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Events on April 6th For Chicago, IL 60603

Powerful & Personal Sunday Nights in the Cabaret with Deep Schwa

ImprovOlympic Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $12.00   Our Price: $6.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Deep Schwa, IO's longest-running team is stronger than ever! Fast-paced, frenetic, hilarious and heartfelt, Deep Schwa is powerful and personal.  Learn More

Bad Review: Improv Comedy Show Based On Theatre Reviews

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Bad Review is a hilarious improv show in which performers take the worst theatre review from the Chicago Reader and improvise the play they believe the reviewer would rather have seen. The troupe has performed Bad Review across the continent, and it now finds a home at the Chemically Imbalanced Theatre.  Learn More

Heat Wave: Pegasus Players Present

Pegasus Players at O'Rourke Center (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
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

Italian Farce Lust, Lies and Marriage from Piccolo Theatre

Piccolo Theatre (Evanston, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $12.50 - $25.00   Our Price: $6.25 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Dottore tells his daughter she'll be marrying Lelio when all she wants to do is marry the handsome Orazio. A foreign woman named Celia falls in love with the same Orazio while another gentleman named Odoardo falls in love with her. What's a servant or two to do but dress up in disguise and help lovestruck masters figure the whole mess out?  Learn More

The House Of Yes: Will Act For Food Presents Heartbreaking Dark Comedy at the Cornservatory

The Cornservatory (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
The House of Yes is a viciously witty yet surprisingly heartbreaking dark comedy about a wealthy East Coast family. During one hurricane-riddled Thanksgiving, four family members and one guest will explore the depths of love, lust, obsession and denial. Everyone has their secrets, but just how explosive are they?  Learn More

M. Butterfly from Bohemian Theatre Ensemble

Heartland Studio Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 2:00pm
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)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
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

The Beastly Bombing — L.A.'s Cult Theatre Hit Comes to Chicago

Trap Door Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Framed by the plot mechanisms and charming music of a 19th-century Gilbert and Sullivan-esque comic operetta, The Beastly Bombing is a romance about white supremacists and Al Qaeda terrorists plotting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. The show's controversial but hilarious take on modern politics, fundamentalism and the war on terror has produced a touchstone event, leading to debate about which issues comedy can address in our polarized society.  Learn More

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

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
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)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
Sunday, Apr. 6 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)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
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)
Sunday, Apr. 6 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

Ceres: Factory Theater Presents Tense Drama About Insurance Industry

Prop Thtr (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.2 stars
Set against the backdrop of Chicago's Financial District and one broker's surreal subconscious, Heather Tyler's Ceres takes us into the lions' den of hot-shot investment insurance brokers, sneaking a glimpse into the dubious actions of clandestine Unit 57 and its Board of Directors.  Learn More

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

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:30pm
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

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

Profiles Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 7:00pm
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

Noel Coward's "Spirited Comedy" Blithe Spirit

Historic Pleasant Home (Oak Park, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 4:00pm
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

Dreamlandia, a Crisp, Comic Adventure from Teatro Vista

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 6 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $35.00   Our Price: FREE - $17.50*
Rated: 1.6 stars
Crisp and comic, Dreamlandia is where dreams and reality collide for a family living on the US/Mexico border as they deal with NAFTA, narcotics and illegal immigration. Epic, inventive and full of "street-cred," this vibrant play is witness to a clear and potent political voice.  Learn More

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