| Hideous Progeny |
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LiveWire Chicago at
Storefront Theater |
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| It was a dark and stormy night in a house by the lake, when Mary Shelley
famously took up her host Lord Byron’s challenge to write a terrifying
story and created /Frankenstein/, one of the most famous novels in the
Western canon. Witty, salacious, and often melodramatic, Emily
Dendinger’s world premiere play directed by Jess Hutchinson depicts the
larger than life Romantic figures as the normal teenagers they were –
overeducated, egotistical, and ready to change the world. |
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| Hot Mikado |
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Drury Lane- Oakbrook |
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| Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, disguises himself and seeks out the lovely Yum-Yum, only to discover that she is to marry Koko, the Lord High executioner. Koko is required by the Mikado to execute one person within the month, and Nanki-Poo offers himself up as long as he can spend one month married to Yum-Yum. What ensues is a highly amusing web of discoveries and circumstances that make the comedic performance one for the whole family to enjoy. |
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| The Invasion of Skokie |
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Chicago Dramatists |
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| It's 1978 and neo-Nazis are about to march on Skokie, Illinois. What better time for a nice gentile boy to go to Skokie to ask a Jewish family for their daughter’s hand in marriage - or maybe not. Steven Peterson is a current Network Playwright and past Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. |
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| Jailbait |
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Profiles Theatre |
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| Through the course of one dizzying night at a club, Jailbait follows the parallel stories of two fifteen-year-old girls, desperate to grow up, and two thirty-something men who are looking to be twenty-one again. High-school sophomores Claire and Emmy make a game of posing as college students in order to meet older men. Brash bachelor Mark thinks a night out with attractive girls will be just what his friend Robert needs to recover from his recent breakup. When this unlikely foursome collides, they discover some surprising and dangerous compatibilities. Smart, funny, and disturbing, Jailbait asks the question: When do you really become an adult? |
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| The Last Daughter of Oedipus |
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Babes With Blades at
Lincoln Square Theater |
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| Follow Ismene, sole surviving child of Oedipus and Jocasta, as she fights to break the curse that devastated her family and now threatens to destroy Thebes. Inspired by the Oedipus plays of Sophocles, BWB’s first Greek adventure features sword and shield, staff, and unarmed combat as well as movement and voice work. |
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| Late Nite Catechism |
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Royal George Theatre |
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| Join the class in this interactive comedy, now in its 13th year, as Sister teaches her own brand of religious logic. |
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| Lookingglass Alice |
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Lookingglass Theatre |
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| Adapted by Ensemble Member and Artistic Director David Catlin from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lookingglass Alice is a muscular, acrobatic, and dizzyingly playful show for all ages. This Alice falls, floats, flies, defies gravity and the rules of logic during her wonderland journey through the looking glass to become a queen. With a juggling Mad Hatter, a precariously balancing Humpty Dumpty, and a bumbling Knight who invents his way into Alice’s heart, Lookingglass Alice revisits the stories that inspired the founding of Lookingglass Theatre Company twenty years ago. |
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| Lovers |
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City Lit Theater |
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| Lovers is a play in two parts, “Winners” and “Losers.” “Winners” is a lyrical depiction of the young love of two teenagers who meet to study, but instead reveal to each other their hopes, fears and dreams. “Losers” is a farcical look at a middle aged couple’s attempt to deal with an invalid mother who uses her saintliness as a weapon. Written in 1967, the play was Friel’s second international success. Its last Chicago production was in 1988, at the old Chicago Cooperative Stage. |
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| Low Pay? Don't Pay! |
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Piccolo Theatre |
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| Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters into their own hands and "liberate" some items from the local grocery store. Keen to hide their light-fingered antics from their hot-headed husbands, Giovanni and Luigi - not to mention the police - the women are forced to resort to more and more inventive hiding places, as slapstick confusion leads to rollicking chaos. |
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| Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament |
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Medieval Times Schaumburg Castle |
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| Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain. |
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| A Memory of Two Mondays |
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The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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| Set in a 1930s Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse with a strong cast of richly detailed characters, Miller draws on his own personal experience to explore the monotonous struggle to make a living and the dreams of a young man yearning for a college education in the midst of people stumbling through life in a haze of hopelessness and despondency.
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| Midlife Joyride |
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Gorilla Tango Theatre |
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| Midlife Joyride takes a skewed, hilarious look at the crap that arises when men and women move into the second half of life: bald spots, hot flashes, daydream stares, big guts, fast cars, sex drives on life support and “cougar” attacks. What might be diagnosed as a general loss of mind, body and sometimes soul. |
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| Million Dollar Quartet |
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Dee Gee Theatricals & John Cossette Productions at
Apollo Theater |
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| On December 4, 1956, an auspicious twist of fate brought together Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. The place was Sun Records’ storefront studio in Memphis. The man who made it happen was the “Father of Rock-n-Roll,” Sam Phillips, who discovered them all. The four legends-to-be united for the only time in their careers for an impromptu recording session that embodied the birth of rock ‘n’ roll and has come to be known as one of the greatest rock jam sessions of all time.
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with Gigi Pritzker who co-produced Million Dollar Quartet.
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| Much Ado About Nothing |
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Chicago dell'Arte at
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| This Fall, the Bard's classic tale gets a dose of Chicago dell'Arte. Using the high energy, larger than life characters, and slapstick style of their previous shows, as well as a dash of humanity...Chicago dell'Arte has created a memorable show with something for everyone. |
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| The People's Drum Circle Pandora |
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Quest Theatre Ensemble |
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| One terrible day Pandora opened a forbidden box to reveal pain, suffering, and sorrow on the earth, and now Pandora is about to open the box again. What will she find inside? Experience the hopeful pageantry of Quest Theatre Ensemble’s newest production The People’s Drum Circle Pandora featuring live music, incredible puppetry and a drum circle featuring you, the audience! |
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| Put the Nuns in Charge |
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Royal George Theatre |
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| Put the Nuns in Charge! In this sequel to the hit comedy, Late Nite Catechism, Sister is back in the classroom, but this time she's taking on everything from cell phones to celebrities. This is the funniest course in behavior you'll every take.
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| The Real Inspector Hound |
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Signal Ensemble Theatre |
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| Theatre critics Moon and Birdboot attend the premiere of a new murder mystery and are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. As Moon laments his status as a second-string reviewer, and Birdboot considers adultery with one of the shows actresses, they soon find themselves inside the play-within-a-play, implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. In a hilarious send-up of Agatha Christie-style melodrama, Stoppard’s 1968 work is just as rooted in absurdism as it is in satire. Kicking off Signal’s “Season of Comedy,” this play set in the theater will appropriately open Signal’s new performance space. |
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