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November 16 - November 22
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LAST CHANCE!
These shows are closing this week
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.
REVIEWED BY SARAH WHALEN
She Turned on the Light: An interdisciplinary work written, directed and choreographed by Wendy Woodson that explores how lines of fantasy, memory, and reality loop around and merge when one is a stranger in a strange land. Closes November 22, 2009.
REVIEWED BY SHELLEY MOLAD
The Folly of Crowds: A late-night comedy by Mat Smart that takes place at a small private university. Closes November 21, 2009.
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
Wonder Woman! A Cabaret of Heroic Proportions: A one-woman show by Elizabeth Whitney in which Wonder Woman makes a comeback as a lounge singer. This is part of Emerging Artists' EATFest. Closes November 21, 2009.
4Track: An improvised show featuring a long-form piece created from a single audience suggestion.
American Treasure: 13P presents a new play by Julia Jarcho in which a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. In previews; opens on November 29, 2009.
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
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up: A new physical theater event from the creators of De La Guarda.
REVIEWED BY JACK HANLEY
Hetty Pepper's Stew: This is part of Manhattan Rep's Gay and Lesbian Play Series. Performances are this week only.
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.
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.
Picture Incomplete: A new musical by Trent Armand Kendall and Michael Polese. Closes December 21, 2009.
Prima: A new dance piece by LeeSaar The Company. Performances are this week only.
REVIEWED BY DAVID IAN LEE
Savion Glover: Jammin' with the Masters: Tap dancer Savion Glover performs with geust jazz musicians at the famous Greenwich Village club. Performances are this week only.
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 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
This Is Burlesque: A revue of burlesque, comedy, and improv, hosted by Murray Hill. Closes December 19, 2009.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: A program of 30 plays in 60 minutes, presented by the Neo-Futurists.
Verbatim Verboten: An ever-changing revue of word-for-word transcripts of noted people (and some ordinary folk) saying things they never meant for the public to hear. Hosted by Jonathan Pereira. Closes September 17, 2010.
