Women

The right to choose. The right to marry. The right to die. A wife and husband are moved to crisis when their daughter loves a transgender woman. Grandma intends to call it quits at 80. And the inexplicable forces everyone to decide whether to untangle their own ribbon of life.

After a motorcycle accident that leaves a once vibrant young woman, brain-damaged and wheelchair bound. Family relationships are put to a test. And loyalties are questioned. Produced by Special Arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

6-actor, 1-musician, 90-minute Twelfth Night; Shakespeare's most complexly hilarious comedy - complete with gender-swapping, breakneck quick-changes, and live, original music! Not your grandma's Shakespeare.

When a Jehovah’s Witness stumbles into a Riot Grrrl meeting, beliefs are challenged on all sides. But with the Apocalypse just around the corner, these teen punk prophets must band together to save the world by making zines, rocking out and navigating the beginning of love at the End of Days.

Christopher Durang’s absurd comedy challenges our perceptions of sanity, sexuality and gender. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her energetic and overwhelming mother, Edith Fromage, who claims to have invented cheese. I dentity, you dentity, he she or it dentities.

Five Chinese rings, one dancing Harriet Tubman. TOBM is the story of The Amazing Daisy and Sweet Bojanski Brown, two performers with more dreams than talent, and their struggle to get booked at the Moulin Rouge, Las Vegas’ first integrated casino. Set in 1955. TOBM is a work in progress.

I’m taking you back to the night I couldn’t get home, the night I walked for hours and got nowhere even with help from my comatose mother, a homeless woman, and a few angels… the night Mom’s story ends and this one begins. Given one last chance, what would you say?

Set within the confines of an underground bunker in a post-apocalyptic world, McClain's Odessa is a futuristic myth about the complex intersections intimacy, isolation and identity. Illyrian Artistic Director Weckstein explores these themes through a lens of sex-positivity. vimeo.com/97298238

A Musical Comedy with Bite!

Funny, sexy, outrageous, touching... just a few of the words to describe the 5 short plays in "Sex, Lies, and Social Media." Dan Berkowitz, Ron Burch, Elin Hampton, Lorin Howard, and Mary Steelsmith are the playwrights. Bring your mobile devices: at this show, we want you to leave your phones ON...

Challenging, brutal & hilarious, women of various shapes & sizes explore their perceptions of body image and reveal their experiences, both haunting & empowering, of dealing with their weight/body issues.

This fast paced comedy is a mash up of Louisa May Alcott's classic, 'Little Women' and HBO's critically acclaimed 'Girls', delivering a smartly crafted and hilarious 50 minute show. New York Magazine's approval matrix pegged it as "High Brow and Brilliant" and Gothamist calls it "Hysterical."

Have you ever been plagued by an overwhelming sense of sexual guilt? Yes? (Yes.) Yes! Of course you have. In that case, this is the perfect show for you!

Who do we become in darkness, unobserved? Inspired by texts from the Harlem Renaissance, the Left Bank, and the Mexican Revolution, this dark comedy follows groups of outsiders as they betray each other, make out, strip, kill, and discover just how badly they're capable of behaving.

A 3 woman show that goes into the psyche of a woman who suffers from depression; and how she befriends the feelings she fights on a daily basis.