Events for October 12th, 2008
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Sunday - October 12th
Music / Rock
Badfish - A Tribute to Sublime
House of Blues - 329 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (River North)
5:30 p.m.
Scotty Don't, Parker House and Theory.
Theater / Theater Event
Kafka on the Shore
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Tony Award-winner Frank Galati adapts and directs directs Haruki Murakami's novel comparing a young boy's coming of age with an old man's search for destiny in modern day Japan.
Theater / Theater Event
The Threepenny Opera
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
With director Sean Graney at the helm, The Hypocrites theater company tackles a musical for the first time in its production history. The classic melodrama by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill follows the story of a ne'er-do-well whose marriage to a high class girl brings trouble.
Theater / Theater Event
Eurydice
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater - 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
3 p.m. preview
In this modern retelling of the classic Greek myth by Evanston native and Pulitzer Prize-nominee Sarah Ruhl ("A Clean House"), Eurydice's wedding plans to her true love Orpheus go awry when she sets off after a man bearing a letter from her dead father and ends up in the underworld.
Theater / Theater Event
Kafka on the Shore
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Tony Award-winner Frank Galati adapts and directs directs Haruki Murakami's novel comparing a young boy's coming of age with an old man's search for destiny in modern day Japan.
Music / Rock
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Congress Theater - 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave. - Chicago (Logan Square)
12 p.m.
ALL, Jay Reatard, The Casualties, Leftover Crack, TSOL, DOA, Big Drill Car, Mustard Plug, Municipal Waste, Paint It Black, Teenage Bottlerocket, Valient Thorr, Black President, The Methadones, The Ergs! and others.
Music / Jazz
Hiromi
Jazz Showcase - 806 S. Plymouth Ct. - Chicago (South Loop)
4 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m.
With Tony Gray, David Fiuczynski and Ferenc Nemeth.
Theater / Comedy
No Country for Old White Men
The Second City - 1616 N. Wells St. - Chicago (Lincoln Park)
The 95th sketch comedy revue takes a look at YouTube shenanigans, a visit by the British House of Commons, sweet soul food, girl power and other topics related to the current presidential race.
Theater / Comedy
Campaign Supernova! or How Many Democrats Does it Take to Lose an Election?
The Second City e.t.c. - 1608 N. Wells St. - Chicago (Old Town)
The Second City e.t.c.'s 31st revue explores what happens when you take two political parties and divide them by three candidates during a presidential election year.
Music / Jazz
Hiromi
Jazz Showcase - 806 S. Plymouth Ct. - Chicago (South Loop)
4 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m.
With Tony Gray, David Fiuczynski and Ferenc Nemeth.
