Chicago's longest running fringe festival. Now in its 22nd year.

Rhinoceros Theater Festival

January 14 - February 13, 2011, at the Prop Thtr
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Rhinofest: Chicago's Longest Running Fringe Festival
  • A diptych of media and live performance by Judith Harding and Julie Laffin.
  • Jenny Magnus and other Curious artists explore the narrative and experimental sides of new media.
  • Beau O'Reilly's <em>Jimmy Gets Chicken</em> and Ernest Hemingway's <em>In Another Country</em>.
  • Chris Bower's tragic sitcom of rage, disguises, wet grass, and whispers.
  • Fury Theatre entertains, inspires, and educates new audiences.
  • Presenters include Chris Bower, Jenny Magnus, and others.
  • 4:48 Psychosis Sarah Kane's last play returns in a critically acclaimed production directed by Beau O'Reilly.
  • Deja Links A rare chance to see the kind of avant-garde performance that so appalled Jesse Helms.
  • Mexico Gertrude Stein's rarely produced modernist tone poem is given a vibrant staging.
  • Poverty: The Musical Bruised Orange Theater Company mixes song and dance with dumpster-diving seminars.
  • Wonderful Tympanic Theatre fuses modern characters with the work of Lewis Carroll in a tale of two misfits.
  • Lemonade Stand An astronaut meets a mysterious being on asteroid L.S. 161.
  • The Spores of Eden Peter Axel Komistra's play about decay on a Nebraska farm.
  • Write Club Two opposing ideas. Two opposing writers. Seven minutes each. Audience picks a winner.
 
Location
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3502 North Elston Ave
Chicago, IL

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Tickets
$15
or pay what you can at the door
$12
in advance at
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Each year, Curious Theatre Branch curates and produces the Rhinoceros Theater Festival, providing production and exhibition opportunities to hundreds of artists, drawing thousands in attendance each year. For more info, visit curioustheatrebranch.com.

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