Events for August 21st, 2008
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Thursday - August 21st
Theater / Theater Event
Fake Lake
Welles Park - 2333 W. Sunnyside Ave. - Chicago (Lincoln Square)
In this site-specific dramedy based on true events, a group of strangers get more than they bargain for when they take a trip to an ecologically suspect man-made beach. Performed in and around the pool.
Theater / Performance
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
United Center - 1901 W. Madison St. - Chicago (United Center)
4 p.m.
The renowned troupe returns to Chicago with a new production under its trademark blue-and-yellow grand chapiteu (big top) in Parking Lot K.
Theater / Theater Event
Superior Donuts
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
A world premiere comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts, in which an older Polish man who owns a decrepit Uptown bakery clashes with his only employee, an African-American teenager who wants to upgrade the shop.
Theater / Theater Event
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bailiwick Arts Center - 1229 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Rock musician Dennis DeYoung's musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel of the same title portrays the love triangle between the gypsy Esmeralda, the priest Frollo, and the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo.
Theater / Performance
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
United Center - 1901 W. Madison St. - Chicago (United Center)
4 p.m.
The renowned troupe returns to Chicago with a new production under its trademark blue-and-yellow grand chapiteu (big top) in Parking Lot K.
Theater / Comedy
Tom Wilson
Zanies Comedy Nite Club - 1548 N. Wells St. - Chicago (Old Town)
8:30 p.m.
Best known as Biff from the film "Back to the Future."
Theater / Theater Event
On an Average Day
Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater - 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Lincoln Park)
In this dark comedy and psychological drama by John Kolvenbach ("Love Song"), the relationship between two brothers--one tightly controlled, the other, unravelling--comes to a head when one arrives home after a long absence.
Theater / Theater Event
A Night of Burlesque featuring 'Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief'
Stage Left Theatre - 3408 N. Sheffield Ave. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Actors perform orginal songs and skits which poke fun at Shakespeare's "Othello" and gender politics in the early burlesque style. Then, see a dark comedy by Paula Vogel ("How I Learned to Drive") which reimagines Desdemona as a tramp who's slept with everyone in Othello's army except for Cassio.
Theater / Theater Event
Tommy's Place
The Annoyance Theatre - 4830 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
A comedic play about the events that unfold in the wake of a chance encounter at a Hoboken garden apartment between a female neighborhood advocate, a pizza delivery boy and an ex-dock worker.
Theater / Theater Event
Weekend
TimeLine Theatre - 615 W. Wellington Ave. - Chicago
8 p.m. preview
The Chicago premiere of Gore Vidal's comedy, set during the 1968 presidential campaign, in which a Republican senator's plans to announce his candidacy are thwarted by a shocking--and potentially damaging--announcement from his son.
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