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Events on July 26th For Highland Park, IL 60035

DateandDash Speed Dating Party for Gay Men

The Spot (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:30pm (Ages 21-39)
Full Price: $32.00   Our Price: $16.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
DateandDash hosts a speed dating party for gay men ages 21-40. You will be able to meet other singles in the relaxed, no pressure atmosphere for mini dates. Enjoy a free drink and complimentary appetizers as well. For complete privacy, The Spot's VIP room will be exclusively reserved for the DateandDash party.  Learn More

pHrenzy - Dazzling Improv with Audience Participation

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 12:30am (Friday night/Saturday morning)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 1.0 stars
Now in its sixth season, pHrenzy is the original pH show to dazzle audiences. The premise is simple and fun: eight players start the show and one by one they will be voted out by a series of arbitrary rules and audience votes. At the end of the show only one player will be left standing as the ultimate pHrenzy champion and will take home the pHrenzy tropHy.  Learn More

Massages, Facials and More from Amber Spa

Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $75.00 - $160.00   Our Price: $37.50 - $80.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Amber Spa combines a peaceful and beautifully modern environment with a highly trained, friendly staff to offer the most advanced spa services available. Enjoy facials, massages, manicures, pedicures, waxing and body treatments, and more in a tranquil atmosphere with beautiful paintings and stained glass works on display.  Learn More

Hot Saturday Nights: Late Night Tit-Bits & Skinprov

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Annoyance Productions dives into the heat of Saturday night by doing the only sensible thing — getting undressed. With a double-bill Saturday night the theatre gets racy, debuting the Burlesque-cum-Improv shows "Late Night Tit-Bits" (featuring seven stimulating ladies), and "Skinprov" (featuring six shirtless men). The only thing more sparse than the clothing will be the paper-thin plots.  Learn More

Dead Man's Cell Phone, A Quirky Comic Adventure at Steppenwolf Theatre

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: FREE - $34.00*
Rated: 2.4 stars
Jean is sleepwalking through her life until she answers a dead man's cell phone. It turns out to be a wake-up call that sends her on a date with the dead man's brother, a drinking binge with his wife, and a mysterious rendezvous with his mistress—leading Jean to rediscover herself.  Learn More

Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor at the Raven Theatre

Raven East Stage (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
The Raven Theatre presents Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Based loosely on Simon's early career, when he worked for Sid Caesar's legendary Your Show of Shows alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Woody Allen, the play tells the story of Max Prince, star of a '50s variety show, and the outrageous antics of his team of writers.  Learn More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame with a Bold New Musical Score at Bailiwick Rep

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $45.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $22.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame tells of the love triangle between a gypsy, Esmeralda; a priest, Frollo; and a deformed bell-ringer, Quasimodo. With book, music and lyrics by rock legend Dennis DeYoung ("Lady," "Come Sail Away," "Mr. Roboto"), this classic story is told in a bold new adaptation.  Learn More

Summer Surf Comedy The Perfect Wave from Annoyance Productions

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
Rated: 1.5 stars
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

Neil Simon's Plaza Suite at Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
One of Neil Simon's most popular and celebrated plays, Plaza Suite details the misadventures of three very different couples as they face crucial moments in their respective lives—all in the same hotel room at the world-famous Plaza Hotel. Plaza Suite showcases Simon at his best: witty, clever and relentlessly funny.  Learn More

Michael McKean in Superior Donuts by 2008 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, at Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: FREE - $34.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Michael McKean (This is Spinal Tap, Laverne and Shirley) stars in Superior Donuts, a provocative new comedy by 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts. Arthur (McKean) owns a decrepit donut shop in the uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Franco, a black teenager who is his only employee, wants to change the shop for the better. Set in one of Chicago's most diverse communities, this world-premiere highlights the redemptive power of friendship.  Learn More

"Heartfelt" Comedy Rag and Bone from Rubicon Theatre Project

Profiles Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.4 stars
What happens when one man receives the heart of another? Two brothers, Jeff and George, run The Ladder Store—which is actually a front for their black-market business of buying and selling hearts. This heartfelt (excuse the pun) comedy is about the limits of feeling, and the consequences of either feeling nothing or too much.  Learn More

Wheel of pHortune: A Different Type of Improv at Every Show!

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Wheel of pHortune invites the audience—and fate—to decide the type of improvisation show to be performed each week! A variety of improv "forms" are attached to the Wheel of pHortune. Once an audience member spins the wheel, one of those styles will be selected for the performance.  Learn More

Gender-Bending Satire Lesbians Who Kill at Bailiwick Art Center

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Lesbians Who Kill is a satirical gender-bending look at what might motivate women—lesbians in particular—to become killers. Through musical numbers, parody and memorable movie moments, this imaginative, unconventional play aggressively explores anger, s*xism and violent impulses.  Learn More

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief — An Othello Parody, Songs & Skits

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Re-imagining the last days of Desdemona's life, The Mill's production draws inspiration from the structure of early burlesque, using original songs and skits that poke fun at Othello and contemporary gender politics to make up the first act, and finishing with a parody by Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) of one of Shakespeare's great plays.  Learn More

Factory Theater Presents: Ren Faire! — A Renaissance Faire Meets A Wild West Show

Prop Thtr (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
What happens when a Renaissance Faire gets into a turf war with the Wild West show across the interstate? Well, if you think things got dicey between The Sharks and The Jets, you can't imagine what happens when knights square off against cowboys in this swashbuckling shoot-'em-up featuring music, mayhem and much more.  Learn More

Shameless Shamuses: Factory Theater's Slapstick Detective Comedy

Prop Thtr (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Factory Theatre presents Ernie Deak's Shameless Shamuses, a wacky comedy about Duck, Dodge, and Hyde, three incompetent detectives thrown into a bizarre case. Part Marx Brothers, part Three Stooges, this high-energy slapstick romp takes its cues from classic vaudeville comedy.  Learn More

Classic Tragedy Medea, Reimagined by Dream Theatre Company

Dream Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Jeremy Menekseoglu's Medea is a visceral reimagining of the classic tragedy that turns its focus to the children's psychological trauma caused by divorce and abandonment. A chorus of wayward girls converges on a torn family. A wife clings to the passion of her past while neglecting her offspring. A man's rage cannot be tempered by the virgin's kindness and logic. Will a wife temper her madness long enough to get a husband's love to return?  Learn More

Dangerous Beauty: World Premiere of Musical About Renaissance Courtesan/Poet

Ethel M. Barber Theater (Evanston, IL)
Saturday, Jul. 26 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Northwestern University is proud to host the world premiere of Dangerous Beauty, a musical which tells the tumultuous tale of Veronica Franco, a notorious courtesan and poet of 16th century Venice. Featuring a score that combines the best of classical and pop styles, it's based on playwright Jeannine Dominy's screenplay for the acclaimed motion picture of the same name.  Learn More

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