277 stories from The Neo-Futurists
Congratulations, it's the new year of 2012, and we're not going to lie to you, this weekend is the first three shows of brand new Too Much Light plays written by neofuturists for an audience…
New Years Eve is a time for celebration, self reflection, and change. You will make resolutions, and you will mean them. Then, by the time your resolutions lie broken and forgotten on the gr…
The holidays have a tendency to assault you with excess -- sensory overload in the form of cheerful music and brightly colored lights and decorations; office break rooms filled with gift bas…
Today -- December 2nd, 2011 -- is the 23rd birthday of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (and thereby the de facto birthday of The Neo-Futurists Theater Company as well). In dog years, …
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…
...But they could be even better with an outside eye. So join us this month for ourIn-Depth Performance Critique & WorkshopTaught by Mary Fons and Bilal DardaiCost: Just $55 (due in full…
Chalk & Saltwater: The Ladder project FREE Potluck Thursday this week is sponsored by The Chicago Reader and Blue Moon BEER. Don't miss your opportunity to drink beer for free and see o…
I'd be lying to you if I told you that I didn't just work on a longer post that was eaten by the Internet or whoever is in charge now just before I sent this one.Plays this week are brought …
I got this thing that I do now, it is a joke I make, it is not really a joke but just a way of saying something, but I try to make it funny. It goes like this...Say you were living with me,…
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…
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…
Hey This Thursday September 15th is the first FREE Potluck Theater at Chalk & Saltwater: The Ladder Project.visit our wickiFind out more about tickets for Chalk & SaltwaterThis Thurs…
It's not too late to take this awesome class and feel like you're learning things!..Come let Greg Allen (founder of the Neo-Futurists) and John Pierson (longtime Neo-Futurist, rock star) sch…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
If I were in Congress, I wonder what kind of tie I would wear? I wonder how you pick your tie if you are in Congress? You probably have a wardrobe assistant, at some level of your career. …
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…
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…
1. When Jessica proposes intricate plays, she prefaces her pitch with, "Ok. This is not complicated." I am guessing she would say that about this class too. It's not rocket-science, so don't…
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: $…
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…
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…
