Drinking & Writing Theater Celebrates Christmas In April

By Betsy Mikel in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 30, 2011 9:00PM

The guys behind the Drinking & Writing Theater — former Neo-Futurists Steve Mosqueda and Sean Benjamin — are back with a new show that starts this weekend. Drinking & Writing Volume IV: The 12 Steps Of Christmas will run weekly at the Haymarket Pub & Brewery until April 23.

Aside from supporting the highly important causes of drinking and writing, this show is also sending proceeds to Donate Life Illinois. Sean Benjamin’s 2-year-old son, Jack, suffered from Biliary Atresia and suffered liver failure when he was five months old. Thanks to a liver donation from his father, Jack Benjamin was able to celebrate his first Christmas. So, to celebrate the successful transplant and National Donate Life Month, the Drinking & Writing Theater will be performing what we’re sure will be an entertaining and enlightening show.

This Drinking & Writing Theater installment will hark on one important fact: “The true meaning of Christmas spirit comes out when it’s drunk.” As in past shows, Mosqueda and Benjamin will invoke and reflect upon their writing muses, in this case Bukowski, Kerouac, Capote, Dr. Seuss, Dickens, Raymond Carver, to uncork the myths and traditions of the holidays.

Drinking & Writing Volume IV: The 12 Steps Of Christmas, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, 737 W Randolph, April 2 - April 23, tickets via drinkingandwriting.com