David Cerda News

Due to the Pride Parade Sunday afternoon, June 28 we are moving the showtime to POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical at the Chopin Theatre from 3pm to 6pm. The special Pride performance of POSEIDON! will include door prizes to help keep the Pride festivities going. Please join Hell in a Handbag Productions for our special Pride weekend performance June 27 & 28!

Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce the extension of POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical due to popular demand! The SS Poseidon will be sailing at the Chopin Theatre for an additional 3 weeks (until Aug. 16) to meet the overwhelming number of audience members' eagerness to take a cruise aboard this ship of fools.

Due to the Pride Parade Sunday afternoon, June 28 we are moving the showtime to POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical at the Chopin Theatre from 3pm to 6pm. The special Pride performance of POSEIDON! will include door prizes to help keep the Pride festivities going. Please join Hell in a Handbag Productions for our special Pride weekend performance June 27 & 28!

Who will survive the most anticipated remount of Hell in a Handbag Productions history? Hell in a Handbag Productions is proud to present their most requested show...the one that started it all...POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical.

Due to unforeseeable circumstances Nora Dunn will not be able to perform in the staged benefit reading of Sunset Boulevard on May 15. Replacing Ms. Dunn will be Scott Bradley of the Scooty and Jojo show.

Due to unforeseeable circumstances Nora Dunn will not be able to perform in the staged benefit reading of Sunset Boulevard on May 15. Replacing Ms. Dunn will be Scott Bradley of the Scooty and Jojo show.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is thrilled to present a benefit staged reading featuring Hollywood's legendary eye-popping, scenery chewing film divas of all time Miss Joan Crawford and Miss Gloria Swanson in the roles that made them fabulous! See Handbag Artistic Director David Cerda and acclaimed actress and Saturday Night Live alumni Nora Dunn take on Mildred Pierce and Sunset Boulevard as only they can.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is proud to present one twisted take on two classic tales. Silent Night of the Lambs mixes one part thriller (The Silence of the Lambs) and one part holiday TV special (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) to create a twisted recipe that only Hell in a Handbag would dare to cook up for Chicago audiences.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is proud to present one twisted take on two classic tales. Silent Night of the Lambs mixes one part thriller (The Silence of the Lambs) and one part holiday TV special (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer) to create a twisted recipe that only Hell in a Handbag would dare to cook up for Chicago audiences.

Join the Composers, Writers and Performers who are creating the Chicago AIDS Quit Songbook for cocktails and conversation from 8-11PM this Saturday, October 11 at Hydrate, 3458 N Halsted St, Chicago! This very special cocktail party supports the creation Chicago AIDS Quit Songbook, a fundraising event for Season of Concern, presented by Chicago Opera Vanguard at the Court Theatre on World AIDS Day 2008, December 1.

Miranda Towers had it all- a promising singing career, a dashing husband, a loving a daughter, and her very own circus! Then, one day that world came tumbling down and Miranda went from wearing a top hat to a strait-jacket. Fast forward 15 years to 1966- Miranda returns to her circus a broken woman, when a mysterious and gruesome string of 'accidental' deaths occur. Is Miranda making up for lost time? See for yourself in this deliriously over-the-top homage to 60's horror b-movies.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is proud to announce the Chicago premiere of HAYWIRE!, a deliciously comic horror parody set under the grit and the glamour of the big top.

Hell in a Handbag Productions is proud to announce the Chicago premiere of HAYWIRE!, a deliciously comic horror parody set under the grit and the glamour of the big top.

Hell in a Handbag Productions, Chicago's only theater company dedicated to the exploration and preservation of popular culture is proud to announce that they have been awarded a grant of $4000.00 from The Pauls Foundation towards the production of their upcoming Fall show, HAYWIRE!, a circus horror parody by Kevin Remington and Tim Wilkins with songs and special musical material by Fred Barton, opening at the Bailiwick Arts Center- Studio Theater, Oct. 13.

Hell in a Handbag Productions, Chicago's only theater company dedicated to the exploration and preservation of popular culture, parody and camp, now celebrating our sixth year of camptastic theater, is as giddy as a school girl to announce their official 2008-2009 season.

Spring is here, and libidos are hatching. Forget the oysters, try a late night variety show focused on all things sex-Literally Sexy - burlesque, drag, bondage, erotica, comedy - all in one hot night Friday, April 11th at 10:30 pm, at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.