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The Chicago Bulls host their longtime rivals, the Detroit Pistons, at the United Center. The classic NBA rivalry was rekindled this summer, when former Bulls guard Ben Gordon signed with the Pistons. The Bulls' stars include spectacular point guard and 2009 Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose. Learn more...

Derrick Rose, Luol Deng, Joakim Noah and the Chicago Bulls host the New York Knicks at the United Center. The Bulls are led by 2009 Rookie of the Year Rose, one of the league's brightest rising stars. Mike D'Antoni's Knicks are known for their fast-paced offense. Learn more...

Chris Bosh and the Toronto Raptors face the Chicago Bulls in NBA action. The Bulls are led by 2009 Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose and high-scoring small forward Luol Deng. 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...

Come see the acclaimed Chicago theater mainstay Tony n' Tina's Wedding as it celebrates 15 years on stage. Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, where you won't just see a show--you'll be a part of it! Tony n' Tina's Wedding includes a pre-wedding cocktail cash bar, a ceremony full of mishaps and madcap comedy, and an evening of dinner, music and dancing. Learn more...

Bring the family out for an adventure at this giant indoor LEGO world, featuring hands-on LEGO activities and theme park attractions. Guests can enjoy such fabulous attractions as the brand new Technicycle ride, a LEGO factory tour, the Dragon Ride, and the 4D movie theatre. Build your own LEGO creations with the help of a Master Model Builder. Learn more...

Now at the Apollo Theater after a sold-out limited engagement, the new musical Million Dollar Quartet recaptures the memorable December 4, 1956 night when legends Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins met in Memphis for an impromptu jam session. The show is loaded with rock 'n' roll hits such as "Blue Suede Shoes," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire." Learn more...

Eclipse Theatre Company presents Romulus Linney's historical drama Democracy. In the potitical society of 1870s Washington, two beautiful women must decide whether to marry two men. This scathingly funny, insightful play, based on two novels by Henry Adams, is set against the backdrop of Ulysses S. Grant's scandal-plagued administration. 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...

Kevin Pollak (The Whole Nine Yards, The Usual Suspects) is known for his wide range as an actor, but for the last two decades, he's also been one of the country's top headlining comics. See him as he performs stand-up at the world-famous Improv. Learn more...

Two actors take on innumerable dramatis personae in Charles Ludlam's high-camp quick-change act. Vep satirizes all that is ridiculous in Gothic horror, Victorian melodrama, classic film, and conventional theater--and it's also a contender for the funniest American play of the last quarter-century. Learn more...

Raven Theatre presents Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Justly revered as one of the finest plays in American history, the story of traveling salesman Willy loman and his desperate pursuit of the American Dream remains stunningly powerful and tragic today. Learn more...

Chicago Shakespeare Theatre presents Richard III. The classic story of a deformed king whose nefarious schemes lead him to the throne and threaten the safety of England was Shakespeare's first great stage success, and remains wildly popular. Helen Hayes Award-winning actor Wallace Acton plays the title role. 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...

Set in the dank, gray moors of Scotland, this fantastical excursion follows a lovable American woman named Christine and her obsessive quest to be close to her favorite author, Ingrid. While narrating with the fervor of an aspiring writer, the humorously skittish Christine attempts to appropriate Ingrid's character, and in the process is forced to deconstruct her own illusions of love and happiness. 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...

Coed Prison Sluts, the critically acclaimed, longest running musical in Chicago history, tells the story of the inane residents of a prison who live in fear of the arrival of a clown. Learn more...

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...

A young advertising executive reaches the breaking point and decides to disappear. He turns to an expert for a detailed lesson in the art of escape. The mission? To dispose of everything that defined his former self. How to Disappear... is an adrenaline-charged play that won the 38th Arts Council John Whiting Award for New Theatre Writing and a 2007 Peter Brook Award. Learn more...

Bernard Haitink conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program highlighted by Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream. The program also features two works by Maurice Ravel, including pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Learn more...

Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain. Learn more...

Thodos Dance Chicago performs their 2009 fall concert at Skokie's North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. Acclaimed for their atletic, elegant style of contemporary dance, their program includes three works by legendary choreographer Bob Fosse, two of which have never before been performed live. Learn more...

In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. On September 12, 2001, Ben Harcourt finds himself in the downtown apartment of his lover, Abby Prescott. Over the course of the night, Ben and Abby explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they knew just the day before. LaBute presents the brutal realities of their relationship and explores whether one can be truly opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness. Learn more...

The Philadelphia 76ers face the Chicago Bulls at the United Center. The Bulls are hoping to build on last season's playoff run; they're counting on defending Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose, small forward Luol Deng, and team captain Kirk Hinrich. Learn more...

In 1914, renowned mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites four guests to his English country home. Each visitor has a connection to the infamous "Piltdown Man," purported to be the missing link between ape and man--later exposed as a hoax. Swinging back and forth through time, Fake investigates how "Piltdown" rattled assumptions about evolution, faith and science--and how we are transformed by our quest for the truth. Learn more...

Chicago's oldest cemetery is the backdrop for Graceland, the story of four lonely Chicagoans -- including a brother and sister dealing with their father's suicide -- whose lives collide one August weekend while the Blue Angels airshow is in town. This world premiere comedy-drama deals with the loneliness of family, the tenderness of strangers and the unexpected benefits of bad decisions. Learn more...

The classic comedy about a pair of elderly sisters with murder on their minds comes to Northwestern. A clever combination of the farcical and the macabre, Arsenic and Old Lace centers on the two women, who are charitable to everyone but the men who show up on their doorstep. Not helping matters is their befuddled nephew who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt. Learn more...

The Denver Nuggets make their only visit to Chicago this season, taking on Derrick Rose, Luol Deng and the Bulls. The Nuggets made it to the Western Conference finals last season behind the play of Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups. Learn more...

Be in the audience for a taping of the hilarious weekly news quiz from NPR and Chicago Public Radio, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Each week on the radio, you can test your knowledge against some of the news and entertainment world's best and brightest. Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell, and company take a fast-paced, irreverent look at the week's events. Guest panelists rotate weekly, like comedian Paula Poundstone, author Roy Blount Jr., and The Daily Show's Mo Rocca. Learn more...

The world's first family, a colony of salt-eating yeasts, float in the brine of the primordial soup under the rule of a tyrannical baritone. When resources deplete and fear pervades, the faith of a single-celled dreamer starts an evolutionary chain reaction that changes the course of existence forever. Learn more...

Lincoln Park Massage Spa invites you to a sanctuary in the city, created with your satisfaction in mind. Discover comfort, serenity and balance during a decadent 90 minute spa experience of your choice. Learn more...

Led by Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet specializes in commissioning new works from today's most innovative and sought-after choreographers. The company of 16 talented dancers from around the world will bring three Chicago premieres to the Auditorium Theatre. Learn more...

Remy Bumppo Theatre Co. presents Heroes. Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning translation of Gerald Sibleyras's comedy tells the funny and bittersweet story of three French World War I veterans who keep each other company on the back terrace of a retired soldiers' home, exchanging quips and plotting to escape to a grand adventure in Indochina. Learn more...

Every weekend, Laugh Out Loud Theater offers fully improvised comedy shows in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway? in an intimate, cabaret setting. It's never the same show twice, as each performance combines live action, video and the audience into a unique, laugh-filled evening. 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...

Featuring eight ensemble members in a passion-filled production of this classic story, Ivanov swings wildly from comedy to tragedy. In a community obsessed with gossip and greed, the brilliant Ivanov has fallen out of love with his wife and his friends and bankrupted his land, only to be dangerously attracted to the beautiful young daughter of his creditor. Learn more...

Set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans' French Quarter, A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche DuBois, a faded Southern belle driven to madness by fate and her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Polarity Ensemble Theatre's production breaks the play down to its essentials and rebuilds it with unique elements, such as live violin playing counterpoint to Blanche's emotional journey. Learn more...

The late Harry Chapin penned the songs for this stage musical retelling of the Gospels of Matthew and John, transported to modern day, rural Georgia. Based on the book by civil rights activist Clarence Jordan, Cotton Patch Gospel uses a rousing bluegrass score to tell the story of Jesus. 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...

River North Dance Company opens their 20th season at Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance. The acclaimed jazz dance company will present a new twist on their classic Reality of a Dreamer, a world premiere by Artistic Director Frank Chaves, and several hits from their repertory. Learn more...

Melanie Marnich's These Shining Lives is the story of four Depression-era women newly introduced to the working world at the Radium Dial factory, where they form friendships and build a shared life while painting tiny numbers onto watch faces. But their newfound independence is rocked by the discovery that the paint they're using is radioactive, leading to health problems and a lawsuit against the factory. Learn more...

For over a decade, Puppetry of the Penis has been making audiences laugh worldwide with unclad "puppeteers" who stretch themselves to the limit performing genital origami. The two performers move through a series of tricks, contorting themselves into shapes such as the "Hamburger" and "Loch Ness Monster." Learn more...

Porchlight Music Theatre presents The Fantasticks. This timeless musical tells the story of two scheming fathers who fake a feud in order to convince their children to fall in love with each other. The play's original off-Broadway production ran a record-breaking 42 years. Learn more...

The Steins are having an identity crisis: Mom has been "born again" and spends all day chatting with Jesus in the kitchen; Dad hasn't gotten out of his pajamas in weeks and is starting to smell; and 16 year old Rachel is coping by going "goth." Who will save this family? Jesus? Stephen Hawking? Or Rachel's awkward new classmate who shows up at their door in his Elvis jumpsuit? 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...

Jim Breuer headlines the Chicago Improv of Schaumburg. First gaining fame on Saturday Night Live, he now hosts Breuer Unleashed on Sirius Satellite Radio. His high-energy stand-up has been showcased on several Late Night with Conan O'Brien appearances, as well as his recent hour-long Comedy Central special Let's Clear the Air. Learn more...

Vladimir Feltsman, one of the leading pianists of his generation, plays Mozart, Chopin and Schubert at Symphony Center. He's performed around the world, made guest appearances with leading orchestras across America and beyond, and recorded numerous albums ranging from Bach to the 20th century. Learn more...

The Last Unicorn tells the tale of the most beautiful creature in all the world, immortal, and magical besides. When she hears from a pair of hunters traveling through her forest that she is the last of her kind, the Unicorn sets off on a quest to discover what has become of her lost brothers and sisters. Learn more...

With buoyant music by Stephen Flaherty and a bawdy book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime and Once on this Island), The Glorious Ones mixes the pratfalls of commedia dell'arte and classic American musical comedy in a show about the life of a clown troupe in 16th century Italy and how they captured the public's adoration. Learn more...