A Taste of RED with A Red Orchid Theatre

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

Hang out with our friends from A Red Orchid Theatre on February 13th for the latest installment of their series A Taste of Red. A Red Orchid Theatre invites you to take a peek behind the curtain and see how their team goes about exploring a play. What gets their ensemble excited about a script? […]

Hanukkah Candle Lighting and Drag Queen Story Time

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

The Andersonville Chamber of Commerce is proud to launch their first annual Hanukkah candle lighting and Drag Queen Storytime at The Understudy Coffee & Books! Drag Bubbie Merriam Levkowitz will serenade us with some musical Hanukkah performances and Hanukkah book readings for the whole family. Afterward, we'll have a menorah lighting led by Cantor Kenneth […]

RING OF KEYS Meetup and Screening

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

Click Here for Tickets Join Ring of Keys, the artists' service and advocacy organization supporting queer women, trans, and non-binary musical theater artists for a bit of community and the screening of our 2023 concert Queering the Canon: Jerry Herman, featuring Chicago Keys! At 7pm, we invite all current Chicago-based Keys and anyone interested in […]

The Red Fortune Cookie by Karissa Murrell Myers

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

Click Here to reserve tickets We’re hosting our neighbors Bramble Theatre for their Fall Reading Series. Join us October 23rd for The Red Fortune Cookie by Karissa Murrell Myers When a hot air balloon with two dead strangers in it crashes on top of some prize tomatoes in Reese’s backyard, he teams up with his eccentric aunt […]

body, no organs by Dizzy Turek

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

CLICK HERE for Tickets Hallelujah has died. As she descends from the earth, she finds herself after life, waist deep in floodwaters, no sun, seemingly no land, and no other souls in sight. All she has are the clothes on her back and a giant gash down the middle of her chest. Inside this gash, […]

Homunculus by Andrew Piechota

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

CLICK HERE for Tickets Homunculus by Andrew Piechota Two debt-laden young workers, Ash and Sage, toil in the depths of a decrepit mansion-turned-crypto-mine deep in the woods near the Columbia River Basin, looking after a massive rig of computer servers. They receive food via airdrop, rest in sleeping bags, and are forbidden from contact with […]

body, no organs by Dizzy Turek

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

CLICK HERE for Tickets Hallelujah has died. As she descends from the earth, she finds herself after life, waist deep in floodwaters, no sun, seemingly no land, and no other souls in sight. All she has are the clothes on her back and a giant gash down the middle of her chest. Inside this gash, […]

Homunculus by Andrew Piechota

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

CLICK HERE for Tickets Homunculus by Andrew Piechota Two debt-laden young workers, Ash and Sage, toil in the depths of a decrepit mansion-turned-crypto-mine deep in the woods near the Columbia River Basin, looking after a massive rig of computer servers. They receive food via airdrop, rest in sleeping bags, and are forbidden from contact with […]

A Taste of RED with A Red Orchid Theatre

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

CLICK HERE for Tickets Hang out with our friends from A Red Orchid Theatre on October 17th for the latest installment of their series A Taste of Red. A Red Orchid Theatre invites you to take a peek behind the curtain and see how their team goes about exploring a play. What gets their ensemble […]

The Whole Seamus Thing by Ben Auxier and L.C. Bernadine

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

Click Here to reserve tickets We’re hosting our neighbors Bramble Theatre for their Fall Reading Series. Join us on October 16th for The Whole Seamus Thing by Ben Auxier and L.C Bernadine Mel, a once-dedicated staff member at a nonprofit organization increasingly, obsessively hates the man she hoped was her former boss. Now she's facing off against […]

Shadow Carriers: Sit-down Andersonville Ghost Tour

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

Excited about our signature ghost tour (the Andersonville Walking Tour) but are unable or do not wish to walk the distance? Not a problem! This year, we're offering a sit-down version of our acclaimed walking tour. Through the use of slides, we will bring the Andersonville ghost stories directly to your seat! ----- Join veteran […]

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GASZCHEBET by Skyler Tarnas

The Understudy 5531 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640, Chicago, IL, United States

Click Here to reserve tickets We're hosting our neighbors Bramble Theatre for their Fall Reading Series. Join us October 9th for Gazschebet by Skyler Tarnas. Gemma was on the way back from breaking up with her girlfriend when she crashed into Faith Callahan's car. Now she's stranded at the Callahans' modest Midwestern home in the […]