INTRODUCING! TIF! HARRISON! by Bilal

Like the infamous Countess Elizabeth Bathory, every so often The Neo-Futurists need to soak themselves in the blood of fresh virgins.That's a metaphor. Truly it is.This weekend we introduce …

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:54am on July 1, 2011[SHARE]

DIRECTORS' COMMENTARY: The Black Hole by Bilal

Part response to the success of Star Wars and mostly weird morality parable about science and hell, Disney's The Black Hole could be considered one of the films they publicize least in their…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:08pm on June 28, 2011[SHARE]

DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY: TipToes by Bilal

This week, It Came From the Neo-Futurarium! dives headlong into a couple of firsts. For one thing, Tiptoes represents the first time that the festival has ventured beyond the year 2000 to fi…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:57am on June 21, 2011[SHARE]

DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY: Night of the Lepus by Bilal

You may have your own milestone for the beginning of summer, but around our theater for the past nine years the season doesn't officially start until It Came From The Neo-Futurarium! gets go…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 1:09pm on June 14, 2011[SHARE]

The Neos want your LGBTQ Pride Artwork! by Bilal

The Neo-Futurists present "30 Queer Plays in 30 Queer Minutes" - Call for Artists! The Neo-Futurists, known for their long-running late night show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, in…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:40am on April 27, 2011[SHARE]

World Premiere Bi-weekly (April 8-17, 2011) by Bilal

In an ill-conceived, poorly executed, and otherwise unwanted experiment, the Neo-Futurists tried to see what would happen to their circulation and subscription income if they switched from a…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:07am on April 15, 2011[SHARE]

World Premiere Preview (April 1-3, 2011) by Bilal

Still high off our recent visit from the New York Neo-Futurists, this week the Chicago cast decided to take the entire show off and hand it over instead to our compatriots in Neo-Futurist Eu…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 9:54am on April 1, 2011[SHARE]

NEO-FUTURISTS SEEK NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR! by Bilal

It's true...our beloved MD Lindsay Muscato is leaving The Neo-Futurists behind to bring her stellar combination of smarts and sass and brilliant inner light to the rest of the world (right n…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 5:21pm on March 30, 2011[SHARE]

World Premiere Preview (March 25-27, 2011) by Bilal

The six new plays this week are like that group of dusty-cloaked strangers who are here to clean up this town or die trying.They're like the brand new circus act that's going to change the w…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 1:35am on March 25, 2011[SHARE]

World Premiere Preview (March 18-20, 2011) by Bilal

Boxcars!Volunteers from our Friday and Sunday night audiences combined to rain double-sixes on our cast of five, just one weekend after we'd been forced to cut and replace 11 plays on the li…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:55am on March 18, 2011[SHARE]

World Premiere Preview (March 11-13, 2011) by Bilal

Welcome to another week of mighty high-rollin' menu turnover! Five rough-riding Neos--Phil, Megan, Bilal, Caitlin, and Greg met up this week to create 11 brand-new plays for the Too Much Lig…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 8:44am on March 11, 2011[SHARE]

World Premiere Preview (March 4-6, 2011) by Bilal

We cut 6 plays from the menu last week. Those six plays were numbers 14, 19, 20, 23, 25, and 26.If you add those numbers together you get 127.If you add the digits in 127 together you get 10…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:17am on March 4, 2011[SHARE]

Vote for This Year's Super-Sized Film Fest! by Bilal

BATTLE STATIONS! BATTLE STATIONS!This year's It Came From The Neo-Futurarium is the tenth year in a row that we've been presenting our staged readings of terrible movies. In honor of that mi…

SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:19am on March 1, 2011[SHARE]