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Queerly Adapted From The Play You've Never Heard Of

That Inspired The Musical You Can't Get Away From

By Maurine Dallas Watkins

Adapted by Eileen Dixon & Dusty Brown

Directed by Artistic Director Eileen Dixon

Redtwist is proud to present a queer adaptation of Maurine Watkins 1926 satire, Chicago. A satire of lawyers, journalists, and the criminals who keep them employed. It's the roaring 20s and Roxy Hart is desperate to get out of Cook County Jail and onto the Vaudeville stage. Join Redtwist in rediscovering this classic story of the Windy City written by the Tribune journalist who first reported on the real murderesses of Chicago.

This title is replacing our planned production Jenn Silverman's Collective Rage. Any patrons who purchased tickets in advance will be contacted.

CRACKS

a one-trans-woman dark comedy memoir

Written and Performed by Claire Lochmueller

Directed by David Resnick

Claire Lochmueller presents CRACKS, a one-trans-woman dark comedy memoir about growing up in the Catholic Church and a JROTC military high school and the pervasive ways those places affect a trans identity. CRACKS is as vulnerable as it is funny. Through a hybrid of storytelling, stand-up, and theatre the audience is taken on an emotional roller coaster of navigating gender identity, substance abuse, and finding joy. Come see how her two lives, through laughter and tears, became one trans identity.

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2025-2026 SEASON

How To Transcend a Happy Marriage

By Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Elizabeth Swanson,

Movement Direction by Sarah Scanlon

George is meandering through the American dream - she has a house in the suburbs, a loving husband, and a young daughter. What more could she want? Isn’t she on the road to a happy ending? In How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Sarah Ruhl (Chicago native and author of Eurydice and In The Next Room [or the Vibrator Play]) challenges the white picket ideal, blurs the line between friends and lovers, and asks us to grow beyond the constraints of monogamy.

Chicago

Queerly Adapted From The Play You've Never Heard Of That Inspired The Musical You Can't Get Away From

By Maurine Dallas Watkins

Adapted by Eileen Dixon & Dusty Brown

Directed by Artistic Director Eileen Dixon

Redtwist is proud to present a queer adaptation of Maurine Watkins 1926 satire, Chicago. A satire of lawyers, journalists, and the criminals who keep them employed. It's the roaring 20s and Roxy Hart is desperate to get out of Cook County Jail and onto the Vaudeville stage. Join Redtwist in rediscovering this classic story of the Windy City written by the Tribune journalist who first reported on the real murderesses of Chicago.

This title is replacing our planned production Jenn Silverman's Collective Rage. Any patrons who purchased tickets in advance will be contacted.

Confederates

By Dominique Morriseau

Directed by Aaron Reese Boseman

Sandra is an accomplished professor, comfortable in her position until a racist cartoon is nailed to her office door; Sara is a slave in the Deep South, fighting for her freedom and spying for the union as the nation is pulled into Civil War. Despite the century between them, both women raise their voice against the institutions of racism and misogyny that hold them back. Dominique Morriseau’s (author of Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew) Confederates leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and the truths that bond them.

’night, Mother

by Marsha Norman

Directed by Artistic Director Dusty Brown

Life has beaten Jessie down. Spiraling between a failed marriage, a cruel son, and an aging parent, Jessie is determined to take control over the one sliver of life left to her. When new horrors batter at her daily; when society isolates her and the world turns to chaos; when a promised future dwindles and her hope fades: Jessie digs up her father’s old pistol. Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize winning play catapults through a mother and daughter’s darkest day together.