A Red Orchid Theatre

Join us for our 2011-2012 Season! Recently touted as Chicago's best theatre by Chicago Magazine, A Red Orchid invites you to Join us for our 19th fearless season. Featuring existential terror, skewed family values, a mysterious co-worker, bad manners, tangled love, creative angst, a world in revolt, and a butcher with a secret...you are sure to laugh uproariously even as you gasp in astonishment. With three pitch-black comedies, a World Premiere and a Chicago Premiere, you won't want to miss a single show! With FLASHPASS©, you can see all three season productions for only $75! Click here to order. A Red Orchid 2011-2012 Take a walk on the fearless A Red Orchid edge; a stage where tragedy thwarts time to create the darkest of comedies, an audience where a cringe can follow a snicker within seconds and a shared theatrical experience in which the human spirit may see its birth in a pitch-black darkness only to thrive in the heights of lightness and laughter. Walk the edge and… enjoy the fall with a line-up of plays as fearless and raw as they are intelligent and entertaining.

MEGACOSM A World Premiere by Brett Neveu Directed by Dado Featuring Larry Grimm and Danny McCarthy with David Steiger and Eden Strong January 12 – February 26, 2012

With existential terror, Megacosm presents us with a world full of revolt and chaos both inside and out. An industrialist in the near future utilizes every means possible to get an inventor to sign over his revolutionary creation that will inevitably change the world. Corporate greed never met creative angst with such dramatic and hilarious results.

Previews January 12, 13, 14 at 8pm ($15) Press Opening Sunday January 15 at 7pm Regular run January 19-February 26 with shows Thur 8pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm and Sun 3pm. Tickets: $25 on Thursdays, $30 on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays

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Spring 2012 THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO By Marisa Wegrzyn Directed by Shade Murray Featuring Ensemble Members Kirsten Fitzgerald and Natalie West

April 5 - May 20, 2012 Press Opening Tuesday April 10 at 7:00pm Featuring ensemble Members Kirsten Fitzgerald* and Natalie West with Missi Davis, Lara Phillips and HB Ward.

Skewed family values and the deep and dark secrets they create become a life force for Valerie, the infamous butcher of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Once her husband has gone missing everyone suspects she played a hand, especially her nosy sister-in-law who just happens to be the town sheriff. Enter the drug-pushing pharmacist daughter who just might hold the key to the ultimate unanswered questions.

Fall 2011 BECKY SHAW By Gina Gionfriddo A Chicago Premiere Directed by Damon Kiely Featuring Ensemble Members Lance Baker, Jennifer Engstrom and Mierka Girten with Dan Granata and Susan Monts-Bologna

EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND NOW CLOSING NOVEMBER 20, 2011 Runs: Thursdays, Fridays, Satursdays at 8pm & Sundays at 3pm Tickets: $15 previews, $25 Thursdays, $30 Friday-Sunday with Student Sundays (your valid student ID gets you a half price ticket on any Sunday) "SAVVY AND SMART, VERY VERY FUNNY"* -Chicago Tribune "ALTERNATELY DISTURBING AND DISTURBINGLY FUNNY, A TWISTED JOY TO BEHOLD" -Chicago Theatre Beat "KNIFE-EDGED REPARTEE, RAZOR-SHARP PERFORMANCES, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD LINES" –Chicago Sun-Times "BLAZINGLY CLEVER" –TimeOut Chicago

Sharp wit and shifting moral ground play out with the taut suspense of a psychological thriller. This Pulitzer-prize finalist and comedy of bad manners, tangled love and sex had its debut at the Humana Festival. When Suzanna decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever transforming each of their lives.