Events for October 12th, 2008
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Sunday - October 12th
Events / Community Event
Haunted Sanitarium
Theater on the Lake - 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Small groups wander through scary themed rooms, such as an Egyptian tomb, a graveyard and a demented clown's test lab. A waiting area features concessions and creepy flicks. Line up by 10:30 p.m. to catch the final performance each night.
Theater / Theater Event
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.
Theater / Theater Event
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 / Theater Event
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...
Theater / Theater Event
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 / Theater Event
Chiaroscuro (a Study in Shadow)
Bailiwick Arts Center - 1229 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
A reimagined historical drama in which poetry, memory torture and lust come into play when the artist Caravaggio hires a beautiful, young farmer off the streets of Renaissance Rome to pose for a painting.
Music / Rock
Theater / Theater Event
The Mark of Zorro
Theatre Building Chicago - 1225 W. Belmont Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Lifeline Theatre remounts Katie McLean's adaptation of Johnston McCulley's novel of the same title.
Theater / Theater Event
Twelfth Night
Athenaeum Theatre - 2936 N. Southport Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identity, disguise and romance is adapted to an outer space setting in the year 2013.
Theater / Comedy
The Harold
iO - 3541 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Wrigleyville)
Improv teams explore an audience suggestion using scenes, games and monologues. The 8 p.m. Saturday shows also feature "The Del Tones," an improv musical. The 8 p.m. Friday shows include "The Movie," experimental improv.
