Founded as a component of the Bucktown Arts Fest, this annual summer showcase of fringe theater, performance, and music has relocated farther north over the past few years. This year’s edition, which runs August 15 through September 23, is housed at the Lunar Cabaret and Full Moon Cafe, 2827 N. Lincoln, and the Famous Door Theatre Company, Jane Addams Center Hull House, 3212 N. Broadway. Directed this year by Beau O’Reilly, the event takes its name from surrealist painter Salvador Dali’s use of the term “rhinocerontic” (it means real big); more than 20 companies and individual artists are featured, among them Famous Door, the Curious Theatre Branch, Retro Theatre, Theater Oobleck, Betty’s Mouth, Ler Noot Fiesta, Studio 108, David Hauptschein, Terri Kapsalis, Frank Melcori, Julie Laffin, David Kodeski, Warren Leming’s Cold Chicago Dance Theater, and Cleveland’s New World Performance Laboratory.
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The Reader lists festival schedules (which are subject to last-minute change) on a week-by-week basis; following is the schedule for August 15 through 22.
Opening Night Party
A Theory of Chaos
Maureen Ryan directs Vaclav Havel’s comedy about “the spiritual and moral crisis in contemporary, technological society.” Famous Door, 9 PM.
See listing for Friday, August 16. Famous Door, 7 PM.
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