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Monday, September 29, 2025, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Mr. Moral is throwing a party for all of his friends and you're invited! El Bear brings you a new (not for) children's show full of hope, friends, and that feeling you get when you are standing on the edge of oblivion staring into the void. How can we find hope in a time of rising fascism, loss of faith in a broken system, and an overwhelming sense of despair? We'll find out together as Mr. Moral tells us stories of a world he wants to believe in, but it sounds like the blood thirsty La Muñequita has other plans!
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Monday, September 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Body of the State is an urgent solo performance piece that explores one person’s pursuit of gender-affirming care, theatricalizing their experience of gender, bureaucracy, community and how it feels to exist in a body that is regulated and legislated by their own government. In Body of the State, the audience is given control of Miller’s performance and body as they wield the familiar and formidable tool of American legislature and healthcare: paperwork.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Bobbie is going to prison, no question. Her life has been anything but easy and she has survived by hardening herself to what really matters. Her daughter, Denise pays a visit to see if there is anything soft left in the woman. Because right now, even after everything, she needs her mother’s advice and counsel.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
After, Arizona is a place – sometimes a classroom, sometimes a confessional, and sometimes a little hole in a canyon where a tarantula regrets a choice. Using maps, history, stories of the writer’s own time out west, and a little spirituality (to taste), After, Arizona is a microcosm of America that invites the audience to ask big questions like: Are you fucking serious? Huh? And What?
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
From a professor to a prisoner to an insecure podcaster, each of the imagined characters in this collection of eight monologues examines the aspects of what it means to be a contemporary man in America.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL
- United States
In Cafe Neckbeard: Irresistible, PR representative Chris Bower unveils the latest offering from Anton “*” Anis, proprietor of THLSN’s only 24-hour, cash-only, celiac-intolerant fine dining establishment, as he debuts a menu designed to be “irresistible” to those with diminished oral tastebuds, with the goal of reaching taste receptors in other, less traditional parts of the body.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Jumping from the antebellum South to 2017, this farce follows Harper's journey from bride-to-be to kidnapped free woman, exploring America's unfinished struggle through unexpected comedy and raw revelations.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Sometimes words aren’t enough to properly express how much you mean to someone. Sometimes, you need puppets.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Tending to the M{other} is a dance theater performance about the joys and hardships of caregiving. What began as a collaboration between two new mothers seeking connection and respite has evolved into a community project documenting this universal and transformative experience.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Two trans women, Faith and Edge, are set to be married, but chaos ensues when crossed wires and blossoming feelings stretch the limits of their love for each other.
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An interactive play by Jess Wright Buha. And you!
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Created and performed by Kelly Anchors with Paul Brennan, Mike McKune, Max McKune, Stephen Oberhardt, and Annie Yokom.
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An interactive play by Jess Wright Buha. And you!
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Bobbie is going to prison, no question. Her life has been anything but easy and she has survived by hardening herself to what really matters. Her daughter, Denise pays a visit to see if there is anything soft left in the woman. Because right now, even after everything, she needs her mother’s advice and counsel.
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
The Interim focuses on a young woman, Molly, as she reflects on her life in the outside world before she made the decision to destroy her belongings, cut off her family, and go into complete isolation in her small, Chicago apartment.
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Music * Movement * Moment. IBO improvises a world premiere fever dream every night told though music and dance.. At this year's Rhino, IBO ponders the word "persists". Who persists? Why persist? Is persisting a violent act, a loving one, or both? Is perseverance just a town in Arkansas or a state of mind?
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Saturday, September 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Sometimes words aren’t enough to properly express how much you mean to someone. Sometimes, you need puppets.
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Friday, September 26, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A variety show for all! Chicago's finest comedians, actors, and musicians share what makes our city so beautiful. Hosted by Alekzander Sayers
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Friday, September 26, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An interactive play by Jess Wright Buha. And you!
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Friday, September 26, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
“Architecture of Resistance” is about literal architecture, and the way it has been a means or reflection of resistance – or spite – throughout the ages. In this one-person show, Klaudia Siczek looks at the sometimes-absurd stories of power struggles manifested in building form.
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Friday, September 26, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Get ready to cackle, cry, and call your sister - Broomhilda & Gwen: The Musical is a spooky, sparkly, side-splitting tale of two sister witches on a quest to cast a spell - the only missing ingredient is the soul of a man. with toe-tapping songs and outrageous twists, it's a campy celebration of sisterhood, witchcraft, and the power of wigs. A new cult classic in the making - just in time for Halloween.
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Friday, September 26, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
A family is torn apart—in song!—when they move from Chicago to the East Coast. Ghost goldfish, maniacal truckers, and insufferable toddlers galore.
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Friday, September 26, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Bobbie is going to prison, no question.
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Thursday, September 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
The Body Politic aims to be an exploration of city, state and nation through a collection of ensemble short plays derived from traditional/classic literature and 2 pg microLiving Newspapers by members of our and the greater Chicago community, discussing and playing at the current socio-political state of the body politics of American and Chicago life.
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Monday, September 22, 2025, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Mr. Moral is throwing a party for all of his friends and you're invited! El Bear brings you a new (not for) children's show full of hope, friends, and that feeling you get when you are standing on the edge of oblivion staring into the void. How can we find hope in a time of rising fascism, loss of faith in a broken system, and an overwhelming sense of despair? We'll find out together as Mr. Moral tells us stories of a world he wants to believe in, but it sounds like the blood thirsty La Muñequita has other plans!
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Monday, September 22, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
BoyGirlBoyGirl, Chicago’s favorite group solo ensemble, returns to the stage after six years with monologues inspired, so so loosely, on a book of salad recipes. An evening of irresistible monologues about bedding, near death experiences, recipes for disaster, and the fictional world.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Body of the State is an urgent solo performance piece that explores one person’s pursuit of gender-affirming care, theatricalizing their experience of gender, bureaucracy, community and how it feels to exist in a body that is regulated and legislated by their own government. In Body of the State, the audience is given control of Miller’s performance and body as they wield the familiar and formidable tool of American legislature and healthcare: paperwork.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
hello from the children of the planet Earth is a bleak yet tender work of physical theater exploring humanity's future in the cosmos. Set in the not-so-distant future, the piece follows six crew members navigating the bodily effects of space travel as they seek out a near-mythological fuel source. A daring collage about community support during crisis and the limits of the human body, this work invites us to consider the enduring nature of the human spirit against the hostility of space. What brought us here? Are we meant to live amongst the stars?
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
After, Arizona is a place – sometimes a classroom, sometimes a confessional, and sometimes a little hole in a canyon where a tarantula regrets a choice. Using maps, history, stories of the writer’s own time out west, and a little spirituality (to taste), After, Arizona is a microcosm of America that invites the audience to ask big questions like: Are you fucking serious? Huh? And What?
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
From a professor to a prisoner to an insecure podcaster, each of the imagined characters in this collection of eight monologues examines the aspects of what it means to be a contemporary man in America.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Welcome to Freisinger and Hill: Mandatory Duo Show. Do you want to see a Shrill Lesbian Clown and Fat Drunk Asshole join forces to create a show that can only be described as “Incomprehensible Fun”?
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Jumping from the antebellum South to 2017, this farce follows Harper's journey from bride-to-be to kidnapped free woman, exploring America's unfinished struggle through unexpected comedy and raw revelations.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An interactive play by Jess Wright Buha. And you!
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Three plays by Rick Paul, Cecilie Keenan and Wendy Jo Carlton
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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Created and performed by Kelly Anchors with Paul Brennan, Mike McKune, Max McKune, Stephen Oberhardt, and Annie Yokom.
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL
- United States
In Cafe Neckbeard: Irresistible, PR representative Chris Bower unveils the latest offering from Anton “*” Anis, proprietor of THLSN’s only 24-hour, cash-only, celiac-intolerant fine dining establishment, as he debuts a menu designed to be “irresistible” to those with diminished oral tastebuds, with the goal of reaching taste receptors in other, less traditional parts of the body.
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An interactive play by Jess Wright Buha. And you!
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
BoyGirlBoyGirl, Chicago’s favorite group solo ensemble, returns to the stage after six years with monologues inspired, so so loosely, on a book of salad recipes. An evening of irresistible monologues about bedding, near death experiences, recipes for disaster, and the fictional world.
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Welcome to Freisinger and Hill: Mandatory Duo Show. Do you want to see a Shrill Lesbian Clown and Fat Drunk Asshole join forces to create a show that can only be described as “Incomprehensible Fun”?
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Bobbie is going to prison, no question.
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
This September, BYOT is getting fringe-y at Rhinofest 2025 with Abbotts vs. Costellos: A Game of "Who's On First?", created by company member Keith Gatchel! Join us as four teams go head-to-head with Abbott and Costello’s classic comedy routine, competing to throw each other off as they advance their way around the bases!
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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
From a professor to a prisoner to an insecure podcaster, each of the imagined characters in this collection of eight monologues examines the aspects of what it means to be a contemporary man in America.
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Friday, September 19, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
hello from the children of the planet Earth is a bleak yet tender work of physical theater exploring humanity's future in the cosmos. Set in the not-so-distant future, the piece follows six crew members navigating the bodily effects of space travel as they seek out a near-mythological fuel source. A daring collage about community support during crisis and the limits of the human body, this work invites us to consider the enduring nature of the human spirit against the hostility of space. What brought us here? Are we meant to live amongst the stars?
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Friday, September 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
A family is torn apart—in song!—when they move from Chicago to the East Coast. Ghost goldfish, maniacal truckers, and insufferable toddlers galore.
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Friday, September 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Get ready to cackle, cry, and call your sister - Broomhilda & Gwen: The Musical is a spooky, sparkly, side-splitting tale of two sister witches on a quest to cast a spell - the only missing ingredient is the soul of a man. with toe-tapping songs and outrageous twists, it's a campy celebration of sisterhood, witchcraft, and the power of wigs. A new cult classic in the making - just in time for Halloween.
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Friday, September 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
BoyGirlBoyGirl, Chicago’s favorite group solo ensemble, returns to the stage after six years with monologues inspired, so so loosely, on a book of salad recipes. An evening of irresistible monologues about bedding, near death experiences, recipes for disaster, and the fictional world.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
The Body Politic aims to be an exploration of city, state and nation through a collection of ensemble short plays derived from traditional/classic literature and 2 pg microLiving Newspapers by members of our and the greater Chicago community, discussing and playing at the current socio-political state of the body politics of American and Chicago life.
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Monday, September 15, 2025, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Mr. Moral is throwing a party for all of his friends and you're invited! El Bear brings you a new (not for) children's show full of hope, friends, and that feeling you get when you are standing on the edge of oblivion staring into the void. How can we find hope in a time of rising fascism, loss of faith in a broken system, and an overwhelming sense of despair? We'll find out together as Mr. Moral tells us stories of a world he wants to believe in, but it sounds like the blood thirsty La Muñequita has other plans!
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Monday, September 15, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
- Women and Children First
- 5233 North Clark St
- Chicago, IL
- United States
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A double bill of Dave Who Was Not Dave and Old Friends Once
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An interactive play by Jess Wright Buha. And you!
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
“Architecture of Resistance” is about literal architecture, and the way it has been a means or reflection of resistance – or spite – throughout the ages. In this one-person show, Klaudia Siczek looks at the sometimes-absurd stories of power struggles manifested in building form.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
A one-man show all about recovery. After a hectic 2024 involving being held at gunpoint, an injury, a best friend leaving the country, a harsh breakup, a relapse, and then a turn to sobriety, Michael reexamines where he is now through games, awards, and how he would adapt AA’s 12 steps for a more fun (and maybe less secular?) crowd.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL
- United States
Yoghurt is an unhinged text that provokes both “aw” and “ew” performed by Mint Sadeghi.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
After, Arizona is a place – sometimes a classroom, sometimes a confessional, and sometimes a little hole in a canyon where a tarantula regrets a choice. Using maps, history, stories of the writer’s own time out west, and a little spirituality (to taste), After, Arizona is a microcosm of America that invites the audience to ask big questions like: Are you fucking serious? Huh? And What?
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
This September, BYOT is getting fringe-y at Rhinofest 2025 with Abbotts vs. Costellos: A Game of "Who's On First?", created by company member Keith Gatchel! Join us as four teams go head-to-head with Abbott and Costello’s classic comedy routine, competing to throw each other off as they advance their way around the bases!
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Four voices. Seventy stories. One aching country.
Told in fragments and memory, FLOODED weaves the rural American heartland into something raw and lyrical—a patchwork of joy, grief, and reckoning. Step into the silence between shotgun blasts and cicada songs. The storm is already here.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Jumping from the antebellum South to 2017, this farce follows Harper's journey from bride-to-be to kidnapped free woman, exploring America's unfinished struggle through unexpected comedy and raw revelations.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A variety show for all! Chicago's finest comedians, actors, and musicians share what makes our city so beautiful. Hosted by Alekzander Sayers
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
This September, BYOT is getting fringe-y at Rhinofest 2025 with Abbotts vs. Costellos: A Game of "Who's On First?", created by company member Keith Gatchel! Join us as four teams go head-to-head with Abbott and Costello’s classic comedy routine, competing to throw each other off as they advance their way around the bases!
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Join us to celebrate the work of Jimmy Wilnevic-- paintings and prints of drawings are on display and for purchase. Jimmy's work borrows from surrealism, expressionism, and outsider art. with live guitar by Keith Fort
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL
- United States
Yoghurt is an unhinged text that provokes both “aw” and “ew” performed by Mint Sadeghi.
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
A one-man show all about recovery. After a hectic 2024 involving being held at gunpoint, an injury, a best friend leaving the country, a harsh breakup, a relapse, and then a turn to sobriety, Michael reexamines where he is now through games, awards, and how he would adapt AA’s 12 steps for a more fun (and maybe less secular?) crowd.
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A double bill of Dave Who Was Not Dave and Old Friends Once
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Four voices. Seventy stories. One aching country.
Told in fragments and memory, FLOODED weaves the rural American heartland into something raw and lyrical—a patchwork of joy, grief, and reckoning. Step into the silence between shotgun blasts and cicada songs. The storm is already here.
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Friday, September 12, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Two trans women, Faith and Edge, are set to be married, but chaos ensues when crossed wires and blossoming feelings stretch the limits of their love for each other.
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Friday, September 12, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL
- United States
In Cafe Neckbeard: Irresistible, PR representative Chris Bower unveils the latest offering from Anton “*” Anis, proprietor of THLSN’s only 24-hour, cash-only, celiac-intolerant fine dining establishment, as he debuts a menu designed to be “irresistible” to those with diminished oral tastebuds, with the goal of reaching taste receptors in other, less traditional parts of the body.
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Friday, September 12, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A double bill of Dave Who Was Not Dave and Old Friends Once
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Friday, September 12, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
A family is torn apart—in song!—when they move from Chicago to the East Coast. Ghost goldfish, maniacal truckers, and insufferable toddlers galore.
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Friday, September 12, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Four voices. Seventy stories. One aching country.
Told in fragments and memory, FLOODED weaves the rural American heartland into something raw and lyrical—a patchwork of joy, grief, and reckoning. Step into the silence between shotgun blasts and cicada songs. The storm is already here.
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Thursday, September 11, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
The Body Politic aims to be an exploration of city, state and nation through a collection of ensemble short plays derived from traditional/classic literature and 2 pg microLiving Newspapers by members of our and the greater Chicago community, discussing and playing at the current socio-political state of the body politics of American and Chicago life.
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Monday, September 8, 2025, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Mr. Moral is throwing a party for all of his friends and you're invited! El Bear brings you a new (not for) children's show full of hope, friends, and that feeling you get when you are standing on the edge of oblivion staring into the void. How can we find hope in a time of rising fascism, loss of faith in a broken system, and an overwhelming sense of despair? We'll find out together as Mr. Moral tells us stories of a world he wants to believe in, but it sounds like the blood thirsty La Muñequita has other plans!
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Monday, September 8, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
A spectacular selection of classic country music, live band acoustic "coffeehouse style" performance. Great songs of heartbreak, betrayal, incarceration, love, and murder, from the 1940s through the 1970s.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A variety show for all! Chicago's finest comedians, actors, and musicians share what makes our city so beautiful. Hosted by Alekzander Sayers
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
You are cordially invited to a public taping of John and Paul's next step in evolution, a sitcom pilot starring the endearing duo, under the auspices of RKO's new streaming service, streaming under the auspices of amiable overlords.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Tending to the M{other} is a dance theater performance about the joys and hardships of caregiving. What began as a collaboration between two new mothers seeking connection and respite has evolved into a community project documenting this universal and transformative experience.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
Get ready to cackle, cry, and call your sister - Broomhilda & Gwen: The Musical is a spooky, sparkly, side-splitting tale of two sister witches on a quest to cast a spell - the only missing ingredient is the soul of a man. with toe-tapping songs and outrageous twists, it's a campy celebration of sisterhood, witchcraft, and the power of wigs. A new cult classic in the making - just in time for Halloween.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
After, Arizona is a place – sometimes a classroom, sometimes a confessional, and sometimes a little hole in a canyon where a tarantula regrets a choice. Using maps, history, stories of the writer’s own time out west, and a little spirituality (to taste), After, Arizona is a microcosm of America that invites the audience to ask big questions like: Are you fucking serious? Huh? And What?
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Jumping from the antebellum South to 2017, this farce follows Harper's journey from bride-to-be to kidnapped free woman, exploring America's unfinished struggle through unexpected comedy and raw revelations.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Labyrinth Club
- 3658 North Pulaski Road
- Chicago, IL, 60641
- United States
An Interview is an ongoing series of unique encounters between an ever-rotating pair of participants who meet across a table in front of an audience to first revisit the transcript of an interview conducted during the previous installment, and then to conduct an entirely new, unrehearsed conversation on the spot.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
There are ghost stories that frighten ghosts, and myths that build courage. Ahhhhhhhhhh! tells a story of freeing phantoms and scaring monsters.
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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
This new Cinderella-styled fairy tale is looking for some audience to step into the story of princes, down on their luck orphans, good magical sprites, and evil magical beings alike. What does true love actually look like and what happens if nobody can dance in glass heels? This is just the beginning, so come and see where everything starts.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
A variety show for all! Chicago's finest comedians, actors, and musicians share what makes our city so beautiful. Hosted by Alekzander Sayers
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
You are cordially invited to a public taping of John and Paul's next step in evolution, a sitcom pilot starring the endearing duo, under the auspices of RKO's new streaming service, streaming under the auspices of amiable overlords.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
You are cordially invited to a public taping of John and Paul's next step in evolution, a sitcom pilot starring the endearing duo, under the auspices of RKO's new streaming service, streaming under the auspices of amiable overlords.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL
- United States
In Cafe Neckbeard: Irresistible, PR representative Chris Bower unveils the latest offering from Anton “*” Anis, proprietor of THLSN’s only 24-hour, cash-only, celiac-intolerant fine dining establishment, as he debuts a menu designed to be “irresistible” to those with diminished oral tastebuds, with the goal of reaching taste receptors in other, less traditional parts of the body.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Welts! is a twisted journey into the deep, dark heart of the American medical establishment.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Jumping from the antebellum South to 2017, this farce follows Harper's journey from bride-to-be to kidnapped free woman, exploring America's unfinished struggle through unexpected comedy and raw revelations.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
There are ghost stories that frighten ghosts, and myths that build courage. Ahhhhhhhhhh! tells a story of freeing phantoms and scaring monsters.
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Saturday, September 6, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Four seasoned solo performers share powerful, personal vignettes based on their real-life experiences navigating the world from diverse perspectives.
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Friday, September 5, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
Music * Movement * Moment. IBO improvises a world premiere fever dream every night told though music and dance.. At this year's Rhino, IBO ponders the word "persists". Who persists? Why persist? Is persisting a violent act, a loving one, or both? Is perseverance just a town in Arkansas or a state of mind?
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Friday, September 5, 2025, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Two trans women, Faith and Edge, are set to be married, but chaos ensues when crossed wires and blossoming feelings stretch the limits of their love for each other.
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Friday, September 5, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Jarvis Square Theater
- 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60645
- United States
Welts! is a twisted journey into the deep, dark heart of the American medical establishment.
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Friday, September 5, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Facility Theatre
- 1138 North California Avenue
- Chicago, IL, 60622
- United States
A family is torn apart—in song!—when they move from Chicago to the East Coast. Ghost goldfish, maniacal truckers, and insufferable toddlers galore.
