More accurately, it's More Than 30 Beers For A Few Hours, but that doesn't sound as catchy. more ›

That Franz Kafka: what a cutup! In his unfinished novel The Trial, Joseph K. wakes up one morning to discover government agents in his room. They inform him that he's under arrest. They won't tell him what he's been charged with or even what will happen to him, and the more he tries to get to the bottom of things, the murkier things become. In other words, hilarious! Right? more ›

As with so many cultural events lately, the Andersonville Arts Weekend was slated for cancellation. Luckily, a handful of local businesses swooped in to rescue it. With only a month to plan it, they’ve managed to pull together an impressive line-up, from photographers to painters to potters, who will be displaying their work at coffee shops, restaurants, thrift stores, and the ubiquitous interior design stores on Clark Street between Hollywood and Winnemac. We’re excited about a few of these featured events... more ›

We've already raved about Steppenwolf's current production of Endgame, Samuel Beckett's post-apocalyptic puzzler which runs through June 6. Now we get a rare chance to see a revival of one of the best Beckett homages of all time. more ›

A new Neo-Futurists production looks to bring comic relief in times of crisis in the form of a musical game show. Sign us up! more ›

We're fans of Neo-Futurists so chances are we'd be in to any special event they put on. But add a slew of talented ladies to a night of fun and you have us hooked. Futurists' Megan Mercier and Kristie Vuocolo have wrangled up a group of ladies for Monday's one-night-only show Too Much Lady Makes The Baby Go Blind, an all-female version of the group's famous long-running Too Much Light... series. So who's joining Mercier and Vuocolo on stage at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater? Ensemble members/alumni Jessica Anne, Rachel Claff, Chloe Johnston, Noelle Krimm, Heather Riordan and Diana Slickman will also grace the stage for an "estrogen-fueled" collection of 30 plays performed in 60 minutes. But there's more to the show than the lightning-fast action; after the performance, the ladies will allow Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda to lead them in a round-table called “Ladies In Your Face." If it sounds like an awesome, fun-packed night, well, that's because it is. more ›

Whenever we venture out to the Neo-Futurarium for the long-running - but always changing - Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, we can be certain of just two things: whether the pieces we see are intellectual, poetic, incredibly silly or politically charged, the performers will never pretend the audience isn't there, and every piece will be completely honest. When a cast member tells a story about her/himself, chances are it actually happened. We've seen some people get quite uncomfortable with this, not knowing what to make of such personal performances, both in proximity and story. If you're one of those people, you probably won't like I Am A Camera. If, like us, you find the Neo-Futurist style to be exciting, often cathartic and always refreshing, we think you will, even if it feels a bit drawn-out. more ›

Neofuturist alum and theatre genius David Kodeski is a voyeur of the highest order. He doesn't just peer into the lives of strangers, he also uses what he sees as raw material for his fascinating monologues. One of these, Another Lousy Day, grew from a pair of diaries he randomly came across in an antique store. They were apparently written by a young Chicago woman in the early 1960's and meticulously detail her day-to-day life: her job, the movies she saw, when she played cards with friends, even the stuff she bought. The accumulation of minutiae is really cool. more ›

Thanks to the recent heat wave, we've actually been making it out to bars lately. Otherwise, we would just sit at home and drink pants-less in front of the TV. Either way, we're hungover the next day. Thankfully, Neo-Futurists' Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda of the Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show may have found the perfect remedy. Every Saturday at 4 p.m. until the end of January, they'll be performing Drinking & Writing Volume III: How to Cure A Hangover in Andersonville at Hopleaf Bar. more ›

Call it a hunch, but we’re guessing you weren’t invited to Redmoon Theater’s Halloween performance at the White House. Yeah, we weren’t either. But no worries, there are plenty of shows to check out this weekend. In no particular order: more ›

As autumn continues to shove its way into our collective hearts, the Chicagoist Podcast Series takes to the broadcast day to discuss living, loving, and performing around our fair city. This week: more ›

30 On Thursday is a part of an effort to raise money for a remount of Beer, the Neo-Futurist original "brewmastering puppet-jamming rock musical," at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. 30 On Thursday combines some of the company's best Too Much Light plays from the last 20 years - we're big TML fans, so we're pretty sure it's going to be awesome. As an added bonus, for an extra $5 you can hit up a post-show beer tasting at Hopleaf. more ›

We know Chicago is famous for the intimate storefront scene and the omnipresent itinerant theaters, but the powerhouses also have some good stuff to offer. And no, you’re not selling your theatrical soul if you actually enjoy Broadway In Chicago. We do, but sometimes it’s cost, not quality, that prevents us from attending, as we’re sure you understand. So here’s a handful of ways to get cheap cheaper tickets to some of Chicago’s iconic thespian hangouts. more ›

Today marked the third and final performance of Greg Allen's take on the Eugene O'Neill epic Strange Interlude. We saw it last night and it was not your typical evening at the Goodman Theatre, involving as it did the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and a sex scene with a Cabbage Patch Kid. In true Neofuturist fashion, Allen's adaptation took the play completely apart and then put it back together in ways that a lot of audience members found shocking. In fact hecklers attempted to disrupt the first two performances, shouting "Why are you butchering this play?" and "You don't know how to do O'Neill!" Yet at the end of Saturday's show there was a standing ovation. more ›

The Goodman Theatre’s winter event A GLOBAL EXPLORATION: Eugene O'Neill in the 21st Century wraps up this weekend with three performances of the nine-act Strange Interlude. Produced in association with the Neo-Futurists -- best known for the always entertaining and constantly changing ,Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind -- it is arguably the most rarely-revived of the six scripts in the Goodman’s O’Neill series. more ›

There are some movies so bad, they're good. You know the ones we're talking about. Showgirls immediately comes to mind; and among recent releases The Happening probably qualifies too. For seven years now, every summer the Neo-Futurists (and their imvited guests) have staged screenplay readings of some of the tackiest, cheesiest, most outdated and just plain terrible movies ever made. It's a brilliant concept that turns subtext into text, and dry line readings into the punchlines for jokes that were always between the lines. more ›