Piper's Alley (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $60.00 - $70.00 Our Price:
$30.00 - $35.00*
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Come see the acclaimed Chicago theater mainstay Tony n' Tina's Wedding as it celebrates 15 years on stage. Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, where you won't just see a show—you'll be a part of it! Tony n' Tina's Wedding includes a pre-wedding cocktail cash bar, a ceremony full of mishaps and madcap comedy, and an evening of dinner, music and dancing.
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Excalibur Nightclub (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
Now in its fifth straight year! Experience Chicago's paranormal past for yourself through stories, psychic magic, and audience participation in this acclaimed one-man show. Neil Tobin, Necromancer, stars in Supernatural Chicago at one of Chicago's most haunted locations. Find out why Metromix calls the show a "Best Bet" and Chicago Tribune's Red Eye calls it "a perennial hot ticket."
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Amber Spa (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $80.00 - $160.00 Our Price:
$40.00 - $80.00*
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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.
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Jokes & Notes Comedy Club (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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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.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price:
$7.50*
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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.
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Dejavu (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:30pm (Ages 22-43)
Full Price: $35.00 Our Price: $17.50*
Meet up to twenty potential dates at Dejavu in a fun, laid-back atmosphere where friends meet over drinks and maybe you'll meet The One. Speed dating allows you to skip the excruciating hit-or-miss first date experience. Instead, with DateandDash you can chat with a large pool of people, choose your favorites, and see if they choose you.
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Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Wheel of pHortune invites the audience—and fate—to decide the type of improvisation show to be performed each week! A variety of improv "forms" are attached to the Wheel of pHortune. Once an audience member spins the wheel, one of those styles will be selected for the performance.
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LEGOLAND Discovery Center Chicago (Schaumburg, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ All Day
Full Price: $15.95 - $20.15 Our Price:
$8.20 - $10.20*
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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.
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Annoyance Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price:
$5.00*
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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".
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The Storefront Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 9:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $19.00 Our Price: $8.00*
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High art meets low as Blair Thomas and Company give voice to 20th-century poet Federico Garcia Lorca through a cabaret of dancing, amoral ruffians, wooden puppets and a player piano for an evening of highly unique theater. Based on the play/poem "Buster Keaton's Stroll," the production presents a comedy of failures chronicling one man's pursuit of love and affection.
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Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price:
$12.50*
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Bailiwick Repertory Theatre presents Filthy Pervert Seeks Same, a play by Australian playwright Steven Dawson. This racy comedy explores how modern gay men find love and happiness, or at least a real good time, by utilizing technology. The one-liners abound as four actors play a variety of men who share their ideas about sex, real and imagined.
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Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $35.00 Our Price:
$15.00 - $17.50*
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Shattered Globe Theater presents a new production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. The story of poet Tom Wingfield, his shy sister Laura, and her suitor Jim was Williams' first major playwriting success. Director Kevin Hagan's fluid production is based on Williams' own notes for the play.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $18.00 Our Price:
$9.00*
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A political revolution in a fictional South American country has turned the world upside down and opened the door to a secret laboratory, allowing chaos and monsters to escape. El Coco, the leader of this rebellion, is himself a created monster, with a never-ending desire to be human, overcoming his murderous instincts and unnatural appetites. And nothing, he soon discovers, is more human than finding love.
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Trap Door Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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Chicago's Trap Door Theatre is proud to present the English-Language premiere of No Darkness Round My Stone, by France's wildly acclaimed young playwright Fabrice Melquiot. This poetic comedy blends surreal elements with hyper-realistic naturalism to present a sympathetic portrait of the day-to-day life of a pair of brothers who work as grave robbers.
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City Lit Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price:
$12.50*
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Dashiell Hamlet is a film noir-style telling of Shakespeare's tragedy, set in 1945 Los Angeles. Nat Hamill, scion of the family that owns Hollywood's Majestic Studios, returns home from the war to find that his recently deceased father may have been murdered.
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National Pastime Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price:
$7.50*
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New Millennium Theatre Company presents The Texas Chainsaw Musical, a hilarious musical parody of the cult classic horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. From the team behind the hit Evil Dead: The Musical, the show presents the story of Leatherface, his gruesome relatives, and the unfortunate travellers who visit them, with live musical accompaniment by "The Family Band".
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The Spot (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 10:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price:
SOLD OUT*
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Celebrate your Halloween season with The Flaming Dames, Chicago's premier concept burlesque troupe. Their latest show at The Spot, Hell's Belles, is a daring and sexy journey through the nine circles of hell.
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Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00 Our Price:
SOLD OUT*
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Steppenwolf Visiting Company The Hypocrites presents The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's tale of notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath. This daring, dark musical about the urban underground features an unforgettable score including "Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny."
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Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $42.00 - $70.00 Our Price:
$21.00 - $35.00*
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Steppenwolf presents the world premiere of Kafka on the Shore, adapted for the stage and directed by Tony Award winner Frank Galati, based on the book by Haruki Murakami. A young boy's coming of age parallels an old man's search for destiny in modern-day Japan, where the borders between everyday reality, dreams and imagination are constantly crossed.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater - Courtyard Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $54.00 Our Price:
$27.00*
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Chicago Shakespeare Theatre presents Peter Shaffer's award-winning drama Amadeus. It's the story of legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told through the eyes of his jealous rival Antonio Salieri. Shaffer's brilliant play won seven Tony Awards, and was transformed into an acclaimed film.
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Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $34.00 Our Price:
$15.00 - $17.00*
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A divorced Japanese woman and an African American GI meet in post-World War II Japan and fall in love. After decades of struggle, they have finally found an accepting Los Angeles suburb to call home—but their peaceful world is changing.
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Bailiwick Art Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00 Our Price:
$10.00 - $12.50*
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Chiaroscuro (A Study in Shadow) examines the work of Italian Renaissance artist Caravaggio, exploring all of his passions. What happens when a model has too little imagination and an artist has too much?
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Lifeline Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price:
SOLD OUT*
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What would you do if you had the freedom to indulge your every dark desire? A supernatural power grants Dorian Gray eternal youth and beauty. As the years pass and his outward form remains unmarred, his soul wallows in pride and sin, dragging the lives of everyone he touches into the depths of depravity.
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McGaw YMCA Childcare Center Auditorium (Evanston, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00 Our Price:
$19.50*
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Light Opera Works produces Side By Side By Sondheim, a musical revue featuring songs by Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim. The revue, which had a hit Broadway run itself, features songs from Gypsy, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and more Sondheim classics.
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New World Repertory Theater (Downers Grove, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm (Preview)
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Shakespeare's delightful comedy takes audiences on a rollicking roll through a forest crawling with wild fairies and mixed-up lovers. Add a crazy love potion and some foolish workmen practicing a play, and it's the perfect recipe for hilarity!
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The Building Stage (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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Told primarily through image and music in a style inspired by silent films, graphic novels and physical theater, this new vision of Dracula utilizes Bram Stoker's story to ask a startling question: What if, driven by fear, Van Helsing and his colleagues have embarked on a path of misguided righteousness? What if our notion of who is a hero and who is a villain is completely misguided?
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Cosman Cultural Arts Center (Huntley, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 Our Price: $7.00*
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GreenRoom Productions presents a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in the modern era. It's a light, accessible version of Shakespare's popular comedy about two young couples enmeshed in a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies.
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The Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $30.00 - $48.00 Our Price:
$15.00 - $24.00*
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The Victory Gardens Theater presents Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice. Ruhl, the award-winning playwright, wrote this beautiful and startling take on the Greek myth of Orpheus, whose bride Eurydice was condemned to the underworld. The New York Times called Eurydice "weird and wonderful, devastatingly lovely."
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Pegasus Players at O'Rourke Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm (Daughters - Preview)
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price:
FREE - $12.50*
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Continental Divide is a timely two-play cycle set against the background of a bitterly fought gubernatorial election. Mothers Against follows the Republican candidate's campaign, while Daughters of the Revolution follows the Democratic candidate's campaign. For anyone transfixed by current party politics and our country's historic presidential face-off, these two plays are a must.
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McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $33.00 Our Price:
$12.50 - $16.50*
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Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth is the Tony Award-winning story of Andrew, a wealthy writer of mystery novels who embroils his young rival Milo in an elaborate scheme of deceit and murder. Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's production of this witty, stylish thriller plays at the McAninch Arts Center.
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Chopin Theatre Mainstage (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $29.00 Our Price:
$12.50 - $14.50*
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The creative team that captivated audiences in 2007 with The Sparrow re-imagines their 2005 hit Dave DaVinci Saves the Universe. Dave DaVinci Saves the Universe tells the story of the world's most famous scientist working against the clock to invent the only thing that can save his daughter's life and his marriage: a time machine.
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Prairie Lakes Theatre (Des Plaines, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $21.00 Our Price:
$10.50*
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Take six wailing women and add one hot band, 43 wigs, 40 costumes, 25 cans of hairspray and more than 40 of the greatest '60s hits, and you get Beehive, The '60s Musical! It's a high-voltage, fast-paced, lighthearted nostalgic look back at the '60s featuring songs made popular by The Chiffons, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Connie Francis, Lesley Gore, Petula Clark and more.
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Symphony Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $49.00 Our Price: $24.50*
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A renowned Bruckner interpreter, Jaap van Zweden leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the composer's Fifth Symphony. Written during a dark period in his life, the work is considered one of Bruckner's greatest achievements, portraying the struggle against fate and resulting triumph through the art of counterpoint.
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Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $45.00 Our Price:
$20.00 - $22.50*
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David Mamet's ruthlessly funny update of Granville-Barker's 1905 play proves that people will do anything to make a buck. When do-gooder Edward Voysey learns of generations of shady dealings within the family business, he is determined to set things right. But the rest of the family is decidedly against his plan.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater - Upstairs Theater (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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Shakespeare's brilliant contemporary and rival playwright, Christopher Marlowe, penned Edward II at the end of his brief life. Now, his vicious exploration of power and persuasion comes to the stage in this innovative promenade production where standing audience members are able — and encouraged — to move freely about the playing area throughout the 75-minute performance.
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Raven West Stage (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Arman, a writer blocked by the pressures of unexpected success, follows his girlfriend to the Redwood forests of Northern California. In this isolated landscape, he develops a friendship with an enigmatic treesitter and is soon caught in the struggle between those who make their living cutting timber and those who risk their lives to preserve nature.
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Red Tape Theater at St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Lope De Vega's classic piece is reimagined in this original adaptation, set during the Spanish Inquisition. Countess Diana and her servants must navigate social taboos, the heavy hand of the Inquisition and the ever-present question of illusion versus reality in this avant-garde love story.
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Greenhouse Theater Center (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price:
$12.50*
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PT Murphy and David Parr host Magic Cabaret at the Greenhouse Theatre Center. A throwback to the days when Chicago was one of the world's major centers of magic, the show features some of Chicago's finest prestidigitators, mentalists, and more.
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Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $50.00 - $86.00 Our Price: $25.00 - $43.00*
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is recognized as one of the leading contemporary dance companies in the country. Their Fall Series program, performed at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park, will feature audience favorite Minus 16, Extremely Close by Alejandro Cerrudo and a world premiere by Japanese choreographer Toru Shimazaki.
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Arcada Theater (St. Charles, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $69.00 Our Price: $34.50*
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Italian baritone Patrizio Buanne performs at the Arcada Theatre. Influenced by singers ranging from Mario Lanza to Frank Sinatra, he's sold over a million copies worldwide of his album The Italian, a collection of classic love ballads.
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National Pastime Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $26.00 Our Price:
FREE - $13.00*
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The New Colony presents Amelia Earhart: Jungle Princess. From the award-winning writing/directing team behind the hit Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy, this new play tells the story of the discovery of famous aviator Amelia Earhart, who is an amnesiac living in the jungle. Earhart struggles with her return to society, causing upheaval among the nation's business and political elite, in this hilarious and thought-provoking fantasy.
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Profiles Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
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In an undisclosed location, three men scheme with a weapons specialist to eliminate the opposition in Jason Wells' dark comedy of negotiation, conspiracy and assassination. Tom Avery, Jeff Kling and Kit Maxwell are three power-brokers who will stop at nothing to wreck an historic meeting with an elite political enemy. But when Maxwell takes a young idealist under his wing, his long-dormant conscience begins to reawaken.
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Medieval Times Schaumburg Castle (Schaumburg, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $43.15 - $62.59 Our Price: $22.08 - $31.80*
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Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain.
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Chicago Dramatists (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
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Marisa Wegrzyn's Ten Cent Night plays like a classic country song. With the Texas landscape behind them, four siblings are forced to come together in the place none of them want to call home and confront the realities they have been trying to avoid. Funny and unsettling, Ten Cent Night explores the nature of family and whether it's possible to love your family too much.
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Dream Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 9:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Dream Theatre Company presents one of its most terrifying horror shows yet: Anna in the Darkness. Witness a young teacher trapped in her house while the entire town masses to kill her.
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Next Theatre Company (Evanston, IL)
Friday, Oct. 10 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $38.00 Our Price: FREE*
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Next Theatre Company presents the US premiere of David Farr's The U.N. Inspector. This farcical satire, based loosely on Gogol's classic The Government Inspector, concerns an American con artist looking to make money in the real estate market in a former Soviet republic. The president and his cronies mistake the American for a United Nations inspector who's come to check up on the progress of democracy in the nation, with startling and hilarious results.
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