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Chicago Premiere
by Reina Hardy

Directed by Artistic Director Brian Pastor
January 10. 2025 - February 23, 2025
(Previews Jan. 10 - Jan. 18)

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Chicago premiere of a new play by Chicago-based playwright Reina Hardy. A modern-day reimagining of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. The Beast has moved into a low-rent district in Chicago with his last loyal friend, a lamp named Only. They meet a neighborly witch and a young woman who might, somehow, still break the curse.

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**We are offering two fully-masked performances for our immunocompromised patrons:

Sunday, January 12 and Sunday, February 9.**

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R.U.R. (ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS) 

 

World Premiere Adaptation
by Bo List
freely adapted from the play by Karel Capek
Directed by Artistic Director Brian Pastor
May 2, 2025 - June 15, 2025
(Previews May 2 - May 10)

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In 1920, Karel Čapek’s early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term “robot” and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades before it was cool to worry about such things. “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (“R.U.R.” for short) is a mysterious island factory that manufactures artificial human beings, run by the eccentric scientist Harry Rossum. When Helena Glory arrives to advocate for the rights of these machines, a series of events is set into motion that sees Harry and Helena married against the backdrop of a global robot uprising.

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