Street Justice: Condition Red takes you back to a time when jeans were acid-washed, hair was teased and all fight sequences involved slow motion and synthesizers. Factory Theater presents a razor sharp send-up of buddy cop movies of the ’80s, featuring all your favorite tropes from this raddest of genres. One cop plays it by the book. One cop breaks all the rules. Both are on a deadly mission to defend Chicago from the most cunning criminal mastermind since Scarface himself. In these mean streets, there is no right or wrong, only Street Justice.  Grab $5 tickets to Prop Thtr’s production of Street Justice:  Condition Red, with performance dates through mid-December!

Get tickets to Carmen starting at $7.50 ($5.50 service fee) – up to 85% off!  In American Chamber Opera’s adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen, Jose is a cop in present-day Chicago and Carmen is a sultry factory worker who arrives to steal Jose’s heart from his childhood friend, Michaela. When Carmen is arrested for causing a riot at work, she seduces Jose — and he’s sent to prison for letting her escape. Things get even more heated when the famous boxer Escamillo falls for Carmen and he follows her and Jose when they flee to Las Vegas.  Watch as the drama unfolds for this fiery love triangle.  Tickets are limited to weekend performances on November 22, 23 and 24th.

If you’ve never attended a radio performance, you really, really need to get tickets to one this holiday season – it’s something the entire family can enjoy.  PITA and I saw this radio show last year (@ Wheaton Drama) and have tickets again this year – yes, it’s that much fun!  Our first exposure to radio shows was in NYC for The War of the Worlds.  Even knowing it was a play didn’t stop your heart from beating faster.

American Blues Theater presents a live radio-style performance of Frank Capra’s holiday masterpiece It’s a Wonderful Life on stage at Greenhouse Theater Center. This has been a holiday tradition in Chicago since 2004, and this year’s performance once again features the original director and ensemble that have warmed hearts for many holiday seasons. Complete with live sound effects, an original score and a cast of eight wonderful actors who bring the typical small town of Bedford Falls to life on stage, It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! recreates a 1940s-era radio broadcast of the heartwarming tale of troubled George Bailey’s Christmas Eve journey through his life history. The production includes holiday carols, live commercials from actual local sponsors, telegrams from the audience read on stage and a “Soldier Spotlight,” which honors one servic eman or servicewoman during each performance. After the show, the entire audience is invited to join the cast and crew for milk and cookies.American Blues Theater presents a live radio-style performance of Frank Capra’s holiday masterpiece on stage at Greenhouse Theater Center. This has been a holiday tradition in Chicago since 2004, and this year’s performance once again features the original director and ensemble that have warmed… more

Chicago’s award-winning Pegasus Players have put together a chilling and thrilling production featuring a vampire tragicomedy — complete with a funky musical soundtrack. Reginald Edmund’s Blacula: Young Black & Undead takes its cues from the blaxploitation films of the ’70s and ancient vampire legends. Franklin Park’s life is in shambles after losing his girl to an African Prince of Darkness. In an attempt to win her back — and possibly save the world — Park recruits a pair of bizarre vampire-slayers. This stage adaptation comes out just in time for the 40th anniversary of the cult film Blacula.  Comp tickets are for performance dates into December.

Goldstar has comp tickets ($7.50 service fee) through December for Haunting Julia.  Athenaeum Theatre’s Alan Ayckbourn season concludes with the Chicago premiere of the renowned British playwright’s supernatural drama Haunting Julia. Twelve years after his daughter Julia’s suicide, grief-stricken father Joe meets with a psychic and Julia’s former boyfriend — the last person to see her alive — in an attempt to discover what really happened. Joe reveals that he believes Julia’s trying to contact him from beyond the grave, and among these three men the true story of Julia’s life and death is gradually revealed. Former Shattered Globe artistic director and Jeff Award-winning artist Kevin Hagan directs this thrilling conclusion to the Ayckbourn season.

Goldstar has pages of comp and low-cost tickets for shows and exhibits for the whole family (varying service fees). Click on any offer and explore them all.
A working-class American — who leans towards the Tea Party and libertarianism — finds himself not only questioning those beliefs but feeling forced to taking drastic action when his cancer-stricken wife loses her health insurance. Actor-playwright Michael Milligan based this new play on stories from people who’re having to deal with devastating financial issues on top of serious illnesses. Mercy Killers takes a hot-button political issue and turns it personal, putting an all-too-human face on this emotionally-charged debate.