Friday, November 18, 2011
You have no idea how exciting a weekend it is at the Neo-Futurarium, which is why this blog is climbing its way out of the mothballs to tell you.FIRST OF ALL, we're proud and excited to pres…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:50AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
For all the work we do around our home space, we also like to take the opportunity now and again to spotlight the work our ensemble is doing either at other theaters or on their own. Towards…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:26PMFriday, September 16, 2011
Fall arrived pretty quickly this time, didn't it?This image is a painting by American artist Stephanie Frostad, titled The Sudden Autumn. The woman in the painting seems to have been taken b…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:09PMThursday, September 8, 2011
This weekend, we restore some gender balance to the Force, as Phil Ridarelli and New York Neo Ryan Good (pictured at right, possibly awaiting a Frisbee) join the existing cast of Tif, Bilal,…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 03:28PMFriday, September 2, 2011
The cast of five last week rolled a magnificent 11 by the end of Sunday, and then responded to that by writing 11 new plays and adding a new cast member.Say what?Yes, this weekend is the fir…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 02:34PMFriday, August 26, 2011
As Kurt mentioned a couple weeks back, we're going to start making efforts to revive this weekly "World Premiere" post...which halted, unceremoniously, months ago, for a number of reasons th…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:23PMWednesday, August 17, 2011
And here we are at last...the final performance of this year's It Came From The Neo-Futurarium! And what a performance we expect it to be: Purple Rain, the film debut and vanity vehicle of T…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:27PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
1984's jingoistic coming-of-age action thriller Red Dawn may seem like a relic of the past, but consider that today's high schoolers have no idea how to wage a guerrilla war against invading…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:16PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
This week, long-time Film Fest veteran David Kodeski brings us The Flaming Urge--a film from that mythical American golden age, the 1950s, about a young man whose unspeakable urge to burn th…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:58PMFriday, July 29, 2011
As even people casually acquainted with our theater might have heard, the admission price to see Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is decided by random chance when you reach the door: $…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:47AMWednesday, July 27, 2011
Last year, our friends (and flatmates) at Barrel of Monkeys -- who had previously graced the Film Fest with such high-energy shlock classics as Breakin' and Death Wish -- brought us a full-o…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 02:07PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Three weeks ago we smacked you in the face with Tif Harrison. This weekend we toss a left cross in the form of our newest Neo-Futurist, Leah Urzendowski!If you think you're ready for the fur…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:33AMThursday, July 21, 2011
Simultaneously one of the largest and one of silliest of Film Fest performances, the original production of KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park featured a cast performing several of the featu…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:08AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
When It Came From The Neo-Futurarium debuted ten years ago, the first film to be staged was 1954's Devil Girl from Mars -- ironically, a film that was already adapted from a stage play. Edwa…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:31AMWednesday, July 6, 2011
Our fourth presentation for It Came From The Neo-Futurarium X is the first of our remounts: The House Theatre of Chicago, who also gave us the delightful Newsies and Tremors (Edited for Tele…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:29AMFriday, July 1, 2011
Like the infamous Countess Elizabeth Bathory, every so often The Neo-Futurists need to soak themselves in the blood of fresh virgins.That's a metaphor. Truly it is.This weekend we introduce …
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:54AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Part response to the success of Star Wars and mostly weird morality parable about science and hell, Disney's The Black Hole could be considered one of the films they publicize least in their…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:08PMTuesday, June 21, 2011
This week, It Came From the Neo-Futurarium! dives headlong into a couple of firsts. For one thing, Tiptoes represents the first time that the festival has ventured beyond the year 2000 to fi…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:57AMTuesday, June 14, 2011
You may have your own milestone for the beginning of summer, but around our theater for the past nine years the season doesn't officially start until It Came From The Neo-Futurarium! gets go…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:09PMWednesday, April 27, 2011
The Neo-Futurists present "30 Queer Plays in 30 Queer Minutes" - Call for Artists! The Neo-Futurists, known for their long-running late night show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, in…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:40AMFriday, April 15, 2011
In an ill-conceived, poorly executed, and otherwise unwanted experiment, the Neo-Futurists tried to see what would happen to their circulation and subscription income if they switched from a…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:07AMFriday, April 1, 2011
Still high off our recent visit from the New York Neo-Futurists, this week the Chicago cast decided to take the entire show off and hand it over instead to our compatriots in Neo-Futurist Eu…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 09:54AMWednesday, March 30, 2011
It's true...our beloved MD Lindsay Muscato is leaving The Neo-Futurists behind to bring her stellar combination of smarts and sass and brilliant inner light to the rest of the world (right n…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:21PMFriday, March 25, 2011
The six new plays this week are like that group of dusty-cloaked strangers who are here to clean up this town or die trying.They're like the brand new circus act that's going to change the w…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:35AMFriday, March 18, 2011
Boxcars!Volunteers from our Friday and Sunday night audiences combined to rain double-sixes on our cast of five, just one weekend after we'd been forced to cut and replace 11 plays on the li…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:55AMFriday, March 11, 2011
Welcome to another week of mighty high-rollin' menu turnover! Five rough-riding Neos--Phil, Megan, Bilal, Caitlin, and Greg met up this week to create 11 brand-new plays for the Too Much Lig…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 08:44AMFriday, March 4, 2011
We cut 6 plays from the menu last week. Those six plays were numbers 14, 19, 20, 23, 25, and 26.If you add those numbers together you get 127.If you add the digits in 127 together you get 10…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:17AMTuesday, March 1, 2011
BATTLE STATIONS! BATTLE STATIONS!This year's It Came From The Neo-Futurarium is the tenth year in a row that we've been presenting our staged readings of terrible movies. In honor of that mi…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:19AM 
