Garage Rep Returns To Steppenwolf With Robots, Sonnets and Doctors

Garage Rep is back again in 2011 with three of the most innovative and exciting young Chicago theatre companies on the scene today presenting three new productions in rotating repertory in The Garage at Steppenwolf.

Garage Rep runs from February 11 - April 24, 2011. A three-play pass is available for $45 by calling Audience Services at 312-335-1650. Tickets to each play are $20. To purchase tickets to individual shows, please click on the information below.

Support for this project comes through the "Leading for the Future Initiative," a program of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Sideshow Theatre Company presents

Heddatron

By Elizabeth Meriwether
Directed by Jonathan L. Green

A book falls from the sky and a depressed Michigonian housewife is kidnapped by a clan of renegade robots, whisked away to the jungles of South America, and forced to perform the title role in a mechanical version of Hedda Gabler. As a documentarian searches for the truth about the abduction and the woman's family mounts a search party, Ibsen himself enters the picture to defend his well-made play. Sideshow is partnering with robotics experts across Chicago to present a cast of human actors and functioning robots in this bizarre and savagely funny Chicago premiere.

The Strange Tree Group presents

The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen

By Emily Schwartz
Directed by Jimmy McDermott

A world premiere that resurrects what was once the most famous and fanciful criminal investigation the world has ever known: the calamitously comedic tale of Dr. H. H. Crippen, England's most notoriously inept cellar murderer. Chased across the sea by destiny and Marconi's wireless telegraph, this factual turn of the century tragedy explores three versions of the life and death of this homicidal homeopath. Three Crippens! Three tales! Three truths?

UrbanTheater Company Presents

Sonnets for an Old Century

By José Rivera
Directed by Madrid St. Angelo in collaboration with Juan Castañeda and Ivan Vega

In a waiting room for the afterlife, we find a dreamscape filled with poignant, funny, lyrical and haunting monologues from recently deceased individuals. This play by Obie Award-winning playwright and Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter José Rivera asks: "Where do we go when we die?" And if you were to offer commentary regarding the life that you've lived, "What would you say?"