And continuing forward with the Halloween theme, Goldstar is offering tickets starting at $5 to Frankenstein – Chicago Lit theater is offering the Chicago premiere of a new stage version true to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original 1818 book.
Goldstar has added dates through October 20 for the Blue Man Group’s updated show with all-new material, interactions with “GiPads” and a pulsating new finale.
Choose from two days for only $9 (reg. $15). The Eleventh Hour Haunted House in Elk Grove Village is that looming house in the neighborhood that every kid is afraid to visit on Trick or Treat night. Remember, you only have to BUY the tickets by today, you don’t have to actually go today.
Free tickets to Anthem Lights and Becky Johnson: Concert Featuring Two Rising Stars in the Christian Music Scene at the Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles through Gold Star. Performance is at 8 pm tomorrow, the 21st.
Here is a list of the current free ticket deals as of today – I blew that Dial M for Murder deal and now the tickets are $8.50 each, so even paying a service charge I would have been way ahead. Remember, you are buying these tickets today, but you select dates for future performances. And if the many listed (these are only a sampling) shows don’t suit you, even the non-freebie ones are half price.
Live Comedy at Jokes & Notes: Headliners Plus Up-And-Coming Talent.
International Gem and Jewelry Show at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemount. This is one of those danger, Will Robinson places for most people, but it’s a great way dream on the cheap!
Almost ATLANTA: Innovative Improv at the Annoyance Theatre.
PITA and I used to have season tickets for the Jedlika Performing Arts Center – very professional productions at reasonable costs – well, heck!, this deal is FREE! You have to buy them, but the deal days are NEXT weekend. Says Chicago, but it’s the theater building on the Morton College campus in Cicero, a couple of hundred feet (maybe) north of I-55. Very, very easy to get in and out and back home.
This production is Dial M for Murder. After marrying for money, Tony Wendice plans to murder his unfortunate wife to claim her fortune for himself. He arranges for the perfect crime but things don’t go quite according to plan, and his wife survives while the contract killer hired to do her in ends up dead. This masterpiece of construction and plotting weaves a tangled web of clues and red herrings, backstabbings and blackmail that keep the audience hooked from start to finish. With all of these twists and turns, the play was the perfect vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock, who adapted it to film in 1954.
Written three years before she won the Pulitzer Prize for How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel’s Hot ‘N’ Throbbing is a bold, unflinching examination of domestic violence, sexual politics and parenting. The story follows Charlene, a suburban single mother who writes pornographic feminist screenplays to support her hormonally charged teenagers. When her alcoholic ex-husband Clyde returns, the family’s day takes a dark turn that will change them all forever. Vogel’s play is a savagely funny and potent exploration of adult themes that will challenge you with tough questions about society’s continued role in raising victims, bullies and abusers.
Goldstar has tickets starting at $5 – up to 75% off box office prices.
In keeping with my Save Some Dough on Dates theme, here is the latest Goldstar deal: My First Encounter. This off-Broadway hit features a hilarious and sometimes painful collection of first sexual-experience stories from people of all persuasions. Drawn from a website of more than 50,000 responses, the stories range from the sweet and sexy, to the awkward and humiliating, and pretty much everything in between. In a fun twist, each show is kicked off by a Chicago performer who shares his or her own tale, and also incorporates some from the audience, as submitted through a pre-show survey. The Chicago premiere from Broken Nose Theatre stars Brooks Applegate, Catherine Dildilian, Spenser Davis and Leslie Ruettiger, and is the brainchild of acclaimed writer Ken Davenport (Altar Boyz, The Awesome ’80s Prom).
[PITA and I saw Altar Boyz in NYC years ago – some of the songs like “Jesus Called Me on My Cell Phone” are hysterical.]
You know the story of Henry VIII and his six wives — catch up on what’s happening with them now. This historical comedy/drama is set in a hellish eternity where the dead wives of England’s infamous king squabble over who was the true queen, defend their honor through sword and pillow fights, and rail against their personal injustices through singing comically sad dirges and reenacting heartbreaking soliloquies. In the end, they bring to life the women behind the history, and create a new order.
People who think date nights only include movies and restaurants are missing out on so much. Take advantage of live theater on the cheap. You’ll be blown away by the quality offerings of the smaller houses – we have some extraordinarily talented actors in Chicago.
Busted City is a look at the lives of ordinary citizens on the eve of the most dynamic shift of power the city has ever seen (well, in our time, let’s not get carried away Goldstar). The original play, which features a host of colorful characters including a political bookie and a South Side Italian cop nearing retirement, is an examination of Chicago politics and prejudice that centers around the election of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African-American mayor. Play takes place – in reality – in Fullers Pub on Roscoe, no downtown parking woes.