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Court Theatre continues its 2008-09 season with the World Premiere translation of Henrik Ibsen's modernist classic The Wild Duck, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell. The production will run at the MCA Stage at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue, January 15 - February 15, 2009.

Batterymouth brings its unique and hilarious brand of improv to Chicago?s Apollo Theater Studio, 2540 N Lincoln Ave., every Wednesday night from January 21 through February 25, 2009. Each week, a different Chicago improv group will perform as an opening act for Batterymouth.

The David Bowie Hepzikat Funky Velvet Flarney Solstice Spectacular, Live...From Space!(David Bowie's Christmas Special 1977 Network Edit) runs Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 pm, through December 27 at National Pastime Theater, 4139 N. Broadway in Chicago.

A Holiday Evening of Mime on the West Stage at the Raven Theatre in Chicago through Dec. 28th.

TimeLine Theatre Company announces the world premiere of Not Enough Air by Masha Obolensky. The play, directed by Nick Bowling, runs January 24 through March 22, 2009 (previews January 21 through January 23) at TimeLine Theatre

The Mill premieres Ken Urban's The Private Lives of Eskimos (or 16 words for snow.) Eskimos opens Sunday January 11, 2009 at 8pm at Stage Left Theatre, 3408 N. Sheffield Ave. in Chicago.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, directed by ensemble member Randall Arney. The production, features ensemble members Francis Guinan, Tom Irwin, John Mahoney and Alan Wilder with Randall Newsome.

Chicago Dramatists continues its 30th anniversary season with resident playwright Will Dunne's new comedy, 'How I Became an Interesting Person.'

CAMP MIDNIGHT (Hell in a Handbag and Dick O'day) presents the fourth in their seasonal series focusing on the best (and worst) in camp movies this New Year's Eve with a screening of the most beloved disaster flick in cinema history, The Poseidon Adventure. This 1972 classic tells the tale of a tottering ocean liner that flips over one fateful New Year's Eve.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) international programming initiative, the World's Stage Series, brings to Chicago world-renowned playwright Peter Weiss's The Investigation, based on transcripts of the 1964 Frankfurt World War II crimes trials.

Rasaka Theatre Company presents the Chicago premiere of 'Yoni Ki Baat', a funny, heartfelt and thought-provoking monologue cycle, loosely inspired by Eve Ensler's 'The Vagina Monologues'. By combining spoken word, music and dance, Rasaka presents an exploration of female sexuality, seen through the lens of diasporic culture.

Village Players Performing Arts Center has committed itself to offering the residents of Oak Park, and surroundings, as much Holiday cheer and music as any one person could want! Beginning December 19, Village Players is producing three Holiday Concerts to amuse and delight audiences of all ages.

Chicago Folks Operetta's production of Peter and Paul in the Land of Nod features 5 singers who have sung roles at Lyric Opera of Chicago; 23 children from the Children's Operetta Workshop; 4 leading professional ballet dancers as well as up and coming local dancers from the Chicago area being choreographed August Tye, the ballet mistress at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and a professional thirteen piece orchestra. This is a holiday show not to be missed!

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The award-winning Infamous Commonwealth Theatre presents the fourth annual ICT 24 Hour Project, a collection of four short plays written, rehearsed and performed within a strict 24 hour timeframe.

In February Chicago Shakespeare Theater will open Michael Pennington's 'Sweet William' as part of the World's Stage Series. Pennington's one-man salute to Shakespeare runs February 3 - 22, 2009 Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare.

Goodman Theatre rings in the New Year with an eight-play landmark theatrical event, A Global Exploration: Eugene O'Neill in the 21st Century curated by Artistic Director Robert Falls, January 7 through March 8, 2009. Over 100 artists from six theater companies around the world bring their highly contemporary, inventive interpretations of O'Neill's dramas for the Goodman's Exploration-viewing the 20th century 'father of the American drama,' through a 21st century international lens.

The touching Broadway musical and international sensation Miss Saigon, previews December 31, opens January 8 and runs through March 8, 2009 at Drury Lane Oakbrook, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL. Set in 1975 in the days before Saigon's fall to Communist forces at the end of the Vietnam War, Miss Saigon is the epic love-story of an American GI, Chris, played by Kevin Vortmann, and a young Vietnamese woman, Kim, played Melinda Chua Smith (who starred in the Broadway, German and both national touring companies of Miss Saigon) and Katie Boren during matinee performances.

Babes With Blades closes its 2008-2009, 11th anniversary season with an all-female production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' directed by Next Theatre's Kevin Heckman.

We are excited to announce a new venue for Heather and Gabriel! They can be seen a few times a month at Jolane's Cafe & Wine Bar in Glenview. Please stop in for some top notch food and music.