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Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane)

A Christmas Carol. Celebrating Christmas with Dickens—and holiday eats.

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.

Theatre at the Center
(Theatre at the Center)

A Wonderful Life. A classic musical for the holiday season.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

Aladdin. Soaring through the sky with Aladdin.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

All Shook Up. Elvis's spirit never dies.

American Girl Place

American Girls Revue, The. Put stars in her eyes and a song in her heart-with American Girls.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Robot vs. Dinosaur)

Are You There God? It's Me, Satan. . Times are tough, but they're even worse in hell.

EP Theatre
(Pavement Group)

Arrangements. A lot goes on behind the scenes at this flower shop.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Eclipse Theatre Company)

Autumn Garden, The . Get your Lillian Hellman fix.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

Awesome 80's Prom, The. Head back to the '80s at this bitchin' interactive show.

ComedySportz Theatre

Beatbox, The. It's a comedy match made in heaven: long-form improv and classic hip-hop.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends. Follow Belle on her busty journey to stardom.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends. Theo Ubique gets down with 1950s Belle Barth.

Second City
(Second City)

Between Barack and a New Show. The primaries are coming up fast, so get some more Barack luv on.

Artistic Home

Biography. Eavesdrop on the bitching and dishing of a socialite to the stars.

American Girl Place
(American Girl Theater)

Bitty Bear's Matinee: The Family Tree. Family and friendship are the real stars of this kid-focused show.

Apollo Studio Theater
(The Blu Mic)

Blu Mic, The. Solid stand-up in an intimate setting.

Briar Street Theatre

Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Brothers Karamazov, The . Heidi Stillman adapts Dostoevsky's murderous novel.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Pub Theatre)

Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play. The real star of this hilarious sketch show? The bottle.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio
(Ludicrous Theatre Company)

Corpus Christi. Josh might be the next Jesus Christ—the gay version.

Cadillac Palace Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Dirty Dancing . The classic coming-of-age love story hits the stage.

Bella Bacinos
(Dirty Water )

Dirty Water. Improv comedy set in a South Boston sports bar.

Town Hall Pub
(Dirty Water Improv)

Dirty Water. Fun-loving, wise-cracking improv artists rock the stage.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.

Black Ensemble Theater

Don't Shed a Tear (The Story of Billie Holiday). Rock out to the tunes of a jazz legend.

Trap Door Theatre

Dr. Strangegod, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blasphemy. Sketch comics take on the Holy Bible.

Athenaeum Theatre
(WildClaw Theatre )

Dreams in the Witch House, The . Going to university is even scarier than you remember.

Rubin's Chicago Room Gallery Cafe

Duke Disdain Show, The. Sassy stand-up mixes with toe-tappin' music.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Forbidden Broadway)

Forbidden Broadway Dances with the Stars. Get into fun, Broadway-style.

Town Hall Pub

Fourth Friday Comedy Night. Catch funny folks making jokes every fourth Friday at Town Hall Pub.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Productions)

Grabass: A Carnival of Dummy. Only smarty-pants can pull together a show in 24 hours.

Playground Theater

Grafitti. We can't get our fill of Adventure Club.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Permoveo Productions)

Haram Iran. Two Iranian boys get caught experimenting with their sexuality.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."

Spot
(Bruised Orange Theater Company)

I Saw You. Bringing personal ads to life one show at a time.

Museum of Science and Industry
(Chicago Children's Theatre)

If All the World Were Paper. Follow the birth of Paper Girl in this interactive musical.

Improv Kitchen

Improv Kitchen. Fill your belly and then watch it jiggle as you giggle.

IO Theater

Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.

Apollo Studio Theater
(Megan Doherty & Jacob A. Ware)

Information For Children. Ever heard of "babytologists"?

Chicago Dramatists
(Teatro Luna)

Jarred: A Hoodoo Comedy. After Alicia gets dumped, she turns to black magic.

Playground Theater
(Williams & Martinez)

Jerry Or...Bach. Everyone loves to laugh at your weaknesses. And other aspects of you.

Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.

Raven Theatre
(Raven Theatre)

Jesus Hopped the "A" Train. Urban drama with strong Catholic overtones.

Building Stage
(Collaboraction)

Jon. Can teen love exist in a corporate-controlled future?

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

Laugh Out Loud. Now there's even more improv comedy in Schaumburg.

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

Lincoln Lodge, The. Hot, saucy stand-up next to a down-home diner.

Beverly Arts Center
(Chicago Kids Company)

Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red, where are you going?

North Shore Theater of Wilmette
(North Shore Theater of Wilmette)

Little Shop of Horrors. What's that funky plant at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists?

The Artistic Home
(The Artistic Home)

Look Homeward Angel. Coming-of-age isn't easy, especially for Eugene Gant.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane)

Mame. Who doesn't want a Manhattan socialite for a guardian?

Theatre Building Chicago
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mark of Zorro. Zorro, what a secret identity you have.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.

Profiles Theatre
(Profiles Theatre)

Men of Tortuga . Who doesn't a good play about evil CEOs and corporate control?

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

Menopause the Musical. Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.

Library Theatre at The Feltre School
(The Feltre School)

Not About Heroes. Two young poets talk about their World War I experiences.

Stage Left Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)

Offsprung. How does the dysfunctional Mashburn family keep it together?

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co)

Our Bad Magnet. Three 9-year-old boys befriend a magical, albeit troubled, outsider.

Chicago Cultural Center
(Noel Williams)

Party of One. Can tears usher the much-maligned clowning back to hipness?

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHamily the Musical. Smart, funny improv you can sing along with.

Writers' Theatre (Tudor Court)
(Writers' Theatre)

Picnic. What happens when a young drifter shows up in small town Kansas?

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Bucky's Planet Productions and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Pimprov. Pimps improvise. Yeah, you read right.

Playground Theater

Playground, The. Savor a night of long-form improv by national troupes.

Beat Kitchen
(Chicago Underground Comedy & RooftopComedy.com)

Pop Stand, The. Chicago's alt-comic elite tackle pop culture.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).

Athenaeum Theatre
(The Plagiarists)

Promiscuous Stories. Plagiarizing is the name of this game.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

Put the Nuns in Charge!. Roll in the aisles with a little religious humor.

Court Theatre
(SITI Company)

Radio Macbeth. Macbeth. Radio-style. Need we say more?

Evanston Arts Depot
(Piccolo Theatre)

Robinson Crusoe. It's a mish-mash, British-like, panto-style holiday celebration. We're serious.

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre & Manhattan Theatre Club)

Ruined. A trip through the bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Mercury Theater

Screwtape Letters, The . C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.

Steep Theatre
(Steep Theatre)

Seven Days. Biblical allusions aside, how will Reich's play fair in Steep's new space at 1115 West Berwyn?

Redtwist Theatre
(Redtwist Theatre)

Shadowlands. Get the inside story on C.S. Lewis's romance with American poet Joy Gresham.

Piven Theatre
(Piven Ensemble )

Somone Who'll Watch Over Me. Three men band together during a political imprisonment.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

Supernatural Chicago. Interactive theater set in one of the city's most haunted nightspots.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Theater)

The Annual Deer Run Lane Holiday Party. Love holidays? Hate holidays? A little of both? We feel ya.

Chopin Theatre
(TUTA)

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. A wacky spin on the classic tragic love story.

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun's Garage. Sip it all in at a 1920s speakeasy.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater

Tomorrow Morning. Love rules all.

Piper's Alley

Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding. You're invited to this loud, Italian-style wedding.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

Whose Line?. The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.

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.

Redmoon Central
(Redmoon Theater)

Winter Pageant Redux. Religious? Not religious? Just like the spectacle of Christmas? Read on.

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