Onstage: 'Flanagan's Wake' returns
Cry 'til you laugh
Copley Theatre revives “Flanagan's Wake,” the interactive comedy in which residents of a fictional Irish village send off a favorite son with a toast, or 20. Theatergoers who show their ticket stub when ordering a post-performance draft of McAffrey's Ale at Ballydoyle Irish Pub in Aurora get a free mug.
Opens Saturday, Feb. 12, at 8 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. (630) 896-6666 or paramountaurora.com.
‘Love Hurts ... A Lot!'
Bikerman (Jim Jarvis) and the Jewish Avenger (Scott Woldman) pull no punches in “Love Hurts ... a Lot!” their adults-only comedy examining dating and romance. They bring their show to the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre for one, seasonally suitable performance.
10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. (847) 577-2121 or metropolisarts.com.
‘Working' returns
“Working,” the musical inspired by Studs Terkel's book and first staged at the Goodman Theatre more than 30 years ago, returns to the city that works in a new adaptation by Stephen Schwartz who penned the original with Nina Faso. Chicago favorites E. Faye Butler, Barbara Robertson and Gene Weygandt star in the Broadway in Chicago premiere.
Previews begin Tuesday, Feb. 15, at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St., Chicago. The show opens March 2. (800) 775-2000 or broadwayinchicago.com.
— Barbara Vitello