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LiveWire Chicago Theatre 'gets technical' at VisionFest 5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, ten short plays inspired by technology's influence on society (or what happens when things short circuit). The fifth annual festival will be presented now through August 2, 2013 at INTUIT - The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Each play will be staged in a different area of the multi-room gallery, with drinking and mingling encouraged as audiences move from play to play. The press opening is tonight, July 19 at 7:30 pm and 9 pm (marathon performance). Scroll down for a first look at the shows!

LiveWire Chicago Theatre 'gets technical' at VisionFest 5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, ten short plays inspired by technology's influence on society (or what happens when things short circuit). The fifth annual festival will be presented today, July 17 - August 2, 2013 at INTUIT - The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Each play will be staged in a different area of the multi-room gallery, with drinking and mingling encouraged as audiences move from play to play.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre "gets technical" at VisionFest 5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, ten short plays inspired by technology's influence on society (or what happens when things short circuit). The fifth annual festival will be presented July 17 - August 2, 2013 at INTUIT - The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Each play will be staged in a different area of the multi-room gallery, with drinking and mingling encouraged as audiences move from play to play.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre "gets technical" at VisionFest 5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, ten short plays inspired by technology's influence on society (or what happens when things short circuit). The fifth annual festival will be presented July 17 - August 2, 2013 at INTUIT - The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Each play will be staged in a different area of the multi-room gallery, with drinking and mingling encouraged as audiences move from play to play.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre will join the Chicago Theatre Week line-up with Bekah Brunstetter's I LOVE YOU, I THINK, an evening of refined and important monologues on the topic of love - featuring longing, Lean Cuisines and sex with homeless people.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima: Beat poets took on 1950's mainstream America and dragged change kicking and screaming into the 60's.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima: Beat poets took on 1950's mainstream America and dragged change kicking and screaming into the 60's.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, presents the world premiere of Hideous Progeny. The production, directed by Jessica Hutchinson, comes to Chicago DCA's Storefront Theater at 66 E. Randolph Street, from August 26 to September 26, 2010. Members of the press are invited to the opening performance on Thursday, August 26, at 7:30 pm.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, presents the world premiere of Hideous Progeny. The production, directed by Jessica Hutchinson, comes to Chicago DCA's Storefront Theater at 66 E. Randolph Street, from August 26 to September 26, 2010. Members of the press are invited to the opening performance on Thursday, August 26, at 7:30 pm.

LiveWire Chicago Theatre, in association with Chicago DCA Theater, presents the world premiere of Hideous Progeny. The production, directed by Jessica Hutchinson, comes to Chicago DCA's Storefront Theater at 66 E. Randolph Street, from August 26 to September 26, 2010. Members of the press are invited to the opening performance on Thursday, August 26, at 7:30 pm.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's production of Chess, running March 7-April 25 at No Exit Café, combines cabaret theatre and concert concept styles. Although the backdrop is international chess competitions with grand masters from the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War, the story is really about the woman in the middle.

Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's production of Chess, running March 7-April 25 at No Exit Café, combines cabaret theatre and concert concept styles. Although the backdrop is international chess competitions with grand masters from the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War, the story is really about the woman in the middle.

'Chess,' a rock musical using international chess tournaments and a love triangle as metaphors for the Cold War, is the final production of the 2009-2010 season produced by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in association with Michael James.