwrights are horribly represented on stages across America, they created the Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writers. |
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| Altar Boyz |
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Noble Fool Theater |
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| Broadway's smash hit musical returns to Chicago! With angelic voices and divine dance moves, five small-town boys believe they're destined by God to speak the Holy Spirit through hip-hop. This charming Christian boy-band (with one nice Jewish boy) will alter your mind and raise your spirits as they look for their big break in New York while saving souls along the way. Destined to rock the masses of all denominations! |
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| America: All Better! |
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Second City |
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| Its official – the United States is moving forward. We have a new President taking office, sweeping international economic crisis, and the effects of global warming all around us. It’s time to fire up the Rahminator and transplant a little Midwestern charm to Washington making America: All Better! |
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| The Arabian Nights |
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Lookingglass Theatre |
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| Tony Award-winning Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman returns to the Water Tower Water Works, following the successful run and three city tour of Argonautika, with her Lookingglass Original adaptation of one of the world's most enduring works of literature. When he discovers his wife in the arms of another man, King Shahrayar vows to ruthlessly murder every virgin in the kingdom. His brutality is interrupted only when he encounters the cunning maiden Scheherezade, whose captivating stories may just save her life. This boldly re-imagined visual feast celebrates the redemptive power of story telling. |
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| Bad Touch and Good Liars |
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Annoyance Theatre |
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| Bad Touch, starring Annoyance ensemble members Rich Sohn and Rebecca Sohn, brings on invited guests each week to irreverently explore the dirtiest, silliest, and unsavory topics that they can dream up. Good Liars, featuring Annoyance ensemble member Mark Sutton, veteran improviser Kate Duffy, and talented newcomers Tim McKendrick and John Hartman, is inspired by the self-obsession that “social” technologies – cell phones, facebook, ipods – have helped create. |
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| Best Of Second City |
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Second City |
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| The Second City Touring Company presents best scenes and songs from the company's 45-year history, plus improv, with a different show each week. |
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| Bidnez Ladees |
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The Pub Theater Company at
Chicago Center For Performing Arts |
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| Bidnez Ladees, an all-female sketch comedy show about absurdly ambitious career women intent on smashing through the glass ceiling, features song, dance, and a whimsically twisted Susan Boyle impression. |
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| Blue Man Group |
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Briar Street Theatre |
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| Blue Man Group is best known for its award-winning theatrical productions which critics have described as "ground-breaking," "hilarious," "visually stunning" and "musically powerful." These performances feature three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percussive music, art, science and vaudeville into a form of entertainment that is like nothing else. |
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| Boleros for the Disenchanted |
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Goodman Theatre |
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| When Flora’s fiancé breaks her heart, she vows never to fall for an unfaithful man again. Then she meets Eusebio, who sweeps her off her feet and off to America—away from her family and her familiar life in Puerto Rico. Thirty-nine years later, an angel visits Eusebio with a mysterious message that stirs up old secrets and causes Flora to question the life she has tirelessly built in a foreign land. Boleros for the Disenchanted is a bittersweet and ultimately uplifting story about the everyday reality of marriage and the often undignified struggle to hold on to love in the face of life’s unexpected challenges. |
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| Bombs Away! |
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Bailiwick Repertory at
Mary's Attic |
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| In BOMBS AWAY! Mishkin and his troupe of actors dare to present his collection against the wishes of the writers of the classic musicals and despite a stop order directive from a judge. Selections to be performed are “Krakatoa” which was the original island setting for South Pacific, “I Own A Nail Salon” from the rarely seen flash-forward ending of Miss Saigon, “Too Fat To Dance” trimmed from A Chorus Line, “I Shake Me Green Shillelagh” which at one point anchored Finian’s Rainbow, and the catchy “See Ya In Ikea” from Mamma Mia. And of course, very few people remember the title song “Bombs Away!” was Mother Abbess’ initial response to Maria’s question about how to handle the Nazi’s in Sound of Music. |
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| Brother, Can You Spare Some Change? |
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Second City |
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| As the national election coverage subsides and the mysterious promise of change lingers before us, our focus returns to our own uncertain little worlds. Under the direction of Bruce Pirrie. Facebook, interracial child rearing, and the great opera of Chicago-style politics take the stage. |
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| Buried Child |
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Shattered Globe Theatre at
The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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| The Pulitzer Prize-winning “Buried Child” is a macabre look at an American Midwestern family with a dark, terrible secret; a secret which has all but destroyed the family. With its lower-class, sometimes humorous, recognizable characters and dialogue, “Buried Child” resembles the mid-century American realism and grotesquerie of Arthur Miller (“Death of a Salesman”) or Tennessee Williams (“A Streetcar Named Desire”). However, its roots in ritual and its approach to monumental, timeless themes of human suffering—incest, murder, deceit, and rebirth—resemble the destruction wreaked by the heroes of Greek tragedy. |
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| Busman's Honeymoon |
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Lifeline Theatre |
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| Wedding bells have finally rung for amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and novelist Harriet Vane! But their quiet, country honeymoon becomes a series of misadventures with exploding chimneys and unwanted guests, including a body found murdered in their own home. This inauspicious beginning begs the question: when life gets in the way, can love persevere?
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with adaptor Frances Limoncelli and actors Jenifer Tyler and Peter Greenberg as they discuss the technical challenges of staging a mystery novel and speaking Dorothy Sayers' brainy dialogue, and romance on (and off) stage.
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| Cirque Shanghai: Bright Spirit |
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Cirque Shanghai at
Navy Pier Skyline Stage |
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| After three smash seasons at Navy Pier, Cirque Shanghai returns with an all-new full-scale theatrical production, “Cirque Shanghai: Bright Spirit.” Embraced by Chicagoans and tourists alike as “Chicago’s Summer Circus” this dazzling showcase of strength, agility and grace is meticulously choreographed to a specially produced musical score and performed with ingenious stagecraft, offering audiences a full-scale theatrical experience. |
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| Clitoris Stories |
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A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Co. at
Cornservatory |
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| Clitoris Stories, picking up where Vagina Monologues left off, takes a frank and funny look at the last hidden element of women's sexuality. |
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| Co-Ed Prison Sluts |
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Annoyance Theatre |
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| Return of company's flagship show. Inane residents of a prison live in fear of the arrival of The Clown...and the big fight never disappoints. Ellen Stoneking reprises the role of Dame Toulouse, joined by a cast of some of the brightest performers on the Chicago comedy scene. |
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