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Events on April 12th For Chicago, IL 60603

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy! — Improv and Sketch Comedy Showcase

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 10:30pm (Found in Translation, Cutlass Supreme, and Cornwallis)
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
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

Massages, Facials and More from Amber Spa

Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 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

Hot Saturday Nights: Late Night Tit-Bits & Skinprov

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
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

iO Presents an Improvised Musical by the Deltones

ImprovOlympic Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $14.00   Our Price: $7.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
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

Live Comedy at Jokes & Notes

Jokes & Notes Comedy Club (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:30pm
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
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

Italian Farce Lust, Lies and Marriage from Piccolo Theatre

Piccolo Theatre (Evanston, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
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)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
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)
Saturday, Apr. 12 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

Bilingual Mystery The Blue House from Adventure Stage Chicago

Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $17.00   Our Price: FREE - $8.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Told in English and Spanish, this world premiere play centers around 13-year-old Maricela, who lives in a vibrant Chicago neighborhood with a rich and sad history. Haunting dreams of strangers from another time lead Maricela to an abandoned lot where the mysterious Blue House once stood. Can she uncover the house's dark secret and set the souls of its ghostly inhabitants free?  Learn More

Pimprov - Hilarious, Original Improv Comedy

Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Chicago's favorite Improv Group is back for a limited run at the Chemically Imbalanced Theater. Hailed by critics and audiences alike, Pimprov is one of the most original and hilarious unscripted shows in town. Yes, it's pimps that improvise. It's that simple.  Learn More

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

Trap Door Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

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

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, Apr. 12 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)
Saturday, Apr. 12 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

Ceres: Factory Theater Presents Tense Drama About Insurance Industry

Prop Thtr (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

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

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 3:00pm
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 7:30pm
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

Noel Coward's "Spirited Comedy" Blithe Spirit

Historic Pleasant Home (Oak Park, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 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

Critically Acclaimed Heartfelt Drama The Trip To Bountiful at the Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre - The Albert (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $45.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $22.50 - $30.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
Horton Foote's play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who flees the stifling confinement of the city apartment she shares with her son and daughter-in-law to revisit her hometown in the low farmland of the Texas coast. Actor/director Harris Yulin re-creates his off-Broadway triumph, featuring a luminous performance by Obie Award-winner Lois Smith.  Learn More

Omniscience: Dystopian Thriller at Stage Left Theatre

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $10.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 2.4 stars
In a dystopian future, Channel One employee Warren struggles to finish editing a war documentary shot by his partner, who disappeared while filming in the battle zone. Under constant pressure from government surveillance, Warren might be cracking up... or is he coming to see the truth of his world? Stage Left Theatre presents the US premiere of Canadian playwright Tim Carlson's Omniscience.  Learn More

Dreamlandia, a Crisp, Comic Adventure from Teatro Vista

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:30pm
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

Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's Powerful Southern Family Drama

Lund Auditorium (River Forest, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Set in a steamy, insular New Orleans right after the Great Depression, Lillian Hellman's play follows two spinster sisters who are on the cusp of middle age. They've repeatedly sacrificed their dreams to rescue their troubled brother, whose sudden return as a wealthy man throws their long-established balance of power into chaos.  Learn More

Monument: The Seldoms' Dance-Theater Work About the Environment

Ruth Page Center for the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Saturday, Apr. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Monument is an evening-length dance-theater work that follows the voracious, frenzied course of people's individual acts of consumption along the one-way ride to the trash heap. This final destination, the landfill—that accidental social sculpture—looms large, a physical culmination of desire and expenditure.  Learn More

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