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National Pastime Theater
(MidTangent Productions)

A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale. Back for its fourth and final time, it's Shakespeare—but queer!

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Shattered Globe Theatre )

A Taste of Honey. Working-class Jo must find her own way in 1950s Manchester, England.

Prop Thtr
(Beast Women Productions)

After Dark. Ladies strut their stuff on stage.

Playground Theater
(After Party)

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

Beverly Arts Center
(Chicago Kids Company Theatre for Children)

Alice in Wonderland. Experience Alice and her magical journey to Wonderland all over again.

Beverly Arts Center

Alice in Wonderland. Alice falls down the rabbit hole.

American Girl Place

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

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)

American Song. America's favorite folk singer tells his story through music and words.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(Griffin Theatre)

Be More Chill. The cool kids rule high school.

Playground Theater

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

Second City
(Second City)

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

Second City
(Second City)

Between Barack and a New Show. The primaries are coming up fast, so get some more Barack luv on.

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.

Storefront Theater
(Backstage Theatre Company)

Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy and Revenge. Murder and revenge take centerstage in this pirate-filled suspense.

Briar Street Theatre

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

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Relive the fifties...or experience them for the first time.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Pub Theatre)

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

Chicago Dramatists

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

IO Theater

Chicago Improv Rebellion. Live jazz and top-notch improvisers rebel.

Navy Pier Skyline Stage

Cirque Shanghai: Bai XI. Cirque Shanghai returns for a second year of fantastic feats.

Skyline Stage Navy Pier
(Cirque Shanghai)

Cirque Shanghai: GOLD. Cirque Shanghai is back again—with a new act.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)

Crickets. Short-form improv that's intentionally rude.

IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)

Cupid Has a Heart On: A Musical Guide to Relationships. Burned by love? This satire burns love right back.

Chicago Dramatists
(Sideshow Theatre Company)

Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird). Sideshow sure knows how to f*^% up Dante.

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.

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

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

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.

Black Ensemble Theater

Don't Shed a Tear (The Story of Billie Holiday). Rock out to the tunes of a jazz legend.

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.

Village Players Theatre of Oak Park

Full Monty, The . Six unemployed dudes get nekkid.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Funk It Up About Nothin'. It's Shakespeare—the raptastic version.

Navy Pier Skyline Stage
(Cirque Shanghai)

Gold. The Cirque Shanghai acrobats return—and they're more daring than ever.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Royal George Theatre)

Gutenberg! The Musical!. Two aspiring writers head for Broadway...

Circle Theatre
(Circle Theatre)

Hay Fever. No one can deny that the Bliss family drives their guests nuts.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Chicago Tap Theatre)

Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen, The . What happens when you combine superheros and tap dancers?

Bailiwick Repertory

Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The . Esmeralda, priest Frollo and Quasimodo are back again—with music from the Styx frontman.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."

Pheasant Run Theatre
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. It's the Off-Broadway musical about falling love, the "suburban mating game" and all the accompanying secrets.

Improv Kitchen

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(Bohemian Theatre Ensemble)

Jekyll & Hyde. BoHo revamps this musical theater classic.

Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.

Morton Arboretum
(Morton Arboretum)

Key Exchange . New York's swingin' singles discuss the tied-down vs. free-for-all life.

Mercury Theater
(Lowey/Leone Productions)

Kid From Brooklyn, The . Danny Kaye rose from an improv comic to become a superstar.

United Center

Kooza. Acrobats, clowns and comedy all under one roof.

Royal George Theatre Center

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

Annoyance Theatre
(Late Nite Tit-Bits)

Late Nite Tit-Bits. It's time to get naughty...

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

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

Bailiwick Repertory
(Split Britches)

Lesbians Who Kill. It's even better than the movie "Monster."

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

Lion in Winter, The . Goldman merges fiction and past events to retell a powerful history.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Lonesome Losers of the Night. The Belgian-French speaking songwriter's work gets a new revue.

Water Tower Water Works
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Lookingglass Alice. The acrobatic Alice is back again.

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.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mark of Zorro, The. Behold, the expert swordsman Zorro!

McAninch Arts Center
(Buffalo Theatre Ensemble)

Melville Boys, The. These two brothers couldn't have planned this weekend.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

VFW Berwyn
(New Branch Theatre Company)

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

Chopin Theatre
(Strange Tree Group)

Mysterious Elephant and the Terrible Tragedy of the Unlikely Addington Twins (*Who Kill Him), The. Save the elephant.

Sideproject Theater
(Bruised Orange Theater Company)

Nebraska Project, The . Bruce Springsteen's back. Yep.

Marriott Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

Nunsense. Sister Julia accidentally poisoned 54 nuns. What now?

North Shore Center for Performing Arts
(Orchestra Tanguisimo and ex-cast of "Broadway Show Forever Tango")

Paris Buenos Aires Tango Show. Tango, tango, tango.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)

Perfect Wave, The . Can Kip Hardburn and his surfer dude friends save the summer?

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHamily. Short-form improv, pHamily-style.

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHreedom pHalls: StapH Infection. Rx for dull times? Improv spoofs of hospital t.v. shows!

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.

Playground Theater

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

Noyes Cultural Arts Center
(Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre)

Porgy and Bess. Since 1935, Gershwin's "American folk opera" has wowed audiences.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

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

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.

Heartland Cafe
(The PEOPLE*S Theater of Chicago)

Questa. Seven New Yorkers meet one another after suspected "gay bashing."

Profiles Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)

Rag and Bone. Buy and sell hearts on the black market—they'll change your life.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Relatively Close. Families are the funniest.

Prop Thtr
(Factory Theater)

Ren Faire: A Fistful of Ducats. Summer fairs duke it out.

The Cornservatory
(Astonrep Theatre Company)

Rusty Pipe. What happens when two men find a little rusty pipe?

Drury Lane Water Tower Place
(Broadway In Chicago)

Shout! The Mod Musical. Five women in 1960s England make musical history.

City Lit Theatre
(Promethean Theater Ensemble)

Six Characters in Search of an Author. Six characters show up, but where's the plot?

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Speedating. The fast-paced, modern dating phenomena leaves the bars and hits the stage.

Trap Door Theatre
(Point of Contention)

Still Photos. Forbidden love flourishes during wartime.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Produced by Shane Portman)

Story of Francis and Wild Gil, The . Two bank robbers escape jail so they can start their lives over.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf )

Superior Donuts. What would you do if you owned a tore-up donut shop?

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

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

Oracle Theatre
(Oracle Theatre )

Termen Vox Machina. It's a sci-fi radio drama like no other.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

Those Sensational Soulful '60s. Remember the 1960s?

Berger Park Coach House
(The Journeymen)

tick, tick...BOOM. The guy who wrote "Rent" actually did do some other work.

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. Sip it all in at a 1920s speakeasy.

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.

Redtwist Theatre (formerly Actors Workshop theatre)
(Redtwist Theatre (formerly Actors Workshop theatre))

True West. A modern-day riff on Cain and Abel.

The Gift Theatre Company
(Gift)

W;T. One English poetry professor must conquer death and life simultaneously.

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight. A satirical turn on current events.

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

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

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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