http://athenaeumtheatre.org/showlist.xml A list of all the events and shows happening at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago Sun, 19 May 2013 02:11:01 GMT en-us https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/920379 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/60 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:55:23 EST A triumphant play about a housewife named Susan who is married to a boring cleric named George. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tines of a garden rake, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations in which her oppressive and boring everyday life is replaced by a fantasy in which she is an ideal wife and mother with an ideal family. Show run: April 11 - May 19, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/919989 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/57 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:57:32 EST When the Earl of Gurney dies, he leaves the estate to his son Jack, a man with paranoid schizophrenia who believes that he is God. His preachings of love clash with his family's greed, bringing about dark consequences for all involved in this twisted comedy by Peter Barnes. Show run: May 3 - May 19, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/921690 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/74 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:45:51 EST Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, introduces the "consulting detective" and his sidekick to each other, and to an adoring readership that is still very much alive today. Holmes and Watson pursue a mysterious murderer who likes to write in blood, on the wall above his victims, the word "Rache" --German for "revenge." Show run: May 3 - June 1, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/923544 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/88 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:58:19 EST Show run: May 23, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/921422 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/76 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:22:25 EST New parents Nick and Colby give birth to a ...smudge. Their expectations of parenthood are confronted with a reality they never imagined. Their baby is not at all who (or what) they believed it would be. This serio-comedy is about the disasters we don't plan for and how we overcome them. Show run: May 25 - June 23, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/924316 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/95 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:58:11 EST An Hilarious Standup act, chock full of a variety of Saudi Arabian Comedians performing in America in English! The BISHT is the name of traditional clothing in the GCC and also the theme of the show. They will be representing in style. Show run: May 27, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/916012 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/28 Fri, 10 May 2013 07:38:49 EST The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) aims to tackle all 37 of the Bard's plays in less than two hours. A cast of three takes the audience on a wild, fast-paced romp through Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Show run: May 31 - June 23, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/923921 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/91 Fri, 10 May 2013 05:01:34 EST Kevin Beckett, Yale alumnus, is awaiting the arrival of his beloved girlfriend named Tuesday, who will be spending a perfect week with him and his roommate/brother, Brad. When Kevin divulges to Brad that he plans on proposing, Brad tries to find any way possible to keep his brother from moving out of their bunk-bedded, pink-walled studio apartment. A hilarious and irreverent riff on friendship, family, and adult boys who don't want to grow up, Brothers Beckett is a satirical portrait of slacker siblings laced with sharp banter and dark humor, written by Steinberg Award nominated playwright, David Michael Sirois. Show run: June 6, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/923089 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/89 Wed, 08 May 2013 09:01:05 EST Together, Bettman Halpin are fast earning a reputation for hypnotizing performances filled with irresistible lyrics, transcendent harmonies and roof-raising instrumentals. Their music creates a fully acoustic, delightfully eclectic sound far greater than the sum of its parts: taking the listener from up-tempo down home fiddlin', to soulful sorrowful ballads, to super hooky folk/pop with catchy melodies and lyrics that will stick with you long after the concert is over. Show run: June 11, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/923497 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/87 Sat, 04 May 2013 07:32:09 EST Show run: June 12, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/924248 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/93 Wed, 15 May 2013 04:23:47 EST Come join us for an evening of diverse works choreographed by Nick Pupillo and performed by some of Chicagoland's best emerging young dancers. Visceral Studio Company welcomes several company alumni back to perform a new group piece and duet. Show run: June 14, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/921245 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/66 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:10:01 EST ASCENDance is an interdisciplinary collaboration choreographed by Jan Bartoszek, with folded paper structures by sculptor Barbara Cooper, video projections by artist Petra Bachmaier of luftwerk and an original score by L.A.-based composer Matthew Ferraro. ASCENDance explores transformation and the challenges posed to self-knowledge by the frenzied condition of contemporary life. Show run: June 21 - June 22, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/923893 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/90 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:24:32 EST At Fat Sam's speakeasy, there is dancing and singing but Fat Sam is worried that his rival Dandy Dan will come and try to take over. The rival gangs battle it out, desperate for the new hot property - the splurge gun! Love, romance, comedy and a lot of mess!!! Written by Alan Parker, specifically for children this proves to be a lot of family fun. Show run: June 28, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/922866 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/94 Sat, 11 May 2013 08:26:57 EST Slim and Cavale fell in love one moment before the gun failed to go off. They lived 10,000 lifetimes together as man and woman, predator and prey, spacewoman and alien. They learned all they could from one another. Now, only their pet lobster can teach them to gracefully say "good-bye." Show run: July 5 - July 14, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/922899 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/86 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:09:46 EST Nomi Dance Company (formerly NoMi LaMad) rounds out its sixth season with an evening full of high octane and excitement, presenting works past and present choreographed by some of Chicago's finest male artists and an up and coming national guest choreographer from Washington D.C. It will be a night filled with raw passion, pure athleticism, crafty humor, grittiness and brawn. "A Few Great Men" will mark Nomi's first all male choreography show. Show run: July 13, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/920381 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/58 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:53:40 EST The Ayckbourn season continues with his hilarious classic comedy, Bedroom Farce. Trevor and Susannah's marriage is on the rocks. They inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction--beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany. Show run: July 25 - September 1, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/923918 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/92 Fri, 10 May 2013 05:15:59 EST "one", the inaugural performance of LEVELdance. Co-directors Eddy Ocampo and Joshua Paul Weckessor collaborate to create an evening of dance where light design and theatrical elements are conceived before the dance. "one" unifying the elements together for an an experience that is raw pure, and honest, specific to the evening and the location and an experience that cannot be missed. Show run: July 27, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/921326 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/67 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:23:36 EST Among the violence-ravaged West-Side streets of Chicago, a dream for a hopeful future compels a young gang member to act to save his own life. Surprisingly, his greatest challenge is his most-trusted friend, who must make the tortuous choice between his friendship and his gang allegiance. In this compelling contemporary drama about young men trapped in lives not of their choosing, loyalties are questioned in the pursuit of a greater good: freedom. Show run: September 13 - October 20, 2013 https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/920382 http://athenaeumtheatre.org/59 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:48:56 EST Julia's father Joe has never come to terms with his daughter's death 12 years earlier. He hopes to discover what happened by meeting with a psychic and her boyfriend. The men meet and Joe reveals that he believes Julia is trying to contact him. Between the three men, the story of Julia's life and death is gradually revealed. Show run: October 31 - December 8, 2013