Events for January 8th, 2009
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Thursday - January 8th
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.
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The Seafarer
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
John Mahoney stars in this dark comedy by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
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Grease
Auditorium Theatre - 50 E. Congress Pkwy. - Chicago (South Loop)
7:30 p.m.
"American Idol" Season Five winner Taylor Hicks stars as Teen Angel in the classic rock 'n' roll musical about the troubled high-school romance between a straight-laced girl and a rowdy greaser. Broadway actors Emily Padgett and Eric Schneider portray Sandy and Danny respectively and Allie Schulz,...
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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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Yoni Ki Baat (Talks of the Vagina)
Strawdog Theatre - 3829 N. Broadway - Chicago
An exploration of the female South Asian-American immigrant experience (loosely inspired by "The Vagina Monologues") tackles the subjects of sexuality, marriage and more through music, dance and monologues from Asian-American women across the country.
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From the Mississippi Delta
ETA Creative Arts Foundation - 7558 S. South Chicago Ave. - Chicago (Park Manor/Grand Crossing)
The autobiographical story of Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland, whose journey takes her from poverty and prostitution in the Jim Crow South to civil rights activism, academic achievement and success as a Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright.
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Look, What I Don't Understand
Athenaeum Theatre - 2936 N. Southport Ave. - Chicago (Lakeview)
Actor-writer Anthony Nikolchev performs his dramatic solo show about his family's 1960s escape from Bulgaria to America.
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I Still Love H.E.R. (atributetohiphop)
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts - 777 N. Green St. - Chicago (River West)
In this musical examination of hip-hop as a cultural movement, a fictitious DJ's broadcast is interrupted when a character personifying hip-hop arrives to argue against his criticism of the genre.
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Don't Dress for Dinner
Royal George Theatre Center - 1641 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Jeffrey Donovan (from USA-TV's "Burn Notice") stars in a comedy of errors by Marc Camoletti ("Boeing-Boeing") in which a husband's attempt at a cozy weekend with his mistress, while his wife is out of town, goes awry.
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The Little Foxes
The Greenhouse Theater Center - 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Lincoln Park)
8 p.m. preview
In Lillian Hellman's classic drama, siblings steal and plot against each other in their efforts to invest in one of the first cotton mills to industrialize the New South, a plan that stands to win them millions of dollars at the expense of poor migrant workers.
