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Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed 'The Empire Brings Sexy Back,' Gorilla Tango Burlesque releases a fun romp thru Doctors Past and Present that will keep you warm - and wide awake - thru Winter. DON'T BLINK: A DOCTOR WHO BURLESQUE performs Todays at 9pm, tonight, February 1 - May 31, 2013 at Gorilla Tango Theatre Bucktown (1919 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago IL 60647).

Rising-star soprano Susanna Phillips - who returned to the Metropolitan Opera to acclaim in Don Giovanni earlier this season - will make her Carnegie recital debut in Weill Recital Hall on February 8, with a program that ranges from Schubert, Chausson and Granados to Berg, Messiaen and Gordon Myers.

The author is inspired to write this new e-book of his American experience facing many unique types of discrimination in America, and then compares his African experience in Kenya under a dictatorship, where he witnessed that there were no free elections or free voting because assassination deaths awaited anyone not obeying the government.http://sonofkenya.wordpress.com

The Des Moines Community Playhouse presents Itamar Moses' new comedy, 'Completeness,' Feb. 1-17. Tickets may be purchased online at dmplayhouse.com, by phone at 515-277-6261, and at the Playhouse ticket office. 'Completeness' is a Director's Discovery.

STORIES FROM THE ROAD TO FREEDOM, a new two-hour special narrated by Deon Cole, premiering on Saturday, February 16 at 8 p.m. on HISTORY, gives a fresh perspective of the black movement in America, from Emancipation to the Civil Rights era.

Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed 'The Empire Brings Sexy Back,' Gorilla Tango Burlesque releases a fun romp thru Doctors Past and Present that will keep you warm - and wide awake - thru Winter. DON'T BLINK: A DOCTOR WHO BURLESQUE performs Fridays at 9pm, February 1 - May 31, 2013 at Gorilla Tango Theatre Bucktown (1919 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago IL 60647).

Oh-a-YES! After voyaging far and wide (including an ongoing stint in New Orleans!) Gorilla Tango Theatre has announced that the show that started it all - BOOBS AND GOOMBAS: A SUPER MARIO BURLESQUE - is back at its Bucktown venue! BOOBS AND GOOMBAS: A SUPER MARIO BURLESQUE will perform Saturdays at 11:59pm, beginning February 2, 2013 at Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Miami, 1986. Divorced and over 60, substitute teacher Dorothy Zbornak is spending another lonely Friday night playing Scrabble with her mother, Sophia. With the help of her roommates, the slutty Blanche Devereaux and the phenomenally stupid Rose Nylund, she is determined to land herself a man, or at the very least, a date. But with the revelation that Rose's idiot exterior is actually a cover for a cocaine distribution mastermind, the ladies are suddenly plunged into a blood-soaked world of drugs, guns, and cheesecake.

The Des Moines Community Playhouse's Kate Goldman Children's Theatre presents 'The Monster Under the Bed,' Jan. 11-27, 2013. Tickets may be purchased online at dmplayhouse.com, by phone at 515-277-6261, or at the Playhouse ticket office, 831 42nd St.

The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing's popular Images of America series is US Coast Guard Training Center at Cape May from local authors Joseph E. Salvatore, MD and Joan Berkey. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images and memories of days gone by.

Fowler and Company invites you to an evening of men, music, and magic with THE MAGIC FACTORY. It's a slice of Las Vegas in Bucktown, complete with lights, illusions, and dancing studs! Featuring classics of magic and dangerous feats, Wesley Fowler will challenge the laws of physics and what is believed impossible in THE MAGIC FACTORY tonight, December 1st at 7PM for one night only.

THE ANDY KNUTH SHOW brings improv, stand-up, puppetry and more to Gorilla Tango Theatre! THE ANDY KNUTH SHOW performs Tuesdays, November 27 - December 18, 2012 at 7:30 PM at Gorilla Tango Theatre.

Fowler and Company invites you to an evening of men, music, and magic with THE MAGIC FACTORY. It's a slice of Las Vegas in Bucktown, complete with lights, illusions, and dancing studs! Featuring classics of magic and dangerous feats, Wesley Fowler will challenge the laws of physics and what is believed impossible in THE MAGIC FACTORY on Saturday, December 1st at 7PM for one night only.

Opening tomorrow night, Gorilla Tango Burlesque presents THE EMPIRE BRINGS SEXY BACK: A STAR WARS BURLESQUE SEQUEL. This silly, sexy, George-Lucas-approved** romp performs Saturdays at 10:30pm, November 3 - December 29, 2012 at Gorilla Tango Theatre Bucktown (1919 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago IL 60647).

Conductor Ken Lam of the newly-formed Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras and the Enchantment Theatre present Wizards & Wands: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall today, November 3 at 11 a.m.

What's That Shorty? The Indiana Jones Burlesque at GTT has been around for a whole year? Yes, you heard right, Dr. Jones - TEMPLE OF BOOBS: AN INDIANA JONES BURLESQUE celebrates its one year anniversary tonight, October 26th! Come be a part of the funniest, silliest burlesque parody never directed by Steven Speilberg - Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

What's That Shorty? The Indiana Jones Burlesque at GTT has been around for a whole year? Yes, you heard right, Dr. Jones - TEMPLE OF BOOBS: AN INDIANA JONES BURLESQUE celebrates its one year anniversary this Friday, October 26th! Come be a part of the funniest, silliest burlesque parody never directed by Steven Speilberg - Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Conductor Ken Lam of the newly-formed Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras and the Enchantment Theatre present Wizards & Wands: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on November 3 at 11 a.m. Unlocking key scientific concepts, discover the natural versus supernatural and link science, music and magic. Musical delights include John Williams' award-winning music from the Harry Potter films, Paul Dukas' spellbinding Sorcerer's Apprentice, Stravinsky's Firebird and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Please see below for complete program details. This program is suitable for audiences aged 5 years and up.

The cast and crew of ONCE UPON A ROM COM: THE BILL PULLMAN STORY - a play focusing on Bill Pullman's attempts at finding true love with the help of his fairy godfather, Jeff Goldblum - have been trying for months to snag the attention of these celebrities and get them to attend a performance. After handfuls of emails, Facebook postings, and Twitter updates, the cast and crew hit Pullman paydirt! After conversing back and forth with GT Executive Producer Dan Abbate, Bill Pullman sent flowers and a personalized good luck card for the September 26th performance.

The Des Moines Community Playhouse play reading series presents Horton Foote's 'Dividing the Estate,' 7:00 PM, today, Oct. 1. The evening is free; beverages will be available for purchase.

Executive director and co-founder of The Growing Stage Stephen L. Fredericks discusses the recent ribbon cutting on the renovated theater and latest production PETER PAN.

The Des Moines Community Playhouse play reading series presents Horton Foote's 'Dividing the Estate,' 7:00 PM, Monday, Oct. 1. The evening is free; beverages will be available for purchase.

As temperatures drop, the nerd-friendly crew at Gorilla Tango Burlesque is shaking (and shimmying) things up with a mix of new shows and old favorites.

Mint Theater's first-ever New York revival of Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse will extend its run to October 21st at their home (311 West 43rd Street).

Subtle British comedies of sex, morality and class like Mary Broome rarely wash up on these shores without the name George Bernard Shaw attached to them.  But thankfully the beachcombers of the Mint Theatre Company, specialists in providing sturdy mountings of the once popular/now obscure, came across this 1911 Allan Monkhouse curiosity that hasn't been seen in New York since 1919.