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Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane)

A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane). Celebrating Christmas with Dickens—and holiday eats.

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?

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's play defies the cold weather.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol. Get Scrooged.

Theatre at the Center
(Theatre at the Center)

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

Chicago Cultural Center

About Dance. Blend a sizzling dance performance and sharp dance criticism.

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.

ComedySportz Theatre

Alpha Dog Omega. It's not just improv, it's Frat-Prov!

American Girl Place

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(Vitalist Theatre and Premiere Theatre & Performance)

Anung's First Christmas. Young Anung embarks upon a magical journey.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

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

ComedySportz Theatre

Battle-Prov. An all-out improv fight, ComedySportz-style.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Benefit for A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol. Merry Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol benefit.

Second City
(Second City)

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

Playground Theater

Big Yellow Bus. Ensemble members tickle audience members' funny bones.

Artistic Home

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

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.

Dream Theatre
(Dream Theatre)

Cold. The holidays can be happy times, you know.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

Cool Table, The. Improv comedy with a rock-star vibe.

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.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

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

Athenaeum Theatre
(WildClaw Theatre )

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

Royal George Theatre Center
(Forbidden Broadway)

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

Northlight Theatre
(Northlight Theatre)

Grey Gardens. The musical theater version of the kooky documentary about Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis's aunt and first cousin.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Permoveo Productions)

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

IO Theater

Harold, The. IO's signature, long-form improv piece.

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.

Chicago Dramatists
(Teatro Luna)

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

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?

Royal George Theatre Center

Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane)

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

Drury Lane Water Tower Place

Meet Me in St. Louis. Will the Smith family move to New York City?

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.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Productions)

Messing With A Friend. Top comedians fill a rotating spot in this two-person improv show.

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Stage Left Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)

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

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)

Our Bad Magnet. What really happened to the boy named Giggles?

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co)

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

Playground Theater

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

Second City ETC
(Second City)

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

Pressure Billiards & Cafe
(Edge Comedy)

Pressure Open Mic. Weekly mixer of comedy and caffeine.

Court Theatre
(SITI Company)

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

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre & Manhattan Theatre Club)

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(Theater Wit)

Santaland Diaries, The . This is one snappy elf that you won't forget.

The Gift Theatre Company
(The Gift Theatre Company)

Santa's Great American Depression Holiday Show. Jokes just in time for the holidays—and our sinking economy.

Mercury Theater

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

Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Seafarer, The. A dark Christmas in Dublin.

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.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Snow Queen, The . A welcome alternative to the usual holiday theater nonsense.

Studio Theater (Chicago Cultural Center)
(WNEP)

Soiree Dada: Schmuckt der Hallen. Smash the holidays.

Piven Theatre
(Piven Ensemble )

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

IO Theater

Stranded: The Improvised Musical. Send a duo of improv artists to a stranded island.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Chopin Theatre
(TUTA)

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This one never gets old.

Playground Theater

Thursday Happy Hour. Comedic actors. Character monologues. What else do you need to know?

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.

Chase Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.

Noyes Cultural Arts Center
(Next Theatre)

Well. Knocking the lid off a tenuous mother-daughter relationship.

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.

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