CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
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Theater Review: Nothing Without a Company’s ‘ThroatPunch’ Reacts Through its Performers
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 25, 2018 - 12:35amCHICAGO – The provocative title of Sharon Krome’s new stage play, “ThroatPunch,” does not contain that particular fight technique. But it does have standout performances by the three person cast, as they make their way in Chicago, circa 1983, amid their emerging twentysomething punk rock attitude. The World Premiere of the show has a Thursday-Sunday run at the Chicago Mosaic School through June 3rd, 2018. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Theater Review: Nothing Without a Company’s ‘Bobby Pin Girls’ Plays on Millennial Angst
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 5, 2017 - 11:27amCHICAGO – The “breeder years” are difficult on everyone, as the biological imperative becomes overwhelming and the couplings that result yield both discovery and misadventure. Nothing Without a Company’s new play “Bobby Pin Girls” highlight two such Millennial women, roommates who are having man trouble, although the argument can be made that it’s eternally “boy trouble.” The show has a Thursday-Sunday run at the Chicago Mosaic School through December 10th, 2017. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Podcast Interview: Anna & Hannah Ii-Epstein of Nothing Without a Company’s ‘The Kid Thing’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 9, 2017 - 6:12pm- Alaina Moore
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- Berger Mansion
- Down the Moonlit Path
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CHICAGO – Proving that creating vibrant theater is a methodical step-by-step process, Anna and Hannah Ii-Epstein – of Nothing Without a Company theater troupe – have taken a ten-plus year journey to their latest production, “The Kid Thing.” The show has a Thursday-Sunday run at the Berger Mansion in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood through April 15, 2017. Details are below. In the following podcast, they talk about the origins of the company, and how they balance couplehood with creativity, among other topics.
Theater Review: Nothing Without a Company’s ‘The Kid Thing’ is Fulfilling & Authentic
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 18, 2017 - 11:35am- Alaina Moore
- Anna Rose ii-Epstein
- Berger Mansion
- Donor
- Gabriel Fries
- Hannah Ii-Epstein
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- Jake Fruend
- LGBTQ
- Nothing Without a Company
- Patrick McDonald
- Samantha Michelle Nava
- Sarah Gubbins
- Shalyn Welch
- Taylor R. Craft
- The Kid Thing
- Theater
- Theater Review
- Theater, TV, DVD & Blu-Ray
CHICAGO – Like the awesome Engine Who Could, the mighty Nothing Without a Company stage crafters have constructed another triumph at their new home in Berger Mansion on Chicago’s north side. “The Kid Thing” – written by Sarah Gubbins – is a terse, convincing and emotional play about fear, identity and breeding, and it is performed by its cast of five with utter authenticity. The show has a Thursday-Sunday run at the Berger North Mansion through April 15th, 2017. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Theater Review: Nothing Without a Company’s ‘Punk Punk’ Rocks
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 27, 2015 - 2:10pmCHICAGO – For theater that is audaciously in-the-now and generates a sparkle of life, there are few better storefront (garage, gothic gathering place) groups than “Nothing Without a Company.” Their latest, eclectic kick-in-the-head production is the intensely diverting and weirdly fun “Punk Punk.”
Theater Review: ‘Down the Moonlit Path’ a Sensational, Interpersonal Stage Experience
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 16, 2015 - 9:50amCHICAGO – The power of creativity, and the risk of live theater, is all on display through Nothing Without a Company’s latest amazing journey, “Down the Moonlit Path.” The interactive stage experience refreshes the soul and realizes the joy of life.