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May 5 - May 11
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4Track: An improvised show featuring a long-form piece created from a single audience suggestion.
Blue Man Group: A supremely silly, long-running performance featuring music, gags, video, flying food, flying paint, and lots and lots of paper.
Bouffon Glass Menajoree: A return engagement of the clown-style parody of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Closes May 27, 2008.
Celia: A new musical about the life of the late Cuban singer Celia Cruz. Performances will be in English and Spanish. Closes May 25, 2008.
Chicago City Limits, Without a Net!: A new sketch comedy and improvisation show from the long-running comedy troupe.
Eleanor Reissa Sings English: A cabaret show starring actress/director Eleanor Reissa, singing a variety of American popular music. Closes May 22, 2008.
Elephant Larry: The acclaimed sketch comedy troupe return with a brand-new show. Closes May 16, 2008.
Flanagan's Wake: An interactive Irish wake, with a score by Bonnie Shadrake. This show has been running in Chicago for 13 years.
Fuerzabruta: A new physical theater event from the creators of De La Guarda.
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.
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.
Pinchbottom's Sub:Conscious: A monthly burlesque show presented by Pinchbottom, described as "sexy, intelligent, risqué, and above all theatrical."
Reason without Meaning: A new dance work by Luis Lara Malvacías that uses contrasting moments of physical and psychological isolation and proximity to create a fleeting narrative about power, struggle, and the raw emotional intensity of anger, frustration, and cruelty. Performances are this week only.
Retrograde: All Balls Out Ensemble presents a theatre work that interprets the astronomical phenomenon of "retrograde motion" via human interaction on the stage. Closes May 16, 2008.
Reverend Jen's Anti-Slam!: An open-mike evening hosted by alternative performance artists Reverend Jen, in which all participants win. At Downeast Arts Center.
Starshine Burlesque: A weekly late-night burlesque show at RiFiFi.
Stomp: Eight incredible young performers make rhythm with found objects like garbage cans and pots and pans. Now in its twelfth year off-Broadway.
Street Limbo Blues: An interactive environmental play by the Hawaiian troupe Cruel Theatre. The performance takes place all around Tompkins Square Park. Closes May 18, 2008.
The 5 Borough Plays: Milk Can Theatre Company presents a program of five original short plays inspired by the five boroughs of New York City. Closes May 18, 2008.
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.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: A program of 30 plays in 60 minutes, presented by the Neo-Futurists.
Van Driver: A 1960s style happening exploring life-altering experiences and the bohemian counter-culture. Closes June 7, 2008.
