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Events on April 20th For Chicago, IL 60603

Powerful & Personal Sunday Nights in the Cabaret with Deep Schwa

ImprovOlympic Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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. 20 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.6 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

William Shakespeare's Romantic Comedy As You Like It

Writers' Theatre (Glencoe, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $58.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $29.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
A courtship with a twist, a duke and his merry men in exile, a melancholic wit, a clown and a lovesick shepherd and the shepherdess who spurns him all swirl together in a wildly beautiful romp through the magical Forest of Arden. Shakespeare brings to life some of the most romantic and charming scenes ever to be scribed in this most perfect of comedies.  Learn More

Italian Farce Lust, Lies and Marriage from Piccolo Theatre

Piccolo Theatre (Evanston, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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

Bilingual Mystery The Blue House from Adventure Stage Chicago

Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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

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

Trap Door Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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

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

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 2008 @ 3:00pm
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. 20 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

Sizzling Swordplay in Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished) from Babes With Blades

Raven West Stage (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 2008 @ 3:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Set in 16th-century Spain, Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished) explores the impact of family ties, societal pressures, and unexpected love on the lives of two sisters: Diana Garcia Diaz and Isabel Garcia Reyes de la Barrera. Expect clandestine trysts, plots and counterplots, blackmail—and lots of swordplay!  Learn More

Ceres: Factory Theater Presents Tense Drama About Insurance Industry

Prop Thtr (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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. 20 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

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

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 2008 @ 3:00pm
Sunday, Apr. 20 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

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

Profiles Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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. 20 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

Omniscience: Dystopian Thriller at Stage Left Theatre

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 2008 @ 3:00pm
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

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 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

Actor/Comedian Pauly Shore at the Chicago Improv of Schaumburg

Chicago Improv of Schaumburg (Schaumburg, IL)
Sunday, Apr. 20 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $27.00   Our Price: FREE - $13.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
The Chicago Improv of Schaumburg welcomes Pauly Shore. An LA native, Shore became famous in the '90s by way of his MTV show. He starred in the movies Encino Man, Son-in-Law, In the Army Now, Jury Duty and Bio-Dome. Shore had his own FOX sitcom, Pauly, and produced and starred in Minding the Store on TBS.  Learn More

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