Tickets to Alvin and the Chipmunks are $27 – less than half price – for four performances on November 20 and 21st at the Rosemont Theatre. Get ready to rock with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Live On Stage!, a brand new, interactive, music-filled show featuring America’s favorite furry music group and their pals the Chipettes. Based on the characters from the hit Fox movies, the show will bring the music and excitement of a live rock concert to life as Alvin and crew perform hits by One Direction, Maroon 5, Christina Aguilera, Elvis and more. Follow along as the musical finds the group prepping for a big benefit concert — which is secretly a dastardly plan hatched by their arch-nemesis, the villainous ex-music exec Ian Hawke. Of course, Alvin gets up to his usual shenanigans and the high-pitched heroes are able to settle the score. Catch this dynamic mix of music, colorful visuals, magical special effects and audience participation at the Rosemont Theatre.

This Halloween weekend, take your party on the water for the spookiest cruise around, Nightmare on Lake Michigan. Grab a group of your best friends, come dressed in your sexiest, scariest or funniest costumes and get ready for a monster mash aboard the swanky Mystic Blue Yacht. You’ll board from Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier, then set out along the lakeshore, taking in the gorgeous views of the skyline at night. Hit the dance floor as the live DJ spins beats and the multiple cash bars keep the drinks flowing.  Goldstar shows comp tickets for the October 30th cruise.

Master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe has been unceremoniously thrown in the loony bin — and now he must convince the doctor of the asylum that he’s not stark raving mad. The only problem? Poe seems to be suffering from a series of terrifying hallucinations, in which spirits of his past serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works: The Raven,Silence, The Bells, Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart. Royal George Theatre’s In the Asylum With Edgar Allan Poe is a fun twist on the terrifying tales of Halloween’s favorite author, and a lovingly spooky tribute for Poe fans new and old.  Tickets are $14.50 on Goldstar ($27 regularly) for October performances.

Check out all the complimentary tickets available on Goldstar – you just pay a small service charge and you’re good to go. Great way to try out different experiences on the cheap – even better when they keep adding stuff!

Check out all the complimentary tickets available on Goldstar – you just pay a small service charge and you’re good to go. Grear way to try out different experiences on the cheap!

The original “domestic goddess,” standup comedian Roseanne Barr is also an award-winning actress, a best-selling author and a recent Presidential candidate. Currently serving as a judge on Last Comic Standing with Keenan Ivory Wayans and Norm McDonald, Barr starred for nine seasons on her own sitcom, Roseanne, earning both an Emmy and a Golden Globe, and has appeared on Portlandia, The Office, Futurama and 3rd Rock from the Sun. You can hear this legend’s outspoken and hilarious musings on life at Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts on October 7th at her 7:30  performance with Goldstar tickets only $31.25 (plus fee)

Early favorites to contend for the NBA championship, watch your Chicago Bulls warm-up for the regular season with matches against the Bucks, Pelicans, Pacers and long-time rivals the Detroit Pistons. This year’s Bulls team features a packed lineup of stars including point guard Derrick Rose, rookie-of-the-year runner-up Nikola Mirotic and all-star centers Pau Gasol and Joakim Noah. They’ll be led by new head coach Fred Hoiberg, a guard for the team during the post-Jordan/Pippen era, who joins the team after four winning seasons at Iowa State University. Tickets to four dates in October are $32.50 each plus fee.

Getting away with murder can be so much fun… and there’s no better proof than the knock-’em-dead hit show and 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Gentleman’s Guide tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir to a family fortune, who sets out to jump the line of succession by eliminating the eight pesky relatives (all played by one man) who stand in his way. All the while, Monty has to juggle his mistress, his fiancée and the constant threat of landing behind bars. Of course, it will all be worth it if he can slay his way to his inheritance … and be done in time for tea. Catch this Broadway smash when it comes to Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre.

Joffrey Ballet’s 60th anniversary season continues with the U.S. premiere of the fierce, female-powered ballet Sylvia. With its story of unrequited love and deception set to brilliant choreography by John Neumeier and music by Léo Delibes, Sylvia is a visually stunning and emotionally resonant work that uses movement to explore themes of ambition, obsession and lost opportunities. Neumeier was the first choreographer to modernize the work, incorporating neoclassical expressionist movement and an abstract narrative to reimagine this full-length story ballet about a young woman at the crossroads of adolescence and womanhood, struggling to find balance between strength and vulnerability — and discovering love only through the awakening of her own sensuality.  Tickets on Goldstar range from $49.80 to $93 plus fee.

In his semi-autobiographical play Jake’s Women, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon takes a comic and moving look at the relationships between men and women. Successful but narcissistic writer Jake, who is obsessed with his deceased first wife, faces a marital crisis with his second wife as he imagines encounters with the important women from his past and present — his two wives, his daughter, his bossy sister and his less-than-supportive analyst. Skye Robinson Hillis directs this brilliant re-staging of one of Simon’s absolute best for Spartan Theatre at the Royal Saint George Theatre.  Goldstar has tickets starting at $10.50 (half price) plus fee for dates into October.