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19 shows found.
Company: A Red Orchid Theatre
Venue: A Red Orchid Theatre
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. , Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$25
Closes: Runs Through Dec 28
Making up religions for fun and profit? Don't forget to get the kids involved. In a strong bid for Chicago's snarkiest anti-Christmas show, Red Orchid presents an imaginary holiday pageant based on the tenets of Scientology (the Hollywood cult made popular by Tom “Crazy-Eyes” Cruise.) The show, created by NYC art weirdos Les Freres Corbusier, features the real, actual mythology, including the tale of evil space-lord Xenu, as performed by real children. Does it also include satirical musical numbers? You bet it does. Get more details...
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Thursday 7 p.m. reception; 8 p.m. performance
Tickets: $50
Closes: Runs Through Dec 4
Company: Second City
Venue: Second City
Performances: Monday 8 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($19)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Second City
Venue: Second City
Performances: Tuesday 8 p.m., Wednesday 8 p.m., Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $19–$25
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Briar Street Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 8 p.m., Wednesday 8 p.m., Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 7 & 10 p.m., Saturday 4, 7 & 10 p.m., Sunday 1, 4 & 7 p.m.
Tickets: $50+
Closes: N/A.
Dostoevsky writes big. His masterpiece, "The Brothers Karamazov," has sex, tragedy, violence, comedy, redemption, courtroom drama and every other visceral pleasure of pop entertainment, all delivered with transcendent artistic skill. Adapting a big stack of wonderful like the Brothers K isn't easy, but according to area critics, Lookinglass is up to the task. As ever, this theatre marries the physical with the intellectual in a way that's brawny enough to capture the vertiginous emotional swings of the ultimate Russian novel. At three-plus hours, "The Brothers Karamazov" isn't perfect, but it's more than worth your time. Get more details...
Company: BLEWT! Productions
Venue: Playground Theater
Performances: Saturday midnight (first Saturday every month)
Tickets: < $20 ($10; $5 students)
Closes: N/A.
Company: WildClaw Theatre
Venue: Athenaeum Theatre
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. (7 p.m. on opening nite 11/16)
Tickets: $10-$20
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
In March 2008, Wildclaw Theatre leapt (suddenly, from a dark corner) onto the Chicago scene with its production of "The Great God Pan." Now, the city's only company dedicated exclusively to horror plays kicks off its first full season with an adaptation of an HP Lovecraft tale about a nasty sublet situation, human sacrifice, and elder gods. The theater critics haven't weighed in as of press time, but several websites with titles like "Killer-Works" have posted raves. Wildclaw: bringing theater-geeks and horror-freaks together since earlier this year. Get more details...
Company: Annoyance Productions
Venue: Annoyance Theatre and Bar
Performances: Friday midnight
Tickets: < $20 ($8)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Megan Doherty & Jacob A. Ware
Venue: Apollo Studio Theater
Performances: Friday 10:30 p.m.
Tickets: $8-$10
Closes: Runs Through Dec 12
Company: Collaboraction
Venue: Building Stage
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$30
Closes: Runs Through Dec 14
Collaboraction, a media-saturated, technology-driven theater company, presents a play set in a media-saturated, technology-driven dystopia. Director Seth Bockley adapts George Saunders' literary sci-fi story, about a corporate-owned and branded teenager who can only experience the world through the filter of the endless commercials implanted in his brain. Critics call this hopped-up, ripely satiric and touching multi-media show the best thing Collaboraction has done since 2007's "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow." Get more details...
Company: Profiles Theatre
Venue: Profiles Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$30
Closes: Runs Through Dec 7
When it comes to tales of ambition and assassination, CEOs are the new Scottish warlords. Profile's latest black comedy turns its audience into flies on the wall of a corporate boardroom, where three gray suits and one "weapons specialist" plot against a business rival. Jason Wells wrote the play in 2005, as part of Steppenwolf's First Look Repertory program. Critics love his politically prescient script only slightly more than they love the sinewy, slimy performances in Profile's 100-percent evil-white-dude cast. Get more details...
Company: The Plagiarists
Venue: Athenaeum Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Closes: Runs Through Nov 23
Company: Goodman Theatre & Manhattan Theatre Club
Venue: Goodman Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. on 11/25 & 12/2 only, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m. (2 p.m. on 11/22 & 11/29), Sunday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (no 7:30 p.m. shows on 11/23)
Tickets: $10–$39
Closes: Runs Through Dec 7
Company: TUTA
Venue: Chopin Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$25 ($40 on 11/21)
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
When an Off-Loop theater company chooses to put on one of the Ten Shows Every High School Does, it's either clueless or hubristic. Put TUTA in the hubris category. Its production of “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” with its extra long title, promises a return to what the Elizabethans loved about theater: violence and underage sex. Making this show feel immediate and “internationally relevant” is a tall order, but if there's one thing the Balkan-affiliated TUTA does well, it's hormone-crazed teens in war-torn countries. Get more details...
Company: Profiles Theatre
Venue: Profiles Theatre
Performances: Wednesday 8 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.
Tickets: $25
Closes: Runs Through Dec 14
Profiles continues its investigation of the slimy corporate underbelly with this Midwest premiere. Playing in repertory with "Men of Tortuga," which focuses on the lords of the office high-rise, "The Thugs" is centered on its peons: a gaggle of temp workers investigating the nefarious secrets on the ninth floor of their law firm. Critics laud the mostly female ensemble cast, the taut rhythms and the way it captures the soul-crushing evil of the average work day. Get more details...
Company: Redmoon Theater
Venue: Redmoon Central
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m., 5 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. & 5 p.m.
Tickets: $15; $10 kids 13 and under
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
A priest, a rabbi and a Wiccan want to toast the winter season together. Where should they go? Over to Redmoon Central for that rare holiday spectacle which neither celebrates nor mocks any religon. Redmoon's massive puppets and enveloping sets are reliably transporting, and this family-friendly tale of misfits forming a community of revelry should be both eye-popping and heart-warming. Get more details... |
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