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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
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre |
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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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| Rollin' Outta Here Naked: A Big Lebowski Burlesque |
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Vaudezilla at
The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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| "Rollin' Outta Here Naked: A Big Lebowski Burlesque" is a nationally-recognized, critically-acclaimed, box-office smash hit that will be remounting in September 2010. Don’t be out of your element! Join Vaudezilla Productions for an epic variety show featuring your favorite Bums, Achievers, and What-Have-You from the classic Coen Brothers film.
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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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Watch a video preview of Supernatural Chicago
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| That's Weird, Grandma |
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Barrel Of Monkeys at
Neo-Futurists |
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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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| Theories of the Sun |
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Sideshow Theatre Company at
Theater Wit |
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| It’s 1963 and in a remote French hotel Barbara and Elizabeth Sweeny (an American mother and daughter) undergo some peculiar medical testing by a brilliant and eccentric doctor who specializes in unusual diseases. Accompanied by a young Tom Stoppard, a whiskey-fueled Tennessee Williams, and the mysterious scholar Mr. Asher, Elizabeth seeks to understand and cure her terrifying illness. Part mystery and part science fiction, this dazzling play's twists and turns will keep you guessing until the very end. |
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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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Neo-Futurists |
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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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| Under America |
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Mortar Theatre Company at
Athenaeum Theatre |
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| Her job threatened, a reporter from Chicago’s Gold Coast must write a series on public housing, gentrification, and the prison industry. But when she moves into the infamous Cabrini Green projects, she tries to help with the legal problems of a young man willing to get out by any means necessary. In the end, they both find themselves lost in the tunnels that seem to connect everything Under America. |
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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
Irish American Heritage Center |
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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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| Where's My Money? |
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Riverfront Playhouse |
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| Marriage and its discontents are the subject of Where's My Money? When Celeste, an out-of-work actor who's cheating on her boyfriend with a married man, runs into Natalie, whom she hasn't seen in years, the two have some catching up to do. Natalie, an accountant married to a lawyer, gives the impression of being very together and does not approve of Celeste's lifestyle. "I don't know any other way to put this," she tells her. "You're a whore.” But Natalie's life is not nearly as together as it appears. In fact, her marriage with Henry is hanging by a thread, and she's being visited by the ghost of an ex-boyfriend who claims she owes him money. Meanwhile, it turns out that the married man Celeste is having an affair with is Henry's idol, Sidney, a divorce lawyer with a pet theory that one partner in every marriage will be unfaithful, so it might as well be you. |
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