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148 Performances Found

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

Garage Rep . So many shows...

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

11:11. Time?

Village Players Performing Arts Center
(Village Players)

A Chorus Line. I hope I get it.

Theatre Building Chicago

A Love Lost Life- The Unauthorized Story of Marlon Brando. God-Fatherhood.

A Red Orchid Theatre

Abigail’s Party. Party hardy.

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(XIII Pocket)

Adore. A tale of love and cannibalism.

Playground Theater
(After Party)

After Party. Catch an always-new, late-night show.

Dream Theatre

Agamemnon. It's all Greek to me.

College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center

Agnes of God. Not Nunsense.

AjaxAntigone. New from State Theatre.

Chicago History Museum

All That Jazz 2010 Spring Benefit with "The Fosse Trilogy" Encore Performance. All that dancing.

Second City
(Second City)

America: All Better! . Now that Barack's the President-elect, everything will be all better. Right?

American Girl Place

American Girls Revue, The. Put stars in her eyes and a song in her heart-with American Girls.

Playground Theater
(The Playground)

Ankle Todd Show, The. It's better than the elbow show.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

Awesome 80's Prom, The. Head back to the '80s at this bitchin' interactive show.

Auditorium Theatre

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández. Folk dance.

Prop House

Beast Women Spring Series 2010. Spring comes in like a beast...or something like that.

Storefront Theatre
(DCA Theater)

Beautiful City. Beautiful disaster.

Playground Theater

Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.

The Chicago Improv
(Ben Bailey)

Ben Bailey. Just tack the price of two drinks onto the cost.

Second City
(Second City)

Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.

Quimby's

Big Bad Book, The. Author signing.

(University of Chicago)

Big Love. No Mormons, sorry.

Artistic Home

Biography. Eavesdrop on the bitching and dishing of a socialite to the stars.

American Girl Place
(American Girl Theater)

Bitty Bear's Matinee: The Family Tree. Family and friendship are the real stars of this kid-focused show.

Briar Street Theatre

Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Blue Shadow, The. Shadow's of history.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?. Now that the election ho-ha is over, it's back to funny business as usual.

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Brother/Sister Plays, The. Brothers and sisters.

Pub Theater

Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play. The real star of this hilarious sketch show? The bottle.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Chess. Check mate.

Chicago Dramatists

Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series. Take in an afternoon of staged works-in-progress.

Skokie Theatre

Cole Sings Cole. One hot Cole.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Comedy Showcase. Three improv or sketch groups go at it.

The Montrose Room
(ComedySportz)

Comedy Sportz. Suburban Sportz.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

ComedySportz Theatre

comedysportz4kidz. Kids get in on the act in this pint-size version of the popular comedy competition.

iO Th

Cupid Has a Heart On!. Huba huba.

IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)

Cupid Has a Heart On: A Musical Guide to Relationships. First comes love, then comes marriage...

Irish American Heritage Center

Dancing at Lughnasa. Bittersweet memories.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Produced by Ben Nicholson)

Danny And The Deep Blue Sea . Dive down.

Dearly Beloved. Dude, where's my bride?

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

Demon Who Never Appeared, A. From stand-up to improv, this show's got every comedy covered.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Desperately Seeking. Chemically Imbalanced Comedy takes on the Chicago Reader.

Theatre at the Center
(Theater at the Center)

Diary of Anne Frank, The. The most famous diary.

Silk Road Theatre Project
(Silk Road Theatre Project)

DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, The. Are we more than a double helix?

Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)

Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.

Fusion
(Dave Odd Productions Entertainment)

Edge Underground Comedy Club, The. Edge isn't just the name of this stand-up showcase.

Aloft Loft

El Circo Cheapo Cabaret #2. A circus in a loft? Yep.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Epic Proportions. Real big.

Blue Theatre
(Quest Theater Ensemble)

Evolution/Creation . It's your universe.

John Waldron Arts Center

Fantasticks, The. Young lovers...and their fathers.

City Lit
(Promethean Theatre Ensemble)

Fantasticks, The. Try to remember the kind of...February?

eta Creative Arts Foundation

Fathers and Sons. Three generations, one fateful night.

Chicago Art Department

Festival of Dionysius!. Hope it's not like on True Blood...

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Fiddler on the Roof. Quickly go the years.

Strawdog Theatre
(Strawdog Theatre Company)

Good Soul of Szechuan, The. What does money buy?

Steep Theatre

Harper Regan. One woman, leaving.

Stage Left Theatre
(Stage Left Theatre)

Here Where It's Safe. Tangled lives.

ComedySportz Theatre

Hot Karl, The. There's a reason this "mature" improv show doesn't go on until the wee hours.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

I Am A Camera . Say cheese.

Greenhouse Theater Center

I Killed My Mother. Yikes.

Court Theatre

Illusion, The. A modern adaptation.

Improv Kitchen

Improv Kitchen. Fill your belly and then watch it jiggle as you giggle.

Attic Playhouse

It Runs in the Family. it practically gallops.

Oracle Theatre

J.B. . In the Circus Called Life a Man's Heart Shall Be Tested

the side project
(Idle Muse Theatre Company)

Jerry and Tom. Ask yourself this, what's their profession?

Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret

Kama Sutra The Musical. Sexy stuff.

Book Cellar

Kates, The. No one in this comedy show is actually named Kate.

Mercury Cafe

Kates, The. No one in this comedy group is actually named Kate.

Profiles Theatre

Killer Joe. What a lovely family.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Kink. Kinky.

Royal George Theatre Center

Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

Laugh Out Loud. Now there's even more improv comedy in Schaumburg.

Links Hall

Laughing from the Other Side of Your Face. Which side is that?

Trap Door Theatre

Living Quarters. Strangeloop Theater presents...

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

Long Red Road, The. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Goodman directorial debut.

Viaduct Theatre
(LiveWire Theater Company)

Lower Debt. Downturn. All the way down.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

March Madness Improv Comedy Tournament. Mad mad month.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)

Master Harold… and the Boys . Humanity here.

La Costa Theatre

Medea With Child. That old story?

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

Menopause the Musical. Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Messiah on the Frigidaire. Pass the frozen peas, Jesus.

Apollo Theater

Million Dollar Quartet. If you step on his blue suede shoes he may shoot you in Reno.

Chicago Dramatists

Mimesophobia. Fear of mines? Maybe not.

Apollo Studio Theater

Monks in Trouble. Monks vs the Apocalypse.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mrs. Caliban. That happened to me once.

VFW Berwyn
(New Branch Theatre Company)

Murder at the Disco. It's death meets disco at the biggest dance contest of 1976.

Rosemont Theatre

Nickelodeon presents Storytime Live!. BYO Green slime.

Theater at the Center
(Theater at the Center)

Noises Off. Sardines?

Piven Theatre Workshop

Number of People. Survivor.

Writers' Theatre (Books on Vernon)
(Writers' Theatre)

Oh Coward!. A brave Coward.

Writers' Theatre (Tudor Court)
(Writers' Theatre)

Old Settler, The. Settle in.

(Sixteenth Street Theater)

Our Lady of the Underpass. Praise her.

Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Ovations. Give them one.

Noble Fool Theatricals
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

Over the Tavern. And through the woods?

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHamily the Musical. Smart, funny improv you can sing along with.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy pHucked. Balls-out, no holds barred improv that encourages BYOB.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Steve Martin is a genius. Full stop.

Redtwist Theatre

Pillowman, The. Don't you dare call this interrogation drama soft.

Playground Theater

Playground, The. Savor a night of long-form improv by national troupes.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).

(The Right Brain Project)

Pretty Penny. A penny for your thoughts.

Stage Left Theatre
(The Mill)

Private Lives of Eskimos, The. Ever wonder about life after anti-depressants?

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

Punkplay. Play it loud.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

Put the Nuns in Charge!. Roll in the aisles with a little religious humor.

Noble Horse Theatre

Quadrille. A dinner performance spectacular, featuring dancing white stallions.

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)

Rant, The. A perilous path to justice.

Next Theatre Company
(Next Theatre)

Return to Haifa. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict made personal.

Royal George Theatre Center

Saints & Sinners. Nun of that.

Actors Gymnasium

Science Fiction: An Experiment in Circus. Cirque Du Science.

Mercury Theater

Screwtape Letters, The . C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre

Separate Peace, A. A classic.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(Metropolis Performing Arts Centre)

Side Man. All that jazz.

Artistic Home

Skin of Our Teeth, The.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Sleeping Beauty. A beautiful princess wakes up.

Cornservatory

Somewhat Gelatinous Blob From Beyond the Grave, The. Jello anyone?

EP Theater

Song For a Future Generation. Catch an exploding star.

IO Theater

Storytown. Move over, Hans Christian Andersen.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Studs Terkel's Not Working. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

Supernatural Chicago. Interactive theater set in one of the city's most haunted nightspots.

Second City
(Second City)

Taming of the Flu. It's a comedy epidemic.

Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)

Tea with the Ladies of the Harvard College Observatory. Tea and astronomy.

Prop Thtr
(Prop Theatre)

The Informer. He knows something.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

The Legend of Ginger Bred . Run, Ginger, run.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

The Message Is In The Music (God Is A Black Man Named Ricky). Are you there, Ricky?

Gallery Cabaret

The Two-Hour Comedy Hour. They defy the laws of time.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Jack M. Bourgeois)

This Above All... . What is happiness really?

Hilton Chicago
(Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago)

Time and Music: Looking Back, Moving Forward. See how creative you can get with a black tie.

Links Hall
(Beverly Nelson)

Time it Takes, The. Beverly Nelson transforms metaphorical representations of women and war.

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun’s Garage. I am the twenties, hear me roar.

Piper's Alley

Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding. You're invited to this loud, Italian-style wedding.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.

Goodman Theatre

True History of the Johnstown Flood, A. A true tale.

True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The. He said, they said.

Raven Theatre

Twelve Angry Men. Order in the court.

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(Dog & Pony Theatre Company)

Twins Would Like to Say, The. No Mary Kate and Ashley.

Ruth Page Center for the Arts
(ShawChicago)

Votes For Women! . Sister suffragettes!

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight. A satirical turn on current events.

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight 6th Anniversary!. Before the Daily Show there was...

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

Whose Line?. The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.

Lincoln Square Theatre

Wild Nights With Emily. Party girl or poet?

(Silent Theatre)

Wild Party Variety Hour, The. No plot, no special effects, just pure entertainment.

Chopin Theatre
(The House Theatre of Chicago)

Wilson Wants It All . Yes he does.

(Chicago Opera Vanguard)

Winterreise. Brrrr.

Strawdog Theatre

Yoni Ki Baat. You and your vagina are cordially invited.

Yvonne, Rhonda and Tracey Spend the Evening Together. Spend your evening with these ladies.

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