November 2015
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
November 19-22 Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes Created by Greg Allen Written by The Neo-Futurists What do speed, chance and a clothesline have in common? The longest running show in Chicago… simply known as TMLMTBGB. This interactive theatre piece explores performance art, personal revelation, and political satire with an ensemble performing 30 plays in 60 minutes. Each two-minute play is performed in random order, chosen by the audience …that’s where the clothesline [more]
Find out more »Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
November 19-22 Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes Created by Greg Allen Written by The Neo-Futurists What do speed, chance and a clothesline have in common? The longest running show in Chicago… simply known as TMLMTBGB. This interactive theatre piece explores performance art, personal revelation, and political satire with an ensemble performing 30 plays in 60 minutes. Each two-minute play is performed in random order, chosen by the audience …that’s where the clothesline [more]
Find out more »Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
November 19-22 Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes Created by Greg Allen Written by The Neo-Futurists What do speed, chance and a clothesline have in common? The longest running show in Chicago… simply known as TMLMTBGB. This interactive theatre piece explores performance art, personal revelation, and political satire with an ensemble performing 30 plays in 60 minutes. Each two-minute play is performed in random order, chosen by the audience …that’s where the clothesline [more]
Find out more »April 2016
ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »ANON (ymous): A Refugee Odyssey
Separated from his mother, Anon, a young refugee, journeys through the United States searching for his family. Along the way, he encounters a wide variety of people—some kind (beguiling barflies), some dangerous and cruel (a sinister one-eyed butcher)—while navigating a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Written by Naomi Iizuka Directed by Michael Mufson
Find out more »May 2016
Palomar Brass and Saxophone Ensembles
Travelogue Journey to exotic places with these two fine ensembles…. musically, of course! Directed by Paul Kurokawa
Find out more »October 2016
Our Town
Our Town by Thornton Wilder A 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner! Three acts, entitled Daily Life, Love and Marriage and Death, depict the lives of "ordinary people" in the fictional, early 1900’s New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners. Directed by Dana Case October 7-16 Friday, Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 2pm; Studio Theatre
Find out more »Our Town
Our Town by Thornton Wilder A 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner! Three acts, entitled Daily Life, Love and Marriage and Death, depict the lives of "ordinary people" in the fictional, early 1900’s New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners. Directed by Dana Case October 7-16 Friday, Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 2pm; Studio Theatre
Find out more »Our Town
Our Town by Thornton Wilder A 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner! Three acts, entitled Daily Life, Love and Marriage and Death, depict the lives of "ordinary people" in the fictional, early 1900’s New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners. Directed by Dana Case October 7-16 Friday, Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 2pm; Studio Theatre
Find out more »Our Town
Our Town by Thornton Wilder A 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner! Three acts, entitled Daily Life, Love, and Marriage and Death, depict the lives of "ordinary people" in the fictional, early 1900’s New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners. Directed by Dana Case October 7-16 Friday, Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 2pm; Studio Theatre
Find out more »World Dance Festival
An evening of Live Music and World Dance, including a salsa band with open dance floor. World Dance costume theme is encouraged (for everyone) in celebration of Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos . Bring your Salsa shoes! Directed by Patriceann Mead Friday Oct.28th at 7pm/Salsa Class at 7:30, Open Floor 8pm/ World Dance Expo 8: 45 Studio Theatre
Find out more »November 2016
Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
These ten-minute plays were first commissioned by The New Black Fest in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal George Zimmerman. Since that time, public incidents of violence against black men and women have been increasingly exposed. The plays are as diverse in style and point-of-view as their authors, but each play takes a complex and human approach to understanding the dynamics that lead to fear and fracture our nation. Facing Our Truth’s purpose is to incite [more]
Find out more »December 2016
Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
These ten-minute plays were first commissioned by The New Black Fest in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal George Zimmerman. Since that time, public incidents of violence against black men and women have been increasingly exposed. The plays are as diverse in style and point-of-view as their authors, but each play takes a complex and human approach to understanding the dynamics that lead to fear and fracture our nation. Facing Our Truth’s purpose is to incite [more]
Find out more »Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
These ten-minute plays were first commissioned by The New Black Fest in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal George Zimmerman. Since that time, public incidents of violence against black men and women have been increasingly exposed. The plays are as diverse in style and point-of-view as their authors, but each play takes a complex and human approach to understanding the dynamics that lead to fear and fracture our nation. Facing Our Truth’s purpose is to incite [more]
Find out more »Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
This Thursday: "Pay As You Can" showing These ten-minute plays were first commissioned by The New Black Fest in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal George Zimmerman. Since that time, public incidents of violence against black men and women have been increasingly exposed. The plays are as diverse in style and point-of-view as their authors, but each play takes a complex and human approach to understanding the dynamics that lead to fear and fracture our nation. [more]
Find out more »Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
These ten-minute plays were first commissioned by The New Black Fest in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal George Zimmerman. Since that time, public incidents of violence against black men and women have been increasingly exposed. The plays are as diverse in style and point-of-view as their authors, but each play takes a complex and human approach to understanding the dynamics that lead to fear and fracture our nation. Facing Our Truth’s purpose is to incite [more]
Find out more »Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
In light of the George Zimmerman verdict, The New Black Fest commissioned six very diverse playwrights to write ten-minute plays on the topic of Trayvon Martin, race and/or privilege. The purpose is to incite serious discussion in our collective communities around these urgent issues. Directed by Michael Mufson December 2-11 Friday, Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 2pm Studio Theatre
Find out more »March 2017
Tap in Time
Palomar Percussion Ensemble Sounds great already! Bright and bold performances of hand-picked repertoire by this fine Palomar Ensemble. Directed by Heather Barclay March 12 Sunday, 2pm Studio Theatre
Find out more »May 2017
Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park By Bruce Norris CLYBOURNE PARK explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. “Vital, sharp-witted and ferociously smart.” – NY Times Directed by Annie Hinton May [more]
Find out more »Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris CLYBOURNE PARK explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. “Vital, sharp-witted and ferociously smart.” – NY Times Directed by Annie Hinton May 5-14 Friday, [more]
Find out more »Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris CLYBOURNE PARK explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. “Vital, sharp-witted and ferociously smart.” – NY Times Directed by Annie Hinton May 5-14 Friday, [more]
Find out more »Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris CLYBOURNE PARK explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. “Vital, sharp-witted and ferociously smart.” – NY Times Directed by Annie Hinton May 5-14 Friday, [more]
Find out more »October 2018
O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »O Beautiful – by Theresa Rebeck
This fiercely funny story explores the lives of high school students, teachers, and their families as they cope in a world of real personal problems and extremist ideological rhetoric that gets so heated that Jesus, Saint Paul, Joan of Arc, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, among others, show up to weigh in and mix it up. Alternately sweet and fiery, and as topical as tonight's newscast, O Beautiful lands the complex realities of our culture squarely on the stage deck. Directed by Michael [more]
Find out more »World Dance – featuring Salsa Dance class with Patriceann Mead
Join us for the 21st Anniversary celebration of the Afro-Cuban/Brazilian Drum and Dance Ensemble, Agogo and the World Drum and Dance Program. An evening of live Cuban/Brazilian music and dance, features Kimba light, a fabulous Salsa band. Includes open dance floor. Founded and directed by Patriceann Mead.
Find out more »October 2019
The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »The Mental State
The Mental State
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
The Mental State
By Josh Adell
The Mental State examines the complexities and cruel reality of mental health disorders in teenagers. Andy is bullied, plagued by mental illness and driven by hallucinations and his dead uncle’s voice. We see the effects on family and those harmed by mental illness as Andy faces ineffective school policies, well-intentioned but ill-equipped parents, and a broken mental health system.
Directed by Annie Hinton
Find out more »NOCHE HAVANA
Experience the rhythms of live Afro-Cuban/Brazilian Drum and Dance Ensemble, Agogo and the World Drum and Dance Program. Don’t miss this celebration of live Cuban/Brazilian music and dance, also featuring a fabulous Salsa band, Kimba Light. At the opening and close of the show the stage becomes an open dance floor for some thrilling audience participation like you have never experienced.
Find out more »December 2019
SILA (The Arctic Cycle)
SILA (The Arctic Cycle)
December 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
SILA (The Arctic Cycle)
By Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by Michael Mufson
December 6 thru December 14; Fridays at 7pm, Saturday the 7th at 7pm and Saturday the 14th at 5pm , Sunday at 2pm and Thursday at 4pm
Sila is the Inuit concept of the breath that connects all life. With a blending of Inuit mythology and and gritty realism, this urgent play exposes the devastating consequences of human beings losing their connection to the natural world and ancient wisdom. Set in the Baffin Islands, just inside the Arctic Circle, eight characters – including a climatologist, an Inuit activist and two polar bears – find their values challenged as they grapple with a rapidly changing environment and world. The personal, political, mythical and ecological intertwine as crisis, danger and death shatter the world, only to reveal the possibility of healing.
Studio Theatre
Find out more »SILA (The Arctic Cycle)
SILA (The Arctic Cycle)
December 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ticket Prices - $10 - $15
SILA (The Arctic Cycle)
By Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by Michael Mufson
December 6 thru December 14; Fridays at 7pm, Saturday the 7th at 7pm and Saturday the 14th at 5pm , Sunday at 2pm and Thursday at 4pm
Sila is the Inuit concept of the breath that connects all life. With a blending of Inuit mythology and and gritty realism, this urgent play exposes the devastating consequences of human beings losing their connection to the natural world and ancient wisdom. Set in the Baffin Islands, just inside the Arctic Circle, eight characters – including a climatologist, an Inuit activist and two polar bears – find their values challenged as they grapple with a rapidly changing environment and world. The personal, political, mythical and ecological intertwine as crisis, danger and death shatter the world, only to reveal the possibility of healing.
Studio Theatre
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