2010 Rhinoceros Theater Festival

Tickets

$15 or pay what you can at the door
$12 in advance online

Reservations

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or call (773) 508-0666

Location

Prop Thtr
3502 North Elston Avenue
Chicago, IL

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Feeling fringey?

Your generous support will help us offset production costs while continuing to offer a wild variety of fresh new solo performance, live art, avant-garde theater and experimental music to the Chicago community on a no-fee, pay-what-you-can basis.

The 21st Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival

Chicago's longest-running, last-standing fringe festival is back in its 21st year, presenting a wild variety of fresh new solo performance, live art, avant-garde theater and experimental music.

CRITIC'S CHOICE01/22/10
The lineup is a fringe fan's dream, with a heady mix of veterans and newbies, individuals and ensembles, performance art and opera.—Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader

01/29/10
...illustrates the necessity of Rhino Fest.... virtually no other outlet exists in the city for nonnarrative, multidisciplinary work in this vein....—John Beer, Time Out

02/01/10
I found some genuine moments of mind-bending poetry, off-kilter wit, and intriguing stage images..... for those who like finding fringe diamonds in the rough, Rhino still provides a place for oddball tales delivered on a shoestring budget, at a price anyone can afford. For true fringe lovers, that's outrageously fortunate.—Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune

02/04/10
One of the remarkable aspects of this festival is its generational breadth. "Fringe" is usually a synonym for "fresh out of college," but the lineup here includes seasoned vets as well as rambunctious youths.—Tony Adler, Chicago Reader

Encounters Offstage: A Rhino Installation Project

Rhinofest welcomes a select group of Chicago artists, including Claire Ashley, Ania Greiner, Susan Kwon, Joseph Riley and John Sisson, whose work will be exhibited for the duration of the festival. Before, during, or after a show, we invite you to explore the lobby, the halls, the closets of the Prop Thtr space; onstage or off, this year's Rhino promises a unique encounter at every turn. Free and open to the public.

Rhino Updates

A special performance of Matt Test's I Am in a Small Space for a Reason I Don't Understand has been added on Monday, February 8, at 9 p.m.
We regret that all performances of Michael Martin's Madeleine Remains have been canceled and removed from the schedule.
Sheila Donohue's SHEDON the Rookie Psychic has been canceled and will not be performed with Ian Belknap's Write Club.