Events for October 12th, 2008
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Sunday - October 12th
Theater / Comedy
The Return of Tony Clifton
Lakeshore Theater - 3175 N. Broadway - Chicago
8:30 p.m.
Clifton performs as an abusive lounge singer with the Katrina Kiss-My-Ass Orchestra, featuring 20 New Orleans and Gulf Coast musicians, backup singers and the Tony’s Cliftonettes burlesque dancers.
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Entertaining Julia
Town Hall Pub - 3340 N. Halsted Ave. - Chicago (Boystown)
Local comic Jena Friedman hosts a music and comedy variety show aimed at amusing Julia, the Town Hall Pub bartender.
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The Screwtape Letters
Mercury Theatre - 3745 N. Southport Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A new adaptation of C.S. Lewis' darkly comic novel of the same title, in which human faith and virtue fall prey to the manipulations of devils who, from their office workplace in hell, teach an apprentice demon how to undermine a young man’s recent conversion to Christianity.
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On the Shore of the Wide World
Theatre Building Chicago - 1225 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
In Simon Stephens' Olivier Award-winning drama, three generations of a British family struggle with their life choices in the aftermath of a tragedy.
Theater / Comedy
Raucous Caucus: The Lesser of Two Evils
The Annoyance Theatre - 4830 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
Audience suggestions provide platforms for a rotating roster of two election "candidates" in an improv show.
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Candide
Theatre Building Chicago - 1225 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
In Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler's adaptation of Voltaire's comedic adventure novel of the same title, a man is expelled from home, drafted into the Bulgarian army, brought before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a fortune, shipwrecked on a desert isle and repeatedly separated from his...
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Anna Livia, Lucky in Her Bridges
Bailiwick Arts Center - 1229 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A world premiere ghost story about fear, hope and love is set in Dublin on June 16, 1904.
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.
