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116 Performances Found

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

Garage Rep . So many shows...

Webster's Wine Bar
(Serendipity Theatre Collective)

2nd Story. Stories and wine, what more do you need?

IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Village Players Performing Arts Center
(Village Players)

A Chorus Line. I hope I get it.

Northlight Theatre
(Northlight Theatre)

A Life. A life less ordinary.

A Red Orchid Theatre

Abigail’s Party. Party hardy.

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(XIII Pocket)

Adore. A tale of love and cannibalism.

Dream Theatre

Agamemnon. It's all Greek to me.

College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center

Agnes of God. Not Nunsense.

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.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Bad Review. Don't hate bad reviews. Embrace them.

Mary's Attic
(Bare Boned Theatre)

Bare Boned Cabaret. New comedy, improv, sketch and cabaret every third Sunday of the month.

Storefront Theatre
(DCA Theater)

Beautiful City. Beautiful disaster.

Artistic Home

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

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.

Athenaeum Theatre

Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. Queen of Salsa.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Chess. Check mate.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Confessions of a Tramp Stamp. Show some ink.

Irish American Heritage Center

Dancing at Lughnasa. Bittersweet memories.

Royal George Theatre Center

Departure Lounge . The white zone is for loading and unloading only.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

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

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?

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony), The. Bow-wow.

Links Hall

Dream In with Gong Lab 03: Suite for Dreamers. Gongs away!

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Dummy. Who you calling dummy?

Town Hall Pub

Entertaining Julia. It's free, it's funny and it's full of spastic performers.

Dance Center of Columbia College

Entity. Small wonder.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Epic Proportions. Real big.

Blue Theatre
(Quest Theater Ensemble)

Evolution/Creation . It's your universe.

Playground Theater

Extended Play. Plaaaaaaaaaay

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.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Fiddler on the Roof. Quickly go the years.

The Playground Theater
(Koleno, the Panty Filers, and Hair Club for Men)

Free for All, The. Nothing's for free eh?

Strawdog Theatre
(Strawdog Theatre Company)

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

College of DuPage McAnich Arts Center

Grand Derangement!. Step dancers rock out to an explosion of lights and sound.

IO Theater

Harold, The. IO's signature, long-form improv piece.

Stage Left Theatre
(Stage Left Theatre)

Here Where It's Safe. Tangled lives.

Prop Thtr

Hey! Dancin'!. Hey what?

Court Theatre

Illusion, The. A modern adaptation.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Gorilla Tango )

Improvised Bible . A testament to the new and old testament.

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.

Profiles Theatre

Killer Joe. What a lovely family.

Royal George Theatre Center

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

Links Hall

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

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Lay of the Land. Ba-dum-bum.

Viaduct Theatre

Legion . Crab walk.

Greenhouse Theater Center
(Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Will Sarah Michelle Gellar be in it?

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(tap )

LoveTaps. Choose your own adventure tap style.

Viaduct Theatre
(LiveWire Theater Company)

Lower Debt. Downturn. All the way down.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)

Master Harold… and the Boys . Humanity here.

La Costa Theatre
(Sideshow Theatre Company)

Medea With Child. That old story?

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

Greenhouse Theater Center
(Hubris Productions)

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.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mrs. Caliban. That happened to me once.

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.

The Gift Theatre Company

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Fly away.

Noble Fool Theatricals
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

Over the Tavern. And through the woods?

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.

Point Break Live. Surf's up.

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.

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.

Second City

Rush Limbaugh! The Musical. What a Rush!

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.

(Christian Youth Theater)

Seussical Jr.. Dr. Seuss was born in San Diego. Just saying.

Donny’s Skybox Theatre
(Sheila's Sister)

Sheila’s Sister. Who's Sheila?

Mary's Attic
(Bailiwick Chicago)

Show Us Your Love. What does love sound like?

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.

Uncommon Ground

Story Club. Tell me a story.

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.

Royal George Theatre Center

Sunday School Cinema. The ruler-wielding nun sets her sights on Hollywood.

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.

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

The Flaming Dames in 'Torch'. Usually the Dames take it off. But not this time.

Prop Thtr
(Prop Theatre)

The Informer. He knows something.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

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

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.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Trust. Surfer beware.

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.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Uncle Vanya. Cry uncle.

Ruth Page Center for the Arts
(ShawChicago)

Votes For Women! . Sister suffragettes!

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?

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.

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