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Lake Zurich Performing Arts Center
(CYT McHenry)

Jungle Book, The. Mowgli grew up in the jungle. 'Nuff said.

Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)

10 Virgins. Could truth lie underneath the muck and dirt of a marsh?

Webster's Wine Bar
(Serendipity Theatre Collective)

2nd Story: Story, Wine & Music Festival. Storytelling, wine and music mix at this performance event.

Museum of Contemporary Art
(Heather Raffo)

9 Parts of Desire. In her new political play, Raffo performs as a variety of Iraqi women.

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.

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.

Chicago Cultural Center

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

CAA
(CYT Lake County)

Alice. Alice is back.

American Girl Place

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Stripper's Picnic)

America's Next Pop Bottle . Stripper's Picnic teams up with improv guests SHTL for—you guessed it—improv.

Gorton Center for the Arts
(Citadel Theatre)

Another Piece of Cake. One woman tells all on her 80th birthday.

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.

Theatre on the Lake
(Dog & Pony Theatre Company)

As Told by the Vivian Girls. It's no secret: Chicago is obsessed with outsider artist Henry Darger.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

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

Northlight Theatre
(Northlight Theatre)

Better Late. Better late than never, or just better late?

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.

Redmoon Central
(Redmoon Theater)

Boneyard Prayer. Using puppetry and shadow images, Redmoon explores one man's struggle during the Great Depression.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Recapitulation)

Brat Pack: An Improvised Musical . Improvised musicals meet coming-of-age 80's movies.

eta Creative Arts Foundation
(eta Creative Arts Foundation)

Checkmates. Two couples experience marriage in totally different ways.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Comedy of Errors, The . Second City's Ron West brings some extra laughs to this Shakespeare classic.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Comedy of Errors, The . It's Shakespeare's classic story of mistaken identities in Ephesus.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(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.

Chicago Actors Studio
(Stockyards Theatre Project)

Criminal Hearts. An agoraphobic Gold Coast wife meets her match late one night...

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.

Wilmette Theatre
(Caryn Bark)

Diary of a Skokie Girl. What could be funnier than growing up in Skokie?

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!

Second City ETC
(Second City)

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

redtwist theatre
(redtwist theatre)

Doubt. Did someone say "moral ambiguity"?

Chicago Temple
(Silk Road Theatre Project)

Durango. The Lee boys are the perfect Korean-American boys—or are they?

Rosemont Theatre
(VEE Corporation)

Elmo Makes Music. Elmo, Zoe and even Big Bird take the stage for this live Sesame Street show.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(TimeLine Theatre Company)

Fiorello!. TimeLine is bringin' a little slice of Broadway back to Chicago.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Four Places. Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson is back with new dark comedy.

O'Rourke Center for the Performing Arts
(Pegasus Players)

Golda's Balcony. Golda Meir examines the history of Israel.

Steep Theatre
(Steep Theatre Company)

Greensboro: A Requiem. Emily Mann brings a murderous tragedy the coverage it should have received 28 years ago.

IO Theater

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

Bailiwick Repertory

Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The . Esmeralda, priest Frollo and Quasimodo are back again—with music from the Styx frontman.

Athenaeum Theatre
(DePaul Theatre School)

Hurrah for the Next Who Dies. Tribune reporter Jake Lingle's death revealed more than Chicago was ready for.

Pheasant Run Theatre
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. It's the Off-Broadway musical about falling love, the "suburban mating game" and all the accompanying secrets.

Improv Kitchen

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

Profiles Theatre
(Profiles Theatre)

In a Dark Dark House. Two brothers must face their traumatic pasts.

Royal George Theatre Center
(InFusion Theatre Company)

Intrigue with Faye. Kate Robins, writer/producer of HBO's "Six Feet Under," brings her talent to the stage.

St. Patrick Performing Arts Centre
(Chicago Kids Company)

Jack and the Beanstalk. Can Jack and his cow save the village from a wild and crazy giant?

Theatre at the Center
(Theatre at the Center)

Knute Rockne All-American. Theater and sports make nice in this play about the guy who created college football.

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.

Royal George Theatre Center

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

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

Les Miserables. Victor Hugo's classic 19th century novel returns to the stage.

National Pastime Theater
(Infamous Commonwealth Theatre)

Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates. What if Lewis and Clark also traversed Vietnam and Iraq?

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

Raven Theatre
(Babes With Blades)

Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished). In 16th century Spain, two sisters discover the impacts of family ties, societal pressures and love can have.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Company)

Macbeth. Just don't say "Macbeth" out loud, for this play may actually be cursed...

The Building Stage
(The Building Stage)

Master Builder, The. The Master Builder needs a new master plan.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

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

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

Annoyance Theatre
(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.

A Red Orchid Theatre
(A Red Orchid Theatre)

Not A Game For Boys. Think table tennis is for sissies? Think again.

Timothy Christian
(CYT DuPage)

Oliver!. Everyone's favorite orphan is back.

Stage Left Theatre
(Stage Left Theatre)

Omniscience. Somewhere in the distant, dystopian future, there's an unfinished documentary...

the side project
(the side project)

On My Parents' One Hundredth Wedding Anniversary. Side Project ensemble member Jesse Weaver presents a new play set in the dance world of 1920s France.

Chopin Theatre
(The Hypocrites)

Our Town. Reject all notions of traditional theatre!

The Neofuturarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Picked Up. Television pilots and theatre—two unlikely bedfellows—wrestle in this new ever-changing production.

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.

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.

Chicago Children's Museum
(Chicago Children's Theatre)

Red Kite Project. Kids jump on the star ship Red Kite for a journey to the moon and stars.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences)

Seussical. Broadway and Dr. Seuss come to the Marriott.

Huntley High School for Performing Arts
(CYT Kane)

Seussical Jr.. Dr. Seuss's stories move from page to stage.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse
(MPAACT)

She Calls Up The Sun. Resident playwright Addae Moon contemplates rural Florida culture and folklore in her play.

Drury Lane Water Tower Place
(Broadway In Chicago)

Shout! The Mod Musical. Five women in 1960s England make musical history.

Beverly Arts Center
(Chicago Kids Company Theatre )

Sleeping Beauty . Will Princess Lily slip into a 100-year nap?

American Theater Company
(American Theater Company)

Speech and Debate. Three misfits air their teacher's dirty online secrets.

The McAninch Arts Center
(Buffalo Theatre Ensemble)

Stones in His Pockets. What happens when a bad Hollywood film is shot in rural Ireland?

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.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane Oakbrook)

Sweet Charity. Based on Fellini's screenplay for "Nights of Cabiria" (1957), this musical captures the story of Charity Hope Valentine.

Merle Reskin Theatre
(The Theatre School at DePaul University)

The Giver. Lois Lowry's award-winning book hits the stage.

Angel Island
(The GreyZelda Theatre Group)

The Skriker. Creatures from English and American folklore step forward in this story about a shapeshifter and death portent.

Chopin Theatre
(Theater Oobleck)

The Strangerer. Forget the Barack/Hillary drama. Step back in time to the 2004 Bush/Kerry elections.

Various
(Various)

Theater Thursdays. Catch new shows and accompanying theater-related events every Thursday.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)

Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.

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.

Piper's Alley

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

Viaduct Theatre
(Big Brother Productions)

Tweaked. Tweaked out ladies try to keep things under wraps.

Chase Bank Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)

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

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.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre for Young Audiences)

Wizard of Oz, The . We're off to see the wizard...

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