Events for December 3rd, 2008
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Wednesday - December 3rd
Theater / Theater Event
The Snow Queen
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater - 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
Tony Award-winner Frank Galati directs a revival of the 2006 world premiere, musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale about kids lost in a winter wonderland. Penned by Michael Smith ("Hello Dali: From the Sublime to the Surreal").
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Silent Night of the Lambs
Mary's Attic - 5400 N. Clark St. - Chicago (Andersonville)
7:30 p.m. preview
In a holiday mash-up of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Silence of the Lambs," a female detective heads to the North Pole to interrogate notorious psychopath Kris Kringle as part of her investigation into a series of killings where the human and animal victims are skinned.
Theater / Theater Event
A Christmas Carol
Goodman Theatre - 170 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (Loop)
12 p.m.
Tom Creamer's stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the true meaning of Christmas.
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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
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
Dublin Carol
Steppenwolf Theatre Company - 1650 N. Halsted St. - Chicago (Sheffield/De Paul)
William Petersen (star and executive producer of CBS-TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") portrays an alcoholic funeral home employee whose estranged daughter arrives on Christmas Eve with news that the wife he abandoned is dying and wants to see him.
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Cut to the Quick
The Side Project Theatre - 1439 W. Jarvis Ave. - Chicago (Rogers Park)
A rotating roster of short plays by local and national playwrights Sean Graney, Brett Neveu, Laura Jacqmin, Phiip Dawkins, Robert Tenges, John Garces, Laurel Haines, Brian Golden, Aaron Carter, Mark Young and others.
Theater / Theater Event
Ruined
Goodman Theatre - 170 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (Loop)
A drama by Lynn Nottage ("Crumbs from the Table of Joy") about a savvy businesswoman who runs a brothel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amidst the ongoing civil war.
Theater / Theater Event
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier - 800 E. Grand Ave. - Chicago (Streeterville)
Lovers pursue each other through the woods with the help of the king of fairies in Shakespeare's romantic comedy. This production features 23 actors, dancers, martial arts experts, musicians and street acrobats from across India and Sri Lanka, performing in eight different languages with half...
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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.
