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Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2017
The Chicago Art Book Fair and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

The Annoyance Christmas Pageant, a tribute to the late comedian Pat Brice, and more goings-on around town the weekend of 11/17-11/19
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Do This, felix, museum of contemporary art, chicago art book fair, pat brice, guaranteed rate field, annoyance christmas pageant, monkey wrench, second city, union, james adomian, lincoln lodge, tangles and plaques, neo-futurarium, chicago athletic association hotel

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2017
That's Weird Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The film program "Remnants of a Dream" at Gallery 400, Art on Clark, and more happenings from July 17-20
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Arts, Do This, A Fool's Journey: A Misfit Circus Cabaret, Remnants of a Dream, MINT: Musical Improv Night, Women Employed, Art on Clark, Rhythm World 27, That's Weird, Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ, Chopin Theatre, Gallery 400, MCL Chicago, Neo-Futurarium, Jazz Showcase

Blogs, Bleader Jun 23, 2017
Chicago Zombie March, Logan Square Arts Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

The Chicago Mariachi Festival, the Neo-Futurists' 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, and more happenings from June 23-25
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Chicago Mariachi Festival, Mariachi Los Camperos, Mariachi Reyna, Mariachi Hernecia, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Mike Jones, PainoForte Studios, Afro-Dancehall with Stacy Letrice, Lou Conte Dance Studio, Chicago Zombie March, Millennium Park, Black Light, Gallery 400, Premier Premieres!, World's Largest Block Party, Old St. Pat's Church, 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, Neo-Futurarium

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 19, 2017
Blood at the Root, The? Unicorn? Hour?, and eight more new theater reviews

A drama based on the Jena Six and an unclassifiable show at the Neo-Futurarium are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Dominique Morrisseau, Blood at the Root, the Jena Six, Jackalope Theatre Company, the Yard, Circle Mirror Transformation, Annie Baker, Redtwist Theatre, Emily Tate, Adam Bitterman, Lynda Shadrake, Michael Sherwin, Talia Payomo, Scott Weinstein, Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, NightBlue, Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Phil Collins, David Henry Hwang, Kevin Bellie, Jomar Ferreras, Rachel Juncker, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, Sarah Ruhl, Kathleen Ruhl, Peter Pan, Shattered Globe Theatre, Graham Cracker, Tony Mendoza, Alberto Mendoza, Angela Vela, Broad Shoulders Productions, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello, Ghostlight Ensemble, Maria Burnham, Voice of the City, Strangest Things! The Musical, Bryan Reynaud, Emily Schmidt, Christian Siebert, Molly DeCaptain, Jaron Bellar, Random Acts, Tommy Rivera-Vega, The? Unicorn? Hour?, Leah Urzendowski, Anthony Courser, Neo-Futurarium, Adrian Danzig, Visiting, Artemisia, Sarah Wisterman, Ed Proudfoot, Wounds to the Face, Howard Barker, Alison Croggon, Andrew Root, Runcible Theatre, Robert Bouwman, Grant Niezgodski, Morgan McCabe

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 6, 2016
Neo-Futurists reject their founder’s attempt to blame Trump

The ensemble script a future without Too Much Light.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Neo-Futurists, Greg Allen, Donald Trump, Stage Left, Live Bait, Dave Awl, Ayun Halliday, Kurt Chiang, Neo-Futurarium

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 4, 2016
Mike Mother, Best of Enemies, The 180 Degree Rule, and eight more stage shows to see now

A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, iO, Vienna Juvenile, Matt Besser, Layne Dixon, Provision Theater, Best of Enemies, Osha Gray Davidson, Mark St. Germain, C.P. Ellis, Ann Atwater, Rod Armentrout, Felicia Fields, Collaboraction, Anthony Moseley, Rivendell Theatre, Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel, Hallie Gordon, Bryce Gangel, Jessica Ervin, Curious Theatre Branch, The Eviller Twin, Sue Cargill, Stefan Brün, Raven Theatre, House of Blue Leaves, John Guare, JoAnn Montemurro, Kelli Strickland, Sarah Hayes, Lyric Opera, The King and I, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Paolo Montalban, Kate Baldwin, Ali Ewoldt, Rona Figueroa, Matthew Uzarraga, Théâtre du Châtelet, Mike Mother, Neo-Futurarium, Jessica Anne, Mike Hamilton, Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother, Babes With Blades, The 180 Degree Rule, M.E.H. Lewis, Barbara Lhota, Rachel Edwards Harvith, Lisa Herceg, Stage 773, Skin in the Game, one-act festival, The Living Canvas, Cathedral, Right Brain Project, the Ruckus, Hobo Junction Productions, Organic Theater Company, pH Comedy, Thanks for the Tip, Kayce Alltop, Dan Wright, Jared Miller, Theatre Y, 3 Sisters, Andrej Visky, Melissa Lorraine, Katie Stimpson, Kevlyn Hayes, Anton Chekhov, Earl H.E. Hill, Dan Christmann

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 18, 2016
Steppenwolf's The Flick, BoHo Theatre's Fugitive Songs, and 13 more new stage shows

Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Adoration of the Old Woman, José Rivera, UrbanTheatre Company, Juan Castañeda, Another Word for Beauty, Andrew Neftalí Perez, Melissa DuPrey, First Floor Theater, The Awake, Ken Urban, Chicago Dramatists, Scott Woldman, Beautiful Autistic, Blueberry Toast, Tympanic Theatre Company, Mary Laws, Cabaret, Kander and Ebb, Roundabout Theatre Company, Randy Harrison, Far From Heaven, Porchlight Music Theatre, Todd Haynes, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Summer Naomi Smart, The Flick, Annie Baker, Steppenwolf Theatre, Dexter Bullard, From These Fatal Loins, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, The Ruckus, Derek Van Barham, Christopher Waldron, Jillian Rea, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, Fugitive Songs, BoHo Theatre, Zachary L. Gray, Jeffrey Poindexter, Interrogation, Scott Westerman, The Artistic Home, Looking Over the President's Shoulder, Manny Buckley, Alonzo Fields, Lee Daniels, The Butler, James Still, Marc Salem, Marnie & Phil, Actors Gymnasium, Chris Mathews, House Theatre of Chicago, Jeremy Sonkin, Kevin O'Donnell, Malic White, Molly Brennan, Pop Waits, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Neo-Futurarium, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance, Paterson Joseph, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare 400 Chicago

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best long-running play

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, best long-running play, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Million Dollar Quartet, Neo-Futurarium, Readers' Poll

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jun 4, 2014
Haymaker puts a recursive spin on an adolescent adventure tale

NeoFuturist Trevor Dawkins revives a screenplay he wrote at age 13.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Haymaker, Neo-Futurarium, Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, M.C. Escher, Trevor Dawkins, Tears of Shanghai, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Russell Dakota, Elona Levingston, Brenda Arellano, Dallas Tolentino

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2014
Reader's Agenda Mon 1/13: That's Weird, Grandma, the Ox King, and Extinct Entities

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 13
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Barrel of Monkeys, That's Weird Grandma, Neo-Futurarium, the Ox King, Empty Bottle, Extinct Entities, Logan Square Rhinos, Links Hall

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 1/5: Too Much Light, Here's the Story, and Sam Prekop

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 5
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Neo-Futurists, Neo-Futurarium, Here's the Story, Stage 773, potluck, Rahmaan Statik Barnes, Angela Oliver, Don Hall, Katie Liesener, Samantha Irby, Sam Prekop, Empty Bottle, Hausu Mountain

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 16, 2013
Too Much Light at 25: An oral history

The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Neo-Futurists, Neo-Futurarium, oral history, history, ensembles, theater, actors, plays, audiences, performance, Greg Allen, Oberlin College, Phil Auslander, Futurism, experimental theater, Stage Left Theatre, Phil Ridarelli, spontaneity, improvisation, cabaret, scripts, nudity, Chicago Reader, Tony Adler, reviews, King Lear, Gene Dillenburg, Live Bait Theater, John Pierson, auditioning, Bilal Dardai, Megan Mercier, Trevor Dawkins, Kurt Chiang

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 27, 2013
Recommended
The transcendent horror of Burning Bluebeard

The Ruffians revive a sweet tale of catastrophe.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Iroquois Theatre, Mr. Bluebeard, Eddie Foy, Burning Bluebeard, Mr. Bluebeard, Jay Torrence, Halena Kays, Mike Tutaj, Neo-Futurarium, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 12, 2013
Our guide to fall theater 2013

A founding text of AIDS activism, revived. Plus: Personal memories of Pullman Porter Blues, and eight best bets for fall.
- By Tony Adler, Tal Rosenberg, Deanna Isaacs, Jack Helbig, Danette Chavez, and Sam Worley
- Tags: Fall Arts, Terminus, Mark O'Rowe, Interrobang Theatre Project, Jeffry Stanton, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Daniel Okrent, Peter Gethers, Royal George Theatre, Tim Kazurinsky, The North China Lover, Heidi Stillman, Marguerite Duras, Rae Gray, Deanna Dunagan, The Sovereign Statement, Neo-Futurists, Bilal Dardai, James T. Mangan, Bring Me the Head of James Franco, That I May Prepare a Savory Goulash in the Narrow and Misshapen Pot of His Skull, James Franco, Ian Belknap, Write Club, Fanny's First Play, 20% Theatre Company, Jane Martin, Jon Jory, The Male Feminist, George Bernard Shaw, Hellcab, Famous Door Theatre Company, Darrell Cox, Konstantin Khrustov, An Iliad, Court Theatre, Timothy Edward Kane, Athenaeum Theatre, Royal George Theatre Center, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Neo-Futurarium, Den Theatre, Main Stage

Arts & Culture, Festival Jun 27, 2013
Pride Weekend events 2013

It's not just about the parade.
- Tags: Festival, Pride Weekend, Back Lot Bash, Pride Parade, Chicago Dyke March, Pride Cruise, Melissa Etheridge, Frat Night Thursday, Jawbreaker!, dance parties, parties, gay composers, music, theater, drinking, run, Melissa Ferrick, Edie Carey, Dot Dot Dot, Uh Huh Her, DJs, Jane Beachy, Scott Cramer, Teen Witch Fan Club, Baathaus, City Winery, Goose Island, Sahara Kabob, Mayne Stage, Berlin, Margate Park, Navy Pier, Ravinia Festival, Scarlet, House of Blues, Lake View Presbyterian Church, Victory Gardens Theater, Center on Halsted, Neo-Futurarium

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Long-Running Play

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2013, long-running play, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Neo-Futurarium, Million Dollar Quartet, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2012
Arsonists, altruists, and assassins: new performing arts reviews

Fresh opinions from Reader critics
- By Meg Pier
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, The Arsonists, Trap Door Theatre, The Altruists, Two Lights, Chopin, Night Over Erzinga, Silk Road Rising, Assassins, Billy Pacholski, Viaduct, Fools Tango, Theatre Zarko, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Bailiwick, National Pastime, Titus Andronicus, Right Brain Project, Broken Glass, Redtwist, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Chicago Children's Theatre, Ruth Page, Chicago's Weird Grandma, Barrel of Monkeys, Neo-Futurarium, Fugitive Pieces, Ex-Pats, the Basement, Honeybuns, Collaboraction, The Millionairess, ShawChicago, Ruge Page, One 'Man' Show, Stage 773, Pontypool, Strawdog, Questionable Lullabies, Urlakis, Cusick, Stage 773, Existencia Esencia

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jul 2, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Dollhouse Volume 1, Lakeview's People Play Games, and HBO's Girls
- By Allegra Kirkland
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Katie Johnston-Smith, Dollhouse Volume 1, Challengers Comics, Joss Whedon, Sherman Edwards, People Play Games, video games, Megan Mercier, Girls, Lena Dunham, HBO, Sex and the City, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Neo-Futurarium

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Long-Running Play

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Neo-Futurists, Neo-Futurarium, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2011
Video
The Apple Comes to the Neo-Futurarium Tonight

Tonight at It Came From the Neo-Futurarium: The Apple
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, The Apple, Neo-Futurarium, It Came From the Neo-Futurarium, Donnell Williams, Menahem Golan, Video

Arts & Culture, Calendar Jun 23, 2011
The Reader's 2011 Pride Guide
- Tags: Special Event, Chicago Pride Parade, Pride Month, Backlot Bash, Chicago Pride Fest, Chicago Reader's Pride Cruise, GayCo, Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, Naked July, The Lies We Tell, but the Secrets We Keep, 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Seconds, Chicago Black LGBT Authors Reception, C, Room & Board Furniture, Allstate Arena, Women & Children First, Cheetah Gym - Andersonville, Emanuel Congregation, Playground Theater, National Pastime Theater, Portage Theatre, Neo-Futurarium, Chicago Comics, Lake View Lutheran Church, Peoples Church, The Glenwood, Gerber/Hart Library, Living Well Ministries

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 23, 2011
Best long-running play

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind voted best long-runny play
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best long-running play, Readers' poll, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, the Neo-Futurists, Apollo Theatre, Oriental Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, Wicked, Neo-Futurarium, Apollo Theater

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 23, 2011
Best off-Loop theater company
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best off-Loop theater company, Readers' poll, Nothing Special Productions, Steppenwolf, The Neo-Futurists, Steppenwolf Theatre, Neo-Futurarium

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jun 16, 2011
It Came From the Neo-Futurarium comes back
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, It Came from the Neo-Futurarium, Neo-Futurists, Night of the Lepus, Tiptoes, The Black Hole, The Care Bears Movie, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, TheApple, The Flaming Urge, Red Dawn, Purple Rain, Neo-Futurarium

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jun 16, 2011
Culture Vultures: A Double Door dance party, ancient poetry, and more
- By Lauri Apple
- Tags: Culture Vultures, El Nogalar, Goodman Theatre, Wilfredo Rivera, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Lisa Ridarelli, Octavarius, The Chi-Town Clown Revue, Neo-Futurarium, Tyler Wolff-Ormes, Annoyance Theatre, Soul Summit, Double Door, Ellyzabeth Adler, Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, Rumi, Jamie Keiles, Slutwalk Chicago, The Point

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