| Saving Wonderland Jan 21 - Jan 23, 2021 |
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| What happened to Wonderland after Alice returned home? Find out in Seize The Show's exciting step forward in live performance gaming. In this innovative new adventure, the audience is plunged back down the rabbit hole as Alice herself, choosing the direction of the story in this fantastical re-thinking of the popular classic. Filled with beloved characters and mind-bending puzzles, the familiar turns peculiar as you search for missing gears from the White Rabbit's watch in order to restore order to Wonderland and help save the day. A new, family-friendly adventure like you've never experienced it before - live, interactive and in real time! With numerous possible endings, your choices control the story and guide the action to turn back the hands of time over and over and over again. |
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| Marcus; Or The Secret of Sweet Jan 26 |
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PrideArts at
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| Marcus is sixteen and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes the projects of Louisiana, the currents of his life converge, overflowing into his close-knit community and launching the search for his sexual and personal identity on a cultural landscape infused with mysterious family creeds. The provocative, poignant, and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South, MARCUS is the stirring conclusion of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS. |
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| Red Folder Jan 27 - Aug 31, 2021 |
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Steppenwolf Theatre at
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| The red folder belongs to a first grader. It is the source of all his woes. Years later, he seeks vengeance. |
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| Bechdel Fest 8 Jan 29 - Mar 26, 2021 |
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Broken Nose Theatre at
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| Broken Nose Theatre is pleased to present BECHDEL FEST 8: REALIGN, the company's annual festival of new short plays featuring an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men. This year's festival showcases eight stories that center around characters who find themselves at pivotal moments, as new circumstances push each of them to reconsider both their identity and their place in the world. |
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| Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Feb 1 - Feb 14, 2021 |
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Metropolis Performing Arts Centre at
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| The play's afoot! The award-winning comedic mastermind Ken Ludwig transforms Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Equal parts comedy and thriller, the world's favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, is on the case. The heirs of the Baskerville line are being eliminated one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and faithful companion Dr. Watson reluctantly travel to Devonshire where they are forced to brave its desolate moors. The duo must unravel a web of murky clues before this family curse dooms its newest heir. The investigators attempt to escape peril and deceit, as a small group of actors portrays over forty characters with wit, silly accents, and clever disguises. Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be. Actors were filmed following current safety guidelines. |
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| Constellations Feb 4 - Feb 28, 2021 |
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Theatre Above the Law at
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| This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens
next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know-delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship
and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny. |
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| Here Lies Henry Feb 5 - Feb 25, 2021 |
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Interrobang Theatre Project at
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| Henry's got a lot he has to tell you, he just can't guarantee that it's all true. In the spotlight, with only the audience as his witness, Henry grapples with his choices and failures in a scramble to make sense of his life before it's too late. Daniel MacIvor's gripping one-man play offers a provocative take on love, death, beauty, truth, and of course, good old-fashioned lying. |
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| Shut Up Kiss Me Feb 9 |
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PrideArts at
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| Taking inspiration from Diana Son's STOP KISS, SHUT UP KISS ME is a love story set in the hours and days after the first date of two millennial/Gen Z women. With heart and humor, this world premiere play by Chicago native Sophia Zinger further explores what it means to find one's self and heal from a past, queer trauma, within a budding relationship. |
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| Lesbian Shorts Feb 16 |
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PrideArts at
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| Readings of the short plays BEA AND MAY, by Edwin Sanchez; THE CLARITY OF PIZZA, by Carolyn Gage; and NOT IN MY BACKYARD, by Pete Blatchford. |
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| How Do We Navigate Space? Mar 8 - Mar 28, 2021 |
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Strawdog Theatre Company at
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| A series of video monologues sourced from our Chicago community, that explore true stories of how we navigate physical space and what that says about our society during a time of pandemic and social justice. Directed by Denise Yvette Serna. Following the production, Strawdog will make a donation to Black Lives Matter Chicago. |
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| A Women Of No Importance Mar 11 - Apr 18, 2021 |
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Northlight Theatre
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| High society gossips are aflutter when the illustrious Lord Illingworth offers a young clerk a job, only to have the boy's mother object for reasons she won't reveal. Illingworth's knack for flattery and flirtation haven't prepared him for this "woman of no importance" - an unexpected adversary taking matters into her own hands in Oscar Wilde's signature cocktail of witty banter and upper crust expose. |
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| Emma's Child Mar 12 - Apr 25, 2021 |
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City Lit Theater
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| One of the great Chicago plays. By City Lit's resident playwright, author of Voice of Good Hope and The Safe House, it won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a half-dozen other playwriting awards when Terry directed the Chicago premiere at Victory Gardens twenty-five years ago. A Rogers Park couple plans to adopt the child of Emma, a pregnant teenager. What follows threatens their marriage and reshapes what they think of parenthood. |
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| The Simon and Garfunkel Story Mar 30 - Apr 4, 2021 |
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CIBC Theatre
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| Since its sell out in London's West End, 'The Simon & Garfunkel Story' is now the World's leading theatre show concerning Simon & Garfunkel featuring a full live band and state of the art video projection and lighting. The show includes all of their hits, including 'Mrs. Robinson', 'Cecilia', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', 'Homeward Bound' and many more. With more than 100 million album sales since 1965, Simon & Garfunkel's perfect harmonies and songs that poignantly captured the times made them one of the most successful folk-rock duos of all time. Over the years, they won 10 Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1977, their Bridge Over Troubled Water album was nominated at the 1977 Brit Awards for Best International Album. In 2003, Simon and Garfunkel were awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the following year saw their "The Sound of Silence" awarded a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. |
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| Othello Apr 1 - May 2, 2021 |
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Court Theatre
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| Othello, the great Venetian general, unknowingly seals his fate when he fails to select his standard-bearer, Iago, for a military promotion. Implicating Othello's wife, Desdemona, in an affair, Iago sets forth a series of irreversible events that spell catastrophe for Othello and his country. Kelvin Roston, Jr. and Timothy Edward Kane who sparred in Oedipus Rex return to Court to star in this intimate new take on Shakespeare's tragedy about jealousy, ego, and betrayal. Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director Charles Newell combines Shakespeare's words with exhilarating movement and elements of the 16th-century story by Cinthio that inspired Othello, crafting a production that physicalizes the poetry of the original text with raw immediacy. |
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| Evita Apr 2 - Jun 6, 2021 |
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Drury Lane- Oakbrook
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| Based on true events, Evita tells the story of Eva Perón's rags-to-riches life as she goes from poor provincial child to First Lady of Argentina. A champion of the working-class descamisados, she uses popularity and politics to serve her people - and herself. Featuring some of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's most iconic songs, including "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," this musical masterpiece won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. The 1996 film adaptation was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Song. |
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| Cullud Wattah Apr 9 - May 16, 2021 |
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Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph
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| Thanksgiving, 2016: Flint, Michigan has been without clean water for 936 days. Marion, a third-generation General Motors assembly line worker, worries over impending layoffs while struggling to fight the poison that floods her home-and her family's bodies. When her sister, Ainee, seeks restitution for lead poisoning, secrets bubble to the surface, threatening to capsize not only their family, but all of Vehicle City. |
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| Come From Away Apr 21 - May 2, 2021 |
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Cadillac Palace Theatre
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| The true story of the small town that welcomed the world. Broadway's COME FROM AWAY has won Best Musical all across North America! The New York Times Critics' Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. Don't miss this breathtaking new musical written by Tony nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and helmed by this year's Tony-winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley. Newsweek cheers, "It takes you to a place you never want to leave!" |
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