| Ten Rules for Pairing Potato Chips Aug 7 - Aug 9, 2020 |
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| Cameron Craine is the world's foremost potato chip sommelier, but can she find the perfect potato chip pairing to save the world from war? Distributed Theatre's second production looks to further explore the medium of remote-theatre while we delve into the high stakes world of... potato chips. |
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| Thirteen Days Aug 28 - Oct 4, 2020 |
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City Lit Theater
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| A world premiere adaptation of THIRTEEN DAYS by Robert F. Kennedy, his memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 16, 1962, long-range Soviet missiles carrying nuclear warheads aimed at the United States were discovered in Cuba. For the next thirteen days, President John Kennedy maneuvered his way through conflicting counsel from his advisors, some of whom urged a military response likely to bring on World War III, ambiguous and sometimes deceitful information from the Soviet Union's representatives, and ever-shifting facts on the ground. City Lit has received permission from the Kennedy family to insert as dialogue into our script excerpts from recently-made-public transcripts of JFK's strategy sessions during the climax of the Cold War, the thirteen days the world came its closest to nuclear war. As with City Lit's acclaimed production last season of Archibald MacLeish's J.B., the roles in THIRTEEN DAYS will be played by a diverse ensemble of women. All the characters in the book are white males; none of the actors onstage will be. |
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| Rock of Ages Sep 2 - Oct 18, 2020 |
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Paramount Theatre
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| Paramount's 10th season opener, will take audiences back into the iconic music era of the '80s, where rock-n-roll dreamers turn their fantasies into reality. Nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Rock of Ages is a Hollywood love story told through the mind blowing hits of top 80s rock bands like Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Poison and more. Paramount Theatre New Work Development Director Amber Mak directs. Are you ready to rock? |
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| Hello Dolly! Sep 10 - Oct 11, 2020 |
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Theatre At The Center
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| Hello Dolly!, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman with book by Michael Stewart and directed by Linda Fortunato, is bursting with humor, dance and romance in one of the most enduring and best-loved musicals of all time. This Tony Award-winning classic will star E. Faye Butler, the internationally-acclaimed actress and 7-time Jeff Award winner, in the title role of the irrepressible matchmaker Dolly Levi. This joyful musical features favorite songs like "Before the Parade Passes By", "Ribbons Down My Back" and, of course, "Hello, Dolly!" |
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| Naperville Sep 10 - Oct 11, 2020 |
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble at
McAninch Arts Center
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| It is Naperville, 2012. Anne works on a new project, T.C. is captaining the first shift as new manager and Candice and son Howard, back from Seattle, arrive at her favorite coffee spot: a Caribou. What follows is a day full of eccentricity, cups of coffee and affecting conversation creating a turning point that shows how community can add to your life. The New York Times says, "...everyone in this shop has a story, a loss, a regret, and Smart weaves their tales together adeptly." This funny and moving play is a heartwarming salute to the moment we discover a new definition of home. |
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| Brighton Beach Memoirs Sep 16 - Oct 18, 2020 |
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Citadel Theatre Company
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| Neil Simons autobiographical trilogy follows Eugene Jerome as a young teen in 1937, dreaming of baseball and girls, and life with family in a crowded, middle class Brooklyn walk up. |
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| Little Shop of Horrors Sep 17 - Oct 31, 2020 |
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Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
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| Deviously delicious sci-fi smash hit musical Little Shop of Horrors has devoured audience's hearts for decades. During a solar eclipse, shy, love-struck floral assistant Seymour discovers a strange and unusual plant he names "Audrey II" - after his co-worker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-wailing carnivore plant promises the lonely florist fame, fortune, and escape from life on skid row with the girl of his dreams, as long as he keeps supplying the menace with its fix: a steady supply of blood. Suddenly, Seymour discovers Audrey II's alien origins and quest for world domination. |
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| Poor Yella Rednecks Sep 18 - Oct 18, 2020 |
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Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph
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| Far away in the exotic land of Arkansas, the story of Tong and Quang continues, six years after the end of the critically acclaimed Vietgone. But this isn't a sequel: it's a whole new story. Falling in love was easy-but life in a new country, with a different language, low wages, and a young child is a lot harder. And that's before Quang's first wife reappears. Playwright Qui Nguyen digs deep into personal history to continue the hilarious, heartbreaking, intensely human saga of his family's life in '70s rural America, in his characteristic subversive style, set to a hip-hop beat. |
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| The Notebook Sep 22 - Nov 8, 2020 |
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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| A deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love, The Notebook chronicles the decades-long love story between a mill worker named Noah and a privileged debutante named Allie. Beginning with a whirlwind summer romance in North Carolina in the 1940s, their love affair spans an entire lifetime-in spite of the differences that threaten to pull them apart. The World Premiere production will feature a diverse, multi-generational cast, reflecting the timeless and universal nature of the story. |
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| The Lifespan Of A Fact Sep 24 - Nov 1, 2020 |
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Northlight Theatre
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| A high-profile New York magazine is about to publish a potentially groundbreaking piece. But first, a determined intern is given a big assignment: fact check it. So begins an intensely funny debate between an earnest fact-checker, an eccentric author, and the fair but practical editor attempting to bridge the expanse between painstaking accuracy and impassioned "embellishment." Based on a true(ish) story, this hyper-current comedy is the ultimate showdown between truth and fiction. |
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| The Tiger Queen Sep 24 - Oct 31, 2020 |
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Hell in a Handbag Productions at
Stage 773
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| The Tiger Queen tells the story of Jay Exotica - a big cat loving, gun-toting gay polygamist who loves exotic animals, but he loves fame even more. When Jay clashes with his archrival Carol Baskets (Caitlin Jackson), owner of Save the Tiger Sanctuary, things get bizarre - even by Handbag standards. Join us in a musical tale of desperate people taking desperate actions. There's drama, animal attacks, conflict, toothless pawns and meth - lots of meth. |
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| The Rough Guide to the Underworld Sep 29 - Oct 31, 2020 |
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Eclectic Full Contact Theatre at
Athenaeum Theatre
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| What fresh Hell is this? It's a travelogue like you've never seen. Mash-up a Ken Burns documentary with scenes cribbed from Sorkin and Mamet. Add commentary from Virgil, Dante and Twain. Infuse it with high-proof music and video. Then blend until frothy and hang on tight: you're taking a ridiculous ride through everyone's favorite mythical anti-destination! |
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| The Locusts Oct 8 - Nov 15, 2020 |
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The Gift Theatre
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| When a serial killer goes on a gruesome rampage in Ella's small hometown of Vero Beach, Florida, she's called up from her busy career in the Miami police force to help apprehend him. At home, she's confronted with the life she left behind: her pregnant and struggling sister, her scared young niece, who like Ella, is desperate to find a life somewhere else, and the dark events of her childhood that she's tried to forget. As the murders grow more horrific and the small community is frozen by fear, Ella realizes she has to confront the events of her dark past in order to stop him. |
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| The Odyssey Oct 9 - Jan 10, 2021 |
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Lookingglass Theatre
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| It's been twenty years since he last saw her face, his son, his city. Now, at last, this soldier is coming home. Along the way, he'll defy the gods, outwit monsters, survive betrayal, resist the seduction of goddesses and mortals, and dodge death daily. But...Odysseus. Will. Come. Home. |
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| Cooking With Bubby Oct 15 - Oct 25, 2020 |
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MadKap Productions at
Skokie Theatre
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| This world-premiere musical begins its national tour in Skokie, and will travel the country before setting in for a New York run. Internationally acclaimed actress Francine Berk stars as America's most famous grandmother, The Bubbie. At a "taping" of her fictional TV cooking show, Bubbie entertains you with comedy skits, original songs, and the sage advice that only a Bubbie can dispense. |
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| The Virginian: A Horseman Of The Plains Oct 16 - Nov 29, 2020 |
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City Lit Theater
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| A world premiere adaptation of the novel that originated the archetype of the American cowboy. Never named, rough-hewn but soft-spoken, living on the frontier between nature and civilization, the Virginian pursues his own singular code of honor. On a ranch near Sunk Creek, Wyoming, the cowpuncher from Virginia struggles to uphold this code in conflict with his deadly enemy, a former ranch hand turned rustler, as well as in his courting of the fiercely independent schoolmarm, whose own personal code is as strong as his. City Lit's adaptation will feature giant puppets as the horses in the story, a few of whom are important minor characters, to be designed by Von Orthal Puppets, creator of the puppets that represented the gods in City Lit's world premiere translation of Aeschylus's PROMETHEUS BOUND two seasons ago. |
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| The Last Night of Ballyhoo Nov 4 - Dec 27, 2020 |
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TimeLine Theatre Company
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| Atlanta, 1939. Clark Gable and Gone with the Wind are the talk of the town, Hitler has invaded Poland, and the American South's party of the year is only days away. The Freitags-a Jewish family so highly assimilated they have a Christmas tree in the front parlor-are obsessed with preparing for Ballyhoo, the lavish annual German-Jewish country club ball. Concerned with the pressures of societal appearances and expectations, young Lala is determined to make a unique splash at this year's event. But life turns upside down when her uncle brings home his new employee, a handsome bachelor from Brooklyn who begins to court Lala's charming cousin Sunny, home visiting from college. As romances blossom and obstacles arise, everyone must confront their own beliefs, prejudices, and desires in an effort to move forward. |
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