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TimeLine Theatre Company |
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| Frost/Nixon takes audiences inside the real-life 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. It has been three years since Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. The Watergate scandal is still on the minds of many, but the former commander-in-chief has yet to break his silence about his role in those events. Now Nixon has agreed to be interviewed by the up-and-coming British broadcaster David Frost. Behind-the-scenes it’s a battle of egos for the upper hand in controlling history, but as the cameras roll, the world is riveted by a remarkably honest exchange between one man who has lost everything and another with everything to gain. |
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| Godspell |
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Provision Theater Company |
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| A celebration of worldwide community, packed with hit songs and irresistible goodwill, GODSPELL is one of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes of all time, running for over 2,600 performances. The upbeat retelling of biblical parables is punctuated and amplified by a playful and poignant score by Stephen Schwartz (WICKED). Popular tunes like the international hit “Day by Day,” “Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord,” “All Good Gifts,” “Turn Back, O Man” and “By My Side” share messages of kindness, tolerance and love. |
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| 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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| The Irrelevant Adventures of Jarvis McFadden |
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American Demigods at
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| Jarvis McFadden is an eccentric but aimless 19 year old who has passed on college to stay home with his widowed mother and two younger siblings. Until one fateful night, when his friends are bullied at a party, he realizes his true calling, to fight crime on the streets of his hometown as a hard boiled private detective. There’s just one problem…he lives in a peaceful, happy suburb with no crime to fight. Like a modern day Don Quixote, Jarvis is on a quest to find monsters to battle, real or imagined. |
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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
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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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| 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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