January 24 - March 3, 2012
at the Mercury Theatre
3745 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago
March 14 - 25, 2012
at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
9501 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie
Presented by Chicago Children's Theatre. Book and Lyrics by Hannah Kohl, Music by Mark Messing. Based on the book THE HOUDINI BOX, written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Brought to life right before your eyes by actors, musicians, and puppets, sure to thrill and surprise. As famed escape artist Harry Houdini circles the globe performing one incredible stunt after another, Victor, a young devotee goes through his own rigorous magician's training -- locking himself in closets, holding his breath under water and walking into walls. After a chance encounter with his hero, Victor receives a special box that just might contain the secrets of Houdini's great success.
February 16, 6pm
at the Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St., 2nd Floor
Free admission. Reservations recommended. Call 312.742.8497
This performance of three short works is performed in different rooms in the Chicago Cultural Center. Presented in conjunction with the Cultural Center's exhibition Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection.
The Puppet Show of Don Cristobal (by Federico Garcia Lorca)
Based on the rough fold humor of the traditional trickster Don Cristobal, this is a bawdy telling of Cristobal's wooing and marriage to the delectable Dona Rosita.
St. James Infirmary
Faced with the death of his lover, we watch a man dance away his grief.
The Blackbird "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens"
Doubt inexplicitly finds its way in between the love of a man and a woman.