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  Calls to Blood

  Thu–Sat 8pm

  Royal George Theatre 1641 N Halsted St, at North Ave, Lincoln Park, Chicago (312-988-9000)

  Lots of people have nuggets of experience that could presumably anchor a drama, but not many of them have James Asmus's technical chops. In his new play, Asmus uses...

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  Fat Bitch!

  Fri, Sat 8pm

  Chicago Center for the Performing Arts 777 N Green St, at Chicago Ave, Old Town/River North, Chicago (312-733-6000)

  Hyde Park native, stand-up comic and actor (Precious) Erica Watson returns to the Chi for this one-woman show tackling body image and its relation to race....

  • Fat Bitch! is also listed in Comedy

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  Hairspray

  Tomorrow 1pm, 8pm, Thu–Fri 8pm, Sat 4:30pm, 8pm, Sun 1pm, 5pm Ongoing through Dec 6.

  Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire 10 Marriott Dr, Lincolnshire, IL (847-634-0200)

  The 2002 musical based on John Waters's 1988 film is undeniably infectious, thanks to Marc Shaiman's ridiculously catchy, sugar-sweet score and the campily uplifting...

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  Heroes

  Tomorrow–Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:30pm

  Greenhouse Theater Center 2257 N Lincoln Ave, between Webster and Belden Aves, Lincoln Park, Chicago (773-404-7336)

  Gérald Sibleyras's airy trifle of a play, presented in Tom Stoppard's translation, concerns three old soldiers essentially confined to the terrace of a retirees'...

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  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  Tonight–Tomorrow 7:30pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 4pm, 8pm, Sun 2pm, 6pm Ongoing through Dec 6.

  Writers' Theatre 325 Tudor Ct, Glencoe, IL (847-242-6000)

  Tom Stoppard's 1967 breakout, a backdoor inversion of Hamlet by way of Waiting for Godot, remains an ingenious enterprise. Stoppard shows us ?R and G's deleted...

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  Days to Come

  Thu 7:30pm, Fri–Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm

  Artistic Home 3914 N Clark St, between Byron St and Irving Park Rd, Lakeview/Roscoe Village/Wrigleyville, Chicago (866-811-4111)

  Lillian Hellman's 1936 play views the labor conflicts of its day through the struggle of the Rodman family, conflicted owners of a failing brush factory in small...

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  G.I.F.T.

  Fri–Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm

  Collaboraction Soundstage 1844 W Hubbard St, between Wolcott and Wood, Ukrainian Village/West Town, Chicago (312-226-9633)

  This large-scale performative adventure, devised by Sam Porretta, takes its bearings from Lewis Hyde's study of alternative economies, The Gift. Dress warmly; some...

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  High Holidays

  Tonight–Tomorrow 7:30pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm, 8pm, Sun 2pm, 7:30pm

  Goodman Theatre 170 N Dearborn St, between Randolph and Lake Sts, Loop/West Loop, Chicago (312-443-3800)

  For all its liberal seasoning with Yiddish and references to the Pentateuch, Alan Gross's new comedy is at heart another act of boomer self-mythologizing. A Chicago...

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  South Pacific

  Tonight 7:30pm, Tomorrow 2pm, 7:30pm, Fri–Sat 2pm, 8pm, Sun 2pm

  Rosemont Theatre 5400 N River Rd, Rosemont, IL (847-671-5100)

  Bartlett Sher's acclaimed revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, which garnered seven Tonys in 2008, sweeps into town for a few enchanted evenings....

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  1985

  Fri–Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, Dec 4, Dec 5 8pm Ongoing through Dec 19.

  Prop Thtr 3502–4 N Elston Ave, at Troy St, Northwest Side, Chicago (866-811-4111)

  It's (you guessed it) 1985, and Chicago's beloved Bears have never looked so poised for greatness. But behind the season's mighty team lies an equally mighty...

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