Events for March 12th, 2010
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Friday - March 12th
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Abigail's Party
A Red Orchid Theatre - 1531 N. Wells St. - Chicago (Old Town)
Mike Leigh’s comedy of manners pokes fun at the emergence of the new middle class of 1970s Britain during a cocktail party that goes horribly wrong.
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Chess
No Exit Cafe - 6970 N. Glenwood Ave. - Chicago (Rogers Park)
The game serves as a metaphor to explore life and love struggles in this rock 'n' roll musical by Tim Rice and Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson about a Cold War-era love triangle.
Theater / Theater Event
Trust
Lookingglass Theatre in the Water Tower Water Works - 821 N. Michigan Ave. - Chicago (Magnificent Mile)
Lookingglass co-founder David Schwimmer (best known as Ross from the TV sitcom "Friends") directs the world premiere of a drama he co-wrote with journalist Andy Bellin in which a seemingly innocent online encounter sparks a crisis that threatens to destroy a family.
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The Long Red Road
Goodman Theatre - 170 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (Loop)
Philip Seymour Hoffman directs the world premiere drama by Brett C. Leonard, in which a desperate man, unable to drink away his pain, must confront his reality when a visitor from his past arrives on the South Dakota reservation where he lives.
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Supernatural Chicago
Excalibur - 632 N. Dearborn St. - Chicago (River North)
Explore Chicago's allegedly paranormal past during this interactive one-man show starring necromancer Neil Tobin.
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I Still Love H.E.R. (atributetohiphop)
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts - 777 N. Green St. - Chicago (River West)
During his final show, a local talk show host is visited by hip-hop personified, who tells her story of the genre.
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Killer Joe
Profiles Theatre - 4147 N. Broadway - Chicago (Uptown)
In this drama by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County"), the plans of a greedy, vindictive clan to murder their matriarch for her insurance go awry when their hired hit man arrives at the family trailer.
Theater / Theater Event
Blue Man Group
Briar Street Theatre - 3133 N. Halsted St. - Chicago
This long-running and constantly evolving hit show combines performance art and slapstick comedy into a unique theatrical event.
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Sleeping Beauty
Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire - 10 Marriott Drive - Lincolnshire
An adaptation of the classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep forever unless she receives a kiss from her true love.
Theater / Theater Event
Tommy Gun's Garage
Tommy Gun's Garage - 2114 S. Wabash Ave. - Chicago (Near South Side)
Gangsters and flappers perform a musical comedy revue set in a 1929 Chicago speakeasy. Includes dinner.
