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Theater on the Lake Announces 61st Season

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The Chicago Park District's Theater on the Lake: The Chicago Summer Theater Festival kicks off its 61st anniversary with a USO dance before the first of eight encore presentations from artistically diverse Chicago theater companies June 12 - Aug. 11, 2013. Each production will be performed for five evenings only at the theater at Fullerton Avenue and Lake Shore Drive.

The season opens with The New Colony's The Bear Suit of Happiness (June 12-16) and continues with MPAACT's Blackademics (June 19-23);Manual Cinema's Lula del Ray (June 26-30); Theater Oobleck's There Is a Happiness That Morning Is (July 10-14); Barrel of Monkeys' That's Weird, Grandma (July 17-21); The Den Theatre's The Quality of Life (July 24-28); Jackalope Theatre's Long Way Go Down (July 31 - Aug. 4); and Chicago Physical Theater's The Chi-Town Clown Revue featuring Honeybuns (Aug. 7-11).

This season is selected by co-artistic curators: Halena Kays, artistic director of The Hypocrites, and Joanie Schultz, freelance director of numerous operas and plays.

Theater on the Lake is part of the Chicago Park District's Night Out in the Parks initiative, which features more than 750 citywide cultural and arts activities this summer, making parks a safe haven and a hub of activity.

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