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Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre
Annie Get Your Gun.
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Playground Theater
Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.
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Second City
(Second City)
Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.
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Second City
(Second City)
Between Barack and a Hard Place. With the primaries looming in the near future, "Between Barack and a New Show" has decidedly replaced "Between Barack and a Hard Place."
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Storefront Theater
(Backstage Theatre Company)
Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy and Revenge. Murder and revenge take centerstage in this pirate-filled suspense.
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Briar Street Theatre
Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.
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Navy Pier Skyline Stage
Cirque Shanghai: Bai XI. Cirque Shanghai returns for a second year of fantastic feats.
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Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Jean can't stop answering a dead man's cell phone. And the phone keeps ringing.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.
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Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)
Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.
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IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)
Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
From Fear to Eternity.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Funk It Up About Nothin'. It's Shakespeare—the raptastic version.
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Theater on the Lake
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)
Gorey Stories: A Musical Entertainment. Whimsy meets macabre in Edward Gorey's signature tales.
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."
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IO Theater
Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.
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Annoyance Theatre
Invention Show, The. Think you know the most important invention ever? Think again.
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Theatre Building Chicago
(Bohemian Theatre Ensemble)
Jekyll & Hyde. BoHo revamps this musical theater classic.
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Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)
Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.
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Mercury Theater
(Lowey/Leone Productions)
Kid From Brooklyn, The . Danny Kaye rose from an improv comic to become a superstar.
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Royal George Theatre Center
Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.
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No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)
Lonesome Losers of the Night. The Belgian-French speaking songwriter's work gets a new revue.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)
Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy. The nearly dead love story comes back before taking of for the NY Fringe Festival.
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Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Lyle is a very special crocodile who only eats Turkish caviar. And he's back for a re-mount.
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Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)
Mark of Zorro, The. Behold, the expert swordsman Zorro!
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.
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Bailiwick Arts Center
Moscow.
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(GroundUp Theatre)
Much Ado About Nothing . Get ready for a Shakespeare in the park.
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Marriott Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)
Nunsense. Sister Julia accidentally poisoned 54 nuns. What now?
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Apollo Studio Theater
(PennyBear)
PennyBear: A Collection of Miniature Plays and Curious Diversions. Sketch comedy group PennyBear takes it to the next level in their second full-length show.
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).
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Profiles Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)
Rag and Bone. Buy and sell hearts on the black market—they'll change your life.
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Second City
(Second City)
Red Scare.
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The Chicago Theatre
(Shear Madness)
Shear Madness. A fast-paced, whodunit comedy that lets the audience call the shots.
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Drury Lane Water Tower Place
(Broadway In Chicago)
Shout! The Mod Musical. Five women in 1960s England make musical history.
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Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf )
Superior Donuts. What would you do if you owned a tore-up donut shop?
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Oracle Theatre
(Oracle Theatre )
Termen Vox Machina. It's a sci-fi radio drama like no other.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)
That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)
Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.
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Chase Bank Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.
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Various community gardens
(Walkabout Theatre)
War Garden. Who knew Chicago had a history of patriotic agriculture?
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Second City
(Second City)
War! Now in its 4th Smash Year!. Second City tackles the issues that are dividing the nation. Ha!
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Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
(Broadway in Chicago)
Wicked. The musical back story of Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West.

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