23 shows found.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Blue Bayou
Performances: Thursday 10 p.m.
Tickets: Free
Closes: N/A.
Want to see a little something-something, but pay a lot of nothing-nothing? Belly up to Vaudezilla's Bartop Burlesque, a no-cover, low-covering striptease show at the Blue Bayou. It happens every Thursday night, and features a rotating schedule of Vaudezillian vixens, wearing nothing but their smiles and their etceteras. Get more details...
Company: Second City
Venue: Second City
Performances: Monday 8 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($19)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Second City
Venue: Second City
Performances: Tuesday 8 p.m., Wednesday 8 p.m., Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $19–$25
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Briar Street Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 8 p.m., Wednesday 8 p.m., Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 7 & 10 p.m., Saturday 4, 7 & 10 p.m., Sunday 1, 4 & 7 p.m.
Tickets: $50+
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Pub Theater
Performances: Friday 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Chicago Dramatists
Performances: Saturday 2 p.m.
Tickets: $20 ($5 donation)
Closes: N/A.
If you like to be there at the beginning, you have to be there for the Saturday Series. Chicago Dramatists' weekly staged readings have seen many fortuitous births, including Keith Huff's Broadway hit "A Steady Rain." Get more details...
Company: Chicago Underground Comedy
Venue: Beat Kitchen
Performances: Tuesday 8 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($5)
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: City Lit
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$28.50
Closes: Runs Through May 19
A world premiere play based on an astounding true story, "Comrades Mine" dramatizes the already-quite-dramatic career of Emma Edmonds, who dressed up as a men and served for two years in the Army of the Potomac. The third installment in City Lit's Civil War Sesquicentennial project, this play shines a light on a little-known character who seems impossibly Shakespearean, but is as historical as Lincoln. Critics say it's an atmospheric, touching story, brought to life with honest performances. Get more details...
Company: BLEWT! Productions
Venue: Playground Theater
Performances: Saturday midnight (first Saturday every month)
Tickets: < $20 ($10; $5 students)
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Aloft Loft
Performances: Friday 10 p.m. (April 2 2010 only), Saturday 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. (first or second Saturdays)
Tickets: $5-$10
Closes: N/A.
Can't shell out 200 big ones for Cirque du Soleil? Shell out 15 for El Circo Cheapo, a monthly spectacular for the New Depression. In lieu of a big-top and mega-bucks, they've got a converted warehouse space, talent and spunk. Featuring a rotating cast of Chicago's most fearless and flexible young performers, this reliably sold-out event has a surprise inside, every time. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Theater Wit
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $55-$95 (season pass)
Closes: Runs Through Jun 16
Playwright Qui Nguyen’s geek action operas, fan favorites in NYC, have been invading Chicago recently, with productions of “Soul Samurai” and “She Fights Monsters” winning critical raves. Nguyen’s latest Midwest premiere, opening with Infusion Theatre this weekend, is a Lucas-esque epic about E-V, a battle-hardened prize-fighter who is also the last living female human. Get more details...What is a fringe company to do with an oft-produced classic of the American? Get it dirty, for a start. Mary-Arrchie’s version of Tennesee Willams’ ethereal, heartbreaking “memory play” grunges up the script’s surfaces, turning narrator Tom from a poet who escaped from an oppressive home into a street-person whose escape left him homeless. It’s a daring change, but critics say it’s one of the best Menageries to hit Chicago in decades. Get more details...Welcome to the Chicago premiere of a play by this writer... maybe you've heard of him... William Shakespeare? Critics say that Barbara Gaines’s witty, fast moving, and pulpily dramatic version of the Bard’s rarely performed final history play wins by focusing on Henry’s women (wives one through two), and letting some of what Shakespeare left unsaid peek through his words. With Chicago acting royalty like Ora Jones onstage, this might be among the best productions of Henry VIII in the past 400 years. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Chicago Dramatists
Performances: Wednesday 8 p.m. (last Wednesday of each month)
Tickets: Free
Closes: N/A.
Mix it up with Chicago Dramatists' monthly short-theatre event. Playwrights get a surprise theme, a week to write and an hour to rehearse. The topic for May is consumption, so come hungry. Not sure that this sort of speed cookery is the best recipe for a night out? Don't worry. This menu of new plays won't cost you a dime. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Book Cellar
Performances: Saturday 7 p.m. (last Sat of mo) & 8 p.m. (2nd Sat of mo)
Tickets: $10
Closes: N/A.
If someone tells you that women aren't funny, march that person right over to the Book Cellar for an evening of cupcakes and comedy. On second thought, don't. More cupcakes for the rest of us. This informal evening of sharp stand-up features a rotating cast of Chicago's best female jokers. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Links Hall
Performances: Friday 8 p.m, Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $10-$15
Closes: N/A.
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10-$20
Closes: Runs Through Jun 22
Smart, brave, strong, whatever… who’s the prettiest? The Neo’s latest theatrical thought experiment examines American femininity via image and reality, juxtaposing the pageant process with stories of real girls attempting to become the five real women that star in the show. Expect surprises, deep thinking, and plenty of laughs. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Oracle Theatre
Performances: Monday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: Free
Closes: Runs Through May 25
Brecht haters, prepare to be won over. This loud, sweaty staging of "The Mother" counters the political dramatist's famous 'distancing' effect by placing the audience smack in the action, sitting at five long, beer-hall-style tables that double as elevated stages. Best of all, since Oracle is committed to public access theatre, you and your comrades can watch Pelegea Vlassova transform from timid widow to ferocious Bolshevik for absolutely free. Get more details...When "Pal Joey" opened in 1940, it was the biggest musical on Broadway. Critics say that the current Porchlight revival, at Stage 773, is considerably cozier, but no less delightful for it. Porchlight's take on this tale of an amoral but charming nightclub performer who bewitches (and bothers, and bewilders) a wealthy married woman is wittily choreographed and vivaciously performed. You don't have to be a musical theatre history buff to get swept off your feet by this roguish dancer. Get more details...CST's World's Stage program has been bringing international art-house hits to Navy Pier for years. Their latest, a harrowing exploration of the sex-trafficking industry, does not take place on Navy Pier. Instead, audiences will be bussed from the theatre to an undisclosed location, where, trapped like voyeurs inside a real Chicago apartment, they will watch a young victim struggle with the greatest disaster of her life. It's the furthest thing from a fun spring evening, but according to reviews, it's a gripping, devastating and important piece of art. Get more details...Squeeeeeee! "Speech and Debate" is back at American Theatre Company! This Stephen Karam play, about a web-based student/teacher sex scandal, is both funny and deliciously overblown, like a John Hughes classic deformed by Facebook. When it made its regional debut here in 2008, the ebullient ATC production turned critics and audiences into swooning teenage fanboys. Sadieh Rifai, who stole the show five years ago, will return as video blogger/unredeemable “Wicked” fan Dawita. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Haymarket Pub & Brewery
Performances: Monday 8:30 pm
Tickets:
Closes: N/A.
Feeling green? Covet thy neighbors whatever this Monday at the Haymarket. The Moth's can't-miss formula gives those brave enough to put their names in the hat (and lucky enough to be chosen) an appreciative audience of several hundred. Shyer people just get a night of killer, low-key entertainment. This month, the theme is "Envy." Get more details...
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Wednesday 11 p.m. (12/31 only), Friday 11:30 p.m. , Saturday 11:30 p.m. , Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($7 plus roll of one die)
Closes: N/A.
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