Get discount tickets for Miami Heat vs. Milwaukee Bucks game on March 15th at BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee. All tickets include a free regular soda plus one food item — choose between a hot dog, bratwurst, regular nachos or popcorn. We’ve driven up to Milwaukee for theater events – the drive isn’t too long and the cost of tickets and parking is a fraction of what you’ll pay in the Loop.
Free tickets to the 4th Annual Simply Elegant Wedding Showcase at Pleasant Home in Oak Park on February 10th. This is a very cool house – one of the oldest in Oak Park and, I believe, the first one with electricity (they had their own generator). Experience living in a more genteel time.
Are you engaged or thinking about getting married? Save the date and get inspired! The Simply Elegant Wedding Showcase brings together Chicagoland’s top wedding professionals to display their products and services. Attendees have the opportunity to meet a variety of wedding experts, from florists to reception venues to photographers, all under one roof. Sample delicious treats, win prizes, and even attend wedding workshops to learn industry secrets to planning the perfect wedding. It’s a great day for the bride- and groom-to-be to get a lot of items checked off that often overwhelming to-do list.
Rather than trying to drop a hint about a necklace you want or getting something boring and predictable, why not suggest that you and your SO buy tickets. Tickets to theater, music, sports, dance, spa treatments …. You won’t end up disappointed and you’ll both have fun – possibly even together! Goldstar has lots of great ideas and most are 50% off.
Actually, they have a lot of family ideas, too, not just for couples. I’d like to see Barnum because the Broadway cast album they play on Sirius is so enjoyable.
Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is a mesmerizing blend of traditional and modern Celtic music and dance. Based on Irish folklore, this classic tale of good vs. evil, expressed through the universal language of dance, has thrilled sold-out audiences worldwide and catapulted Irish dance to a new dimension and unprecedented worldwide acclaim since its debut in 1996. From the moment the lights go down to the final encore, you’ll be spellbound by a masterfully orchestrated combination of precision dancing, state-of-the-art lighting and pyrotechnics. The musical score leaves no soul untouched. Get tickets to both March 2nd performances for 40% off with your choice of seats.
Chicago favorite Hershey Felder (George Gershwin Alone, Maestro: Leonard Bernstein) returns with his newest theatrical creation, An American Story, performed with a live orchestra. With an original book and score by Felder based on the music of Stephen Foster, An American Story follows Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, the 23-year-old Union Army medic who was the first person to reach the Presidential box at Ford’s Theatre on the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, only to be put in charge of the President by Mrs. Lincoln herself. Set in New York City in 1932, the 90-year-old Dr. Leale looks back on the day that changed his life and American history forever in this stunning and culturally significant new work.
Sounds interesting. Others must agree because four March performances are already sold out.
American Chamber Opera presents their original staging of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, performed in English and set in Mombasa, Kenya. This event is in collaboration with Aid for Africa and Opera Moda, with some of the proceeds benefiting the education of women and children in Kenya. This version of the opera follows Pinkerton, an American naval officer leasing a house in Kenya with Butterfly, the African woman he loves. Faced with the condemnation of his family, colleagues and the clergy — who disapprove of his union with a native — Pinkerton grows weak and abandons his new bride to return to a conventional life. Butterfly is left in poverty, facing life as a single mother. In the end, Pinkerton receives one last chance at redemption to close out this tragic tale of doomed love. Tickets are for next weekend’s three performances and start at $7.50.
See Bud, Not Buddy at the Rush Page Center for the Arts with tickets starting at $8 (regularly $26).
Gather the kids for a heartwarming play full of humor and delightful characters — Bud, Not Buddy, based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ novel that won the Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King Book Award. Ideal for kids age 8 or older, Bud, Not Buddy is the story of a young African-American orphan in search of his father. Clues kept in a suitcase lead him to adventures in Depression-era Michigan, where he finds community among a group of jazz musicians and, ultimately, an unexpected sense of home.
Get half-price tickets to Other Desert Cities, recently one of the hottest tickets on Broadway and a 2012 Tony nominee for Best Play, which comes to Chicago to The Goodman Theatre. This latest play from Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Robin Baitz is a smart drama filled with serious laughter and repartee that both dazzles and decimates. Christmas is always somewhat surreal in Palm Springs. It’s made even more so this year when Brooke returns home after a long absence to present her conservative parents with a tell-all confessional novel that exposes a pivotal event in the family’s history. Goldstar has ticket availability through February 9th.
First there was post-modern cyberpunk, then came 19th-century-inspired steampunk, and now the Accidental Shakespeare Company’s first-ever production introduces the world to Alchemy Punk, through the magical world of The Tempest. As conceived by director Angeli Primlani, Shakespeare’s lyrical play moves to the early 17th century, where scholars and alchemists studied the natural world of wind and water, as well as supernatural creatures like fairies and elves. The story follows Prospero, a duke in exile and master of an enchanted isle where fantastical creatures, mystery, music and romance abound. A shipwreck delivers Prospero’s enemies to the island, and the plot thickens when his beloved daughter falls for the enemy’s son and the scientific, spiritual and political worlds of the time begin to collide. Tickets are available through March. This show sounds interesting; wish it was closer than Rogers Park.
Goldstar has free tickets to Mighty Con, the toys, games & comics convention held at the DuPage County Fairgrounds on March 2. Bursting at the seams with toys, statues, comics, video games, vendors and artists, Mighty Con is one of the premier conventions in the country and an action-packed feast for the senses. Artist Alley features publishers like Big Dog Ink and Big Bang Comics, while Joe’s Brick Depot features a 200-square foot Lego show with a full motorized train. If that’s not enough, there are tens of thousands of comics, toys, collectibles and more for sale from vendors worldwide. Mighty Con has something for everyone, so don’t miss this fun-filled event!
Drawing from three actual crimes, this new work from Collaboraction addresses Chicago’s history of violent crime and serves as a call to action for change in the city. An interactive production, Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology features immersive staging, original music, audience participation and stylized dramatizations of three real-world attacks. Conceived and directed by Artist Director Anthony Moseley, the show is based on interviews and articles with the intention of raising critical questions about segregation, poverty, the media, popular culture and our increasing numbness to it all. A timely community outreach as well as an urgent, thought-provoking theater work, performances will include post-show discussions about the ongoing violent crime epidemic.
Free tickets are available for the Sunday, February 17th 7 pm performance; ticket prices start at $5 for other performances.