Neo-Futurists Presents 2021-22 SEASON — Preview

WHEN:

September 18, 2021 – August 20, 2022

The Infinite Wrench
September 18, 2021+

The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral
September 2021 – February 2022

60 Songs in 60 Minutes
December 2021 – October 2022

Themed presentations of The Infinite Wrench
October 2021, December 2021, June 2022

Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
January 2022

The Neo-Futurists Sell Out
May 2022

WILDCATS
May 2022

Elements of Style
July 7, 2022 – August 20, 2022

WHERE:

Neo-Futurist Theater
5153 N Ashland
Chicago, IL 60640

Special themed presentations of The Infinite Wrench
“A spooky, scary, existentially dreadful Halloween-themed Wrench. Neo-Futurists race-to-the-finish with a performance starting at 11 p.m. on December 31, concluding with a midnight toast. 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, Neo-Futurists’ annual benefit show for Pride, returns to the stage with a full weekend of performances, plus a benefit performance.”

Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
“Neo-Futurists explore their own unique perspective on puppets and storytelling."

The Neo-Futurists Sell Out
“As American life gets more vicious, more precarious, and more expensive, the cast will have to decide how to prepare for an uncertain (but almost certainly awful) future. Throughout this series of laboratory performances, the cast will try to make money, or try to make their money into more money, by engaging with stunts, schemes, and scams.”

WILDCATS

“In 1960, Lucille Ball took to the stage in her very first Broadway musical. Despite having been on television for over a decade, she found herself extremely unprepared for the demands of live theater. In WILDCATS, power house duo Nick Hart and Ida Cuttler bring this moment in Ball’s career along with their own stories about getting out of isolation. WILDCATS is a multimedia drag spectacle with a mix of  live moments, audience interaction and bizarre-o filmed I Love Lucy episode recreations.”

Elements of Style

“Elements of Style is a Neo-Futurist musical about communication, in response to William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White's classic grammar textbook The Elements of Style. Led by Ensemble Member Trent Lunsford and directed by Neo-Futurist Alum Stephanie Shaw, this show aims to examine the many ways language and words shape our identity, performed in English and American Sign Language.”

For more information, visit the Neo-Futurists website.

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