Summer 2008

Production Venue Opens Closes LeapFest 5: Fifth Annual Festival of New Plays Stage Left Theatre 6/3/2008 6/21/2008 A Bench in the Sun Apple Tree Theatre 6/4/2008 6/29/2008 Nelson Algren: For Keeps in a Single Day Lookingglass Theatre Company 6/4/2008 6/29/2008 The Lion in Winter Writers Theatre 6/4/2008 8/3/2008 West Side Story Timber Lake Playhouse 6/5/2008 6/15/2008 Gigi Light Opera Works 6/6//2008 6/15/2008 Relatively Close Victory Gardens Theater 6/6//2008 7/13/2008 Annie Get Your Gun Music on Stage 6/7/2008 6/22/2008 The Full Monty Village Players Theatre 6/6/2008 7/13/2008 Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy and Revenge Backstage Theatre Company 6/12//2008 7/20/2008 Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird) Sideshow Theatre Company 6/13/2008 7/13/2008 Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Lifeline Theatre 6/13/2008 7/13/2008 Much Ado About Nothing Oak Park Festival Theatre 6/13/2008 7/19/2008 Sweeney Todd Actors Theatre Company 6/13/2008 6/28/2008 Lesbians Who Kill Bailiwick Repertory 6/16/2008 7/20/2008 Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion Auditorium Theatre 6/19/2008 6/22/2008 Gutenberg! The Musical Royal George Theatre 6/19/2008 7/27/2008 Superior Donuts Steppenwolf Theatre Company 6/19/2008 8/17/2008 You Can't Take it With You Timber Lake Playhouse 6/19/2008 6/28/2008 Ain't Misbehavin' Goodman Theatre 6/21/2008 7/27/2008 Much Ado About Nothing Chicago Shakespeare Theater 6/25/2008 8/3/2008 Tonight at Eight Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project 6/25/2008 6/29/2008 Lookingglass Alice Lookingglass Theatre Company 7/2/2008 8/31/2008 All Shook Up Timber Lake Playhouse 7/3/2008 7/13/2008 The Melville Boys Buffalo Theatre Ensemble 7/5/2008 7/27/2008 The Many Voices Project Chicago Dramatists 7/7/2008 7/20/2008 Willy Wonka Chicago Shakespeare Theater 7/8/2008 8/17/2008 The Bowery Boys Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project 7/9/2008 7/20/2008 The Tale of Pigling Bland Theatre Building Chicago 7/9/2008 7/24/2008 Aiming for Sainthood 16th Street Theater 7/10/2008 7/20/2008 Much Ado About Nothing First Folio Shakespeare Festival 7/11/2008 8/17/2008 The Foreigner Timber Lake Playhouse 7/17/2008 7/26/2008 Macbeth Greasy Joan & Co. 7/17/2008 5/25/2008 Phantom Theatre at the Center 7/17/2008 8/17/2008 Plaza Suite Eclipse Theatre Company 7/17/2008 8/31/2008 First Look Repertory of New Work Steppenwolf Theatre Company 7/23/2008 8/10/2008 The Full Monty Marriott Theatre 7/23/2008 9/21/2008 Dancing at Lughnasa The Oak Park Festival Theatre 7/25/2008 8/23/2008 Dangerous Beauty Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project 7/25/2008 8/10/2008 Glengarry Glen Ross Red Twist Theatre 7/25/2008 8/24/2008 The Merchant of Venice Bohemian Theatre Ensemble 7/25/2008 8/31/2008 The Producers Timber Lake Playhouse 7/31/2008 8/10/2008 Latino Theatre Festival Goodman Theatre August 2008 TBA Church Basement Ladies Timber Lake Playhouse 8/13/2008 8/24/2008 The Boys from Syracuse Drury Lane Oakbrook 8/14/2008 9/28/2008 Glengarry Glen Ross The Gift Theatre 8/14/2008 9/27/2008 Iolanthe Light Opera Works 8/16//2008 8/24/2008 Nixon's Nixon Writers Theatre 8/19/2008 9/28/2008 Weekend TimeLine Theatre Company 8/20//2008 10/12/2008