Living Newspaper Festival: TRAIN TO ZANZIBAR and THE CURRENT STATE OF SUNSHINE

Jackalope Theatre - Broadway Armory Stage, Chicago

Playing June 10-12th, 2022 ONLY!

Join us at our venue in the Broadway Armory for this season's final weekend of the festival. Presenting two new 20-min. plays inspired by recent news articles.

“Pete Davidson will escape the Kanye drama for 11 whole minutes when he heads to space” – LA Times, March 14, 2022

Approx. Runtime: 20min.

-INTERMISSION-

“How We Make Sense of Time” – The New York Times, January 1, 2022

Approx. Runtime: 20min.

Jackalope returns to in-person performances in our Armory theater by presenting a fresh take on our annual Living Newspapers Festival. In the past, we had asked six playwrights to write 10-minute plays, each based on news articles, and presented all six pieces each evening over a single weekend at our old Frontier space.

This year, we’ll be spreading the festival out over 3 consecutive weekends of double-headers. We are expanding each of the plays from 10 minutes to 20 minutes, with two of the pieces being performed in rep over a single weekend, followed by 2 new pieces performed in rep the following weekend and another two after that. Catch a performance each weekend to see all six in-depth plays.

(Visit www.Jackalopetheatre.org for information on the plays featured in Weekends #1 and #2)