Stephen McClure News

Ghostlight Ensemble will present the penultimate play in its series on historically overlooked female playwrights, Warp and Woof. The play by the British novelist and playwright Edith Lyttelton scrutinizes the ethics of power, commerce and labor in a deeply unequal society.

When 2014 came and went and The Plagiarist's Season Pass hadn't been 'dead-headed' enough to actually see every possible ending of their choose-your-own-adventure play it was sad. The cardboard and duct taped futuristic worlds, the Star Trek/Galaxy Quest-esque space suits that were just sexy enough to excite, but not scandalous enough to make one feel bad for the actors, and then there was the random malort-flavored snow-cones that for some reason were offered in between rides…2014 was a good year, if incomplete for only seeing a handful of Season Pass choices.

Some plays are born great, this play definitely achieves greatness and you will have greatness thrust upon you when you join The Plagiarists for this laugh-a-minute, thoroughly witty, farce!

Were we prepared for the first sound queue of tonight's cultured night of theater? No. Were we pleasantly surprised to see actress Jessica Saxvik as Mrs. Ubu contort and screw her face into all the looks we imagine ourselves to possess the morning after a midnight run to Taco Bell? Yes. Are we wondering just where sound designer Brendan Monte got his source material for all the bodily functions we heard through the night (and maybe a little concerned for his physical health)? Probably. And let's face it are we also concerned for the mental health of all the minds involved in crafting Ubu II: Electric Boog-Ubu)? Obviously, but none of these questions stifled our enjoyment of this laugh a minute sequel to Alfred Jarry's slightly better known Ubu Roi.

THE HISTORY BOYS plays Eclectic Full Contact Theatre this February, directed by Eclectic Company Member Katherine Siegel. Take a look at the cast in action below!

Eclectic Full Contact Theatre has announced casting for THE HISTORY BOYS by Tony Award winning playwright, Alan Bennett. The production will run in Studio Two at the Athenaeum Theatre from February 4 to March 5, 2017 under the direction of Eclectic Company Member, Katherine Siegel.

THE HISTORY BOYS plays Eclectic Full Contact Theatre this February, directed by Eclectic Company Member Katherine Siegel, and BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in costume below!

Eclectic Full Contact Theatre has announced casting for THE HISTORY BOYS by Tony Award winning playwright, Alan Bennett. The production will run in Studio Two at the Athenaeum Theatre from February 4 to March 5, 2017 under the direction of Eclectic Company Member, Katherine Siegel.

An epic play several thousand years in in the making just opened in Chicago and it is a not to be missed trip through time. From playwright Gregory Peters and the Plagiarists, The Epic of Gilgamesh as Told by Mr. George Smith, Associate Curator of the British Museum (Deceased) covers the remarkably parallel adventure stories of part-god, part-man Gilgamesh and Mr. George Smith, the Assyriologist who uncovered much of the Mesopotamian texts.

An epic play several thousand years in in the making just opened in Chicago and it is a not to be missed trip through time. From playwright Gregory Peters and the Plagiarists, The Epic of Gilgamesh as Told by Mr. George Smith, Associate Curator of the British Museum (Deceased) covers the remarkably parallel adventure stories of part-god, part-man Gilgamesh and Mr. George Smith, the Assyriologist who uncovered much of the Mesopotamian texts.

Written and directed by Beau Buccilli and produced by Byron Hatfield, THE BOOK OF DIONYSUS will star Joe Favia, Seth Kannof, Mal Marcus, Meg Palermo, Kit Rivers, Ryan Santa and Ashley Stein at The Public House Theatre this winter.

trip., the company that brought Chicago the 2013 sensation, 4Play:Sex in a Series, is proud to present the Midwest premiere of finding grafenberg, written and directed by Artistic Director Graham Brown, playing at The Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee Ave., second floor, February 10 - March 14. Previews take place Tuesday, Feb. 10 and Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. Opening/Press night is Thursday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. The regular performance schedule is Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. All tickets are $20 and may be purchased by visiting http://grafenberg.bpt.me. For more information, please visit www.tripnyc.org.

Written and directed by Beau Buccilli and produced by Byron Hatfield, THE BOOK OF DIONYSUS will star Joe Favia, Seth Kannof, Mal Marcus, Meg Palermo, Kit Rivers, Ryan Santa and Ashley Stein at The Public House Theatre this winter.