My Hilarious Valentine, New Shows Around Town
What's up for Valentine's Day? Don't look at us. Our human creators have taught our chilly little metal hearts nothing of this "love" you speak of.
But the Spectacular Show (at the Gorilla Tango Theater) is throwing a great show at 8 PM on February 14, should you care to join in with the whole "cupcakes and laughter" bit. According to show producer Cameron Esposito, "Hannibal and Robert Buscemi will be doing sets, Mike Lee will be playing romantically awesome songs between performers and a bunch of comics are writing super 'heartfelt and loving poems to read aloud.' I am stoked."
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Lots of new shows are opening up all around Chicago, including Paul Thomas' show Late Bloomer, opening Friday, March 2 at the Playground Theater. The 10 PM show will run through March 23 and is a mix of standup, monologue, characters, and music. Thomas' group The Defiant Brothers won Best Sketch Group at HBO's 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Playground president Matt Barbera says “Paul Thomas is a special talent in a city full of great comedic actors.”
Second City writing program director Mary Scruggs and writing instructor Andy Miara have joined forces to create The Ugly House, running Saturdays at 10:30 PM at the Live Bait Theater through March 24. The show is described as "as 'living room vaudeville.' All the thrills, chills, gags and guffaws of vaudeville in an extremely intimate setting. The show is all new each week and is made up of a mix of sketch, improv and a special guest act. This Saturday we have the magician Ross Moreno performing."
Sketch group Doppelganger is performing their new show Tales From the Zoetrope at the Apollo Theater Fridays at 10:30 through March 16. "Divisive themes such as a woman’s sexual prowess, a child’s psychosis, and the contemplation of death are attacked with an unconventional candor."
The Rogue Theater is staging the third installment of the late night superhero comedy show Rogue 8, in which it is revealed that "Chernobyl Cherub has a sister named Maladroitress, whose powers are also a result of the same collision with a meteor," and "The Unfairy hires a Ninja to help in his fight against our heroes."
