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Events on August 7th For Chicago, IL 60603

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

Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 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

Massages & More at Lincoln Park Massage Spa

Lincoln Park Massage Spa (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $85.00 - $190.00   Our Price: $42.50 - $95.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Lincoln Park Massage Spa invites you to a sanctuary in the city, created with your satisfaction in mind. Discover comfort, serenity and balance while you enjoy a Swedish, Deep Tissue or Couple's Massage, or a specialty service such as a Sugar Body Polish.  Learn More

Massages, Facials and More from Amber Spa

Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 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

The Hunchback of Notre Dame with a Bold New Musical Score at Bailiwick Rep

Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $45.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $22.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame tells of the love triangle between a gypsy, Esmeralda; a priest, Frollo; and a deformed bell-ringer, Quasimodo. With book, music and lyrics by rock legend Dennis DeYoung ("Lady," "Come Sail Away," "Mr. Roboto"), this classic story is told in a bold new adaptation.  Learn More

Violinist Gil Shaham at Ravinia Pavilion

Ravinia Pavilion (Highland Park, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $50.00   Our Price: $25.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Gil Shaham, one of the most talented and engaging violinists working today, performs at Ravinia Pavilion. Born in Illinois, Gil has shared countless stages with esteemed orchestras and conductors, recorded more than two dozen concerto and solo CD's, and won multiple Grammy Awards.  Learn More

Neil Simon's Plaza Suite at Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater

Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
One of Neil Simon's most popular and celebrated plays, Plaza Suite details the misadventures of three very different couples as they face crucial moments in their respective lives—all in the same hotel room at the world-famous Plaza Hotel. Plaza Suite showcases Simon at his best: witty, clever and relentlessly funny.  Learn More

Michael McKean in Superior Donuts by 2008 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, at Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $68.00   Our Price: FREE - $34.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Michael McKean (This is Spinal Tap, Laverne and Shirley) stars in Superior Donuts, a provocative new comedy by 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts. Arthur (McKean) owns a decrepit donut shop in the uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Franco, a black teenager who is his only employee, wants to change the shop for the better. Set in one of Chicago's most diverse communities, this world-premiere highlights the redemptive power of friendship.  Learn More

The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's Gripping Comedy

Heartland Studio Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Bohemian Theatre Ensemble presents a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. This comedy offers one of Shakespeare's most complex and gripping plots, focusing on a wealthy merchant who owes money to an unscrupulous moneylender, and on the courtship of the beautiful and clever Portia.  Learn More

Cirque du Soleil's Newest Touring Show: KOOZA

Grand Chapiteau at United Center (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $80.00   Our Price: FREE - $48.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
Cirque du Soleil presents its newest touring show, KOOZA. The story of an innocent who enters a world full of kings, thieves, and other archetypal characters, KOOZA is a return to Cirque du Soleil's roots: a combination of classic circus acrobatics and broad slapstick clowning.  Learn More

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief — An Othello Parody, Songs & Skits

Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Re-imagining the last days of Desdemona's life, The Mill's production draws inspiration from the structure of early burlesque, using original songs and skits that poke fun at Othello and contemporary gender politics to make up the first act, and finishing with a parody by Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) of one of Shakespeare's great plays.  Learn More

Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Stanley Webber, a retired pianist, is leading a quiet life in a seaside boarding house until two strangers roll into town. What is supposed to be a birthday celebration for Stanley quickly turns into a dark nightmare after a few glasses of whiskey and a game of blindman's bluff.  Learn More

LEGOLAND Discovery Center Chicago — Kids Learn and Play with LEGOs

LEGOLAND Discovery Center Chicago (Schaumburg, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ All Day
Full Price: $15.95 - $20.15   Our Price: $8.20 - $10.20*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Bring the family out for an adventure at this giant indoor LEGO world, featuring hands-on LEGO activities and theme park-like attractions. Go on a LEGO factory tour, ride the Dragon Ride, watch the Spellbreaker 4D movie, and build your own LEGO creations, which you can test out on the speed ramp or the earthquake table. Enjoy a bite to eat at the LEGO cafe, shop in the LEGO store and much more.  Learn More

Classic Tragedy Medea, Reimagined by Dream Theatre Company

Dream Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Jeremy Menekseoglu's Medea is a visceral reimagining of the classic tragedy that turns its focus to the children's psychological trauma caused by divorce and abandonment. A chorus of wayward girls converges on a torn family. A wife clings to the passion of her past while neglecting her offspring. A man's rage cannot be tempered by the virgin's kindness and logic. Will a wife temper her madness long enough to get a husband's love to return?  Learn More

Comedian Bobby Lee of MADtv at the Improv

Chicago Improv of Schaumburg (Schaumburg, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $18.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $9.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Korean-American comedian Bobby Lee appears at the Chicago Improv of Schaumburg. Best known as a cast member on FOX's MADtv, Bobby is also a stand-up comic, and headlines clubs across the nation. He's appeared on the Tonight Show, and in the film Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.  Learn More

Dancing at Lughnasa: Oak Park Festival Theatre Presents Irish Play

Oak Park Festival Theatre (Oak Park, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $27.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $13.50*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa on the lawn at picturesque Austin Gardens. In this unforgettable play, a young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home, raised by his unmarried mother and his four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland.  Learn More

Tommy's Place: "Sweetly Goofy" Comic Play at Annoyance Theatre

Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
Annoyance Theatre presents the world premiere of Tommy's Place. Expanded from a successful one-act show at the theater, it's the story of a chance meeting between a neighborhood advocate, a pizza delivery boy and an ex-dock worker at the title apartment. The Chicago Reader described the show as "sweetly goofy".  Learn More

The Wind Cries Mary: Drama by Philip Kan Gotanda

City Lit Theater (Chicago, IL)
Thursday, Aug. 7 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: FREE - $9.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
Loosely based on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Philip Kan Gotanda's The Wind Cries Mary is the story of Eiko Hanabi, a Japanese-American woman whose strength and intelligence is handcuffed by the burdens of gender and tradition.  Learn More

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