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The Greenhouse Theater Center celebrates Chicago Theatre Week with its BREAKING GROUND FEST, an eclectic line-up of performances including live music, plays, staged readings, improv, comedy, burlesque and more than, playing February 7 – 17, 2019 on multiple stages at 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago. All performances are priced at $10. Tickets are currently available at greenhousetheater.org, in person at the Greenhouse box function or past calling (773) 404-7336.

The BREAKING GROUND FEST line-upward to engagement includes (additional acts to be announced):

Friday, February eight at 10:xxx pm

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GODDESS, hosted past Kat Sass and Lucky Stiff

Acclaimed drag performers Kat Sass and Lucky Stiff bring their visionary GODDESS out of Boystown and into the Greenhouse Theater Heart for a unique functioning fine art experience unlike anything you have e'er seen.

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Saturday, February 9 at 8 pm

SHE'S FOLKS!

Elizabeth Morgan'due south She's Folks! is a lilliputian bit country, a little bit stone 'n' gyre, and a lot of laughs. Journey from the city to farm country and back over again through folk and land music, hilarious stories, soaring harmonies and a wry view of the folks back dwelling house.

Saturday, February nine at x:30 pm

PLAN nine BURLESQUE

Program ix Caricatural was founded in 2012 by a rag tag group of nerds with an affinity for nudity. They wanted to create a space where caricatural and fandom come up together to produce innovative, creative and bonkers performance art. Since so they have perverted comic book heroes, sci-fi super stars, beloved children'south cartoons and fantastical fairy tales.

Sun, February 10 at 7 pm

AUNTIE MAME

A semi-staged reading of the play past Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Directed by Nicholas Reinhart

Based on the bestselling memoir, Auntie Mame tells the story of Patrick Dennis, newly orphaned and sent to alive with his eccentric Auntie Mame in New York City. This madcap play about family, growing up, and making the virtually out of life has been entertaining audiences around the world for years and returns to the Greenhouse Theater Center for one night just!

Monday, Feb eleven at 7:30 pm

MONA Q: AGE 38

A staged reading written by Steven Strafford

Directed past Kristina Valada-Viars

Featuring Sadieh Rifai, J. Nicole Brooks, Shea Coffman and Eric Slater

Mobs finds that life has left her sorry and stuck. When she tin't seem to get off a Holocaust Trivia Distribution listing, she takes a road trip to have some action. Along the way, she shapes her story and learns a bit about what she might desire next.

Tuesday, February 12 at 8 pm

Vi PACK AND A SHOT

A play written and directed by Pecker Goff

Featuring Dante Charlton and Evan Henderson

Two best friends share one terminal six pack as one looks to resolve their friendship and the other wants to preserve it before fourth dimension runs out.

Tuesday, February 12 at 8 pm

OEDIPUS IN JERUSALEM

A staged reading by Kalman Kaplan

Directed by Michael Reinstein

Oedipus in Jerusalem begins with the fictional and unexpected meeting outside of Thebes between the blinded Greek Oedipus and the biblical prophet Nathan. Although Oedipus insists on his guilt with regard to patricide and incest with his mother, Nathan is convinced that he has been entrapped past the purposely obscure responses of the Pythia to Oedipus's sincere attempts to avoid these acts and brings him to be tried in the neat Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. Oedipus is acquitted because he is judged to be doing all in his ability to endeavor to avert performing these acts, but thinking like a Greek, Oedipus refuses to emotionally have his acquittal.

Thursday, February 14 at 8 pm

I'M FALLING IN Love ALL THE Time

A solo prove written and performed by Jack Schultz

Coffee. Romance. Heroin. There'due south a first time for everything and a concluding. In his heartfelt solo show, Jack Schultz weaves together personal stories of the highs and lows of beloved.

Jack Schultz in I'm Falling in Love All The Fourth dimension. Photo by Sommer Austin.

Friday, February fifteen at 7:30 pm

BROMANTICAL HEALING Hosted by Stoopie

Stoopie (aka improv duo Cooper Bohn and Steven Dionne) holds the title for strongest bromance in Chicago'southward improv scene. Bask the day afterwards Valentine'southward Day with them and their funny friends!

Friday, February xv at 10:xx pm

PS… BURLESQUE

Ah, the solar day subsequently Valentine's Day. The heart shaped candy is 50% off, the roses are wilting, and the honey-themed plush toys take been thrown into the clearance bin. But, the Unpopular Hotties have something even more enjoyable for you lot Valentine'due south Day haters on February 15th! During the "Dear Hangover" burlesque revue, we'll exist serving upwards all those post Five-24-hour interval feels the best way we know how – by taking off our clothes!

PS Burlesque. Photograph by Adam Blaszkiewicz.

Sabbatum, February xvi at vii:30 pm

FANCY MUSTARD Improv

At that place are times in your life where everything came before and later on a single moment. Inspired by your suggestions Fancy Mustard will improvise what led up to that moment and the aftermath in The Effect! Also featuring opening acts of friends and enemies (just kidding, nosotros don't have friends).

Nearly the Greenhouse Theater Centre

The Greenhouse Theater Center (GTC) is a producing theater company, operation venue and theatre bookstore located at 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago'southward Lincoln Park neighborhood.

GTC began its producing life in 2014 with the smash hit Churchill, followed by 2016's much-lauded Solo Commemoration!, an eight month, xvi outcome series highlighting the breadth and depth of the solo play form. In 2017-18, the Greenhouse presented its first total subscription season, including Machinal (4 stars from Chicago Tribune'south Chris Jones) and the Chicago premiere of Birds of a Feather.

Equally a functioning venue, the Greenhouse complex offers two newly remodeled 190-seat main stage spaces, ii 60-seat studio theaters, two high-capacity lobbies and an in-house rehearsal room. GTC as well houses Chicago'south only defended used theatre bookstore, located on the second floor the complex.

The Greenhouse Theater Center's mission is start and foremost to grow local theatre. GTC seeks local theatre companies and artists to partner on co-productions, offering partners a multitude of resources including an equitable split of production costs, production manager, total-service box role and front-of-firm staff, artistic consultation, marketing and public relations support and a full-service bar with concessions. For additional information, contact Neb Spatz at (312) 637-5323 or wmspatz@gmail.com.

TITLE PHOTO: She's Folks. Photo past Jill Fager.

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