John Pinckard at
Royal George Theatre Center
Hilarious two-man musical spoof in which a pair of aspiring writers performs a backers' audition for their new project--a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg, the evil monk who tries to stop him and the beautiful woman who loves him.
Light Opera Works at
Cahn Auditorium
A group of rowdy fairies meddles with British parliament to ensure that love will conquer all in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Show returns for a third smash year. Uplifting presentation of the classic is a muscular, acrobatic and dizzingly playful show for all ages. Alice falls, floats, flies and defies gravity and the rules of logic during her Wonderland journey through the looking glass to become a queen.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company at
Steppenwolf Theatre
Whimsical and imaginative comedy from one of America's leading contemporary playwrights, Sarah Ruhl. Jean answers a stranger's cell phone because he's dead. When the phone won't stop ringing and Jean can't stop answering, she embarks on a journey into the man's mysterious life.
Rubicon Theatre Project at
Profiles Theatre
Two brothers run a ladder store. Brother George has a secret he's been keeping from brother Jeff--he steals souls and sells them to the highest bidder. But his luck is about to run out. Fast-paced, dark comedy about unhappy people trying to find the happiness that was stolen from them.