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Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, December 19th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Thirty-first Plagiarists salon!
Esteban's Vanity Project xxxMAS Burlesque Cabaret Nativity Trance!
It's possible that the original, traditional Nativity story may... lack a little something. Perhaps we're too familiar, perhaps things were different then, perhaps drag queens, interpretive dance, and musical numbers were in short supply in Bethlehem barns. We don't know. We weren't there. But now, we have the opportunity to be somewhere even better, to see a scantily clad Nativity with all the spectacular spectacle and glam glamour befitting the incarnation of a deity.
Come celebrate the season with Esteban as he brings you the Greatest Version of The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, November 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Thirtieth Plagiarists salon!
Vintage Theater Collective and Sun's Out Guns Out
November’s Salon brings you TWO, yes that’s right, TWO fabulously talented creative ensembles with their own approaches to storytelling! Watch as these two groups create art before your very eyes!
Vintage Theater Collective is about dialoging with the past and making theatre today, emphasizing new adaptations, collaboration, and a respect for language. They’re preparing for their Sonnet Festival, and so will be exploring a sonnet through reading, adaptation, and improvisation.
Sun’s Out Guns Out performs fully improvised one act plays created right before your very eyes. They use simple story structure to tell complex, emotional, and funny tales. Sit back and enjoy, they have a story to tell you.
Can The Black Rock contain all this excitement? Come and find out!
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, SEPTEMBER 19TH
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-Eighth Plagiarists salon!
THE PLAGIARISTS present THE PLAGIARISTS: The Outer Limits
Next month The Plagiarists return to give you a taste of their upcoming season and a little of what they've been up to! We'll have stuff from our upcoming shows Caesura: A Butchery and I Am Saying This Right Now as well as a special performance of Even The Naysayers Had A Good Time: Stuff About Richard Cotovsky, a piece we developed for WBEZ's Alternative History of Chicago Theatre!
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, July 18th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-Sixth Plagiarists salon!
POWERLESS Issues 1-3
The Society of Young Superheroes, a renegade producing entity in Logan Square, Chicago, is proud to present brief scenes and original comic book art from POWERLESS: Issues 1-3, a new play by Mitch Salm and David M. Brent, directed by Jack Tamburri.
POWERLESS revolves around a group of young heroes in Logan Square who attempt to understand and develop their powers in a city where heroes are relegated to bureaucratic paper-pushing and crimes are solved by non-masked, non-caped, and non-super cops. Follow the antics of the rag tag SYS, government regulated MSCC (Metropolitan Superhero Conglomerate Corporation), and our protagonists, freshly graduated Milo, Massen & Maggie, as they attempt to determine the role of the hero in modern day Chicago's urban jungle.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, June 20th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-Fifth Plagiarists salon!
Crash Pad
Crash Pad is a web-based comedy series featuring original puppets roommates doing what they do best--being irresistibly irreverent! For Chad the Bird, Mooch the Monster, Herb the Office Nerd, and Rustle the Landlord, the task of paying the rent is insurmountable, but it is nothing compared to cataclysmic event they will try to survive at The Plagiarists Salon # 25!
Join the boys as they convert the Black Rock Pub into the Ark that will save humanity as they prepare for the end of the world in a 20 minute interactive adventure featuring the entire Crash Pad gang. Written and Performed by Eric Van Tassell, Andrew Marchetti, Josh Zagoren the hijinks of Crash Pad are darn near limitless and can be seen on our youtube viral videos and live appearances throughout Chicago
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, May 16th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-Fourth Plagiarists salon!
Suitcase Shakespeare Company,
Suitcase Shakespeare Companyis a Chicago based ensemble that adapts the classics and blends them with physical theatre and then tours them throughout the midwest. Using maskwork, acrobatics, puppetry, live music, physical comedy, and stage combat, we reach out to new audiences through visual storytelling. Our “Pyramus &Thisby” is adapted from the classic play within a play found in Midsummer Night’s Dream. Focusing into a piece of its own, four character clowns explore all the lovely challenges in creating “Theatre”.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, April 18th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-third Plagiarists salon!
Anthony Rossetti's Hootenanny
From the Appalachian Mountains, to New York City, to the Black Rock. Anthony Rossetti is presenting a Hootenanny, an informal musical gathering that will feature himself, Joshua Dumas, Mike Semrad, and James Dunn. The evening will be hosted by Jefferey Nowak
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, March 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-second Plagiarists salon!
Chicago Fusion Theatre
Chicago Fusion Theatre will be showcasing a scene from their upcoming production of Big Love, written by Charles Mee, at The Plagiarists salon in March. However, this is not just another "sit back and relax" evening of theatre. This salon will be a unique interactive experience that you wont want to miss.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, February 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twenty-first Plagiarists salon!
New Leaf Theatre
Now in our 10th season, New Leaf Theatre has developed an intimate relationship with the Lincoln Park Cultural Center, the space that formed the company. This year, in which we're producing our two mainstay shows away from the LPCC, we're thinking a lot about what it is to have a home- in fact, "home" is the thematic element that unites our three Treehouse Readings this spring. For the Plagiarists' Salon, we're taking our home on the road, and sharing stories, scenes, speeches, and songs about home, what keeps us there, what it means to leave, and how it feels to go back.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, January 17th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twentieth Plagiarists salon!
Lights Out Theatre Company Present:
Beard
Lights Out Theatre Company is proud to present the workshop of a new play by ensemble member Haily Wineland. BEARD is about a young woman with a curious problem. Chelsea is a neurotic, eager young woman looking for love. She is burdened with a presumptuous therapist and an invasive, offensive best friend. Shethinks most of her problems are solved when she meets Glen, an even-handedly kind romantic, but things are just getting started.
LOTC approaches its productions as if they were throwing parties among friends, and holds a passion forsharing its work with people who have not typically been considered traditional theatre audiences. With a specialfocus on creating an exciting, fun environment, and a tight youthful community, LOTC seeks to produce work that is new to Chicago audiences, with fresh, young voices.
Danny's
1951 West Dickens Avenue
Monday, December 20th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Ninteenth Plagiarists salon!
Carolyn Hoedermann presents:
Les Femmes
à écrire des lettres :
Women writing letters, an intimate salon
When's the last time you wrote a letter to a friend, not an email or text or facebook post but a letter in the post?
Listen to the intimate sharing of women writing letters and the music of one man responding to them at this months
Plagiarists salon.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, November 15th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Eighteenth Plagiarists salon!
Emilie Syberg Presents:
Antarctica: The Ballad of Blood Falls
Antarctica: Cold hands, warm heart. Antarctica: Sweet as a vanilla scoop. bitter as Roald Amundsen beating you to the South Pole by five weeks. Come for an evening of learning growing music polar exploration small maps desolate islands. tableaux, and more. And a prize. too! Who doesn't like spontaneous prize-giving?
Nobody. that's who.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, October 18th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Seventeenth Plagiarists salon!
Kevin O'Donnell
Long know for his verbosity, as well as his musicianship, KEVIN O’DONNELL will lead the October Salon in a talk-show format, with musical guests, and interviews touching on subjects related to making art with a historical significance, a racial significance, and a social significance, despite so much of our theater and music communities being rather “one-sided” when it comes to racial/social makeup.
That and whatever else the audience wants to talk about.
And there will be snacks.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, September 20th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Sixteenth Plagiarists salon!
Joe Mazza!
Joe Mazza will present The Anatomy of the Flea was just performed at The New York International Fringe Festival at HERE, Dorothy B. Williams Theatre in August as a part of Joe Mazza’s solo show, The Hyperbolist. The piece was written and performed by Joe
Mazza— and conceived and directed by Dan Kerr-Hobert. The Hyperbolist received an extended run at The Red Room,
85 4th St., NY, NY.
“One of the most inventive productions at this year's New York Fringe is Joe Mazza's Hyperbolist…”
Jon
Sobel, blogcritics.org
Read a review by Anna Moore
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, August 16th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Sixteenth Plagiarists salon!
Strange Tree Group
The Strange Tree Group prides itself in creating intricate, intimate theatrical experiences that extend beyond the boundaries of the traditional stage. We seek to inspire creativity in our audiences as well as in our actors and are committed to producing pieces that celebrate the strange and the magical, the dangerous and the fantastical, and the surprisingly usual nature of unusual behavior. Our Salon will feature readings and musical interludes from the cast and house band of our upcoming production of Emily Schwartz’ “The War Plays”. Come prepared with your ration book and flashlights as we paper the windows and hide out together inside of our makeshift Black Rock bomb shelter. The good old days are here again!
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, June 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Fourteenth Plagiarists salon!
The Chicago Fringe Festival
The Chicago Fringe Festival invites emerging and established performing artists from around the world to showcase their work and add to the dialogue of theatrical art. We encourage performers to take bold risks by providing an avenue for affordable productions in communities not commonly represented theatrically. The upcoming 2010 Festival features nearly 50 local, national, and international acts. Join us for a taste of boundary-pushing productions that the 2010 Chicago Fringe Festival will offer this year, September 1-5 in the historic Pilsen neighborhood.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, June 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Thirteenth Plagiarists salon!
The Batman Cronicles adapted by Plagiarist Paul Kastner
For over seventy years, the cowled shadow of The Batman has prowled through the night preying upon the criminal parasite, like the winged creature whose name he adopted! See Batman in his very first adventures from the Golden Age, as he was originally conceived: a mysterious, dark nemesis of crime, driven my some inner demon.
This evening will feature readings of stage adaptations of the first stories of one of the greatest fictional characters, focusing on plot and character rather than stunts. See the origins of the the brooding figure we know today.
At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse. See you there!
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, May 17th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Twelfth Plagiarists salon!
Join Oracle TheatreTheatre for the twelfth salon! Oracle is on a mission to develop a very unique mode of reaching audiences. Contrasting concepts, styles, and spectacle, our performances are deeply engaging, irreverent, thought provoking, and -- bottom line-- fun. During the salon, the company will present THE HAIRPIN TURN --a part of an outreach program wherein old radio shows are adapted to tour to senior living centers. Oracle will also present excerpts from THE GHOST SONATA, their current mainstage production. The Ghost Sonata (by August Strindberg) is part of Oracle's mainstage season and runs May 8-June 19, 2010.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, March 15th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Eleventh Plagiarists salon!
Join Caffeine Theatre for National Poetry Month! Caffeine Theatre mines the poetic tradtion to explore social questions. At ELEVEN, they will be presentend Memory of a Sun, their latest work in progress: a text and movement collage focusing on the work of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, and on the workings of memory. Theis peice began in the Summer, Inc. residencey at Universtiy of Chicago in July 2009.
At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, March 15th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Tenth Plagiarists salon!
It's the tenth salon! It's curated by... The Plagiarists! We'll record an episode of Brandy Winefingers, LIVE! We will present RACCOON POACHING MEATHEAD, a short play about everything! We'll give you a sneak peek of our highly-anticipated upcoming production of THE WRECK OF THE MEDUSA, opening April 8th! We'll shake hands! We'll drink beers! We'll have a great time! Can anyone ask for MORE!!!! (Don't answer that).
At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, December 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Ninth Plagiarists salon!
“Salon of the Heart” featuring special guests and curated by Sara McCarthy
Calling all artists and intellects, curious minds and creative types - your presence is requested at our (un)Valentine's Day Salon! Conversational and artistic salons were originated as a way to bring together people with a passion for Ideas. Come participate in a theatrical re-creation of a traditional salon as our hostess gathers a slew of talented guest artists to explore creatively and discuss the question: What is your expression of passionate non-romantic love? What is it to passionately love a person, place, thing, event, experience that is not a traditional "Valentine," per se? See what these artists feel inspired by and infatuated with and bring your own ideas of what non-romantic loves sustain you and deserve to be celebrated! There promises to be an explosion of music and literature and dancing and storytelling and poetry and, of course, candy.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, December 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the Eighth Plagiarists salon!
“Beowulf vs. Grendel” is a 25-minute toy-theater deconstruction of the epic poem we all hated in 11th grade, Beowulf.
Using three actors, a ukelele, one puppet and over 80 miniature Vikings, “Beowulf vs. Grendel” combines toy theater, puppetry, live music, and the heartbreak of a 1200-year-old story into 25 minutes of blood, gore, and ego. Performed by Lacy Katherine Campbell (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Redmoon Theater), Alex Goodrich (Chicago Shakespeare, Barrel of Monkeys) and Heather Simms (ComedySports).
Directed by Laura Grey (Second City ETC, Barrel of Monkeys) and written by Lacy Katherine Campbell, with visuals by Brandon Campbell (Laika’s Coffin, Adventure Stage Chicago) and Lacy Katherine Campbell, music by Alex Goodrich.
At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse.
See you there!
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, December 21st
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the sixth Plagiarists salon!
The Plagiarists’ latest salon opportunity features The Summer is for Fireflies. The Summer is for Fireflies is an ongoing series of public dance performances intended to surprise, delight, and move any accidental onlookers. The folks at TSIFF believe that public space ought to be used for celebration and joy-making, and that day-to-day lives benefit from a bit of unexpected astonishment. Three pieces will be showcased at this month’s salon including a holiday medley! Woop woop!
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, October 19th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the sixth Plagiarists salon!
The Building Stage believes that theater is made, not written. And to prove it, they'll be performing scenes from their in-development epic theater adaptation of Wagner's RING CYCLE, as well as work created in their monthly Lab series, devoted to imaginative theatrical experimentation.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, October 19th
Door at 7:00 with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the fifth Plagiarists salon!
Each company will be presenting in-process work from their upcoming repertory series at the Steppenwolf Garage. Each piece is engaged with the topic of "belief". Dog & Pony is devising a piece entitled "The Twins Would Like To Say" (written & directed by Seth Bockley and Devon de Mayo). Pavement is performing "punkplay" by Gregory Moss (directed by their Artistic Director David Perez). XIII Pocket is creating a play called "Adore" (written and directed by their Artistic Director Stephen Louis Grush).
For more information on each play, download this PDF.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, August 17th 6:30-10pm
with programming beginning at 7:30pm
Join us for the third Plagiarists Salon!
Each month will be curated by a different Chicago arts or theatre ensemble/ company. This month we are pleased to welcome Christopher Piatt
Programming - short plays, scenes, stories, songs, etc.- only makes up a small part of the evening. At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse. This is NOT a fundraiser....we repeat....this is NOT A FUNDRAISER. Help us bring back the age of conversation. Join The Plagiarists and Christopher Piatt and get in on the action at the Black Rock.
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, July 27th 6-10pm
with programming beginning at 7pm
Join us for the second Plagiarists Salon!
Each month will be curated by a different Chicago arts or theatre ensemble/ company. This month we are pleased to welcome The New Colony!
Programming - short plays, scenes, stories, songs, etc.- only makes up a small part of the evening. At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse. This is NOT a fundraiser....we repeat....this is NOT A FUNDRAISER. Help us bring back the age of conversation. Join The Plagiarists and The New Colony and get in on the action at the Black Rock.
"The New Colony strives to contribute original material to the American artistic canon, and develop a new theater going audience. Through active collaboration with emerging artists of all disciplines, The New Colony continually develops fresh perspectives and aesthetics. With the goal of exploring enticing subject matter and the common language of emotional experience, The New Colony will help cultivate the next generation of arts supporters."
Black Rock Pub
3614 N Damen Ave
Monday, June 15th 6-10pm
with programming beginning at 7pm
Join us for the first Plagiairsts Salon!
Each month will be curated by a different Chicago arts or theatre ensemble/ company. Programming - short plays, scenes, stories, songs, etc.- only makes up a small part of the evening. At the Plagiarist Salons, presented ideas and performance only serve as a catalyst for conversation. Bring headshots, promotional postcards and let the community know what you're working on. This event is free to all. Black Rock features killer drink specials and a great menu for those who want to unwind as they converse. This is NOT a fundraiser....we repeat....this is NOT A FUNDRAISER. Help us bring back the age of conversation.
The kick-off to this monthy series will feature performances from The Plagiarists and a ditty from their pals at The New Colony from their new production Tupperware: An American Musical Fable. The Plagiarists will also read the winner of our blog play contest, Welcome Home, Young Master Tibbits by Eric Salonis.