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by A.A. Cristi - Mar 29, 2022
The Neo-Futurists announce the first live full-length show since the COVID shutdown. Created by Ensemble Members Ida Cuttler and Nick Hart, WILDCATS is a multimedia drag spectacle exploring themes of loneliness and isolation via the true story of Lucille Ball's disastrous Broadway debut in 1960. Directed by Halena Kays, WILDCATS is jam packed with live stage spectacle, personal narrative, audience interaction and bizarre-o filmed I Love Lucy episode recreations.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 8, 2021
Chicago's longest running late-night show, The Neo-Futurists' The Infinite Wrench, kicks off the company's 2021-2022 Season of programming with a return to weekly in-person performances on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, 19 months after its live shows paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 3, 2021
Chicago’s longest running late-night show, The Neo-Futurists’ The Infinite Wrench, returns for weekly in-person performances on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021 (opening night Monday, Sept. 20), 19 months after its live shows paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

by A.A. Cristi - Jul 16, 2021
PlayMakers Laboratory will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its popular sketch comedy revue That's Weird, Grandma with a free digital special on Thursday, August 5 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. PML will host an in-person viewing party at The Annoyance Theater, 851 W. Belmont Ave. (proof of vaccine required) in Chicago or guests may stream the show on Facebook Live.

by A.A. Cristi - Apr 27, 2021
The Neo-Futurists present The Egg Wrench: 30 Egg Plays in 60 Egg Minutes, a live-streamed benefit for the Chicago Birthworks Collective, one afternoon only on Mother's Day Sunday, May 9th, 2021 at 3:00 PM CST.

by A.A. Cristi - Sep 16, 2019
Neo-Futurist Ida Cuttler teams up with veteran Chicago director and Neo-Futurist Artistic Associate Halena Kays to present the company's next world premiere: An evening's amusement for yourself and friends, consisting of one thousand and one locutions by a young virtuous maiden whose penchant for potboilers and mastery of chicaneries shall teach us all a lesson in the never-ending wiles of women and the astonishing virtue of the gregarious!!!!!! OR: COMFORTABLE SHOES. Cuttler's premiere Prime Time show was part of the Neo-Lab developmental program during the 18/19 season and will see the full production open at The Neo-Futurist Theater on October 7th, 2019.

by A.A. Cristi - Aug 8, 2019
The Neo-Futurist Theater is proud to host more than 50 Chicago-based activists, artists and leaders to take part of its 24-hour staged reading of the Mueller Report. The report, which is nearly 450 pages, was originally delivered by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on April 18, 2019 and covers subjects ranging from questions about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to whether President Donald Trump.

by Julie Musbach - Feb 5, 2019
The Neo-Futurists present The Egg Show: 30 Egg Plays in 60 Egg Minutes, a benefit for the Chicago Women's Health Center, one night only on Mother's Day Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 7 p.m. The production features the company's favorite "egg" plays from the past 30 years of their signature late-night show The Infinite Wrench, which unleashes a barrage of two-minute plays for a live audience 50 weekends per year.

by Julie Musbach - Aug 29, 2018
The Neo-Futurists jubilantly announce their 30th Anniversary Season, rocketing past 10,300 new plays with a schedule of mainstage Neo-Lab commissions, creative festivals and flagship late-night production The Infinite Wrench-all featuring the company's signature theatrical style fusing sport, poetry and living newspaper.

by A.A. Cristi - Jul 11, 2018
The Neo-Futurists launch Can't Stop//Won't Stop, their annual campaign supporting the Ensemble's prolific writing and programs. The summer campaign is poised to raise $24,000 and will culminate at the 7 p.m. performance of The Infinite Wrench on Sunday, August 12, featuring a series of 30 two-minute plays all written in a 24-hour period. Reservations to the event will be available to any that can raise the $150 ticket price on the peer-to-peer online fundraising platform Crowdrise; every $150 raised gives an audience member another ticket to the world-premiere-packed-event.