Events for July 27th, 2008
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Sunday - July 27th
Theater / Theater Event
A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale
National Pastime Theater - 4139 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
Local female impersonator Madame X stars in MidTangent Productions' remount of their LGBT adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy.
Theater / Performance
Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
United Center - 1901 W. Madison St. - Chicago (United Center)
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
Funk It Up About Nothin'
Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier - 800 E. Grand Ave. - Chicago (Streeterville)
An adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" is rapped to the rhythm of six MCs and a live DJ.
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)
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
The Attempters
Theater on the Lake - 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
6:30 p.m.
A new drama by Shawn Pfautsch ("Hatfield & McCoy") about a teenaged musician who is convinced that he's destined for fame.
Theater / Theater Event
Summer Re-Runs!
The Spot - 4437 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
7 p.m. "Young, Rich and Spoiled!" ("Beverly HIlls 90210," "Dawson's Creek" and a five-minute "Melrose Place")
Staged readings of classic sitcom episodes.
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
Rag And Bone
Profiles Theatre - 4147 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
2 p.m.
In this dramedy about human organs sold on the black market, a poet loses his heart, a hooker obtains a heart of gold and a man who receives his deceased mom's heart begins wearing dresses and cooking pot roasts.


