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Second City
(Second City)
America: All Better! . Now that Barack's the President-elect, everything will be all better. Right?
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Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre
Annie Get Your Gun.
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Playground Theater
Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.
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Second City
(Second City)
Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.
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Second City
(Second City)
Between Barack and a Hard Place. With the primaries looming in the near future, "Between Barack and a New Show" has decidedly replaced "Between Barack and a Hard Place."
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Briar Street Theatre
Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.
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Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre)
Bowery Boys, The . Will the "rags to riches" story come true this time?
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?. Now that the election ho-ha is over, it's back to funny business as usual.
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Strawdog Theatre
(Strawdog Theatre Company)
Cherry Orchard, The . The aristocracy and the bourgeoisie struggle to find their place in a new Russian society.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)
Co-Ed Prison Sluts. Shit. Motherf&*!@$. F--k you you c$%t or a prick...
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.
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Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)
Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.
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IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)
Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
From Fear to Eternity.
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eta Creative Arts Foundation
(eta Creative Arts Foundation)
From the Mississippi Delta. Relive Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland's heroic journey.
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Theater on the Lake
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)
Gorey Stories: A Musical Entertainment. Whimsy meets macabre in Edward Gorey's signature tales.
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Profiles Theatre
(Profiles Theatre)
Great Falls. A stepfather and his stepdaughter go road trippin' through the American West.
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Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)
How I Became an Interesting Person. Think you're boring? Think again.
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City Lit
(Promethean Theatre Ensemble)
Illusion, The. Sometimes theater triumphs over reality.
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IO Theater
Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.
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Annoyance Theatre
Invention Show, The. Think you know the most important invention ever? Think again.
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Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)
Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.
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Royal George Theatre Center
Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.
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Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)
Mariette in Ecstasy. Life for the Sisters of the Crucifixion is about to change.
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Redtwist Theatre
(Redtwist Theatre)
Marvin's Room. Family ties prevail in this drama about reuniting.
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.
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Bailiwick Arts Center
Moscow.
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Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)
Our Bad Magnet. What really happened to Giggles?
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Bucky's Planet Productions and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)
Pimprov. Pimps improvise. Yeah, you read right.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).
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Stage Left Theatre
(The Mill)
Private Lives of Eskimos, The. Ever wonder what life after anti-depressants would be like?
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Second City
(Second City)
Red Scare.
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Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
Seafarer, The. A dark Christmas in Dublin.
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The Chicago Theatre
(Shear Madness)
Shear Madness. A fast-paced, whodunit comedy that lets the audience call the shots.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)
That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.
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Chase Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.
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Second City
(Second City)
War! Now in its 4th Smash Year!. Second City tackles the issues that are dividing the nation. Ha!
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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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Strawdog Theatre
(Rasaka Theatre with Premiere Theater & Performance)
Yoni Ki Baat. Hittin' the G-spot.

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