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| Another Piece of Cake |
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| Gorton Center |
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While visiting her Great Aunt Clara in the retirement home for her birthday, Diane and her mother get more than they bargained for. Between bites of birthday cake and shots of bourbon, Clara and her friends begin speaking the truth about humanity, youth, life, aging, rage and family.
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| Botanic Garden |
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| Piccolo Theatre |
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Remount of Todd Logan play, directed by Olympia Dukakais and starring husband and wife Carmen Roman and James Leaming. Kate faces the daunting and often humorous prospect of her first date since the death of her husband Jake. Memories of her husband and their marriage force Kate to take a stark look at her present.
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| The Comedy of Errors |
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| Chicago Shakespeare Theater |
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Director Barbara Gaines transports Shakespeare to the golden age of film as an eccentric group of stage and screen actors gather on an English movie set in the midst of the London blitz to film The Comedy of Errors. Backstage antics abound as the onstage story of Antipholus and his servant Dromio unfolds.
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| Dead Man's Cell Phone |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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Whimsical and imaginative comedy from one of America's leading contemporary playwrights, Sarah Ruhl. Jean starts answering Gordon's phone because he's, well, dead, and can't answer it himself. When the phone won't stop ringing, and she can't stop answering, Jean is forced to look at her connections and find her calling. An insightful, fantastic journey from “one of the leading contemporary American playwrights.”
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| Durango |
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| Chicago Temple |
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To the outside world, the Lee boys look like the perfect Korean American sons: Isaac plans to be a doctor and his younger brother, Jimmy, is a champion swimmer with a bright future. But when their widowed father, Boo-Seng, decides to take them on a road trip to Durango, Colorado, all three find themselves grappling with old memories and unhealed wounds. As tempers flare and secrets break open, the difference between who they are and who they’ve pretended to be threatens to tear the family apart.
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| Fools |
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| St. Bonaventure Church |
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In the Ukranian village of Kulyenchikov, which is cursed with stupidity, Dr. Zubritsky and his wife hire an outside teacher for their lovely daughter. When he falls in love with his pupil, the teacher vows to break the town's curse.
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| Golda's Balcony |
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| Truman College- O'Rourke Theatre |
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Pegasus Players will present William Gibson’s one-woman drama, Golda’s Balcony, which examines the history of Israel through the eyes of one of the 20th century’s most remarkable world leaders, Golda Meir. Actress Janet Ulrich Brooks returns to Pegasus Players to take on the leading role, and Pegasus Players Artistic Director Alex Levy will direct. Pegasus is one of a handful of theaters around the country given the rights to produce this work.
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| The Hunchback Of Notre Dame |
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| Bailiwick Repertory |
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This classic love triangle between the gypsy Esmeralda, the priest Frollo, and the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo is a perfect match for the theatrical sensibility of rock legend Dennis DeYoung, whose songs like Lady, Come Sail Away, and Mr. Roboto are treasured. The soaring ballads and driving musicality of DeYoung’s score are a perfect match for this story set against the spires of the world’s most beloved cathedral.
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| In a Dark Dark House |
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| Profiles Theatre |
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On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two brothers find themselves face-to-face with each other's involvement in their traumatic past. In court-ordered rehab, Drew calls on his brother, Terry, to corroborate his story of abuse. Drew's request releases barely-hidden animosities between the two; is he using these repressed memories to save himself while smearing the name of his brother's friend and mentor? In Neil LaBute's powerful new play, these siblings must struggle to come to grips with their troubled legacy, both inside and outside of their dark family home.
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| Laughter on the 23rd Floor |
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| Raven Theatre |
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor was inspired by Simon’s own early-career experience churning out jokes for Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, where he worked alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Woody Allen. Laughter introduces a room full of oddball writers, many based upon actual personalities, including Simon himself. The Sid-Caesar-like character of Max Prince, star of a 1953 variety show, is a booze-guzzling, pill-popping comic genius who goes to any lengths to protect his team in the face of network cutbacks. This hilarious play chronicles the writing room’s outrageous antics and increasing stress levels under the pressures of rising McCarthyism and television executives resistant to sophisticated humor.
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| Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates |
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| National Pastime Theater |
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This bitingly funny commentary about America's hubris in domestic and foreign policy follows the cleverly imagined, two-century journey of explorers Lewis and Clark from the Louisiana Purchase to the Spanish-American, Vietnam and Iraq wars. Along the way they meet a variety of "characters," including Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Sacagawea, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. But regardless of the time period in which they find themselves, Lewis and Clark continuously witness the disturbing role violence plays in shaping the past, present and future of the United States.
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| Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished) |
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| Raven Theatre |
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Set in sixteenth century Spain, Barbara Lhota's new play explores the impact of family ties, society pressures and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters. Expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail--and dazzling swordplay.
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| Lust, Lies and Marriage |
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| Piccolo Theatre |
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World premiere directed by internationally acclaimed master of Italian comedy Antonio Fava. Dottore tells his daughter she will marry Lelio, when she wants to marry the handsome Orazio. Complications include an enchanted well, a wily thief, a voluptuous innkeeper and greedy fathers.
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| The Mark Of Zorro |
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| Lifeline Theatre |
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Zorro can best any swordsman, outride any horseman, but if he is to save the young daughter of a noble family from ruin, he must also inspire the privileged young caballeros to join him in his fight against corruption. Filled with Latino music, dance and sword-fighting thrills, this adventurous romp mines the integrity of the original like no other version before.
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| Much Ado About Nothing |
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| First Folio Shakespeare Festival |
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Often referred to as Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending, Much Ado is the tale of the bickering Beatrice and Benedick, who admit their love only after helping sweet Hero save her reputation and win back her love, Claudio. One of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a perfect choice for a summer’s evening outdoors.
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| Omniscience |
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| Stage Left Theatre |
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In this multimedia paranoid thriller, Warren struggles to finish a war documentary while coping with his troubled wife, a military officer who has just returned from the conflict. Under the pressure of constant corporate and government surveillance, he might be cracking up, or seeing the truth.
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| Our Town |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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Company ends its season of classics with Thornton Wilder's pivotal tale centering around the beauty in our everyday lives that we rarely take time to appreciate. Theme rings truer today as our modern lives mask the magnificence of the personal moments on our journey from birth to death.
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| Picked Up |
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| Neo-Futurists |
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Six television pilots never before seen! A new pilot, created by a team of writers and genuinely attempting to be the best television show ever, is performed on the Neo-Futurist stage every week of the run. Audience reactions determine the best pilot. Meanwhile, The Neo-Futurists explore American consumerism and the art’s role as social advocate and moral instructor.
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| The Prisoner's Dilemma |
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| Raven Theatre |
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Theatre Mir presents the US premiere of David Edgar's The Prisoner's Dilemma, which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001. A bloody conflict on Europe's eastern border is escalating at an alarming rate, while every effort is made behind closed doors to find peace. Edgar provides a rare look at the processes of mapping out a delicate peace in this epic play that moves thrillingly between the drama of the negotiating table and the theatre of war.
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| Pudd'nhead Wilson |
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| City Lit Theater |
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The book is Twain's final important novel set in America, and his last book-length look at the small-town Mississippi River world of his boyhood. While The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a hymn to that world, Pudd'nhead is shot through with Twain's critique of a community compromised by its complicity with slavery. Two babies are switched in infancy, one born free and one born enslaved. The idea of dual identities resonates throughout the book, and when the mystery of the switched babies is solved—by the town's resident outsider, a Northerner labeled a pudd'nhead by the rest of the town because they don't get his jokes—it is the town's true self which is exposed as well.
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| Space Future |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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This musical rock explosion tells the story of the dreaded Space Overlord, who has banned music from every planet in the universe. The citizens of the universe live in constant fear of this all-powerful ruler. The not-so-good-looking slacker prince is their only hope for peace.
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| Speech and Debate |
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| American Theatre Company |
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Currently in its second extension at NY's Roundabout Theatre, this quick-witted and timely comedy tells the story of three misfits who team up to expose their teacher's online secrets while forming their high school's first Speech and Debate club. With a script by Columbinus co-writer Stephen Karam, Artistic Director PJ Paparelli makes his Chicago and ATC directorial debut with this hysterical yet touching tale of three teens' quest for fame and free speech.
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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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| A Taste of Honey |
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| Victory Gardens Theater Greenhouse |
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Shelagh Delaney's poignant and comic play, set in 1950s Manchester, England, tells the story of Jo, a shy adolescent chafing against the constraints of her working class life and the demands of her selfish, irresponsible mother. Left pregnant by an itinerant sailor, Jo creates her own family.
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| That's Weird, Grandma |
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| 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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| 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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| Urinetown |
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| Prairie Lakes Theatre |
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An award-winning satirical musical comedy which pokes fun at local government, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, petty-minded smalltown politics--and itself.
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