One of Time magazine's "Top 10 Plays of 2009," "A Steady Rain" has returned to the Chicago Dramatists stage, in conjunction with the Chicago Commercial Collective, and tickets are now 50% off. According to the Chicago Tribune, the play is “a gritty, rich, thick, poetic and entirely gripping noir tale.”

General Admission tickets are $22.50, regularly $45, for the following performances through Sept. 2:

• Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
• Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.
• Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

About the Play: Two veteran police officers find themselves caught in a conflict between family and duty when a routine domestic disturbance call results in the death of a boy.