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Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Headcheese Fat Boss Productions)
A Hipmas Christmas Carol. Could Dickens handle this avant-garde, jazz-infused retelling of his classic story?
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A Red Orchid Theatre
(A Red Orchid Theatre)
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant. Sing ho ho ho all the way to this hilariously cynical holiday spoof.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)
A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol. Get Scrooged.
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Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)
All Shook Up. Elvis's spirit never dies.
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Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre
Annie Get Your Gun.
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Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Eclipse Theatre Company)
Autumn Garden, The . Get your Lillian Hellman fix.
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No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)
Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends. Follow Belle on her busty journey to stardom.
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Playground Theater
Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.
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Second City
(Second City)
Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.
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Second City
(Second City)
Between Barack and a Hard Place. With the primaries looming in the near future, "Between Barack and a New Show" has decidedly replaced "Between Barack and a Hard Place."
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Briar Street Theatre
Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.
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Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)
Brothers Karamazov, The . Heidi Stillman adapts Dostoevsky's murderous novel.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)
Co-Ed Prison Sluts. Shit. Motherf&*!@$. F--k you you c$%t or a prick...
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Cadillac Palace Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)
Dirty Dancing . The classic coming-of-age love story hits the stage.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.
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Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)
Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.
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Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Steve Mosqueda & Phil Ridarelli)
Drinking and Writing Vol IV. This play should go to rehab.
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IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)
Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
From Fear to Eternity.
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Theater on the Lake
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)
Gorey Stories: A Musical Entertainment. Whimsy meets macabre in Edward Gorey's signature tales.
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Northlight Theatre
(Northlight Theatre)
Grey Gardens. The musical theater version of the kooky documentary about Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis's aunt and first cousin.
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The Vittum Theater
(Adventure Stage)
Holes. Who says time travel only happens in movies?
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."
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IO Theater
Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.
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Annoyance Theatre
Invention Show, The. Think you know the most important invention ever? Think again.
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Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)
Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.
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Building Stage
(Collaboraction)
Jon. Can teen love exist in a corporate-controlled future?
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Royal George Theatre Center
Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.
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Drury Lane Water Tower Place
Meet Me in St. Louis. Will the Smith family move to New York City?
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.
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Bailiwick Arts Center
Moscow.
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Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)
Our Bad Magnet. What really happened to the boy named Giggles?
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Bucky's Planet Productions and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)
Pimprov. Pimps improvise. Yeah, you read right.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).
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Court Theatre
(SITI Company)
Radio Macbeth. Macbeth. Radio-style. Need we say more?
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Second City
(Second City)
Red Scare.
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Theatre Building Chicago
(Theater Wit)
Santaland Diaries, The . This is one snappy elf that you won't forget.
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Mercury Theater
Screwtape Letters, The . C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.
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Redtwist Theatre
(Redtwist Theatre)
Shadowlands. Get the inside story on C.S. Lewis's romance with American poet Joy Gresham.
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The Chicago Theatre
(Shear Madness)
Shear Madness. A fast-paced, whodunit comedy that lets the audience call the shots.
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Studio Theater (Chicago Cultural Center)
(WNEP)
Soiree Dada: Schmuckt der Hallen. Smash the holidays.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)
That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.
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Chopin Theatre
(TUTA)
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This one never gets old.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.
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Chase Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.
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Second City
(Second City)
War! Now in its 4th Smash Year!. Second City tackles the issues that are dividing the nation. Ha!
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Noyes Cultural Arts Center
(Next Theatre)
Well. Knocking the lid off a tenuous mother-daughter relationship.
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Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
(Broadway in Chicago)
Wicked. The musical back story of Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West.

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