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Jokes & Notes Comedy Club presents an evening of hilarious stand-up comedy. A great line-up of comics is scheduled to appear, including headliners from across the Midwest and beyond. Learn more...

Step aboard the Spirit of Chicago for unparalleled lakefront cruising fun. Dine on a delicious buffet lunch or dinner, dance, enjoy Broadway-quality entertainers and catch breathtaking views of the city's historic skyline. Learn more...

The creator of the hit Late Nite Catechism is back with another satirical look at religion. In the audience-participation comedy Saints & Sinners, Mother Superior hits upon a fundraising scheme to save her parish: sell a calendar of famous saints and sinners. The audience will have a chance to vote, ask questions, and win prizes in a trivia contest. Learn more...

You Can't Take It With You follows the clash between a conservative family and the more eccentric Sycamore-Vanderhof household. Full of fast pacing and witty one-liners, the play, written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, has entertained audiences for over 70 years. It's a classic comedy that is as fresh as ever. Learn more...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs at Symphony Center. Led by veteran conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, they'll play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 with English pianist Paul Lewis, whose recent recording of Beethoven's sonatas was named 2008's "Best Recording of the Year" by Gramophone. The program also features Schumann's Symphony No. 2. Learn more...

Based on an extraordinary true story, Calls to Blood tells the darkly comic tragedy of the perfect American couple and their seemingly impenetrable happiness even as they struggle to conceive the child they want so desperately. But in trying to find a solution to this continual failure, they unearth the one truth that can destroy everything upon which their perfect lives have been built. Learn more...

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a humorous story of a young girl from Kansas who takes New York City by storm as she flaps, taps and Charlestons her way into the Roaring '20s. Millie experiences the hustle and bustle of Jazz Age Manhattan at a time when women were just entering the workforce and rewriting society's rules. It's a funny, romantic story about following dreams and falling in love. Learn more...

Adventure Stage Chicago presents Gossamer. Based on a book by Newbery Medal-winning author Lois Lowry, Gossamer tells an inspiring story of the magical creatures who create dreams. A young Dream-Giver struggles to heal the hearts of an abused young boy and those around him in this powerful story, told with the aid of colorful projections and enchanting puppetry. Learn more...

Silent Theatre Company welcomes visitors into the mysterious underground world of a traveling carnival. In the midst of fire breathers, fortune tellers, bestial tamers and natural freaks, a somber secret lies - a curse that binds them all together. With a live band and physical acts of carnival performance, this original dark fable combines the styles of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey in a thrilling and enchanting ride through a world of whimsy and the macabre. Learn more...

Porchlight Music Theatre presents Miracle on 34th Street, a stage adaptation of the classic holiday movie. A kindly old gentleman takes a job as a department store Santa. He claims to be the genuine article, convincing a cynical divorced single mother, her somber daughter, and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth. Learn more...

Noble Fool presents a holiday-themed sequel to the musical hit Forever Plaid. Thanks to a heavenly phone call from Rosemary Clooney, the four Plaid men return to harmonize on songs from the 1930s, '40s and '50s in their own hilarious tribute to the classic Ed Sullivan Christmas Spectaculars. Learn more...

The Royal George Theatre presents Will Clinger's solo comedy about a self-help guru and infomercial celebrity who claims to have the answers to a better way of life. Clinger plays Dr. Harlon Stewart as well as ten of the doctor's devotees, who have chosen to follow his dubious advice. Learn more...

BackStage Theatre Company presents a dark and disturbing play by writer and actor Wallace Shawn (My Dinner with Andre). In Aunt Dan and Lemon, a reclusive young woman named Lemon recounts her seemingly ordinary life story, which becomes increasingly dominated by an eccentric family friend known as Aunt Dan. The play serves as a complex meditation on compassion and morality. Learn more...