17 shows found.
Company: Sandra Bernhard & The Rebellious Jezebels
Venue: Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Performances: Monday 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $60 (7 p.m.)/$50 (9:30 p.m.)
Closes: Runs Through Oct 27
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: Signal Ensemble Theatre
Venue: Chopin Theatre
Performances: Monday 7 p.m. on opening night 7/28 only, Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$20 ($10 previews)
Closes: Runs Through Aug 30
Producing Harold Pinter requires the ability to alchemize a creeping sense of nameless dread into theatrical entertainment. Not everyone can handle it. But according to local critics, Signal Ensemble has the magic touch. Its production of Pinter's eerie, inexplicable drama stays on pitch, delivering both genuine laughs and constant destabilization. Featuring Joseph Stearns as Stanley, the retired pianist and schlub whose birthday goes so terribly, terribly wrong. Get more details...
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.
Company: BLEWT! Productions
Venue: Playground Theater
Performances: Saturday midnight (first Saturday every month)
Tickets: < $20 ($10; $5 students)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Redmoon Theater
Venue: Redmoon Central
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m. (preview 9/4), Friday 8 p.m. (preview 9/5), Saturday 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. (preview 9/6), Sunday 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. (preview 9/7)
Tickets: $15-$35 ($15 children under 13)
Closes: Runs Through Oct 19
When it comes to lyrical visual-theater extravaganzas, Redmoon Theatre usually grows its own. This fall, however, Chicago's favorite lunatic puppeteers have transplanted an exotic children’s show from Australia. "Dr. Egg…" which played the Sidney Opera House in 2007 to bemused acclaim, is about a girl who deals with a morally ambiguous scientist in order to get her father a new ear. It features stop-motion animation, spectacle, and the dilemmas of biotechnology… for kids! Get more details...
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Welles Park
Performances:
Tickets:
Closes: Runs Through Sep 19
August is a theater dead-zone for a reason: Off-Loop venues and up-to-date air conditioning just don't mix. But the indefatigable Neofuturists have come up with a perfect way to beat the heat. Their newest play, about a camping trip and a man-made lake, is performed in and around the Welles Park Swimming Pool. Local critics, seduced by the show's cool, buoyant charm, are calling it a fittingly bittersweet farewell to summer. Get more details...
Company: Annoyance Productions
Venue: Annoyance Theatre
Performances: Friday midnight
Tickets: < $20 ($8)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Collaboraction
Venue: Theatre Building Chicago
Performances: Wednesday 7:30 p.m. , Thursday 7:30 p.m. , Friday 7:30 p.m. , Saturday 7:30 p.m. , Sunday 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $18-$25
Closes: Runs Through Sep 21
Collaboraction, aka Theatre of the Short Attention Span, is best known for Sketchbook, a yearly festival of short plays and happenings. But with last year's "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow," Collaboraction proved it could also excel with flashy, jittery long-form plays. Its latest, a world premiere by David Janoff about a small-town faux-superhero, should offer plenty of scope for Collaboraction's hyped-up pop-culture art-freak jazz. Get more details...
Company: Black Ensemble Theater Company
Venue: Black Ensemble Theater
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $20 - $50
Closes: Runs Through Dec 31
On Broadway, jukebox musicals are lame. On Beacon Street, they're pure gold. Black Ensemble Theatre uses the time-honored method of song catalog plus life story equals show, but with far more soul than budget. Its current long-running hit, "I Am Who I Am," tells the tale of sexy brother Teddy Pendergrass, and the car accident that made him a quadriplegic at the height of his career. As ever, critics say the script is unsubtle, but the songs (delivered live by Jimmy Tillman's ace band) are irresistible. If you don't know BET by now, you should. Get more details...
Company: Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Venue: Steppenwolf Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/23); no show 9/23, Wednesday 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/24); 2 p.m. 10/29, 11/5 & 12, Thursday 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/18 & 9/25), Friday 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/19 & 9/26), Saturday 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/20 & 9/27), Sunday 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/21); 6 p.m. on 9/28
Tickets: $20-$70; previews $20-$48
Closes: Runs Through Nov 16
Company: Late Nite Tit-Bits
Venue: Annoyance Theatre
Performances: Saturday 10 p.m.
Tickets: $15
Closes: N/A.
Company: Theo Ubique
Venue: No Exit Cafe
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $20 general, $15 students & seniors, $10 previews
Closes: Runs Through Aug 31
Jacques Brel is the master of melancholy cool, the perfect songwriter to listen to when all you want to do is drink, look French and despair. Theo Ubique, which scored a hit with its cabaret revue "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," has created a new book musical out of the Brel catalogue. Area critics say this tale of whores and sailors in an Amsterdam port is beautifully sung, lovely, dirty and sexy. So get a little table at the No Exit Cafe, order something devastating and prepare to weep into it. Get more details...
Company: Lifeline Theatre
Venue: Lifeline Theatre
Performances: Friday 7:30 p.m. (preview 9/12 & 9/19), Saturday 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. (8 p.m. preview 9/13 & 9/20), Sunday 4 p.m. (preview 9/21)
Tickets: $30; $20 seniors, $15 students ($20 preview
Closes: Runs Through Nov 2
Company: Mythic Proportions Theatre
Venue: National Pastime Theater
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$25
Closes: Runs Through Sep 21
Summer debutant season, that magical time when brand new theater companies step out into the programming lull of August, is about to give way to the whirlwind of fall season-openers. Say goodbye to the hot weather by checking out Mythic Proportions, a freshly minted dance-theater company, and the last of the summer debs. Its first production, "The Terrible Head," will use spectacle, dance and (judging by the website) sweaty, half-clothed bodies to retell the myth of Perseus. Get more details... |
