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Left, Sally Murphy and Stephen Louis Grush in "Sex with Strangers"
Shows are rated on a ★★★★ scale
"A Twist of Water" ★★★★ Through March 26 by Route 66 at Theater Wit
"The Big Meal" ★★★★ Through March 27 at American Theater Company
"Circle Mirror Transformation" ★★★½ Through April 17 at the Victory Gardens Biograph
"Guys and Dolls" ★★★ Through March 27 at the Marriott Theatre
"Hair" ★★★ Through March 20 at the Oriental Theatre
"Heddatron" ★★★ In rotating repertory through April 24 as part of Steppenwolf's Garage Rep
"In Darfur" ★★★ Through March 20 at TimeLine Theatre
"Jackie and Me" ★★★½ Through March 27 by Chicago Children's Theatre
at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts
"The Master and Margarita" ★★★ Through April 2 at Strawdog Theatre
"Million Dollar Quartet" ★ ★ ★½ Open run at the Apollo Theater
"Night and Her Stars" ★★★ Through April 24 at Gift Theatre
"reasons to be pretty" ★★½ Through April 10 at Profiles Theatre
"Sex with Strangers" ★★★ Through May 15 at Steppenwolf Theatre
"This" ★★★ Through March 27 at Theater Wit
"The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen" ★★★½ In rotating repertory through April 24 as part of Steppenwolf's Garage Rep
"Travels With My Aunt" ★★★ Through April 10 at Writers' Theatre
"Working" ★★★½ Open run at the Broadway Playhouse
"Meet John Doe" at Stage 773
"Ethan Frome" at the Lookingglass Theatre
"Precious Little" at the Storefront Theater
"That Was Then" by Seanachai Theatre Company at the Irish American Heritage Center
"Samuel J. and K." by Steppenwolf for Young Adults
"The Man Who Came to Dinner" at Circle Theatre
"The Dream Journal of Doctor Jekyll" by The Mammals
"An Enemy of the People" and "The Homecoming"
"Magnetic North" and "Radio Golf"
"Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable)" and "Feet of Clay"
"Sketchbook Reverb" at the Flat Iron Arts Building
"Dead Pile" by XIII Pocket at Stage 773
"The Moonstone" at Lifeline Theatre
"Church/Pullman, WA" and "Closer"
"Blithe Spirit" by First Folio at Mayslake Peabody Estate
"Short Shakespeare! Macbeth" at Chicago Shakespeare
"Shining City" and "Geek Show"
"Bordello" at Chicago Dramatists
"Laika Dog in Space" at the Neo-Futurarium
"Trouble in Mind" at The Artistic Home
"the tim&micah; project: VERSUS" and The Katydids and The Good Time Gang at iO Theater
"A Doll's House" at Greenhouse Theater Center
"The New Electric Ballroom" at A Red Orchid Theatre
"Do the Hustle" at Writers' Theatre
"Mary" at the Goodman Theatre
"Odradek" by House Theatre at the Chopin Theatre
"Trickster" by Halcyon Theatre at the Greenhouse
"Hamletmachine" at the Trap Door Theatre
"Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies" at Second City
"The Addams Family" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
"American Idiot" at the St. James Theatre
"Avenue Q" at the Golden Theatre
"Billy Elliot" at the Imperial Theatre
"In the Heights" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
"Memphis" at the Shubert Theatre
"Million Dollar Quartet" at the Nederlander Theatre
"Next to Normal" at Booth Theatre
"Rock of Ages" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
"Time Stands Still" at the Friedman Theatre
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"August: Osage County"
"Billy Elliot the Musical"
"Million Dollar Quartet"
"White Noise"
16th Street Theatre
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Court Theatre
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Drury Lane Theatre
Eclipse Theatre
Elephant Eye Theatricals
eta Creative Arts
Factory Theater
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Goodman Theatre
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Hell in a Handbag Productions
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House Theatre of Chicago
Hypocrites
Infamous Commonwealth
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Joseph Jefferson Awards
Just For Laughs Festival
Lifeline Theatre
Light Opera Works
Live Bait Theater
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Marriott Theatre
Mary Arrchie Theatre
Mercury Theatre
MPAACT
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Neo-Futurists
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Obituaries
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