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| Aladdin |
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| Chicago Shakespeare Theater |
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Take your family to a magical, far away land, and join Aladdin, Jasmine and the lovable Genie in this exciting musical adventure full of unforgettable songs based on the Academy Award-winning Disney film. Soar on a magic carpet with the jovial Genie, and tag along with our clever hero Aladdin as he fights for his true love, the beautiful Princess Jasmine. Oh, and there’s the kingdom of Agrabah to rescue from the villainous Jafar’s evil grasp, too. Featuring “A Whole New World” and “Friend Like Me,” Disney’s Aladdin will enchant audiences young and old alike. Recommended for ages 5 and up.
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| The Alcyone Festival |
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| Lincoln Square Theater |
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Each summer Halcyon Theatre produces The Alcyone Festival, celebrating female playwrights. Because female playwrights are horribly represented on stages across America, they created the Alcyone Festival to combat this directly, by celebrating the depth and breadth of women writers.
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| Altar Boyz |
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| Noble Fool Theater |
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Broadway's smash hit musical returns to Chicago! With angelic voices and divine dance moves, five small-town boys believe they're destined by God to speak the Holy Spirit through hip-hop. This charming Christian boy-band (with one nice Jewish boy) will alter your mind and raise your spirits as they look for their big break in New York while saving souls along the way. Destined to rock the masses of all denominations!
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| Bent |
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| The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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n 1934 Berlin on the eve of the Nazi incursion, Max, a grifter and his lover Rudy are recovering from a night of debauchery with a SA trooper. Two soldiers burst into the apartment and slit their guest's throat, beginning a nightmare odyssey through Nazi Germany. Ranked lower on the human scale than Jews, the men, as avowed homosexuals, flee. Desperate and on the run, Max asks his own "discreetly" homosexual Uncle Freddie for help as the older man offers little more than suggestions on how to live, as he does, practicing homosexuality on the side. Attempting their escape, Rudy is beaten to death as Horst, another homosexual prisoner, warns Max to deny his lover. Taken to a death camp at Dachau, Max and Horst branded with the "pink triangle", hope to survive with each other for comfort and courage.
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| Bombs Away! |
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| Mary's Attic |
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In BOMBS AWAY! Mishkin and his troupe of actors dare to present his collection against the wishes of the writers of the classic musicals and despite a stop order directive from a judge. Selections to be performed are “Krakatoa” which was the original island setting for South Pacific, “I Own A Nail Salon” from the rarely seen flash-forward ending of Miss Saigon, “Too Fat To Dance” trimmed from A Chorus Line, “I Shake Me Green Shillelagh” which at one point anchored Finian’s Rainbow, and the catchy “See Ya In Ikea” from Mamma Mia. And of course, very few people remember the title song “Bombs Away!” was Mother Abbess’ initial response to Maria’s question about how to handle the Nazi’s in Sound of Music.
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| Buried Child |
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| The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning “Buried Child” is a macabre look at an American Midwestern family with a dark, terrible secret; a secret which has all but destroyed the family. With its lower-class, sometimes humorous, recognizable characters and dialogue, “Buried Child” resembles the mid-century American realism and grotesquerie of Arthur Miller (“Death of a Salesman”) or Tennessee Williams (“A Streetcar Named Desire”). However, its roots in ritual and its approach to monumental, timeless themes of human suffering—incest, murder, deceit, and rebirth—resemble the destruction wreaked by the heroes of Greek tragedy.
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| Busman's Honeymoon |
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| Lifeline Theatre |
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| Wedding bells have finally rung for amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and novelist Harriet Vane! But their quiet, country honeymoon becomes a series of misadventures with exploding chimneys and unwanted guests, including a body found murdered in their own home. This inauspicious beginning begs the question: when life gets in the way, can love persevere?
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with adaptor Frances Limoncelli and actors Jenifer Tyler and Peter Greenberg as they discuss the technical challenges of staging a mystery novel and speaking Dorothy Sayers' brainy dialogue, and romance on (and off) stage.
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| Cloclo |
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| Chicago Center For Performing Arts |
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This hilarious spin-off of The Merry Widow follows the adventures of the ravishing Folies Bergére dancer Cloclo Moustache. Its mesmerizing waltzes, tangos and java dance numbers will have you singing and dancing in the aisles.
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| A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians |
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| Trap Door Theatre |
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A Couple of Poor, Polish Speaking Romanians is an hilarious and scathing critique of the relationship between class stratification and national identity. High on drugs, two young Poles set off on a road trip, holding up passing motorists and pretending to be a couple of poor, Polish-speaking Romanians. Told in part from their perspective and that of their xenophobic victims, what exactly happened on their two-day journey is as uncertain as the duo's true identities. Having assumed the guise of poverty-stricken aliens, the pair become the victims of their own fiction as they emerge from their drug high into a cold and uncooperative reality.
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| The Cousins Grimm |
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| Bailiwick Repertory |
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The Cousins Grimm is an original new musical that reworks the timeless Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm into contemporary urban fables filled with lesbian and gay characters. These stories of love and death, friendship and betrayal, and families of all kinds are beautifully interwoven with edgy humor and memorable songs.
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| Dead Wrong |
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| Prop Theatre |
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The victims: A dead woman. A missing girl. The suspects: A famed film director. A recently released mental patient. Detectives Mac and Chooch are on the case. The only trouble is, are they getting closer to a killer or are all their leads ending up dead wrong? The Factory Theater presents a tale of cops and killers in the city of Chicago that is not for the squeamish.
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| Earth: TTFN?! |
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| The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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Earth is an experiment that has failed in this sci-fi, Mel Brooks style, current events inspired comedy.Including outrageous intergalactic battles in a provocatively stylized universe, every performance is unique as each audience suggests their own story line elements and determines Earth's fate in a final, climactic vote. Will it be "TTFN" (Ta Ta For Now) or "TTFE" (Ta Ta Forever)? Will Earth "evolve" in peace or be destroyed by The Developer who calls it a blight on the galactic neighborhood...? You decide!
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| 5th of July |
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| Oak Park Festival Theatre |
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The sequel to Wilson's acclaimed Talley's Folly, which was produced by Festival Theatre in 2007. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment with America in the wake of an unpopular war. At once poignent and marvelously funny, 5th of July is a compassionate portrait of a generation trying to decide whether to abandon their past or find the courage to cope with it and to begin anew.
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| 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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500 Clown and the Elephant Deal is an original theater production for adults with music - a rocking three-piece band, an alluring Mistress of Ceremonies, and a daring stage crew have everything they need for a night of theatre...except for the story, which has gone MIA.
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| Graceland |
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| Profiles Theatre |
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Chicago's oldest cemetery is the backdrop for Graceland, the story of four lonely Chicagoans whose lives collide one August weekend while the Blue Angels airshow is in town. As fighter jets buzz the skies from dusk till dawn, estranged brother and sister Sam and Sara try to make sense of their father's recent suicide. Sara's one night stand with Joe, an aging lothario, brings further trouble in the form of Joe's mercurial teenage son, Miles. Graceland is a World premiere comedic drama about the loneliness of family, the tenderness of strangers and the unexpected benefits of bad decisions.
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| Hedda Gabler |
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| Raven Theatre |
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Ibsen’s masterpiece depicts a woman’s inevitable road to tragedy. Hedda has recently married a kind and reliable yet unexciting scholar. She is visited by two old acquaintances: a female schoolmate and another scholar. The former has saved the latter from an unsavory lifestyle, helping him find success as a writer; Hedda is resentful both of his talent and her schoolmate’s influence on it. Out of jealousy and boredom, she proceeds to destroy each of the people around her, and finally herself. Is Hedda a heroine, a villain, a victim… or all of the above?
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| The History Boys |
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| TimeLine Theatre Company |
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| The recipient of more than 30 major awards, including Tony and Olivier awards for Best New Play, The History Boys follows a rambunctious group of clever young men as they pursue higher learning, games, sexual identity and a place at university under the guidance of three wildly different teachers and a headmaster obsessed with results. Set during the 1980s in northern England, it is a hilarious and provocative play about the anarchy of adolescence and the purpose of education - specifically, how history should be taught.
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| Hope VI |
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| Chicago Dramatists |
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Hope VI tells the story of Hope Graves, age six, a high spirited and funny young girl who has become strangely quiet since her mother beat her in the head with a steel-toed boot. A scar covers the length of her face, but she escapes the pain of her dreary life into the world of TV. Hope VI is the journey of her dream and her family’s struggle to survive after the wrecking ball hits the Robert Taylor homes on Chicago’s Southside.
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| La Cage aux Folles |
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| Theatre Building Chicago |
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Jerry Herman's music and Harvey Fierstein's book bring into glittering light the story of Georges and Albin, two men spending their lives together in St. Tropez. Georges and Albin’s twenty years of domestication are thrown into a whirl when Jean-Michel, the son, fathered by Georges during a one-night fling, comes home with news that he is engaged.
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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.
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with actor Brian McCaskill, one of the stars of Million Dollar Quartet
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| Mud People |
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| Angel Island Theater |
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Set in a dilapidated greasy spoon in rural Claybourne Rising, Mud People is a hilarious and altogether uplifting story that highlights the importance of hope and faith in a world full of harshness and cynicism. The lives of these “mud people” are changed by the intercession of a mysterious stranger who has to power to inspire child-like hope as a means of finding freedom from the mistakes of the past.
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| Pump Boys And Dinettes |
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| Drury Lane- Oakbrook |
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The pump boys sell high octane fuel on North Carolina’s Highway 57 and the sassy dinettes, Prudie and Rhetta Cupp, run the Double Cupp diner next door. Between changing tires and baking pies, the gang performs a rousing, down-home mix of country western, rock ‘n’ roll and blues in this charming tale of friendship, romance and life’s simple pleasures.
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| Sodomites!!! A Musical of Biblical Proportions |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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Incest! Gang-rape! Drunkenness! Firebombing! Forced-Blindness! And that’s just the King James Version. When the creators of Love Is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy and The Best Church of God join forces, they can’t seem to help themselves. From James Asmus, Sean Cusick, and Mike Descoteaux comes an unbelievable yet faithful musical recreation of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction. With a woman turning in to a pillar of salt as the most boring part of the story, Sodomites!!! promises laughs and awe.
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| A Song for Coretta |
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| The Greenhouse Theater Center |
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Inspired by the long line of mourners who came by Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to Coretta Scott King, A Song for Coretta introduces five fictional African-American women, aged 17 to 57, waiting in the rain to say their final good-byes. Cleage shows the impact that Mrs. King had on the lives of these women, and the connections that they build with one another through her memory and legacy.
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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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| Tommy |
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| Circle Theatre |
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After witnessing a brutal crime, young Tommy is so traumatized that he is rendered mute. As his life meanders on in post World War II England, he suffers abuse from sadistic relatives and neighbors. Tommy’s life is saved, however, when he falls in love with pinball and achieves super stardom as a pinball wizard!
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| Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding |
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| Piper's Alley |
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At Tony n' Tina's Wedding, audience members actually play the roles of Tony n' Tina's family and/or friends. These are roles we have all been practicing, every time we go to a real wedding. This universal familiarity with the union of two individuals from 2 distinct families, regardless as to where you are from, will take you back and forth between fantasy and reality throughout the entire evening. For the ultimate experience... eat, drink, dance, converse and allow yourself to be caught up in the activities. This all inclusive evening of entertainment will be something you and your friends will be talking about for many years to come.
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| Two Spoons |
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| Bailiwick Repertory |
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What starts as a quiet, relaxing vacation takes an unexpected detour, and becomes a wonderful exploration of freedom and fantasy, responsibility and role playing, using the historical backdrop of Philadelphia and aphorisms of Ben Franklin to navigate the way. Does gay marriage have to be exactly like straight marriage?
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| Up |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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On the best day of his life, Walter built a flying machine that reached the clouds. Ever since, he’s tried to invent new ways to fly while his wife keeps the family afloat. Up is a quirky, bittersweet tale about escaping the boundaries of the everyday and how we dream ourselves into a future.
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