World Premiere Preview, Giant-Sized Edition (June 22 - 24, 2007)

We kick off summer this year with a barrage of exciting entertainment, including the Elaborate Glittering Centerpiece of our weekend, the annual

Too Much Light Pride Show!
30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes

featuring some of our favorite GLBT-themed plays from TMLMTBGB
and special reprises from last year's gender-bending prime-time show DRAG!

All proceeds go to benefit the ACLU of Illinois' Youth at Risk Project.
One show only...June 22nd, 8:00 pm.

RESERVATIONS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!

Is that all? It most certainly is not. Tonight we premiere the first evening of our six-week godawful film fest, It Came From The Neo-Futurarium, with a sing-along staged reading of Xanadu, the epic disco-pop bubblegum fantasy about an artist finding inspiration from Olivia Newton-John, the muse of rollerskating. Featuring Gene Kelly's very last film role and a magical bouncing ball that tells you when to sing the lyrics!

Still want to support the Neo-Futurists this evening, but for foolish and unfathomable reasons are not enticed by the above hilarious cinematic catastrophe? Then head out to a free taping of Arts Across Illinois at WTTW Chicago, featuring a performance by Jay Torrence and Jessica Anne of Jay's play Dum Dum Dreams!

And as for the rest of the weekend...in the midst of all this we still had time to add seven new plays to our regular late-night performances of TML this weekend, one of which looks a little something like this:


The proud and flamboyant ensemble of Greg, Mary, Heather, John, Bilal, Dina, Jonathan and Dean present the following six World Premieres:

• NO RESPONSIBILITY (Jonathan Mastro)
• Donkey Punch (Mary Fons)
• Lites Brite Musik Loud Freeze Pop Brain Cloud (Dean Evans)
• Symbolic Functions (Heather Riordan)
• Impersonal Pronoun (Bilal Dardai)
• King Lear VI (Greg Allen)

...and one unsinkable return play from the annals of Neo-Futurist history:

• Casual Sex (Greg Allen)

Have fun, Chicago, and have pride!