This pre-sale offer for Cirque du Soleil’s KURIOS — Cabinet of Curiosities in the Grand Chapiteau at Chicago’s United Center gets you great tickets before they go on sale to the general public.  There are no additional service fees or charges attached to these tickets.

What if, by engaging your imagination and opening your mind, you could alter reality and unlock the door to a world of wonders? Welcome to the realm of KURIOS — Cabinet of Curiosities from Cirque du Soleil. Step into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space and dimension in order to reinvent everything around him. Suddenly, the visible becomes invisible, perspectives are transformed, and the world is literally turned upside down in a place that’s as beautiful as it is mysterious. Stunning acrobatics blend with unusual curiosity acts, and otherworldly characters spring to life before your eyes. Is this magical, mechanical land real, or just a figment of your imagination? You have to see it to disbelieve it.

Free tickets, anyone? Hop aboard the GoldStar Comp Train, Goldstar’s popular two-day promotion that features complimentary tickets to tons of fun events throughout the country. For just 48 hours, Goldstar will be offering thousands of free tickets to live theater, concerts, dance, comedy and more. And since all you pay is a small service fee (usually just a couple bucks), the Comp Train’s a great way to discover new events in your area.

Tickets on Goldstar for April performances start at $22.50 (with service fees $30) for $45 tickets.  Set to what the New York Post called Elton John’s “best score yet,” and named “Broadway Musical of the Decade” by TIME magazine, the explosive Billy Elliot the Musical fills the Drury Lane Theatre with inspiring songs and high-energy dance. Based on the hit film of the same name, this heartwarming show is about a motherless boy in a small, poverty-stricken mining town who trades his boxing gloves for ballet shoes and fights against social pressure and stereotypes to achieve his dream of becoming a dancer. His talent and ambition become symbols of hope for a town that’s enduring more than its fair share of hardship. Follow Billy’s journey as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a passion for dance that inspires his family and his community, changing his life forever.

Hailed by The New York Times as “the best musical of this century” and the winner of nine Tony Awards, The Book of Mormon is the blockbuster Broadway smash from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the Oscar-winning composer of Disney’s Frozen and Avenue Q, Bobby Lopez. This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now, with standing-room only productions in London, on Broadway and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation.  Tickets for March and April performance dates start at $54 for Balcony Seats – there is a $3 agency fee and variable service fee per ticket.

When you’re an orphaned woman in a man’s world, there aren’t too many options. Luckily, All’s Well That Ends Well‘s Helena is a Shakespearean heroine, which means she’s clever enough to get things done, witty enough to do them with style and she won’t be held back by expectations. Her beloved doesn’t return her love, but a little thing like that won’t stop Helena. She’s determined to get her man! Stage Left Theatre’s clever new twist on an old comedy plucks Shakespeare’s characters out of the Spanish nobility and places them in the mafia world of the late 1950s. It’s the perfect setting for a comedic battle of the sexes where love and war are often indistinguishable.  Tickets to Theater Wit’s production start at $5 plus service fees; 19 performances through May in total.

The C.S. Lewis Fantasy The Great Divorce imagines a bus ride from from hell to heaven, presented at the McAninch Arts Center by way of Fellowship for Performing Arts, the company behind the acclaimed hit The Screwtape Letters. Brimming with the famed signature wit and imagination expected from the author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Great Divorce follows several colorful characters on a bus ride from a suburb in hell to the outskirts of heaven, while exploring the vagaries of human nature and the divide between good and evil. Adapted by Max McLean and Brian Watkins with the blessing of the Lewis estate, this production, part of a national tour, was recommended by The Washington Post.

Celebrate Ultimate Pi Day on March 14 at the Adler Planetarium with drinks, music and pie! In 2015, we get to add two more digits to the mathematical constant defined as 3.1415926 … and you can bring your friends to enjoy cash bars, Vocalo’s DJ Collective, a Nerdette panel discussion and Pi Day activities. The event is hosted by the Adler and WBEZ 91.5, and pastry and pizza shops will be offering samples of the best pie — sweet and savory — that Chicago has to offer. Choose our return voucher ticket and come back to the Adler Planetarium to view their exhibitions during public hours.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is one of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon’s lesser-known plays. Barney Cashman, a loveable schlub, is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Married to his high-school sweetheart, he’s determined to sow some sexual wild oats while he can. So this gentle soul, with no experience in adultery, makes a valiant attempt at three seductions, each more hilariously disastrous than the last. The original Broadway production of Last of the Red Hot Lovers starred James Coco, Linda Lavin and Doris Roberts. Emergent Theatre Company brings Simon’s Tony-nominated comedy to Skokie’s Mayer Kaplan JCC Theatre.  Grab comp (up to $10) tickets to performance dates through April 19th with this Goldstar deal.

Take a journey into a land of imagination, where jousting knights, regal ladies, saucy wenches and royal overseers all mix and mingle with you and your family. The Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire is the world’s oldest Renaissance fair. Hundreds of performers dressed in the costumes of Elizabethan times create a magical world of music, language and fun, with 14 stages of entertainment options ranging from knife throwers to improv troupes — just outside of Pasadena. More than 150 artisans will be exhibiting and selling their original handcrafted items, including handblown glass creations, pottery, authentic clothing and weaponry. And don’t miss out on the more than 100 types of food and drink available, including gluten-free and vegan options.  Read the reviews – one person bemoaned the high cost of food and parking (they were able to park for free on a side street with only a 50-minute walk!).

Medieval Times is an exciting dinner attraction for the whole family inspired by the 11th-century world of knights, jousting and majestic revelry. Included is a four-course banquet during which you can cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Medieval Times dinner and show features live jousting, sword fights, horsemanship, falconry and a “no utensils” meal, so you can feast like a king. Six knights of the realm will compete in the King’s tournament, locked in battle for the honor of the crown. Choose your favorite, and root for their victory. The show also features a display from the royal falconer, who performs wonders with his mighty birds of prey, including a live flight of the royal falcon soaring above the heads of the king’s guests. Amid the festivities, a herald from a foreign king arrives with a special stallion presentation for the king and his guests.

Tickets start at $17.50 on Goldstar for three performance dates:  March 27, 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm.  What the Bolshoi is to ballet, Giordano Dance Chicago is to jazz dance. No company exceeds GDC’s mastery of this “purely American art form” where, in the words of The New York Times, “taut body bodies ooze and slither and hurl across the stage in dance that is at once highly controlled and full of gutsy attack.” As the company returns to the Harris for its 52nd season, it remains as gutsy as ever, brimming with power, passion, athleticism and grace. Appropriately entitled Dare, its exhilarating spring series includes the stateside premiere of an inspiring full company piece, the only way around is through, as well as other contemporary classics that have made the company so beloved in Chicago and around the world.