Tim Sarrantonio turned 30 last Friday and decided to ring in the occasion with a huge blowout fundraiser for four nonprofits on Sunday, April 29, at Goose Island Wrigleyville brewpub he’s dubbed “The Timtacular.” more ›

The Neo-Futurists are billing their final performances of "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind" for the year as anniversary shows, with current ensemble members and alumni eligible to perform. more ›

The Portage Theater's "Halloween Havoc" horror film series kicks off with a double dose of Hitchcock tonight. more ›

A fundraiser for Step Up women's Network. The Neo-Futurists tackle Purple Rain. Green City Market's "Meet the Market" series hits Nightwood. more ›

The Neo-Futurists re-visit one of the moments of KISS' history the band would rather forget. more ›

The ne plus ultra of metatextual bad movie celebration, "It Came from the Neo-Futurarium" has brought us nine solid years of gleefully cheap laughs. Running every summer, each week the Neos take the screenplay of a terrible movie (such The Cross and the Switchblade) and do a glorified staged reading, adding dollar-store props. Each script is performed with the sort of reverence more often reserved for the works of Shakespeare, in the steadfast conviction that truly rotten cinema is hilarious enough without the need for snark. more ›

, performed in the Welles Park swimming pool on Lincoln and Sunnyside. Even though the facility has all the markings of an artificial environment—the weird humidity, the stinging chlorine smell, hell, even a Park District lifeguard—the play and the staging are fantastically evocative of the wilderness: bare, hypnotic, foreign and a little exhilarating. more ›