22 shows found.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Blue Bayou
Performances: Thursday 10 p.m.
Tickets: Free
Closes: N/A.
Want to see a little something-something, but pay a lot of nothing-nothing? Belly up to Vaudezilla's Bartop Burlesque, a no-cover, low-covering striptease show at the Blue Bayou. It happens every Thursday night, and features a rotating schedule of Vaudezillian vixens, wearing nothing but their smiles and their etceteras. Get more details...
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.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Pub Theater
Performances: Friday 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Chicago Dramatists
Performances: Saturday 2 p.m.
Tickets: $20 ($5 donation)
Closes: N/A.
If you like to be there at the beginning, you have to be there for the Saturday Series. Chicago Dramatists' weekly staged readings have seen many fortuitous births, including Keith Huff's Broadway hit "A Steady Rain." Get more details...
Company: Chicago Underground Comedy
Venue: Beat Kitchen
Performances: Tuesday 8 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($5)
Closes: N/A.
Company: Cirque Shanghai
Venue: Navy Pier Skyline Stage
Performances: Wednesday 2 p.m., 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. , Thursday 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Friday 2 p.m., 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. , Saturday 2 p.m., 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. , Sunday 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.
Tickets: $15.50-$29.50
Closes: Runs Through Sep 2
Schools out! Let's go to the circus! Cirque Shanghai, an import that's become a local tradition, will be bringing its astounding international performers to Navy Pier from now through September. With tumblers, jugglers, contortionists, jugglers, dancers and drums, "Dragon's Thunder," 36 cast members strong, will be the largest Cirque Shanghai yet. Big, bright and brief, this show is the very definition of summer entertainment. Get more details...
Company: Chicago Dance Crash
Venue: N/A.
Performances: Friday 8 p.m, Saturday 8 p.m, Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $30
Closes: Runs Through Jun 9
Full-length dance shows come in one of two flavors: modern or fusty. But with "Gotham City," the 2012 hit about a comic-book metropolis, Chicago Dance Crash brought us something exhilarating and new: a bona fide pop epic ballet. Their newest effort, which hops times from the Prohibition era to the 1980s, will combine swing dancing, acrobatics, ballet and hip hop with jazz, Michael Jackson and Outkast. It's a speakeasy we can't wait to visit. Get more details...
Company: BLEWT! Productions
Venue: Playground Theater
Performances: Saturday midnight (first Saturday every month)
Tickets: < $20 ($10; $5 students)
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: Aloft Loft
Performances: Friday 10 p.m. (April 2 2010 only), Saturday 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. (first or second Saturdays)
Tickets: $5-$10
Closes: N/A.
Can't shell out 200 big ones for Cirque du Soleil? Shell out 15 for El Circo Cheapo, a monthly spectacular for the New Depression. In lieu of a big-top and mega-bucks, they've got a converted warehouse space, talent and spunk. Featuring a rotating cast of Chicago's most fearless and flexible young performers, this reliably sold-out event has a surprise inside, every time. Get more details...Welcome to the Chicago premiere of a play by this writer... maybe you've heard of him... William Shakespeare? Critics say that Barbara Gaines’s witty, fast moving, and pulpily dramatic version of the Bard’s rarely performed final history play wins by focusing on Henry’s women (wives one through two), and letting some of what Shakespeare left unsaid peek through his words. With Chicago acting royalty like Ora Jones onstage, this might be among the best productions of Henry VIII in the past 400 years. Get more details...
Company: Factory Theater
Venue: Prop Thtr
Performances: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $10-$25
Closes: Runs Through Jun 1
Prop Theatre specializes in baggy, happy comedies with massive casts. In a total departure from form, their latest, rapturously reviewed show is a six-handed thriller on a single, claustrophobic set. Manny Tamayo's script starts with a group of late-night passengers on a stranded CTA car (rendered full scale on the Prop stage) adds two dangerously unhinged, switchblade-wielding thugs, and cranks up the engines. Critics say it's a genuinely scary, extremely entertaining ride through the dark side of the city. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Chicago Dramatists
Performances: Wednesday 8 p.m. (last Wednesday of each month)
Tickets: Free
Closes: N/A.
Mix it up with Chicago Dramatists' monthly short-theatre event. Playwrights get a surprise theme, a week to write and an hour to rehearse. The topic for May is consumption, so come hungry. Not sure that this sort of speed cookery is the best recipe for a night out? Don't worry. This menu of new plays won't cost you a dime. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Book Cellar
Performances: Saturday 7 p.m. (last Sat of mo) & 8 p.m. (2nd Sat of mo)
Tickets: $10
Closes: N/A.
If someone tells you that women aren't funny, march that person right over to the Book Cellar for an evening of cupcakes and comedy. On second thought, don't. More cupcakes for the rest of us. This informal evening of sharp stand-up features a rotating cast of Chicago's best female jokers. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Links Hall
Performances: Friday 8 p.m, Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: $10-$15
Closes: N/A.
Company: N/A.
Venue: N/A.
Performances: Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m.
Tickets: $15
Closes: Runs Through May 26
This off-kilter one-hander uses the story of a single, demented man to create an entire town full of vivid characters. Matt Test, fully committed in the leading role, plays a middle-aged failure who can't attend his son's football games because of his estranged wife's restraining order. His reaction? A series of increasingly bad ideas. The comedy here is dark, over-the-top, and definitely totally human. Get more details...
Company: N/A.
Venue: Oracle Theatre
Performances: Monday 8 p.m., Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: Free
Closes: Runs Through May 25
Brecht haters, prepare to be won over. This loud, sweaty staging of "The Mother" counters the political dramatist's famous 'distancing' effect by placing the audience smack in the action, sitting at five long, beer-hall-style tables that double as elevated stages. Best of all, since Oracle is committed to public access theatre, you and your comrades can watch Pelegea Vlassova transform from timid widow to ferocious Bolshevik for absolutely free. Get more details...When "Pal Joey" opened in 1940, it was the biggest musical on Broadway. Critics say that the current Porchlight revival, at Stage 773, is considerably cozier, but no less delightful for it. Porchlight's take on this tale of an amoral but charming nightclub performer who bewitches (and bothers, and bewilders) a wealthy married woman is wittily choreographed and vivaciously performed. You don't have to be a musical theatre history buff to get swept off your feet by this roguish dancer. Get more details...CST's World's Stage program has been bringing international art-house hits to Navy Pier for years. Their latest, a harrowing exploration of the sex-trafficking industry, does not take place on Navy Pier. Instead, audiences are bussed from the theatre to an undisclosed location, where, trapped like voyeurs inside a real Chicago apartment, they watch a young victim struggle with the greatest disaster of her life. Critics say it is a challenging, innovative piece that forces viewers to connect with what they'd prefer to ignore. In its closing weekend. Get more details...Squeeeeeee! "Speech and Debate" is back at American Theatre Company! This Stephen Karam play, about a web-based student/teacher sex scandal, is both funny and deliciously overblown, like a John Hughes classic deformed by Facebook. When it made its regional debut here in 2008, the ebullient ATC production turned critics and audiences into swooning teenage fanboys. Sadieh Rifai, who stole the show five years ago, will return as video blogger/unredeemable “Wicked” fan Dawita. Get more details...
Company: Neo-Futurists
Venue: Neo-Futurarium
Performances: Wednesday 11 p.m. (12/31 only), Friday 11:30 p.m. , Saturday 11:30 p.m. , Sunday 7 p.m.
Tickets: < $20 ($7 plus roll of one die)
Closes: N/A.
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