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Events on April 3rd For Chicago, IL 60603

NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!: Live Tapings from Chicago Public Radio

Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $21.99   Our Price: $11.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
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

Gourmet Dating — Singles Cooking Party at the Calphalon Culinary Center

Calphalon Culinary Center (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 6:30pm
Full Price: $75.00   Our Price: $37.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Parties That Cook hosts an upscale culinary event where singles learn cooking techniques, eat delectable food, and meet other fun singles. At this hands-on cooking party, guests are greeted at the door with a nibble and name tag. After an introductory cooking lesson, guests are broken into co-ed cooking teams to work on a recipe from the evening's small-plates menu, all while sipping wine and listening to upbeat music.  Learn More

iO Presents A Night of Improv With The Reckoning

ImprovOlympic Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Improv can be a challenge week after week, but The Reckoning make it look easy time and time again. One of iO's premiere House teams, The Reckoning performs a completely unique improvised show each week. The Reckoning continues to set the standard of excellence for improv comedy in Chicago. The Reckoning performs with a different set of Improv teams each week.  Learn More

Massages, Facials and More from Amber Spa

Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 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

Shecky Kulhan: Amuse-Bouche, A Dark Comedy Cabaret Solo Show

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Written and performed by Chicago improv veteran Bob Kulhan, Shecky honors the history of great physical comedy legends within the dark, twisted world of the human mind. A menacing emcee and German cabaret sidekick guide the audience through a "carnival of the mouth," meeting vaudevillian comedians, theatrical magicians and sultry singers, and encountering distortions of reality.  Learn More

Heat Wave: Pegasus Players Present

Pegasus Players at O'Rourke Center (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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

M. Butterfly from Bohemian Theatre Ensemble

Heartland Studio Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
David Henry Hwang's Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly is one of the most celebrated of recent American plays, and the first by an Asian-American to win universal acclaim. Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly is the tale of Rene Gallimard, held captive by the French government, and his memories of a love affair with Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese diva who turned out to be a spy for the Chinese government.  Learn More

Pugilist Specialist: Psychological Thriller About Political Assassins

Studio Theater (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $11.00   Our Price: $5.50*
Rated: 1.3 stars
Red Tape Theatre Co. brings a psychological thriller to the stage, when four highly trained U.S. soldiers are assigned the task of eliminating a troublesome Middle Eastern leader. Playwright Adriano Shaplin's razor sharp wit and gut-wrenching dialogue kick up enough dust to make even the staunchest patriot question America's standing in the world.  Learn More

Tennessee Williams' First Full-Length Play, Candles to the Sun

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Eclipse Theatre Company presents the Chicago premiere of Tennessee Williams' first full-length play, Candles to the Sun. Set during the Great Depression in Alabama's Red Hills coal mining region, Candles to the Sun paints a portrait of the bleak lives of the miners' families and their attempts to unionize. Recent Jeff-award winning director Steven Fedoruk (who directed Eclipse's hit Blues for an Alabama Sky) will return to direct Williams's rarely produced piece.  Learn More

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

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $34.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
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

Smart, Quirky Award-Winning Play Underneath the Lintel at City Lit Theater

City Lit Theater (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Underneath the Lintel is the story of a librarian who is searching the world to find the person who returned a book to his library 113 years overdue. The play won the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Play and Back Stage West's Garland Award for Best Play, and was one of TimeOut New York's Ten Best Plays during its Off-Broadway run.  Learn More

Carousel: "Best Musical of the Twentieth Century" (Time Magazine) at Court Theatre

Court Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $32.00 - $38.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $19.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
This Rodgers and Hammerstein masterpiece reinvented musical theatre in its day with its lush score and seamless integration of song, story, and dance. Now the piece Time Magazine named the "best musical of the twentieth century" will soar to new heights in Court Theatre's intimate space. Set in a small New England town, the story of an impulsive, brash carnival barker and his bride spans heaven and earth in its exploration of love, human frailty, and redemption.  Learn More

Off-Broadway Musical Hit A Man of No Importance from Bailiwick Rep

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $35.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $17.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Celebrate Oscar Wilde, the streets of Dublin and the joys of making live theatre with A Man of No Importance, the musical treasure written by the team that found much success with their Award-Winning musical classic Ragtime. This compelling story by playwright Terrence McNally brims with passion, humor and sexual awakenings, coupled with a gorgeous score filled with Irish-inspired music.  Learn More

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

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm (Preview)
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

Midwest Premiere of Neil LaBute's Acclaimed Play In A Dark Dark House

Profiles Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two brothers find themselves brought face-to-face with each other's involvement in their traumatic past. In Neil LaBute's powerful new play, these siblings must struggle to come to grips with their troubled legacy, both inside and outside their dark family home.  Learn More

Driving Miss Daisy, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play, from First Folio

Mayslake Peabody Estate (Oak Brook, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $16.00 - $26.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $13.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
First Folio presents Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy. This beloved story details the relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish matron and her African-American chauffeur over the span of several decades. In this delicate depiction of racial tensions and of growing old, Uhry has created two outsiders who come to a mutual respect based on their independence, strength and stubborn integrity.  Learn More

Noel Coward's "Spirited Comedy" Blithe Spirit

Historic Pleasant Home (Oak Park, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $27.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $13.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Noel Coward's witty drawing-room farce Blithe Spirit. Charles is a novelist who, while doing research on the supernatural, mistakenly brings back the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. His second wife, Ruth, is appalled. This odd threesome becomes entangled in a comedic web of love, jealousy and attempted murder.  Learn More

Goat Island's The Lastmaker: Long-Running Performance Troupe's Final Work at the MCA

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Apr. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $16.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $8.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
The Chicago ensemble Goat Island performs its final work after more than 20 years as a company. Showcasing the group's signature style of physically demanding choreography, The Lastmaker was inspired by the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was built as a Byzantine church, converted to an Islamic mosque, and now functions as a museum. The project examines how places hold different identities over time or, as collaborator Judd Morrissey puts it, "as spaces that have housed multiple histories."  Learn More

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