| The Magic Parlour |
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The House Theatre of Chicago at
The Palmer House Hilton Hotel |
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| The performance contains some of his favorite pieces of magic, alongside some brand new routines in an hour-long show packed with mind-reading, levitations, escapes, and a ridiculous new adaptation of the classic “Card Stab” during which Watkins climbs inside of a fully inflated 7 foot balloon! |
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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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| Million Dollar Quartet |
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Apollo Theater |
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| MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is the smash-hit musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley for the first and only time. That legendary night is brought to life in this thrilling musical which features a score of hits including "Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire," "Walk the Line," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Hound Dog" and more. Don't miss your chance to be a fly on the wall of fame... at MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET! |
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| Mine |
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The Gift Theatre |
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| New mother Mari has a devoted husband, a reassuring midwife and a mom who can't wait to babysit. But she can't shake the feeling that there's something strange about her newborn daughter. Chicago's The Gift Theatre Company births a world of new motherhood, where doubt and certainty blur, in the Chicago premiere of Laura Marks' thrilling, haunting and terrifying Mine, directed by Marti Lyons. |
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| The Miss Neo Pageant |
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Neo-Futurists |
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| The Miss Neo Pageant smashes the traditional American beauty pageant form with real stories of fully-grown girls stumbling into womanhood. The delightfully offbeat contestants walk the fine line between female rivalry and alliance, vying to become fully-realized adults in a world without winners. |
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| Much Ado About Nothing |
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Fury Theatre at
Berger Park Coach House |
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Sigh no more, ladies! Much Ado is a playful romp of deceptive matchmaking, rumors and one of Shakespeare's most recognizable songs! Can Beatrice, Benedick, Hero and Claudio find everlasting happiness in Messina? Or will Don John, the Prince's half brother, stir up irreparable and malicious mischief? Directed full of life and action in the Fury Theatre style and staged on the green at the historic Berger Park Cultural Center, the Bard's characters will sing, swoon, swagger and have audiences young and old singing "Hey nonny nonny!"
*The play is presented on the lawn of Berger Park - next to the Coach House. |
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| Othello: The Remix |
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater |
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| This fresh urban take on Shakespeare's tragedy returns home for a limited engagement on the heels of an acclaimed world premiere at Shakespeare's Globe in London, and wildly successful tours to Germany and Edinburgh. The CST-commissioned hip-hop adaptation of Othello is spun out and lyrically rewritten over original beats by The Q Brothers-America's leading re-interpreters of Shakespeare through hip-hop (Funk It Up About Nothin', The Bomb-itty of Errors). Whether you're looking for a rockin' night of rhythm and rhyme or a new way to think about Shakespeare, Othello: The Remix delivers an intense, high energy spin like no other. |
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| Par for the Corpse |
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Oil Lamp Theater |
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| Comedy and suspense collide in this whodunit from playwright Jack Sharkey, performed at the intimate Oil Lamp Theater. In Par for the Corpse, writer Alexandra Ellis lives in an isolated Catskill retreat with Gert, her housekeeper and factotum. When Alexandra invites a group of friends to her home for dinner one wintry evening, a blizzard unexpectedly strands the group -- but the blizzard soon proves to be the least of their problems. The dinner party takes a dark and murderous turn when one of the guests is poisoned and the group quickly realizes they have a killer in their midst. Soon everyone, even the hostess, becomes a suspect. Murky motives are revealed and unexpected plot twists play out as the hostess and her guests examine clues and make deductions in an effort to solve the crime. |
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| The Pianist of Willesden Lane |
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Royal George Theatre |
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| Set in Vienna in 1938 and London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true story of noted pianist and author Mona Golabek's mother, Lisa Jura. As a young Jewish pianist, Lisa dreams of a concert debut at the storied Musikverein concert hall. When Lisa is swept up in the Kindertransport to London in an attempt to protect her from the Nazi regime, everything about her life is upended -- except her love of music. Golabek performs some of the world's most beloved piano music in this poignant tribute to her mother's experience in wartime Europe. Adapted and directed by local favorite Hershey Felder, The Pianist of Willesden Lane is a riveting tale of hope that is a powerful testament to how music can help us survive through the darkest of times. |
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| The Pride |
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About Face Theatre at
Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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| Two story lines, fifty years apart. Set in London, Alexi Kaye Campbell's time-shifting play THE PRIDE maps the progression of the gay rights movement from the repression of the fifties to the freedom of today through the fate of two twisted love triangles. In 1958, Philip is married to Sylvia but in love with Oliver. In 2008, Oliver is addicted to public sex with strangers, so Philip leaves him. Sylvia has to pick up the pieces. THE PRIDE is a sharp, witty portrait of urban gay couples and the punishing consequences of liberation. |
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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! is a comedy by Vicki Quade and the sequel to Chicago's longest running religious comedy, Late Nite Catechism. Set in the familiar atmosphere of a Catholic classroom, the one woman show features Mother Superior and her hilarious commentary on modern sin. The show is a smart examination of the current state of the world and a discreet critique of the obscurities of the Catholic Church. Filled with improvisation and audience interaction, Put the Nuns in Charge! is a sharp comedy about one nun's take on the Seven Deadly Sins. It’s sure to spark memories for anyone who willingly or unwillingly attended Catholic school.
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| Reverb |
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Redtwist Theatre |
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| Jeff-Award winning director, Jonathan Berry, directs the Chicago premiere of Reverb, the story of a rising young musician and his girlfriend/muse as they try to clear the decks of their own dysfunctional pasts, while the reverberations keep these soulmates locked in a vicious maze of loving tenderness and mortal combat. |
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| Richard III |
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Wayward Productions at
The Den Theatre |
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| Wayward Productions immerses itself in the underworld of a motorcycle gang to create an environmental reinterpretation of this classic Shakespearean Tragi-History. Wayward's "royal family" is The Warlocks Motorcycle Club and their "castle"-London's bar in late 1960's Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Directed by Mary Arrchie Theatre's Producing Director Carlo Lorenzo Garcia (Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Red Light Winter) Richard III will be a fourth wall demolishing theatrical experience for both outlaws and Shakespeare purists. |
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| The Second City Guide to the Opera |
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Lyric Opera |
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| Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Second City-hot on the heels of their hugely successful, sold-out January 5 collaboration, The Second City Guide to the Opera-will present a run of shows at the Civic Opera House, with audience members seated onstage. |
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| Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music |
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First Folio Theatre |
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| Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music is a powerful story of love, romance, and adventure. Falsely accused of betraying her lover, Imogen must flee to the hills to escape her death. Imogen disguises herself as a man and with the help of the shepherd Belarius and his two sons, she must prove her honesty and chastity, restore her good name, and defeat her evil stepmother. |
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| Slaughter City |
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Prop Theatre |
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| From the brilliant imagination and fiery conscience of playwright Naomi Wallace comes Slaughter City, her harrowing and illuminating play now staged by Prop Theater Group. Plunge head-first into the bloody world of "Slaughter City," a slaughterhouse where the workplace politics are almost as nasty as the work itself. Tensions are already running high when the mysterious Cod crosses the picket-line to work alongside Roach, Maggot and Brandon. It's not long before union machinations, racial tensions and transgressive sexuality are all on the chopping block in this tale of moral butchery. A prescient meditation on industrial exploitation at any point history -- whether it's a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 or at the Dhaka garment factory in 2013 -- Slaughter City demonstrates how hard a "hard day's work" can truly be. |
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| Smokey Joe's Cafe |
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Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre at
Royal George Theatre |
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| Come share the evening with Smokey Joe and a cast of 9 in a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, from rock-and-roll to rhythm and blues, from legendary songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The soundtrack, including "Stand by Me," won the Grammy in 1996. |
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