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13
Dec

Top Chicago Performance Picks For the Weekend of of Dec. 14, 2007

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Comedy, Theater

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Run, man, run! Anthrax is coming! Take this HAZMAT suit and Santa hat to protect you.

Join other chemical warfare paranoids in a four-mile fun run to be followed by four hours of drinking and food to calm those frazzled nerves. For $30, the “Great Chicago Anthrax Scare/Santa Hat Run” is on Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Hidden Shamrock.

Do you blame Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for the nightmare that is the CTA? The creators of “No-El, or How the BlagojeGrinch Stole Christmas” sure do.

Feel a little bit better about your own commute as you watch frustrated commuters spend 45 minutes to go two blocks on the CTA. The show runs at the Gorilla Tango Theatre in Bucktown on Fridays and Saturdays at 10 p.m. with a Sunday showing at 3 p.m. The performance runs through Dec. 23. Tickets cost $10.

Did you wake up this morning with a case of the Brits?

Then grab your dentist and go see “Lord Butterscotch and the Curse of the Darkwater Phantom” as the cast takes British clichés to new heights. Lords and randy ladies will be at the Storefront Theater from Friday through Sunday until Jan. 3. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $10 to 20, baby.

By Stephanie Huls