| The Philadelphia Story |
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Circle Theatre |
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| Divorcee Tracy Lord is engaged to a successful young snob. Her brother invites a gossip columnist to invade her home to divert attention from their father's romance with a Broadway dancer. At a pre-wedding party, worlds collide as Tracy, her ex-husband, the reporter, the new fiancé and the eccentric family all land in the same spot at once. Twists and turns are never far off as this group of rich, spoiled brats careens from one scheme to the next. In today’s age of TMZ and Perez Hilton, this fame-obsessed comedy seems more relevant than ever. |
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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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| Red Herring |
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Noble Fool Theatricals |
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| Three love stories, a murder mystery, and a nuclear espionage...oh my! It's 1952: America's on the verge of the H-bomb, Dwight Eisenhower's on the campaign trail, and I Love Lucy's on Monday nights. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy's daughter just got engaged to a Soviet spy, and Boston detective Maggie Pelletier has to find out who dumped the dead guy in the Harbor-or else lose out on a honeymoon in Havana. A blunt-nosed, sharp-eyed look at love and tying (and untying, and retying) the knot. Rating: PG-13 due to mature situations and language |
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| Rod Blagojevich Superstar |
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The Second City at
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| The Legendary Second City comes to Metropolis for a limited engagement run of their mega-hit musical comedy revue, Rod Blagojevich Superstar. It’s a monumentally hilarious comedy about the rise and fall of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, hair and all. The now famous show was featured on NPR, Good Morning America and ABC and NBC Nightly News and was nearly sold out in Chicago for seven months. Laugh out loud at this comedic gem as they sharply skewer Illinois’ cast of political characters, especially the most well-coiffed Illinois Governor ever. Don’t miss this wickedly funny comedy, playing only at Metropolis. |
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Watch a video preview of Rod Blagojevich Superstar!
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| Shrek The Musical |
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Cadillac Palace Theatre |
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| Shrek The Musical tells the story of a swamp-dwelling ogre who goes on a life-changing adventure to reclaim the deed to his land. Joined by a wise-cracking donkey, this unlikely hero fights a fearsome dragon, rescues a feisty princess and learns that real friendship and true love aren't only found in fairy tales. |
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| Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies |
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Second City |
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| In the blockbuster of human life, we all know the outcome – no spoiler alert needed. In spite of this inevitable ending, we continue to live our lives, find joy and understand the world around us. Sometimes our path leads us to save the world and sometimes our path is to simply remind our husband where they left their keys – it's what you make of it and how you deal with it that matters. From cold feet on your wedding day to the comfort of viewing the comic misadventures of others on Reality TV, Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies reminds us that in the end, we are all in this together. |
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| Suicide, Incorporated |
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The Gift Theatre |
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| It's been a tough week at work. Profits are down, lawsuits are up, and you totally forgot to bring something to the staff potluck. But none of that is even a minor concern compared to this: your boss is onto you. He's begun to suspect the truth, that you're trying to ruin the company by keeping its clients alive.
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with Andrew Hinderaker, Jonathan Berry and Michael Patrick Thornton as they talk about Suicide Incorporated
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| Sunday School Cinema |
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Royal George Theatre |
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| Good movie? Bad movie? Condemned movie? If you're confused, ask Sister. She knows the difference. In this comedy, Sister reviews movies and gives her own version of thumbs up and thumbs down, using her all-present rule. You'll never see films the same way again! |
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| Super Happy Fun Show |
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Cornservatory |
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| Due to popular demand the Super Happy Fun Show has brought back!! So join Corn Productions as they are super happy to bring you the most fun of all late-night improv: the aptly-named Super Happy Fun Show. |
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| Supernatural Chicago |
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Excalibur Nightclub |
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| "Is it real? Or isn't it?," marvels the Chicago Tribune. So will you, when you experience this funny and slightly creepy one-man show by Neil Tobin, Necromancer that explores the true stories of Chicago's paranormal past, and brings them to life for the audience through interactive demonstrations of psychic magic. It all takes place in the landmark (and reputedly haunted) Excalibur nightclub. Now in its fourth year of weekly performances. |
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| That's Weird, Grandma |
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Barrel Of Monkeys at
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| An assortment of scenes and songs created by Chicago Public School students and produced by actors, musicians, comedians and playwrights. The hour-long show changes each week, based on audience votes. |
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| Tommy Gun's Garage |
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Tommy Gun's Garage |
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| The restaurant-cabaret presents a Roaring 20s-themed musical comedy revue in a speakeasy seting, with dining and drinking integrated into the show. |
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| Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind |
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| Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is the theater's signature show and one of the longest-running shows in Chicago. A one-hour blitz of 30 extremely brief plays, it changes every week as ensemble members add new plays. |
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| True Twilight: A Glee Club Musical |
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Gorilla Tango Theatre |
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| Vamps! Wolves! Gleeks! Suckie Stickhouse just moved to Wiccan Park and is already torn between two men: Ted, the undead man of her dreams, and Shirts on the Ground, the shape changing hottie. And how will Rachel Sharpey feel when Suckie auditions for the new musical? I'm sure coach Su will have an opinion. An over the top musical parody you don't want your children to see that will leave you singing "Don't Stop Bleeding!” |
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| The Variety Show - A Drinking Game Performance |
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Cornservatory |
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| We start the show with a joke off or what we like to call “a circle joke”…where the entire cast competes to tell the best topical joke, with the loser (by audience vote) becoming the Drinking Dunce – still having to perform but wearing the Drinking Dunce Outfit and carrying the Drinking Dunce Mug and drinking with audience all night. We then announce the drinking games for the evening and proceed into the variety show and drinking game madness. Hilarious Sketches! Fire Eaters! Amazing Improv! Gospel Choirs! Chainsaw Jugglers! The show changes each week! There are audience participation games! You will be entertained and drunk…or drunk and entertained…which ever you prefer! |
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| The Weir |
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Seanachaí Theatre Company at
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| The Weir, a tale of lonely characters, reveals how the human need to be heard connects souls through storytelling. An enigmatic young woman from Dublin finds herself the center of attention at a local pub. Pints in hand, the local barflies recount ghostly yarns of the supernatural to impress and entertain her, but it is the visitor herself who relates the most unsettling story of all. |
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