Posts Categorized: Stage and Theater

Satanic Panic: An Immersive Evening of Paranoia & Power

Posted April 3rd, 2018 by Savage & filed under Stage and Theater.

Was a generation being preconditioned for devil worship through heavy metal music and He-Man?! When those lyrics are chanting out DO IT DO IT DO IT…what was IT? Drugs…sex…MURDER?! In a time of deep social upheaval, paranoia was paramount! Remember the power that misunderstanding and moral panic holds to destroy lives; think of the West… Read more »

Ghostlight Ensemble presents Nutcracker Nightmare as part of Gingerbread Grindhouse this December

Posted November 20th, 2017 by Savage & filed under Creepmas & Christmas, Stage and Theater.

CHICAGO – Ghostlight Ensemble continues its holiday horror tradition this season, bringing Gingerbread Grindhouse to the Greenhouse Theater Center after-hours in December. In a nod to the lurid, violent films popular in the 1930s through 1970s, Gingerbread Grindhouse will feature a series of live “trailers” for grindhouse-style plays yet to be, before continuing on to… Read more »

Deathscribe X at the Wildclaw Theatre, December 4th

Posted November 17th, 2017 by Savage & filed under Stage and Theater.

Monday, December 4, 2017 @ 8pm Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60614 In our continued quest to acquire original, imaginative horror stories, we solicited and received over 100 new works from theatre and horror aficionados around the world. These final five radio plays have emerged, perhaps slightly bloodstained, as finalists of the… Read more »

ZOMBIE BATHHOUSE! A Rock Musical at the Center on Halsted

Posted October 5th, 2017 by Savage & filed under Stage and Theater.

Campsongs Productions presents the world premiere of ZOMBIE BATHHOUSE Tickets available at https://community.centeronhalsted.org/pages/zombiebathhouse Zombie Bathhouse is at the Center On Halsted’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre as a Halloween theatrical spectacular. Zombie Bathhouse is directed by Dan Foss, with book by Brian Kirst, and music and lyrics by Scott Free. A zombie outbreak threatens to turn the local… Read more »

SHRIEK! An Improvised Horror Anthology at Judy’s Beat Lounge

Posted October 5th, 2017 by Savage & filed under Stage and Theater.

Your Worst Nightmare presents, ‘Shriek! An Improvised Horror Anthology.’ Just in time for the Halloween season, Your Worst Nightmare brings your favorite horror movie tropes to life, subverts them, and then buries them in the ground, until they come back to life and try to murder us. Each week the cast focuses on a different… Read more »

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