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50 Performances Found
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Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)
10 Virgins. Could truth lie underneath the muck and dirt of a marsh?
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Museum of Contemporary Art
(Heather Raffo)
9 Parts of Desire. In her new political play, Raffo performs as a variety of Iraqi women.
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Theatre Building Chicago
(Vitalist Theatre)
A Passage to India. When a young English woman associates with a Muslim doctor during the Raj period in India, destruction hits.
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Royal George Theatre Center
(Chicago Dramatists)
A Steady Rain. It's madness, anger and love on the cold streets of our beloved big-shouldered city.
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Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Shattered Globe Theatre )
A Taste of Honey. Working-class Jo must find her own way in 1950s Manchester, England.
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Heartland Studio
(BoHo Theatre )
Acts Without Words. Who doesn't love mimes?
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Attic Playhouse
(Attic Playhouse)
Angel Street (a.k.a. "Gaslight"). Is Bella losing her mind, or are those strange footsteps actually real?
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Gorton Center for the Arts
(Citadel Theatre)
Another Piece of Cake. One woman tells all on her 80th birthday.
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Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)
Around The World in 80 Days. Take a ride with this story about one of the greatest trips ever taken.
Editors Pick!closes soon!clearspacer
Redmoon Central
(Redmoon Theater)
Boneyard Prayer. Using puppetry and shadow images, Redmoon explores one man's struggle during the Great Depression.
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Studio Theatre (Chicago Cultural Center)
(Theatre Seven)
Boys & Girls. Boys and girls: No one can ever write enough about them.
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eta Creative Arts Foundation
(eta Creative Arts Foundation)
Checkmates. Two couples experience marriage in totally different ways.
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Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(Collaboraction)
Collaboraction’s 8th Annual Sketchbook Festival. Theatre, visual art, video, the internet and music come together under one giant umbrella.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Comedy of Errors, The . Second City's Ron West brings some extra laughs to this Shakespeare classic.
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Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Jean can't stop answering a dead man's cell phone. And the phone keeps ringing.
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Bailiwick Arts Center
(Hell in a Handbag Productions)
Die! Mommie, Die!. The campiest theatre in Chicago takes it up a notch with Charles Busch's homage to 1960s thriller films. Oh, man!
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Black Ensemble Theater
Don't Shed a Tear (The Story of Billie Holiday). Rock out to the tunes of a jazz legend.
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redtwist theatre
(redtwist theatre)
Doubt. Did someone say "moral ambiguity"?
Editors Pick!clearspacer
Chicago Temple
(Silk Road Theatre Project)
Durango. The Lee boys are the perfect Korean-American boys—or are they?
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Debonair Social Club
(Blank Line Collective )
Fete, The . It's an ambiguous mix of performance, party and play.
Editors Pick!reviewed!clearspacer
TimeLine Theatre Company
(TimeLine Theatre Company)
Fiorello!. TimeLine is bringin' a little slice of Broadway back to Chicago.
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Court Theatre
(Court Theatre)
First Breeze of Summer. It all began one hot June weekend...
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O'Rourke Center for the Performing Arts
(Pegasus Players)
Golda's Balcony. Golda Meir examines the history of Israel.
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Steep Theatre
(Steep Theatre Company)
Greensboro: A Requiem. Emily Mann brings a murderous tragedy the coverage it should have received 28 years ago.
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Athenaeum Theatre
(DePaul Theatre School)
Hurrah for the Next Who Dies. Tribune reporter Jake Lingle's death revealed more than Chicago was ready for.
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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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Livebait Theater
(The Artistic Home)
Juno and the Paycock. Get ready for the Boyle family.
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Merle Reskin Theatre
(Theatre School at DePaul University)
Kosi Dasa. No Eyes and Diata, a young couple, must accept sacrifice.
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The Gift Theatre Company
(The Gift Theatre Company)
Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The . Stephen Adly Guirgis's play on Catholicism tackles Jesus's famous betrayer.
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National Pastime Theater
(Infamous Commonwealth Theatre)
Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates. What if Lewis and Clark also traversed Vietnam and Iraq?
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Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Company)
Macbeth. Just don't say "Macbeth" out loud, for this play may actually be cursed...
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Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)
Mark of Zorro, The. Behold, the expert swordsman Zorro!
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The Building Stage
(The Building Stage)
Master Builder, The. The Master Builder needs a new master plan.
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Actor's Gymnasium
(Actor's Gymnasium)
Neverwhere. Neil Gaiman's novel gets the circus treatment.
closes soon!reviewed!clearspacer
Theatre Building Chicago
(Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago)
Nine. Catch this Broadway musical before it goes celluloid.
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Strawdog Theatre
(Strawdog Theatre Company)
Old Town . One family goes under the microscope of local politics on election night.
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Stage Left Theatre
(Stage Left Theatre)
Omniscience. Somewhere in the distant, dystopian future, there's an unfinished documentary...
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Victory Gardens Theater Greenhouse
(Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)
On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning . Ever been lost in time? These three ladies have.
Editors Pick!reviewed!clearspacer
Chopin Theatre
(The Hypocrites)
Our Town. Reject all notions of traditional theatre!
Editors Pick!closes soon!clearspacer
The Neofuturarium
(Neo-Futurists)
Picked Up. Television pilots and theatre—two unlikely bedfellows—wrestle in this new ever-changing production.
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Peter Jones Gallery
(Halcyon Theatre)
Pirandello's Henry IV. An Italian nobleman falls off his horse and then thinks he's a medieval German emperor.
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City Lit
(City Lit Theater)
Pudd'nhead Wilson. Twain takes a look at small-town Missouri.
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Victory Gardens Greenhouse
(MPAACT)
She Calls Up The Sun. Resident playwright Addae Moon contemplates rural Florida culture and folklore in her play.
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Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)
Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.
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City Lit Theater
(5th Floor Productions)
Tallgrass Gothic. All eyes are on Laura.
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Merle Reskin Theatre
(The Theatre School at DePaul University)
The Giver. Lois Lowry's award-winning book hits the stage.
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Various
(Various)
Theater Thursdays. Catch new shows and accompanying theater-related events every Thursday.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)
Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.
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TimeLine Theatre Company
(TimeLine Theatre Company)
Trumbo. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wasn't afraid to take on the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Viaduct Theatre
(Big Brother Productions)
Tweaked. Tweaked out ladies try to keep things under wraps.

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