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27 shows found.
Company: Goodman Theatre
Venue: Goodman Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$72
Closes: Runs Through Dec 31
Company: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Venue: Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 p.m. on 12/4 only, Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $60-$75
Closes: Runs Through Dec 7
Even in the frigid environs of Navy Pier, this "Midsummer" generates a palpable heat. The 23 cast members, who all hail from India and Sri Lanka, attack Shakespeare's text with subcontinental hustle, periodically breaking from Elizabethan English into any one of eight South Asian tongues. Packed with singing, circus tricks, fighting, live percussion and a maximalist's sense of fun, the show is sometimes unfocused, but unfailingly generous. Get more details...
Company: A Red Orchid Theatre
Venue: A Red Orchid Theatre
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. , Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$25
Closes: Runs Through Dec 28
Making up religions for fun and profit? Don't forget to get the kids involved. In a strong bid for Chicago's snarkiest anti-Christmas show, Red Orchid presents an imaginary holiday pageant based on the tenets of Scientology (the Hollywood cult made popular by Tom “Crazy-Eyes” Cruise.) The show, created by NYC art weirdos Les Freres Corbusier, features the real, actual mythology, including the tale of evil space-lord Xenu, as performed by real children. Does it also include satirical musical numbers? You bet it does. Get more details...
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.
Tickets: $10-$15
Closes: Runs Through Dec 23
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: 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.
Dostoevsky writes big. His masterpiece, "The Brothers Karamazov," has sex, tragedy, violence, comedy, redemption, courtroom drama and every other visceral pleasure of pop entertainment, all delivered with transcendent artistic skill. Adapting a big stack of wonderful like the Brothers K isn't easy, but according to area critics, Lookinglass is up to the task. As ever, this theatre marries the physical with the intellectual in a way that's brawny enough to capture the vertiginous emotional swings of the ultimate Russian novel. At three-plus hours, "The Brothers Karamazov" isn't perfect, but it's more than worth your time. Get more details...
Company: Annoyance Theatre
Venue: Annoyance Theatre
Performances: Friday 10:01 p.m.
Tickets: $15 ($25 opening night)
Closes: Runs Through Jan 2
Company: BLEWT! Productions
Venue: Playground Theater
Performances: Saturday midnight (first Saturday every month)
Tickets: < $20 ($10; $5 students)
Closes: N/A.
Company: WildClaw Theatre
Venue: Athenaeum Theatre
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. (7 p.m. on opening nite 11/16)
Tickets: $10-$20
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
In March 2008, Wildclaw Theatre leapt (suddenly, from a dark corner) onto the Chicago scene with its production of "The Great God Pan." Now, the city's only company dedicated exclusively to horror plays kicks off its first full season with an adaptation of an HP Lovecraft tale about a nasty sublet situation, human sacrifice, and elder gods. The theater critics haven't weighed in as of press time, but several websites with titles like "Killer-Works" have posted raves. Wildclaw: bringing theater-geeks and horror-freaks together since earlier this year. Get more details...
Company: Annoyance Productions
Venue: Annoyance Theatre and Bar
Performances: Friday midnight
Tickets: < $20 ($8)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Northlight Theatre
Venue: Northlight Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday 1 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 p.m. (no show Nov. 27), Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sunday 2:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. (no shows Nov. 23, Dec. 7 & 21)
Tickets: $25-$59
Closes: Runs Through Dec 28
Company: Adventure Stage
Venue: The Vittum Theater
Performances: Saturday 2 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.
Tickets: $12 kids, $17 adults
Closes: Runs Through Dec 18
Company: Megan Doherty & Jacob A. Ware
Venue: Apollo Studio Theater
Performances: Friday 10:30 p.m.
Tickets: $8-$10
Closes: Runs Through Dec 12
Company: Collaboraction
Venue: Building Stage
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m. (8 p.m. 12/18), Friday 7:30 p.m. (8 p.m. 12/19), Saturday 7:30 p.m. (8 p.m. 12/20), Sunday 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$25
Closes: Runs Through Dec 20
A play with a glossy, hyperactive surface and a tender heart, "Jon" only looks busy and experimental. Deep down, it's a simple coming-of-age story with a strong narrative motor and a passel of fine actors. Director Seth Bockley adapts George Saunders' literary sci-fi story, about a corporate-owned and branded teenager who can only experience the world through the filter of the endless commercials implanted in his brain. Lucas Neff stars as Jon, a goony blonde who starts off as a cipher and ends as an immensely affecting human being. Get more details...
Company: Profiles Theatre
Venue: Profiles Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$30
Closes: Runs Through Dec 7
When it comes to tales of ambition and assassination, CEOs are the new Scottish warlords. Profile's latest black comedy turns its audience into flies on the wall of a corporate boardroom, where three gray suits and one "weapons specialist" plot against a business rival. Jason Wells wrote the play in 2005, as part of Steppenwolf's First Look Repertory program. Critics love his politically prescient script only slightly more than they love the sinewy, slimy performances in Profile's 100-percent evil-white-dude cast. Get more details...
Company: Goodman Theatre & Manhattan Theatre Club
Venue: Goodman Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. on 11/25 & 12/2 only, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Thursday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m. (2 p.m. on 11/22 & 11/29), Sunday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (no 7:30 p.m. shows on 11/23)
Tickets: $10–$39
Closes: Runs Through Dec 7
Company: Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Venue: Steppenwolf Theatre
Performances: Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m. on 1/14, 1/21/ 1/28 & 2/4), Thursday 7:30 p.m. (no shows 12/25 & 1/1), Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (evening shows through 1/11)
Tickets: $20-$48 previews; $20-$70 regular run
Closes: Runs Through Feb 8
Because one gloomy, bleakly redemptive Christmas play by Conor McPherson per season isn't enough, Steppenwolf backs up its currently playing "Dublin Carol" with "The Seafarer." The play, a big hit in New York and London, is about a holiday poker game with Satan himself. Like "Dublin," which stars CSI mainstay (and former off-Loop barnstormer) William Petersen, "Seafarer" features a beloved TV personality who earned his serious-acting creds in Chicago: John Mahoney. Another similarity? Like "Dublin," "The Seafarer" should be really, really good. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Performances: Wednesday 10:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. , Thursday 7:30 p.m. , Friday 7:30 p.m. , Saturday 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $30-$48
Closes: Runs Through Dec 28
Victory Gardens' completely non-denominational holiday-tradition-in-the-making returns for its third year. "The Snow Queen" is more of a prog-folk concept-album concert than a play. But it's by far the best prog-folk concept-album concert you'll see this decade. Hans Christian Andersen's tale of Gerda, a little girl on a quest to save her best friend from the titular Frigidaire, is told through dance, puppetry and above all, Michael Smith's gorgeous, joke-filled, heart-rending songs. The on-stage band is led by Smith himself, performing like some sly hybrid of Johnny Cash and Santa Claus. Get more details...
Company: WNEP
Venue: Studio Theater (Chicago Cultural Center)
Performances: Thursday 7:30 p.m. (no show on 11/27), Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $20, $15 students & seniors
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
Company: TUTA
Venue: Chopin Theatre
Performances: Thursday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$25 ($40 on 11/21)
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
When an Off-Loop theater company chooses to put on one of the Ten Shows Every High School Does, it's either clueless or hubristic. Put TUTA in the hubris category. Its production of “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” with its extra long title, promises a return to what the Elizabethans loved about theater: violence and underage sex. Making this show feel immediate and “internationally relevant” is a tall order, but if there's one thing the Balkan-affiliated TUTA does well, it's hormone-crazed teens in war-torn countries. Get more details...
Company: Profiles Theatre
Venue: Profiles Theatre
Performances: Wednesday 8 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.
Tickets: $25
Closes: Runs Through Dec 14
Profiles continues its investigation of the slimy corporate underbelly with this Midwest premiere. Playing in repertory with "Men of Tortuga," which focuses on the lords of the office high-rise, "The Thugs" is centered on its peons: a gaggle of temp workers investigating the nefarious secrets on the ninth floor of their law firm. Critics laud the mostly female ensemble cast, the taut rhythms and the way it captures the soul-crushing evil of the average work day. Get more details...
Company: Redmoon Theater
Venue: Redmoon Central
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m., 5 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. & 5 p.m.
Tickets: $15; $10 kids 13 and under
Closes: Runs Through Dec 21
A priest, a rabbi and a Wiccan want to toast the winter season together. Where should they go? Over to Redmoon Central for that rare holiday spectacle which neither celebrates nor mocks any religon. Instead, the “Winter Pageant” brings us the grand parade of the seasons, taking the audience through a surreal office summer, a cozy hibernation and a glorious spring. Critics say this otherwordly show, which evokes everything from Joseph Cornell boxes to classic films to your most extravagant dreams, is Redmoon at its best. Cheers! Get more details... |
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