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Events on March 1st For Chicago, IL 60603

Dinner and a Show: Tony n' Tina's Wedding

Piper's Alley (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $60.00 - $70.00   Our Price: $30.00 - $35.00*
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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

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy! — Improv and Sketch Comedy Showcase

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:30pm (Unproductive Lover and Bust Pudding Thank You)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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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

Quadrille - A Festival of Music, Drama and Dance Starring Horses

Noble Horse Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 - $42.00   Our Price: FREE - $26.00*
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Returning to the year 1804, Napoleon's Europe, this festival features majestic white Lipizzaner and Andalusian horses performing with exciting Cossack and Gypsy riders from around the world. Quadrille is a spectacle of strength and beauty showcasing the noble horse in all its splendor. The production elegantly combines riding art, music, drama and dance.  Learn More

That's Weird, Grandma, Sketch Comedy from Barrel of Monkeys

The Neo-Futurarium (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $5.00 - $10.00   Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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Barrel of Monkeys presents That's Weird, Grandma, an assortment of scenes and songs adapted from Chicago public school students, including the revolution song "The Woman Rampage," the Tarantino inspired "Stupid" and the absurdist drama "Less/More/Add/Subtract." After teaching creative writing to students, this ensemble of actors and educators creates hilarious sketches from the children's stories.  Learn More

pHrenzy - Dazzling Improv with Audience Participation

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 12:30am (Friday night/Saturday morning)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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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

pHamily - Your Suggestions Bring A Family To Life

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $12.00   Our Price: FREE - $6.00*
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pHamily is an entirely improvised show where the audience creates the characters and calls the shots. The troupe takes one randomly selected player and explores a year in the life of that person and their family. The players use audience suggestions to create the family and all the wacky family members. This show features tons of audience participation, with the players asking you questions throughout the show!  Learn More

Graphic and Edgy Adult Improv Show pHrenzy pHucked

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 12:30am (Saturday night/Sunday morning)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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pHrenzy pHucked is a completely improvised competition where the audience decides the outcome by voting players out one by one. It's improv with a dark twist: no holds barred and nothing taboo, it's not for the faint of heart or easily offended. The show's crazy host will take the audience through the most brutally honest and graphic improv they can handle!  Learn More

Massages, Facials and More from Amber Spa

Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $75.00 - $160.00   Our Price: $37.50 - $80.00*
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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, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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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

This Is NOT Just A Bellydance Class! at Big City Swing

Big City Swing (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 9:00am
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $90.00 - $100.00   Our Price: $45.00 - $50.00*
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Bellydancing is a fun way to lose weight, tone your body, and strengthen your physique. But this is not just a regular bellydance class—it's much more. In this six-week class, students will receive health and beauty tips, individual attention from instructors, plus a free dessert!  Learn More

David and Amy Sedaris's Hilarious Play The Book of Liz

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00 - $18.00   Our Price: $6.00 - $9.00*
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Comedy writers David Sedaris (NPR, Me Talk Pretty One Day) and his sister Amy Sedaris (Comedy Central's "Strangers With Candy") teamed their considerable wits to write this wacky and outrageous parable about the adventures of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, a devoted maker of cheese balls who takes a job as a waitress.  Learn More

Melt, Tone and Shape Your Body with BellyHoop Aerobics: Six Classes

Sankofa Cultural Arts Business Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 12:30pm
Full Price: $80.00 - $100.00   Our Price: $40.00 - $50.00*
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Poke your head into a BellyHoop class and you'll see ladies drenched in sweat, but smiling and laughing. As you work out in one of these innovative classes, you'll hear fun explanations on why each move is important. You'll joke and laugh as you shake it — and get into shape. You'll burn more calories BellyHooping for 1 minute than by running for 8 minutes on the treadmill!  Learn More

Columbinus: A Play Based on the School Tragedy at Columbine

Raven East Stage (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $50.00   Our Price: FREE - $25.00*
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Columbinus is a fascinating and heartbreaking examination of human behavior based on interviews with Columbine residents. The play first creates a general world of adolescence, and then morphs into the factual events leading specifically to the school shootings. Ultimately, Columbinus asks more than just "Why?", but perhaps more importantly, "Why do people treat each other the way we do?"  Learn More

iO Presents an Improvised Musical by the Deltones

ImprovOlympic Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $14.00   Our Price: $7.00*
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One of the legendary improv theatre iO's premiere ensembles, the Deltones, perform a completely improvised musical. The cast includes members of other hit iO shows and teams including The Reckoning, Bullet Lounge, Improvised Shakespeare, Carl and the Passions and many more!  Learn More

Abortion Drama Keely and Du at Infamous Commonwealth Theatre

Raven West Stage (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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Keely, a pregnant rape victim planning an abortion, awakes in a locked room with no memory of how she got there. She learns from her elderly companion, Du, that she has been kidnapped by a pro-life group intent on forcing Keely to have her baby. What unveils is a beautiful character piece about the ongoing abortion dispute in America.  Learn More

Tony Award-Winning Political Musical 1776 at Signal Ensemble Theatre

Chopin Theatre Mainstage (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
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Set during a "hot as hell" summer in Philadelphia, 1776 is the Tony Award-winning musical about the seminal act in American history: the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Sectional differences, pride and fear threaten the Declaration and the fledgling nation. The score features hits such as "Sit Down, John," "He Plays the Violin" and "Momma Look Sharp."  Learn More

Miss Julie: The Hypocrites' Version of Strindberg's Classic

Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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The Hypocrites present an adapted version of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie. In this stinging analysis of the sexuality latent in class society, the pretense of psychological differences is stripped away to reveal a brutal portrayal of humanity. Strindberg wrote this clash of the sexes and classes as a revolutionary call to reexamine theater — a call all too urgent today.  Learn More

Honk! — Family Musical Based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling"

Prairie Lakes Theatre (Des Plaines, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $9.00 - $14.00   Our Price: $4.50 - $7.00*
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Christian Youth Theatre presents Honk, a family musical comedy based on Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale "The Ugly Duckling." A duckling's odd, gawky looks incite prejudice from his family and neighbors, but take him on a journey—where he not only discovers his true beauty, but also finds love and acceptance in all forms.  Learn More

Live Comedy at Jokes & Notes

Jokes & Notes Comedy Club (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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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

An Evening of Comic One-Acts by Chekhov at The Library Theatre

The Library Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
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The Library Theatre at Feltre presents some of the funniest of Chekhov's short stories-turned-one-acts in a vaudevillian style. These fast-paced comedic plays show how Chekhov's deep insight into human behavior and character was very often used in the service of great humor.  Learn More

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama The Time of Your Life

The Viaduct Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
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It's San Francisco, 1939. Surrounded by a world on the brink of war and ravaged by depression, Nick's Pacific Street Saloon attracts an assortment of "important nobodies" who share the common bond of searching for purpose. Their dreary routines of survival are sparked by brilliant flashes of hope and beauty as the events of a single day change their lives forever.  Learn More

William Shakespeare's Othello from Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater - Courtyard Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $44.00 - $70.00   Our Price: $22.00 - $35.00*
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Othello has been called Shakespeare's "most intimate" tragedy. Its realm is not of great kingdoms lost and won, nor of courtly politics. It is the marriage bed and not the throne that rivets our attention. Othello aspires to belong to Desdemona's world and instead becomes victim to its bigotry and his own monstrous terrors.  Learn More

Mysterious Drama Skin in Flames at Stage Left Theatre

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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In this award-winning drama by Guillem Clua (translated from the Catalan), a young girl looks gently into the camera lens, her clothes and hair aflame, thrown through the air by an exploding bomb. Twenty years later the photojournalist returns to this war-torn country and agrees to an interview with an upstart female reporter who challenges his standing as a national hero. But the hotel room where they meet holds more secrets than either expects.  Learn More

Academy Award-Winner Olympia Dukakis Directs Botanic Garden

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 4:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $35.00   Our Price: $17.50*
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Directed by Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, Botanic Garden is the story of Kate, who faces the daunting and often humorous prospect of her first date since the death of her husband, Jake. Memories her marriage force Kate to take a stark look at her present and the choices she must make as she embarks upon the next chapter of her life.  Learn More

Dark Comedy Talking It Over at Lifeline Theatre

Lifeline Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 4:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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When steady Stuart marries the enigmatic Gillian, his impetuous school chum Oliver senses that three has become a crowd. But who will end up on the outside, as this love triangle struggles to find balance? This darkly comic look at friendship, loyalty and love is at once funny and brutal.  Learn More

The Goodbye Girl: Musical Version of Neil Simon's Classic Comedy

Drury Lane Theatre (Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 5:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $29.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $14.50*
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Drury Lane Oakbrook presents The Goodbye Girl, the musical version of Neil Simon's classic comedy. Based on the Oscar-winning film, the show features music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by David Zippel. It's the story of a single mother and the struggling actor who moves into her apartment.  Learn More

Heat Wave: Pegasus Players Present

Pegasus Players at O'Rourke Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Based on the book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg, Steven Simoncic's moving new play looks at the heat wave of 1995 which took the lives of 739 Chicagoans. Simoncic presents a vivid portrait of a city in crisis, but with its resources and humanity firmly intact. Directed by Ilesa Duncan.  Learn More

A Big Blue Nail at the Victory Gardens Theater

The Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 5:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $37.00 - $45.00   Our Price: $18.50 - $22.50*
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A phantasmagorical tale that examines explorer Robert Peary's fame as the first man to reach the North Pole, which obscured the contributions of Matthew Henson, his African-American cohort who could rightfully claim the title. Now at the end of his life, with the estranged Henson knocking at his door, Peary is swept into a hallucinatory nightmare on the chaotic Polar Sea, the coast of Maine and the terrifying landscape of his guilt-ridden mind.  Learn More

Ain't Misbehavin', the Award-Winning Fats Waller Musical

The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University (University Park, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $33.00   Our Price: $16.50*
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The joint will be jumpin' when the Tony Award-winning musical revue Ain't Misbehavin' transforms the theater into a Harlem jazz hall. It's an evening of dazzling, jazzy fun with Fats Waller favorites like "Honeysuckle Rose," "Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" and "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie."  Learn More

Garth Fagan Dance Performs at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $55.00   Our Price: $27.50*
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Now in its 37th anniversary season, Garth Fagan Dance is renowned for the individuality, unmannered approach and virtuosity of its dancers. The ensemble's distinctive movement and singular dance language draws on many sources, exhibiting a true fusion of dance idioms created by its Founder and Artistic Director, Garth Fagan. This will be the company's first Chicago appearance in almost ten years.  Learn More

'Til the Fat Lady Sings: Satirical Comedy at Citadel theatre Company

Citadel Theatre Company (Lake Forest, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
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Til the Fat Lady Sings is a sharp, satirical comedy by award-winning playwright Scott McPherson Marvin's Room). It's the story of Pat and her son Sean, who are descended on by well-meaning but clueless loved ones — a hyper-ventilating neighbor, a lonely divorcee, a failed milkman, two military police, and an uncle with a camera determined to take the family portrait — who arrive to offer help and advice during a family crisis.  Learn More

True Life Tales, a New Performance Piece from Bailiwick Rep

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 11:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
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Nick, age 19, lives in Great Britain and will never be a Hollywood celeb or cover boy. What Nick does have, however, is one thing that contemporary society celebrates - a blog read by thousands around the globe. True Life Tales, a new late night performance piece, brings that blog to life on stage.  Learn More

Gladiators, Live!, an Interactive New Comedy Show

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
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Bailiwick Rep starts a new spring of Late Night Comedy with Gladiators, Live!, an exciting new interactive comedy show inspired by America's most heroic and hilarious TV show. Audience members who dress as Gladiators will be invited on stage each week to participate against each other to win cool stuff.  Learn More

Comedy Pitching Penguins from Flaxen Theater

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 5:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $38.00 - $43.00   Our Price: FREE - $21.50*
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At the Brooks & Reilly Public Relations agency, owner Bud Brooks is determined to regain the top spot among the PR agencies in town. Shedding the agency's standards, he takes any client he can find, from The Penguin Council (the other white—and black—meat) to talking silverware and Screaming Ninja Ballet Baby dolls. As things spin wildly out of control, Bud stakes his future on regaining Cellphonetics from the clutches of his former partner.  Learn More

13 Dead Husbands: New Comedy About an Oft-Widowed Woman

The Storefront Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $11.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $5.50 - $11.00*
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Sansculottes Theater Company returns to the Storefront Theater with an new comic love story about a beautiful woman and the men that go to great lengths to woo and marry her. But shortly after the wedding, each husband meets with a rapid, untimely end. As friends compete for her hand in marriage, they ask themselves, "should one of us wed her... and, if so, would we live to enjoy it?"  Learn More

Jazz-Filled Tale of Love: Carter's Way at the Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, Mar. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $34.00*
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Carter's Way, a jazz-filled tale of love, the mob and an artist's integrity, featuring original music by Darrell Leonard, written and directed by Oscar-winning ensemble member Eric Simonson. It's 1935, the middle of the Great Depression, and the peak of Kansas City's legendary jazz era, when renowned black saxophonist Oriole Carter is falling head over heels for the white girlfriend of a local mobster.  Learn More

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