Events for October 12th, 2008
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Sunday - October 12th
Theater / Theater Event
Night Falls
The Annoyance Theatre - 4830 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
An homage to ’60s horror TV series such as “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits,” in which a narrator guides the audience through four “episodes” set in a tiny Maine town that’s trapped in time.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Dia de los Muertos: La Vida Sin Fin
National Museum of Mexican Art - 1852 W. 19th St. - Chicago (Little Tuscany)
Billed as the nation's largest Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead exhibit, this 22nd annual collection highlights local and international artists and includes a tribute to student demonstrators killed 10 days before the 1968 summer Olympics in the Tlatelolco massacre.
Theater / Theater Event
Dirty Dancing--The Classic Story on Stage
Cadillac Palace Theatre - 151 W. Randolph St. - Chicago (Loop)
The Broadway touring production of the classic musical film (both written by Eleanor Bergstein) about a privileged girl who falls in love with a male professional dancer from the wrong side of the tracks.
Theater / Theater Event
Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear
Redmoon Central - 1463 W. Hubbard St. - Chicago (West Town)
A young girl gets more than she bargained for when she seeks out a mysterious doctor to help her father grow back an ear he lost in a fight with a terrier.
Theater / Theater Event
Mike Daisey: If You See Something Say Something
Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E. Chicago Ave. - Chicago (Gold Coast)
7:30 p.m.
In his humorous and dramatic solo show, Daisey blends personal and national history with notions of security and paranoia. Building narrative threads extemporaneously, each show is slightly different.
Theater / Theater Event
Free Night of Theater
Various locations - Chicago - Chicago
As part of a nationwide campaign, theaters offer free tickets to current shows. There is a two ticket limit. New blocks of tickets go on sale each Tuesday.
Theater / Theater Event
Weekend
TimeLine Theatre - 615 W. Wellington Ave. - Chicago
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.
Theater / Theater Event
Our Town
Chopin Theatre - 1543 W. Division St. - Chicago (West Town)
The Hypocrites remount their production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the cycle of life, death and rebirth as told through the experiences of an up-and-coming baseball star, the studious girl he marries and the residents in their small town.
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
Oobleck Election Play 2008: The Trojan Candidate
The Neo-Futurarium - 5153 N. Ashland Ave. - Chicago (Ravenswood)
An actor portraying Vice President Cheney hosts a satiric look into pressing questions surrounding the upcoming elections.
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