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In this new comedy by Peter Mercurio, Steve and Larry, gay dads with a three-year-old son, are on the verge of getting married until a weekend getaway in the City of Brotherly Love changes everything. Does gay marriage have to be exactly like straight marriage? Learn more...

Part of Bailiwick Repertory's 2009 Pride Series, The Cousins Grimm is a new musical that re-works timeless fairy tales popularized by the Brothers Grimm into contemporary urban fables filled with lesbian and gay characters. These stories of love and death, friendship and betrayal, and families of all kinds are interwoven with edgy humor and memorable songs. Learn more...

Tony Award nominee and Nightlife Award winner Sharon McNight, Chicago Jazz Vocalist Spider Saloff, Melissa Young and Broadway star and Brazilian jazz artist Luba Mason each present one solo concert engagement each night at the Hoover Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted. These supremely talented ladies continue to garner praise from discerning critics. See the additional details for more information. Learn more...

Laurie Krauz and the Daryl Kojak Septet bring their Bistro Award-winning Tapestry Rewoven, a jazz re-imagining of the Carole King classic, to the Hoover-Leppen Theater. Known for her powerful voice and fluid improvisation, Laurie is the winner of the 2007 and 2008 MAC award, and a 2009 MAC Award nominee for Best Female Jazz Vocalist. Learn more...

Set during the 1980s, the Off-Broadway cult hit Stupid Kids is a provocative drama about the struggles, fears, and longings of four high school students confronting issues of sexuality and gender, with a plot that borrows loosely from Rebel Without a Cause. About Face's dynamic production incorporates a rhythmic mix of music, video, slam poetry and dance, blending current pop culture and technology with that of the '80s. Learn more...

This unique twist on a classic musical asks the eternal question: Why can't a woman be more like a man? Here, Eliza Doolittle is a young aspiring drag queen with everything to learn and Henry Higgins is the queen who takes young Eliza under her wing. "England" is not the country but rather the biggest most glamorous drag club in town. About Face presents a luscious cabaret evening filled with lots of good cheer. Learn more...

The Young Ladies Of... is a classic father-son tale -- with glitter and a ukulele. In 1968, while stationed in Vietnam, Lt. Robert Mac (Taylor's father) placed an ad asking "young ladies" to write him. Thousands replied. Renowned theatre artist Taylor Mac uses those letters, songs and his own text to juxtapose his father's army life in Texas with his own as a drag/pastiche artist in New York. Learn more...