Now Playing: Late Night
November 2 - November 8
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4Track: An improvised show featuring a long-form piece created from a single audience suggestion.
Americana Kamikaze: Temporary Distortion delves into the worlds of Japanese ghost stories and "J-Horror". Closes November 14, 2009.
REVIEWED BY RICHARD HINOJOSA
Baby Wants Candy: The famed improv troupe returns with a brand new fully improvised musical every Saturday night. Closes November 28, 2009.
Blue Man Group: A supremely silly, long-running performance featuring music, gags, video, flying food, flying paint, and lots and lots of paper.
Cedar City Falls: a Mid-West Conflict: A weekly live soap opera a small peaceful town that gets plunged into full-scale civil war. Tuesdays; with rotating cast. Closes November 24, 2009.
Chicago City Limits: A new sketch comedy and improvisation show from the long-running comedy troupe.
REVIEWED BY MARTIN DENTON
Duchess in the Dark: A new production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in which the audience controls the lighting (via flashlights). Performances are this week only.
REVIEWED BY WILL FULTON
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up: A new physical theater event from the creators of De La Guarda.
REVIEWED BY JACK HANLEY
Line: Israel Horovitz's one-act dark comedy about a group of people who are waiting on line, though they don't know for what. Now in its 32nd year.
Love, Linda: A new one-woman musical performed by Stevie Holland about Linda Porter and her life with her husband, Cole Porter (whose songs are used in the show). Closes November 21, 2009.
Made in Heaven: A comedy by Jay Bernzweig about a pair of conjoined Siamese twins who share a penis.
REVIEWED BY BRAD LEE THOMASON
Megawatt: Comedy/improv in various forms and styles, at the Magnet Theater.
Naked Boys Singing: The title pretty much says it all: eight attractive and unclothed young men perform a variety of sketches and songs in this amusing but tame revue. Weekends only.
National Comedy Theatre: An improv show in which two teams of comedians compete by performing a series of scenes, all based on audience suggestions.
Peter-Wendy: A new adaptation of Peter Pan, featuring an ensemble all dressed in pajamas. Performances are this week only.
REVIEWED BY LOREN NOVECK
Picture Incomplete: A new musical by Trent Armand Kendall and Michael Polese. Closes December 21, 2009.
Stomp: Eight incredible young performers make rhythm with found objects like garbage cans and pots and pans. Now in its sixteenth year off-Broadway.
The A**hole in My Head: A tale of "the true side of the Broadway underbelly," written and performed by Kate Dawson. Closes November 15, 2009.
The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville: A one-man variety show from New Yiddish Rep, starring Shane Baker. In previews; opens on December 5, 2009.
The Complete Performer: Emmy-winning comedy writer Ted Greenberg throws a one-man comedy party, complete with a halftime show and a cab ride home.
The Diary of Anne Frankenstein: An absurdist re-imagining of Mary Shelley's famous novel, written by Ilya Sapiroe. Closes November 29, 2009.
REVIEWED BY MATT ROBERSON
The Made Up Musical: A weekly improv show in which the cast creates an original musical right before the audience's eyes. At the Magnet Theater.
The Misunderstanding: Horizon Theatre Rep presents a revival of Albert Camus's play about a man who returns home to his family after a 20 year absence. Closes November 22, 2009.
REVIEWED BY MITCHELL CONWAY
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: A program of 30 plays in 60 minutes, presented by the Neo-Futurists.
