Jan 13–Feb 12
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  • Reckless dancing, soul-baring, language rope-tricks, and song ensue from Barrie Cole's new one-act.
  • BoyGirlBoyGirl delivers six intoxicating tales of alcoholic consumption—comic, romantic, reckless, refused, and abused.
  • Jayita Bhattacharya stages a fairy tale of corrosive unacceptability for two women. And man.
  • The Ruckus reveals a city built of glass and steel, cables and cameras, where you are who you friend.
  • Daaimah Mubashshir's solo performance incorporates Butoh to investigate seemingly opposing identities.
  • NeuroKitchen Arts Collective takes Abraham Maslow's theories of human potential and rocks them.
  • Two one-acts, freely adapted from classic short stories, unravel the effects of mysterious strangers on the lives of unsuspecting people.
  • <span class='slide-h2'>Takes a Trip</span><br />Beau O'Reilly draws a memorable portrait of a bunch of Irish locals—and their affection for one charismatic woman.
  • Jessica Wright Buha's story of a young woman whose search for a lost sister takes an unexpected turn.
  • Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story is reinterpreted for the stage by Rush Pearson.

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Prop Thtr • 3502 North Elston • Chicago


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Chicago's longest running fringe festival.
Now in its 24th year.

  • 6 Pleasant Avenue
  • 21 Pieces
  • Civil War Dad
  • Diary of a Madman
  • First-Rate Soup
  • Food and Performance Cabaret
  • I Love You Permanently
  • On Loss
  • Our Kate Takes a Trip
  • Requiem
  • RPM: Revolutions per Minute
  • Samuel Beckett, Andre the Giant, and the Crickets
  • Soul Kitchen
  • Stranger(s)
  • Tennyson Spade
  • today like a kind of shivering
  • Uncle Dad Is Ripshit, You Guys
  • The Untangling at the Junction
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The Rhinoceros Theater festival is supported in part by grants from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, and by the generous gifts of our individual donors. Curious Theatre Branch is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

Artisitc Directors: Beau O'Reilly & Jenny Magnus • Production Manager: Stefan Brün • Web design: J.Bivens • Rhino logo: c.hill