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| Bard Fiction |
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| The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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Commedia Beauregard Chicago perform an unholy mash-up of William Shakespeare and Quentin Tarantino. Bard Fiction is an Elizabethan retelling of Pulp Fiction, an electrifying tale of honor, betrayal and foot rubs. The story follows the seedy characters of Tarantino's opus, now part of London's underworld, in seemingly disparate plotlines that merge in unexpected ways. The play was first presented in the Minnesota Fringe Festival as a single one-hour version by Tedious Brief Productions. Now the show has been expanded to be a full-length play that is being directed by Christopher O. Kidder for Commedia Beauregard, and features the music of Il Troubadore (who scored the 2011 production of A Klingon Christmas Carol).
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| Blizzard '67 |
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| Chicago Dramatists |
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Jon Stienhagen’s Blizzard ’67 takes us to the fast-paced, high-pressured, glamorous Loop of the late 1960s when ambitious, arrogant businessmen fought ruthlessly for power and respect. Lanfield, Henkin, Emery, and Bell spend their work days competing mercilessly with each other but when they find themselves trapped in the most fearsome blizzard Chicago has ever known, it is their survival, rather than promotion, on the line. If they don’t work together and overcome their corporate rivalries, they’ll be left out in the cold. For the 45th anniversary of the infamous blizzard that shut down Chicago for days, an ensemble of four actors will recreate that chilling Chicago memory and the surrounding frenzy.
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| Blue Man Group |
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| Briar Street Theatre |
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Blue Man Group is best known for its award-winning theatrical productions which critics have described as "ground-breaking," "hilarious," "visually stunning" and "musically powerful." These performances feature three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percussive music, art, science and vaudeville into a form of entertainment that is like nothing else.
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| Clutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out |
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| The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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Clutter is based on the compelling true story of the wealthy, reclusive Collyer brothers who became hoarders in their Fifth Avenue mansion in 1920s Harlem. After years of compulsive collecting, the brothers have become notorious shut-ins in their aristocratic New York neighborhood. Langley Collyer is missing and Homer Collyer is found dead amongst floor-to-ceiling piles of newspapers, books, and junk. The police investigating the case, two brothers with a strained relationship mirroring that of the Collyers, are simultaneously making discoveries about themselves. Narrated by the brothers and the police investigating the bizarre case, this darkly fascinating tale is a poignant and profound exploration of human behavior.
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| Come On! We're All Adults! |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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Come On! We’re All Adults! is a collection of solo pieces by Patrick Raynor, who was recently featured at the TBS Just For Laughs Festival in Alone: Chicago’s Best Solo Acts. Every hilarious scene is grounded, earnest, and rich in detail. Raynor shows off his acting chops by patiently investing in the reality of each character’s world. Whether its a hermit emerging from the wilderness to re-enter society, a love-struck South Dakotan imploring his girlfriend not to leave on that plane to New York, or an arsonist/amateur ornithologist enthusiastically leading the bird-watching club at his maximum security prison, Raynor treats every absurdity with respect. With direction by Joe Avella (Teenager of the Year), Come On! We’re All Adults! is subtly deranged solo performance not to be missed!
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| Dark Play or Stories for Boys |
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| Flat Iron Arts Building |
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"Dark Play or Stories for Boys" follows a teenage boy's foray into the virtual world. His fictional internet identity begins as a harmless game, but the game takes on a frightening reality when real emotion overtakes his online relationship. When Nick's virtual world collides with the real world, his fantasies of love, intimacy, obsession and betrayal spiral into consequences that lead him to the brink of death.
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| Dating Walter Dante |
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| Raven Theatre |
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His first wife may or may not have died accidentally. His second wife is missing.The police watch him around the clock. Walter Dante isn't exactly a prize catch.Which is why Laura Bakersfield shocks her friends when they find out she's dating Walter Dante!
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| Death and Harry Houdini |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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Artistic Director Nathan Allen returns to his very first script having spent the last decade developing The House’s voice. The House’s original production featured magic, music, dance, and film. Now Allen, along with The House’s incredibly diverse ensemble of artists, bring their experience in creating ensemble theater and devising story to the life of history’s greatest magician, while reaching deep into its bag of tricks to create an altogether new theatrical event.
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| Disgraced |
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| American Theatre Company |
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New York. Today. A Muslim-American lawyer is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while he distances himself from his cultural roots. At the moment of achieving his life-long ambitions, he falls victim to professional and personal betrayals that manifest in one of the most explosive and controversial scenes ever written for the theater. American Theater Company teams up with the Broadway producers of Urinetown and last season’s A View From the Bridge to premiere Ayad Akhtar's examination of a modern Muslim-American struggling to define his identity.
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| Doubt |
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| No Exit Cafe |
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"What do you do when you're not sure?" Father Flynn asks in the opening line of this drama set in 1964 in a Catholic grade school in the Bronx. His colleague, Sister Aloysius, suspects him of sexual misconduct with the school's first African American student. She faces a gravely drastic decision: openly accuse a higher-up without firm evidence, or bury her suspicions and leave room for doubt. Doubt offers an honest and timely examination of the ambiguous line between gossip and truth, justice and compassion, right and wrong, certainty and doubt.
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| The Doyle & Debbie Show |
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| Royal George Theatre |
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Doyle Mayfield, an old-guard country star with a handful of hits back in the 70s and 80s, is reviving his career thirty years, four wives, and three Debbies later. The new Debbie, a single mother with three children, sees this lovable lothario as her last chance to make it big in Nashville – but she also questions hitching her star to this loose cannon.
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| Enron |
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| TimeLine Theatre Company |
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One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a dynamic
new theatrical event that was a sold-out sensation in London. Crafted as
sprawling tragedy mixed with savage comedy, Enron follows a group of
ambitious men and women through the breathtaking rush of greed and fraud that led to a legendary financial collapse. Along the way we gain disturbing insight into the backroom secrets of big business and confront a world where appearance has little relation to reality.
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| The Foreigner |
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| Provision Theater Company |
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Larry Shue's hilarious farce, Charlie Baker - a proof reader by day and a boring husband by night - adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn’t understand English. When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers an adventurous extrovert within himself.
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| The Ghost is Here |
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| Storefront Theater |
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With flair and panache, con-artist Oba – played by returning Vitalist actor Jamie Vann – develops an increasingly absurd scheme whereby war-weary and financially stressed villagers sell him pictures of their dead, only to be charged exorbitant prices when they seek to retrieve them. The wrinkle in the racket is the “agent” who represents the ghosts. Eventually, the prospect of sellers’ remorse prompts a stampede on the market, thereby seeming to assure Oba’s fortune in the best wheeler-dealer, robber-baron tradition.
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| The Gingerbread House |
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| Red Tape Theatre - St. Peter's Episcopal Church |
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What would you give to live the life of your dreams? What if there was no one to stop you? How far could you go and still be able to sleep at night? Brian is on the fast track to a successful career but one thing is weighing him down: his children. Together with his wife Stacey and a mysterious broker named Marco, the couple hatch a plan to trade their kids for another chance at happiness and a rekindled sex life. But when doubts about the kids’ fate start to haunt Stacey, how long can their newly found happiness last? Red Tape Artistic Director James D. Palmer teams up with an all ensemble cast to mount this dark, comic parable from the author of A Brief History of Helen of Troy.
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| The Girl in the Yellow Dress |
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| Next Theatre Company |
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South African dramatist Craig Higginsonʼs tour de force new play pairs dark, sexually charged psychological drama with uncompromising wit. Set in contemporary Paris, this gripping new play explores the tense relationships of class, race and language between Celia, a beautiful young white English teacher and Pierre, her French-Congolese pupil.
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| The Giver |
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| Adventure Stage Chicago |
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Jonas lives in a carefully constructed community of “sameness,” where individuality is discouraged and feelings like pain, fear, and love do not exist. When Jonas turns 12 and begins training with The Giver, he discovers the contradictions of his supposedly perfect world and grows determined to regain power over his own destiny. Based on the beloved Newbery Medal-winning novel by Lois Lowry, this remarkable story is recommended for ages 9 and up.
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| Gypsy |
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| Drury Lane- Oakbrook |
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A triumphant story of the complex bond between a mother and daughter, GYPSY is based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee and has a soaring score including Let Me Entertain You, Some People, and Everything’s Coming Up Roses.
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| He Who |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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How do four brave and exhausted women share the burden of one grotesquely enormous baby? They struggle to nurture and restrain the giant darling. But the baby has an existential crisis, which sparks a fight for control. His tyrannical attempts to pit the women against each other ultimately test the limits of love. Darkly poetic and arresting, He Who brings together live performers, puppets and original music for an intimate audience experience. Master puppeteer Michael Montenegro conceives and directs this world premiere.
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| Hit the Wall |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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It’s the summer of ’69 and the death of music icon Judy Garland has emboldened her gay followers. A routine police raid on an underground Greenwich Village hotspot erupts in to a full-scale riot, the impetus of the modern gay rights movement. That’s the well-known, oft-rehearsed myth of Stonewall, anyhow. Smash that myth against the vivid theatrical imagination of playwright Ike Holter, add a howling live rock ‘n roll band, and you get the world premiere play, Hit the Wall. Remixing this historic confrontation reveals ten unlikely revolutionaries, caught in the turmoil and fighting to claim “I was there.”
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| Hunger |
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| Lifeline Theatre |
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During the 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad, Russian botanist Ilya is charged with protecting a cache of valuable seeds for future generations. As the weeks turn to months and food grows scarce, Ilya and his co-workers are torn between their lives’ work, the dictates of a brutal regime, and the harsh realities of survival in a time of war. Consumed by innumerable hungers and haunted by memories of happier days, Ilya must choose whether to preserve his life or protect his ideals. A powerful drama of deprivation and loss, in a world premiere adaptation. Based on the 2003 debut novel by American author and journalist Elise Blackwell (The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, An Unfinished Score).
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| Jack's Precious Moment |
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| Chemically Imbalanced Theater |
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After Bib’s twin brother Jack is brutally killed by Muslim fundamentalists in Iraq, he begins (along with his father and Jack’s widow) trying to pick up the pieces; but his own fundamentalist Christian beliefs get in the way of making sense of senseless tragedy. The loss of a life leads to a loss of faith, and ultimately to a loss of identity. Maybe finding peace is as simple as a journey to the Precious Moments Inspiration Park, peppered along the way with odd haikus and a philosophical carny. Probably not, though.
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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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| A Lesson Before Dying |
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| Lincoln Square Theater |
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Bayonne, Louisiana, 1948 – Jefferson is a young black man sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit. Grant Wiggins is a local black teacher indebted to those who sent him to college. When Wiggins is enlisted to teach Jefferson to face his death with dignity, both men must re-examine what it means to be a human being. By Romulus Linney; based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.
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| The Magic Parlour |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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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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| Man Boobs |
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| Mary's Attic |
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Christopher, veteran of the New York International Fringe Festival, conjures up Spence and Marty, two extraordinary men with very ordinary desires who expose much more to each other than their bodies as they strive for meaningful connection.
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| Million Dollar Quartet |
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| 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.
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| Motion |
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| Signal Ensemble Theatre |
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How hard can it be for two organizations to split a nine-billion dollar pie? Impossible, apparently. Drew is a hotshot agent hell bent on making his blue-chip but troubled client the number one pick in the pro football draft, until the team that owns the pick hires his ex-wife to rebuild the long-suffering franchise. Obstacles surmount as Drew angles to get the best possible deal for his client, but does any of it matter when labor discord threatens the very existence of the game? From the writer of Signal’s hit jukebox musical “Aftermath.”
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| A Number |
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| The Building Stage |
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A man questions his father about the possible existence of another estranged son, and the questions opens up a series of events that neither men could ever have expected. Penned by one of the world’s most uncompromising playwrights, Caryl Churchill’s A Number is a beguiling hour-long psychological thriller that blends topical scientific speculation with a stunning portrait of the relationship between fathers and their sons.
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| Oohrah! |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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Surprised by her husband’s early return from a tour in Iraq, Sara is unprepared for the complications of his re-entry into civilian life. Tension simmers around their gun-obsessed teenage daughter, Sara’s oddball live-in sister Abby, and Abby’s newest infatuation – a sexy, young Marine who’s keeping a secret. Oohrah! turns a comic eye to a homecoming gone awry.
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| Penelope |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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On a sun-scorched island off the coast of Greece, beautiful Penelope awaits the return of her husband from war. Beneath her window, four Speedo-clad men camp in an empty swimming pool, a cock-eyed internment where both provisions and time are running low. Locked in a do-or-die competition to win Penelope’s love, they preen and posture and connive in a last ditch effort to cheat a grisly fate. Penelope, the newest play by powerhouse Irish playwright Enda Walsh, is an eloquent, wildly funny riff on life, love and the war at home.
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| Peter Pan's Shadow Part One: Neverland |
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| Dream Theatre |
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Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, and Peter's younger sister set out on a harrowing adventure that will result in the birth of Neverland, the accidental creation of Peter's shadow, and the appearance of a fearsome new enemy on the horizon: Captain James Hook.
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| Punk Rock |
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| Theater Wit |
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Punk Rock is Simon Stephens most successful play to date and was a major hit for the Lyric Hammersmith in London. Based on the playwright's experience as a teacher, this play explores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. Contemporary and unnerving the story explores the pressures of teenage life as as group of educated, intelligent young people begin to plan for college and the rest of their lives with the step-by-step, dislocated, latent violence simmering under the surface of success revealed.
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| Sirens |
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| Citadel Theatre Company |
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The romantic comedy tells about a husband and wife, and the hit love song he wrote for her whose proceeds they lived off for the next 25 years. But when Sam’s creative stagnation and memories of passionate youth drive him to Facebook to seek a new muse, Rose decides it’s time for the togetherness of an anniversary cruise in the Greek Islands. Will the sublime music that Sam hears coming from Siren’s Island cause him to jump overboard on his marriage, or will it rekindle the flame?
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| Six Characters in Search of an Author |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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Six Characters in Search of an Author first premiered in 1921 to mixed, vivid reactions. Pirandello was one of the masters of the early twentieth century counter-movement to theatrical realism.
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| Superior Donuts |
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| Angel Island Theater |
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This delicious comedy-drama from Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County, tells the story of the off-beat friendship that grows between the cantankerous white owner of a struggling uptown Chicago donut shop -- a former radical who holds on tight to the past -- and his only employee, an ambitious African-American teenager who has big dreams for the place.
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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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| Time Stands Still |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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For photojournalist Sarah Goodwin, happiness is rushing from hotspot to hotspot capturing images of global conflict. When she barely survives a bomb blast in Iraq, she’s forced to return home into the care of her long-time lover, James. She’s caught off-guard by James’s desire for family and by the simple domestic life pursued by Richard, her editor, and his much younger girlfriend, Mandy. Pressed to consider settling into a “normal” life, Sarah must confront her addiction to the drama and chaos of war. From Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, Time Stands Still is a witty, intelligent look at what happens when ordinary life is refracted through the lens of war.
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| Tiny Fascists - A Boy Scout Musical |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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Going to Philmont Scout Ranch is every Boy Scout's dream. Dying, however, is not. Two troops embark on what's supposed to be a fun camping trip only to end up in the middle of a disastrous plane crash, facing danger at every turn. Created by a cast of eleven actual Eagle Scouts, “Tiny Fascists’” characters speak from real-life experience.
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| Unnecessary Farce |
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| First Folio Theatre |
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When Billie and Eric, a pair of inept police officers, set up a sting operation to trap the crooked mayor, nothing can go wrong---unless everything goes wrong! Set in a pair of matching hotel rooms, UNNECESSARY FARCE is filled with doors slamming, clothes flying, and bagpipes bleating, all of which adds up to an over-the-top tale of mix-ups and mayhem that’s laugh out loud funny from start to finish.
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| We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
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| City Lit Theater |
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Scandal forced the Blackwood sisters and their invalid uncle into seclusion from their rural New England community. The three remain happily isolated from the outside world until the unexpected arrival of an estranged relative, which forces them into a confrontation with everyone and everything they had sought to avoid in the first place. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a compelling exploration of provincialism, the dark side of family ties, and the supernatural.
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