BREATH, BOOM Concludes Eclipse's 25th Anniversary Season This November

Eclipse Theatre Company, the only Midwest theatre company to feature one playwright in one season, will conclude its 25th Anniversary 2017 Kia Corthron Season this fall with a production of her 2000 play Breath, Boom, with Mignon McPherson Stewart directing.

Prix, the leader of a violent girls' gang, makes booms on the street and loves booms in the sky: fireworks. But her destructive workaday world is gradually turned upside down by actions of her mother and of her "sisters," and by confrontations with the consequences of her past. Breath, Boom was commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre, London.

Breath, Boom runs approximately two hours and fifteen minutes with one ten-minute intermission. Post-show discussions with the cast and crew will be held following all Sunday matinees except opening and closing weekends (free with paid ticket).

Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL 60657

Some street parking; Wellington El stop (Brown). Pay and display parking at Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church lots on Southport and on Oakdale. Disability accessible.

Runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Closes Sunday, December 17, 2017

No show on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 23

TICKETS: 773-935-6875, Athenaeum Box Office (open noon to last curtain, Wednesday-Sunday)

Online tickets at www.eclipsetheatre.com

$30 for all regular performances (half-price rush tickets available)

$20 for previews; $10 for industry members at previews with headshot/card

$20 for each ticket in groups of ten or more, and for seniors (with ID)

$20 for students (with ID)

CAST: Ensemble member BrittneyLove Smith (Prix), and guest artists Dionne Addai (Jupiter), Ti Nicole Danridge (Shondra, Jo, Pepper), Elana Elyce (Prix's Mother), Jennifer Glasse (Comet), Jalyn Greene (Angel), David Lawrence Hamilton (Jerome), Destini Huston (Malika, Socks), Anjelica Masson (Fuego, CO, Jo's Friend), Megan Storti (Denise, CO, Officer Dray), and Destiny Strothers (Cat, Girl).

STAFF: Eclipse ensemble members Zachary Bloomfield (Casting Associate), Ashley Bowman (Production Manager), Celeste M. Cooper (Casting Associate), Stephen Dale (Fight Choreographer), Kathleen Dickinson (Production Manager), JP Pierson (Casting Director), Kevin Scott (Co-Producer), and Nathaniel Swift (Co-Producer). Guest artists Yana Atim (Costume Design), Sarah Espinoza (Sound Design), Kaycee Filson (Props Design), Caroline Foulk (Stage Manager), Sammi Grant (Dialect Coach), Eleanor Kahn (Set Design), Catherine Miller (Dramaturg), and Mignon McPherson Stewart (Director).

Photo: Kia Corthron Seven Stories Press