When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires. Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking graphic novel and the winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

Contains adult content.

FOLXTALES mingles seven, short folkloric stories—both traditional and modern—as the basis for an outdoor film project that will be projected onto the upper exterior of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’ Foellinger Great Hall lobby. Each monologue features MFA student actors and has been recorded following Restore Illinois and university COVID-19 safety protocols in its own visual and audio green-screen setting.

This wry, tragi-comic political satire, based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and its surrealist reimagining Ubu Roi, was originally intended to premiere in March 2020. Illinois Theatre had to suspend performances due to the coronavirus pandemic but is delighted now to digitally deliver Psh*tter! to audiences. This world premiere by noted Goodman Theatre Artistic Associate and Chicago director Henry Wishcamper asks: what happens when greed, corruption, and incompetence rule and when violence has no consequences? The answer is so terrible, you have to laugh out loud, if only to keep from crying. Uncovering the filth that lies at the heart of authoritarian regimes is the first step toward seeing them for what they are, and Psh*tter! does that in poignant, timely ways. Come for the Shakespeare, come for the grime. Come for the madcap hijinks. Come because sometimes, as terrible as things may be, you just have to laugh!

Almost every weekend, a girls’ competitive high school soccer team meets at the City Sports Dome. They come to play. They come to win. But life is not a level playing field. Over the course of several Saturdays, nine female warriors navigate the cacophony, the cruelty, and the courage of adolescence. They are their own. They are each other’s. They are The Wolves.