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The Neo-Futurists to Present TML: BEST OF 2013 and New Year's Eve Show, 12/6-31

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The Neo-Futurists celebrate the year's end with the Best of 2013 and a New Year's Eve performance. Please note: there are no performances of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind during their two-week holiday break from December 19-29.

TML: Best of 2013

December 6-8 & December 13-15

Fridays and Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. (doors open 11:00 p.m.) and

Sundays at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

Admission door prices: $9 + the roll of a six-sided die (i.e. $10 - $15)

Advance tickets available online: $20 with a Roll-Back Refund ($14-$19)

At the Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland (at Foster)

For information, call 773-275-5255 or visit www.neofuturists.org.

Celebrate the best plays comical, political, heartfelt and whimsical with TML: Best of 2013. This explosive retrospective takes audiences through ensemble favorites created since January 1, 2013, featuring a larger cast and work from active ensemble members as well as Neo-Futurist alums. From the uprising in Egypt to the fall of DOMA (and a handful of things that stayed exactly the same), this hour-long show will help you relive the good, the bad and the bizarre of the last 365 days in one wild hour.

Too Much Light... New Year's Eve

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Doors open at 9:30 p.m. for pre-show refreshments (including beer and wine) and hors d'oeuvres

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind begins at 11:00 p.M. Sharp

No admittance after 11:00 p.m.

New Year's toast (champagne or cider) at midnight

ADVANCE RESERVATIONS REQUIRED ($50): www.neofuturists.org

For more information, call 773-275-5255.

Let's kick 2013 out the door and welcome 2014! On Tuesday, December 31, doors open at The Neo-Futurarium at 9:30 p.m. for refreshments (including beer and wine) and hors d'oeuvres. A performance of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind begins promptly at 11:00 p.m. (no admittance after 11:00 p.m.) The performance ends at 12 midnight with a New Year's toast. Admission is $50. Advance tickets are required and available online at www.neofuturists.org.

The Neo-Futurists: The Neo-Futurists, performers of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind and over 60 other original, full-length productions, are a collective of wildly productive writer/director/performers who are committed to creating immediate, non-illusory, unreproducible events at headslappingly affordable prices. Too Much Light... has been performed in Chicago for 25 continuous years, making it the longest-running show in the city.

Theater Fans' Choice Awards
2026 Theater Fans' Choice Awards - Live Stats
Best Orchestrations - Top 3
1. Ethan Popp, The Rescues - The Lost Boys
28.7% of votes
2. Lux Pyramid - Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
13.7% of votes
3. Anders Eljas, Brian Usifer - Chess
12.8% of votes

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