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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Oh jeeeeeeeez. Where has the summer gone? When will it start??? Here at the Neo, we've started summer already - despite the uncooperative and stupidly frigid weather. The Film Fest begins th…
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…
OH. EM. GEE.---the Illinois state legislature legalized civil unions and we at The Neo-Futurarium received our very first Pride Art Exhibit! Take a look at this piece by photographer (also o…
It's totally happened again. You forgot to get that kitty litter and had to make a special trip to the store at 2 in the morning to prevent your whole place continuing to smell like a vinega…
I did this for a TML show back in November 2008 , documenting the occurrence of a particularly memorable and fun show where the cast had added to the menu an impossible 14 plays and the cast…
Okay... technically, it's more like 2 weeks and 2 days. Or something like that. But the point is, we're fast-approaching our May Neo-Intensive: The Neo-Futurist Art of Abstraction (taught by…
The Neo-Futurists are very excited to announce Illinois Safe Schools Alliance as our beneficiary for our annual Pride event this June!In additions to receiving proceeds from our "30 Queer Pl…
5theatre PERFORMING TONIGHT: LIZA MINNELLI'S DAUGHTEROh, those nutty Neos. Here, the troupe vet Mary Fons plays a woman obsessively certain she is fated to stardom as the offspring of L…
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…
hello to you. "too much light makes the baby go blind"this week- 11 world premieres. 1 returning masterpiece.5 cast member - chloe, tim, kurt, lisa, & ryan.rocking the tech boo…
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…
I know, I know. Life gets busy and you start forgetting things or keep putting stuff off until one day you look up and its mid-April and half the shit you meant to do last week has come and …
That's right - only 4 more days to secure a spot in our April Neo-Intensive... TKO Solo: Writing and Performing a High Impact Monologue.Created and taught by ensemble members Bilal Dardai an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You like it.We teach it.So come on and do it.We are back with a full line-up of workshops and neo-intensives for the spring and summer months ahead! So whether you're looking for a one-time …
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…