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Events on June 1st For Alsip, IL 60803

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

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Sunday, Jun. 1 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, Jun. 1 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

British Drama A Taste of Honey from Shattered Globe Theatre

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $27.00 - $35.00   Our Price: $13.50 - $17.50*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Set in 1950s Manchester, England, this poignant and comic play tells the story of Jo, a shy adolescent chafing against the constraints of her working-class life and the demands of her selfish, irresponsible mother, Helen.  Learn More

Academy Award-Winner Olympia Dukakis Directs Botanic Garden

Piccolo Theatre (Evanston, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Directed by Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, Botanic Garden is the story of Kate, who faces the daunting and often humorous prospect of her first date since the death of her husband, Jake. Memories her marriage force Kate to take a stark look at her present and the choices she must make as she embarks upon the next chapter of her life.  Learn More

The Prisoner's Dilemma: Theatre Mir Presents Epic Drama About War at Raven West Stage

Raven West Stage (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 3:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Two sides battle for the fate of a country in this epic drama from award-winning playwright David Edgar (Pentecost, Nicholas Nickelby) about peace, war and negotiation. A bloody conflict on Europe's eastern border is escalating at an alarming rate, while every urgent effort is made to resolve ethnic and religious differences, and to end the conflict.  Learn More

Korean American Family Grapples with the American Dream in Durango

Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 4:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 - $32.00   Our Price: $9.00 - $16.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Silk Road Theatre Project presents the Midwest premiere of Julia Cho's drama Durango. Old memories, secrets and unhealed wounds break open on a Korean American family's road trip to Durango, Colorado.  Learn More

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson Adapted for the Stage, at City Lit Theater

City Lit Theater (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 - $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Pudd'nhead Wilson tells the story of Roxana, a woman whose ancestry is 1/16 African. Even one drop of African blood designates her by law as black and holds her in slavery. To save her son (by a white father, and hence of 1/32 African ancestry) from the same fate, she switches him in the cradle with a legally white baby.  Learn More

Award-Winning Play The First Breeze of Summer from Court Theatre

Court Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $32.00 - $38.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $19.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Playwright Leslie Lee's rarely-seen drama reveals a turbulent time in three generations of an African-American family. One hot June weekend, the family matriarch reflects on the lessons of her own youth and the three lost love affairs that shaped her life and her family while the conflict between her two teenage grandsons and their father comes to a head.  Learn More

Chicago Dramatists Present 10 Virgins, a Magical Mix of Live Action and Puppetry

Chicago Dramatists (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $28.00   Our Price: $11.00 - $14.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
Ten girls live alone in Wabansia swamp, depending on each other for protection and strength. But what lies outside of the mist-shrouded bog? When the oldest of the group goes searching for answers, she comes face-to-face with her family's past, as well as the mysterious witch who haunts the swamps. Fantasy, folklore and reality blend together as the truth is revealed, lying in wait under the soft, wet peat of the marsh.  Learn More

Collaboraction's 8th Annual Sketchbook Festival: 14 Short Plays

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 5:30pm (Program A)
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00   Our Price: FREE - $15.00*
Rated: 2.3 stars
Featuring 14 world-premiere short plays written by a combination of emerging and established playwrights, Collaboraction's annual Sketchbook Festival has grown into one of Chicago's most electrifying annual events during its eight-year history. This year, the roster of playwrights includes such critically acclaimed authors as Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera, Sean Graney, Greg Allen, Emily Schwartz and Itamar Moses. See full event description for lineup.  Learn More

Dark Comedy Sweet Confinement from SiNNERMAN Ensemble

Side Project Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Sweet Confinement is an energetic, violent, hilarious and heartbreaking journey of five twenty-something friends. This fiercely dark comedy doesn't let the audience off the hook as extreme circumstances make a bathroom the setting for an unexpected reunion. Old wounds are torn open and healed again, individuals are tested and alliances are stretched to their limits.  Learn More

The Master Builder: Building Stage Presents Ibsen's Mysterious, Lyrical Drama

The Building Stage (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Chicago's award-winning Building Stage, presents Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder. Master Builder Solness is in the prime of his life and at the height of his powers, yet is locked in a sterile and guilt-ridden marriage, desperately fighting to maintain his place in the world. The unexpected arrival of a mysterious and beautiful young woman gives Solness new life. But does she bring redemption, or is this the end for the Master Builder?  Learn More

Tallgrass Gothic — A Modern-Day Adaptation of The Changeling

City Lit Theater (Chicago, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
Rated: 2.2 stars
Set in the rural, stark and beautiful Americana of the Great Plains, this drama is a loose adaptation of the sensual and brutal Jacobean tragedy The Changeling. The rules of this isolated small town make reason seem impossible, stifling freedom of expression and offering no escape for the six young friends trapped there.  Learn More

On the Verge: Northwestern University Produces Absurd Time-Travel Comedy

Ethel M. Barber Theater (Evanston, IL)
Sunday, Jun. 1 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.2 stars
Northwestern University presents Eric Overmyer's amusing romp On the Verge. The play follows three Victorian lady explorers as they travel forward in time to 1950s America. With wit, charm and intelligence as their weapons of choice, these ladies share tales of their past adventures.  Learn More

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