Category: Opening-Closing This Week
This week’s show openings, closings, ticket specials
show openings
Charlotte’s Web - Theatre-Hikes
Consume - Gorilla Tango Theatre
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble
Earth: TTFN?! - WWS Productions
Improvised Shakespeare Company - Theater on the Lake
An Urban Home Companion - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Wanted - Gorilla Tango Theatre
What We May Be - Gorilla Tango Theatre
show closings
Clitoris Stories - Cornservatory
A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians - Trap Door Theatre
The Ride Down Mount Morgan - Redtwist Theatre
Brother, Can You Spare Some Change? - The Second City e.t.c.
Women with Manners - Annoyance Theatre
special ticket offers
$10 tickets to A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage at Eclipse Theatre at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. Eclipse is offering $10 tickets to the Thursday, July 2nd, Friday, July 3rd & Saturday, July 4th at 8:30 p.m, and Sunday July 5th at 3:30 p.m. performances. Call the box office at 773-404-7336 and mention "industry discount". Visit http://www.eclipsetheatre.com for more details.
$5 off tickets to 5th of July by Lanford Wilson at Oak Park Festival Theatre, 100 block of North Forest Avenue, Oak Park. Discount available only on Thursday night performances: Additionally, Wednesdays July 1 and 8 are student/senior nights: tickets for students/seniors are only $10. Visit http://oakparkfestival.com for more information.
Opening this week in Chicago
500 Clown and the Elephant Deal - 500 Clown
Boleros for the Disenchanted - Goodman Theatre
A Celebration of Hope and Peace - Chiesa Nuova
A Celebration of Johnny Mercer - Northwestern University Theater
Dead Wrong - The Factory Theater
Earth: TTFN?! – WWS Productions
The Hollow Lands - Steep Theatre
In Your Facebook - Prop Thtr
Once Upon a Time (or the Secret Language of Birds) - Redmoon Theater
Over the Rainbow - Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus
Snubfest 2009 - Chemically Imbalanced Comedy
Summer Music Series - Drury Lane Theatre Watertower
Two Torn Apart - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Up - Steppenwolf Theatre
Show closings after the fold.
This week’s Chicago show openings and ticket specials
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE – Independent Stars Theatre
CUSTER’S LAST STAND FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – Piccolo Theatre
INTO THE WIND - Gorilla Tango Theatre
JON – Collaboraction Theatre
PAUL’S GLASSES – Gorilla Tango Theatre
POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical - Hell in a Handbag Productions
SKETCHTOPIA – Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
SODOMITES!!! A MUSICAL OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS - Annoyance Theatre
STEEL MAGS LETS YOU DOWN EASY – Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
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Chicago theater openings and specials this week
show openings
5th of July - Oak Park Festival Theatre
The Alcyone Festival 2009 - Halcyon Theatre
Belmont Burlesque Revue – Gorilla Tango Theatre
Follies - Actors Theatre Company
Improv Children of the Corn 2 – Cornservatory
Jesus Hopped the “A” Train - Village Players Performing Arts Center
Little Brother – Griffin Theatre
Nederlands Dans Theater I - Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
A Song for Coretta – Eclipse Theatre
Strauss at Midnight - Theater Oobleck
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Opening This Week in Chicago
$30,000 Bequest - Organic Theater
Cirque Shangai: Bright Spirit - Navy Pier
The Duck Variations - Theatre-Hikes
Hope VI - Chicago Dramatists
The K of D: An Urban Legend - A Red Orchid Theatre
The Last Ninety Minutes in the Life of Nikola Tesla - University Theater at University of Chicago
Line - Gorilla Tango Theatre
A Little Night Music – Light Opera Works
A Minister’s Wife - Writers’ Theatre
Mountain Days: The John Muir Musical – Theatre-Hikes
Next Beer Is Here - Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
Phenomenon of Decline - Gorilla Tango Theatre
The Ride Down Mount Morgan - Redtwist Theatre
Third - Apple Tree Theatre
Women of Manhattan - The Artistic Home
Chicago theater openings this week
BABY - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
BAD TOUCH AND GOOD LIARS – Annoyance Theatre
A COUPLE OF POOR, POLISH SPEAKING ROMANIANS - Trap Door Theatre
EURYDICE – University Theater at University of Chicago
GHETTO – Northwestern University Theater
LA CAGE AU FOLLES – Boho Theatre
THE PODCAST – Annoyance Theatre
UNCLE VANYA – TUTA Theatre
Special Ticket Offers
Half Price tickets to Hedwig and The Angry Inch at American Theater Company, 1909 W. Byron Street. American Theater Company is offering a 50% discount for tickets for the following performance this weekend: Saturday, May 23 at 11 p.m. and Sunday, May 24 at 3 p.m. Call the Box Office at 773.409.4125 or visit www.atcweb.org and use the code "chicagoplays".
Babes With Blades offers pay-what-you-can admission to Macbeth on Thursdays through May 21. Enter a Scotland wracked by treachery and possessed by supernatural forces – a kingdom where loyalty is fatal, ambition is madness, and no motivation is pure. For tickets call 773.880.0016 or visit www.BabesWithBlades.org.
Chicago Theater Openings this week
ADULTS - Chemically Imbalanced Theater
BURIED CHILD - Shattered Globe Theatre
EIFMAN BALLET OF ST. PETERSBURG – Auditorium Theatre
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL - Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre
MEASURE FOR MEASURE – Promethean Theatre Ensemble
ON AN AVERAGE DAY - BackStage Theatre Company
OWEN WINGRAVE – Chicago Opera Theater
THE PIANO LESSON - Court Theatre
TOMMY – Circle Theatre
THE WALLS - Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
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