20 shows found.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Cadillac Palace Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.
Tickets: $27.55-$77.50
Closes: Runs Through Feb 14
Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning hit starts pummeling its audience at word one and doesn't let up for three and a half hours. Several generations of Westons, called together by the disappearance of their patriarch, find themselves crammed together in a stultifying house with nothing to do but take names and break china. Most plays with this setup would hinge on a family secret; "August" is working with at least twelve. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Playground Theater
Performances: Saturday midnight, fourth Saturday of the month
Tickets: < $20
Closes: N/A.
Chicago's favorite BYOB burlesque show invites you to bring your hooch down to the Playground for a little hoochy-koo. The Belmont Bombshells are sweet, giggly, artsy-girl-next-door types, Host Jack Midnight has a great laid-back alcoholic schtick, and the evening as a whole has a playful, old-timey patina. 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. & 9:30 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($15)
Closes: N/A.
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: Saturday 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. (every first Sat. of the month)
Tickets: $5-$10
Closes: N/A.
Can't shell out 200 big ones for Cirque du Soleil? Shell out 10 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: Steep Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m, Saturday 8 p.m.
Tickets: $18
Closes: Runs Through Feb 27
There's something so Chicago about Steep, something warm, yet gritty, and neighborly in a lawnless sort of way. The company's an easy fit for the down-at-the-heels, well-diversified hood of Edgewater. This month, the theater that seems most profoundly at home presents a show about a woman who's ultimately displaced: Harper Regan, a Brit who opens the door of her family home and keeps on walking. Get more details...
Company: Lookingglass Theatre Company
Venue: Goodman Theatre
Performances: Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. , Saturday 3 & 7:30 p.m. (No show April 10), Sunday 3 & 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$70
Closes: Runs Through May 23
Lookingglass remounts its 2006 hit about a misfit god and his struggle for acceptance. Visually ravishing, the show is little more than a series of jaw-dropping circus acts strung together by narration from a silver-voiced moppet. It's not the most sophisticated storytelling technique, but it delivers a gut punch of longing and awe. Earthbound audiences, like poor lame Hephaestus, can't help but worship these big-top deities. Get more details...
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m, Saturday 8 p.m.
Tickets: $8-$10
Closes: Runs Through Mar 13
Why would you want to see a play about photography? Because it's Greg Allen, that's why. The Neo-futurist patriarch directs writer/performers Caitlin Stainken and Jeremy Sher in what is sure to be a multi-faceted, funny and mind-opening exploration of the captured image. Hang on to your souls. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: BoHo Theatre at Heartland Studio
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Closes: Runs Through Feb 13
BoHo excels at packing outsize musicals into its bite-size space. Its latest production may have an unusually small cast (one), but it deals with a personality of epic proportions. "I Am My Own Wife" tells the story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who led an underground saloon and somehow survived both the Nazis and the Communists. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Book Cellar
Performances: Saturday 7 p.m. (last Saturday of the month)
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.Critics praise the cozy, sugar-fueled feel and the hosting skills of ringleader Kelsie Huff. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Profiles Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m, Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$35
Closes: Runs Through Feb 28
Profiles, which specializes in plays by the alarmingly prolific Neil Labute, is finally producing a really mean playwright: the young Tracy Letts. "Killer Joe," the Pulitzer winner's first hit, was a genuine '80s storefront sensation. Raw and shocking, it turns out to be an inspiring match for Profile's tense, intimate acting style. Critics say that this production will turn your stomach and break your heart. 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: N/A.
Venue: City Lit
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $25
Closes: Runs Through Feb 21
Bloody, yet surprisingly funny, this intimate production of the Scottish play is never afraid to tease the bruise-black humor from moments we all thought couldn't possibly be played for laughs. But don't expect a light comic evening. The play has both violence and supernatural dread. Watch out for those witches: scant-haired, scab-faced and seven feet tall. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Building Stage
Performances:
Tickets: TBA
Closes: Runs Through Mar 14
The Building Stage is known for the bare-bones lyricism of its devised productions. Its latest piece, however, is based on one of the most famously overstuffed dramas in history, Wagner's fantastic, bombastic opera trilogy about helmeted gods. How will TBS's spare style jibe with all of those dragons, nymphs and horny hats? It'll only take you six hours to find out. Get more details...
Company: Barrel of Monkeys
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Monday 8 p.m. (March 15 2009 and on), Sunday 2 p.m (Through April 4 2009)
Tickets: $50-$20
Closes: N/A.
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.
The House Theatre gets out of our dreams and into our apocalyptic near futures. "Wilson Wants it All," set in 2040, will show us an America steeped in media and split down the middle. And this is the future how, exactly? Director Michael Rohd shares script duties with Phillip C. Klapperich, whose writing is somehow both childlike and merciless. Get more details... |
