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Bernarda Alba, A New Musical Based on Federico García Lorca's Play

Heartland Studio Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 2:00pm
and 20 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $11.00*
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This stirring musical by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine), based on Federico García Lorca's 1936 play The House of Bernarda Alba, tells the story of a controlling, newly widowed mother who is challenged by her five rebellious daughters. The show premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center in a production starring Phylicia Rashad and Daphne Rubin-Vega.  Learn More

Dashiell Hamlet: A Stylized Mystery Based on Shakespeare's Tragedy

City Lit Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Sep. 12 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Saturday, Sep. 13 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 19 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $9.00 - $12.50*
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Dashiell Hamlet is a film noir-style telling of Shakespeare's tragedy, set in 1945 Los Angeles. Nat Hamill, scion of the family that owns Hollywood's Majestic Studios, returns home from the war to find that his recently deceased father may have been murdered.  Learn More

Fake Lake - A True Story Performed in a Real Pool

Wells Park Swimming Pool (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Sep. 5 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Sep. 11 @ 8:00pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: SOLD OUT*
Rated: 4.0 stars
The Neo-Futurists slip into their swimsuits to tell the true story of a journey to one of the most beautiful and bizarre places in America. A group of strangers made an impulsive trip to Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir in the middle of the Utah desert with a rich and controversial history. This site-specific piece will be performed in and around the Wells Park Swimming Pool.  Learn More

Short Shorts: Three Short Comic Plays at the Annoyance Theatre

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Sep. 7 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, Sep. 14 @ 7:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $7.00   Our Price: SOLD OUT*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Chicago's Annoyance Theatre presents Short Shorts, a program of three short plays. Deprived is a one-act musical about three lonely people trapped in a sleep study experiment; Hipsters concerns two men competing for the love of a woman; Jacoby's Promise takes place at a neighborhood sleepover, as a family's bizarre quirks and rituals are revealed.  Learn More

Marry Me, You Idiot!: Comic Musical at the Annoyance Theatre

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Sep. 5 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Sep. 12 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
The Annoyance Theatre presents the world premiere of Marry Me, You Idiot!. It's the story of Andy and Tracy, and the effect their relationship has on their parents, friends, co-workers, and Tracy's sister, who happens to look exactly like Andy's late fiancee.  Learn More

Scenes from the Big Picture — A Medley of Contemporary Irish Stories

The Storefront Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Sep. 5 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, Sep. 6 @ 7:30pm
and 13 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Continuing Seanachai Theatre's tradition of Irish storytelling, this play, written by Owen McCafferty, smashes the "big picture" into vivid snapshots of intimate groups of people. Moving from shops to pubs to life on the street, the urban story masterfully weaves together the lives of 20 characters in 40 scenes into a 24-hour slice of contemporary Belfast life.  Learn More

The Texas Chainsaw Musical: Raucous Stage Parody of Horror Classic

National Pastime Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Sep. 26 @ 11:00pm
Saturday, Sep. 27 @ 11:00pm
and 10 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
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New Millennium Theatre Company presents The Texas Chainsaw Musical, a hilarious musical parody of the cult classic horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. From the team behind the hit Evil Dead: The Musical, the show presents the story of Leatherface, his gruesome relatives, and the unfortunate travellers who visit them, with live musical accompaniment by "The Family Band".  Learn More

Stimulating Drama Jesus Hopped the A Train from Raven Theatre

Raven East Stage (Chicago, IL)
Tuesday, Oct. 7 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Wednesday, Oct. 8 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 28 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
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Raven Theatre begins its 26th season with the playwright responsible for The Last Days of Judas Escariot and Our Lady of 121st Street. Stephen Adly Guirgis' plays mine his conflicted youth (attending Catholic parochial school in Harlem) to combine spiritual and religious themes with the rough streets of New York.  Learn More

Summer Surf Comedy The Perfect Wave from Annoyance Productions

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Sep. 6 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Sep. 13 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
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Kip Hardburn is the gnarliest surfer in the town of Ondo Perfecto. He and his bros are amped for another fun summer until real estate magnate France Germany plans to buy the beach and turn their surf spot into condos. Now, Kip and the gang's only chance to have their beach back is to win the local surf competition and buy the beach themselves!  Learn More

Robert Rauschenberg Tribute bobrauschenbergamerica: Stories, Music and Chicken Jokes

Gorilla Tango Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Sep. 5 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Sep. 6 @ 8:00pm
and 10 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
A tribute to the profoundly influential visual artist Robert Rauschenberg (who passed away in May), bobrauschenbergamerica is a collage of characters, stories, movement, music, lovers' spats and chicken jokes. Much like Rauschenberg's famous "combines," which incorporated everything from paint and photographs to busted tires and taxidermied animals, this play mixes the mundane and the sublime in a daring exploration of the American experience.  Learn More

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy! — Improv and Sketch Comedy Showcase

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Sep. 6 @ 10:30pm (Attila, Counterproductive Lover, Angerstien St )
Saturday, Sep. 13 @ 10:30pm (Panty Filers, B.C., Cornwallis )
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents their Comedy Showcase featuring local improv and sketch comedy groups performing on stage with a hilarious stand-up comic as host. A laugh-out-loud great night out!  Learn More

Tommy's Place: "Sweetly Goofy" Comic Play at Annoyance Theatre

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Sep. 11 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Sep. 18 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Sep. 25 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Annoyance Theatre presents the world premiere of Tommy's Place. Expanded from a successful one-act show at the theater, it's the story of a chance meeting between a neighborhood advocate, a pizza delivery boy and an ex-dock worker at the title apartment. The Chicago Reader described the show as "sweetly goofy".  Learn More

Horror-Master Clive Barker's Frankenstein in Love

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Sep. 25 @ 7:30pm
Friday, Sep. 26 @ 7:30pm
and 15 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
A political revolution in a fictional South American country has turned the world upside down and opened the door to a secret laboratory, allowing chaos and monsters to escape. El Coco, the leader of this rebellion, is himself a created monster, with a never-ending desire to be human, overcoming his murderous instincts and unnatural appetites. And nothing, he soon discovers, is more human than finding love.  Learn More

Party of One, A Clown-Style Adventure at Chicago DCA Theater

Studio Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Nov. 8 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, Nov. 9 @ 3:00pm
and 9 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Journey through the psyche of Captain Melisande Blue in Noel Williams' award-winning Pochinko clown and Bouffon-style show. Packed and ready to go, Mel and her baggage find themselves at a train station exiled for "loving a little too much." Her divine ride features a feisty turnstile, dinner dates with luggage, and a two-and-a-half-foot mini version of "Gone with the Wind."  Learn More

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