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IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane)

A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane). Celebrating Christmas with Dickens—and holiday eats.

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

A Christmas Carol (Goodman). Remember the Ghost of Christmas Past from years past?

A Red Orchid Theatre
(A Red Orchid Theatre)

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant. Sing ho ho ho all the way to this hilariously cynical holiday spoof.

Theatre at the Center
(Theatre at the Center)

A Wonderful Life. A classic musical for the holiday season.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

Aladdin. Soaring through the sky with Aladdin.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

All Shook Up. Elvis's spirit never dies.

American Girl Place

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(Vitalist Theatre and Premiere Theatre & Performance)

Anung's First Christmas. Young Anung embarks upon a magical journey.

EP Theatre
(Pavement Group)

Arrangements. A lot goes on behind the scenes at this flower shop.

Village Players Performing Arts Center
(Keri Marcouillier)

At Large!. Keri Marcouillier takes a closer look at weight issues.

Cornservatory
(Corn Productions)

Aunt Nancy and Her Stories. Remember Aunt Nancy? Yep, she's comin' to town.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Eclipse Theatre Company)

Autumn Garden, The . Get your Lillian Hellman fix.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Bad Review. Don't hate bad reviews. Embrace them.

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends. Follow Belle on her busty journey to stardom.

Second City
(Second City)

Between Barack and a New Show. The primaries are coming up fast, so get some more Barack luv on.

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.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Brothers Karamazov, The . Heidi Stillman adapts Dostoevsky's murderous novel.

BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio
(Ludicrous Theatre Company)

Corpus Christi. Josh might be the next Jesus Christ—the gay version.

Cadillac Palace Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Dirty Dancing . The classic coming-of-age love story hits the stage.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

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

Black Ensemble Theater

Don't Shed a Tear (The Story of Billie Holiday). Rock out to the tunes of a jazz legend.

Athenaeum Theatre
(WildClaw Theatre )

Dreams in the Witch House, The . Going to university is even scarier than you remember.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Duck for Prez. Tell your kids about this year's election. And why they should care.

Town Hall Pub

Entertaining Julia. It's free, it's funny and it's full of spastic performers.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Forbidden Broadway)

Forbidden Broadway Dances with the Stars. Get into fun, Broadway-style.

John Waldron Arts Center

Forever Plaid. Fifties pop hits and an all-male singing group, both brought back from the dead!

College of DuPage McAnich Arts Center

Grand Derangement!. Step dancers rock out to an explosion of lights and sound.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Permoveo Productions)

Haram Iran. Two Iranian boys get caught experimenting with their sexuality.

IO Theater

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

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."

Museum of Science and Industry
(Chicago Children's Theatre)

If All the World Were Paper. Follow the birth of Paper Girl in this interactive musical.

Chicago Dramatists
(Teatro Luna)

Jarred: A Hoodoo Comedy. After Alicia gets dumped, she turns to black magic.

Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.

Raven Theatre
(Raven Theatre)

Jesus Hopped the "A" Train. Urban drama with strong Catholic overtones.

Building Stage
(Collaboraction)

Jon. Can teen love exist in a corporate-controlled future?

Royal George Theatre Center

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

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

'Lil' Talent Show, A. Wax nostalgic about the high school talent show.

North Shore Theater of Wilmette
(North Shore Theater of Wilmette)

Little Shop of Horrors. What's that funky plant at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists?

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane)

Mame. Who doesn't want a Manhattan socialite for a guardian?

Theatre Building Chicago
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mark of Zorro. Zorro, what a secret identity you have.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

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

Profiles Theatre
(Profiles Theatre)

Men of Tortuga . Who doesn't a good play about evil CEOs and corporate control?

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

Stage Left Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)

Offsprung. How does the dysfunctional Mashburn family keep it together?

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co)

Our Bad Magnet. Three 9-year-old boys befriend a magical, albeit troubled, outsider.

Chicago Cultural Center
(Noel Williams)

Party of One. Can tears usher the much-maligned clowning back to hipness?

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy pHucked. Balls-out, no holds barred improv that encourages BYOB.

Writers' Theatre (Tudor Court)
(Writers' Theatre)

Picnic. What happens when a young drifter shows up in small town Kansas?

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).

Athenaeum Theatre
(The Plagiarists)

Promiscuous Stories. Plagiarizing is the name of this game.

Noble Horse Theatre

Quadrille. A dinner performance spectacular, featuring dancing white stallions.

Court Theatre
(SITI Company)

Radio Macbeth. Macbeth. Radio-style. Need we say more?

Evanston Arts Depot
(Piccolo Theatre)

Robinson Crusoe. It's a mish-mash, British-like, panto-style holiday celebration. We're serious.

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre & Manhattan Theatre Club)

Ruined. A trip through the bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Mercury Theater

Screwtape Letters, The . C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.

Redtwist Theatre
(Redtwist Theatre)

Shadowlands. Get the inside story on C.S. Lewis's romance with American poet Joy Gresham.

Studio Theater (Chicago Cultural Center)
(WNEP)

Soiree Dada: Schmuckt der Hallen. Smash the holidays.

Piven Theatre
(Piven Ensemble )

Somone Who'll Watch Over Me. Three men band together during a political imprisonment.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Royal George Theatre Center

Sunday School Cinema. The ruler-wielding nun sets her sights on Hollywood.

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

The Flaming Dames in 'Torch'. Usually the Dames take it off. But not this time.

Chopin Theatre
(TUTA)

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. A wacky spin on the classic tragic love story.

Profiles Theatre
(Profiles Theatre)

Thugs, The . What really happens on the ninth floor of this (evil corporate) law firm?

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun's Garage. Sip it all in at a 1920s speakeasy.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater

Tomorrow Morning. Love rules all.

Piper's Alley

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

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(The Union)

Ward & June are Dead. There's a dark side to everything, especially relationships.

Noyes Cultural Arts Center
(Next Theatre)

Well. Knocking the lid off a tenuous mother-daughter relationship.

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.

Redmoon Central
(Redmoon Theater)

Winter Pageant Redux. Religious? Not religious? Just like the spectacle of Christmas? Read on.

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