Yū Miri, one of Japan’s most acclaimed playwrights and novelists, will present staged readings of her work-in-progress “OBON.” Based on oral history interviews that Yu and her collaborator Michael Bourdaghs (Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations) have carried out with approximately fifty members of Chicago’s Japanese American community, the play brings together professional actors with community member interviewees to reimagine the multi-generational history of a Japanese American Chicago, including the 20,000 persons who moved to the city from wartime incarceration camps and their descendants, as well as more recent arrivals from Japan and elsewhere.

Free to the public

Presented in association with the University of Chicago. This reading is sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and the Division of Arts and Humanities at U of C.

Running Time: 1 hour 15 minutes with no intermission

Worst. Sleepover. Ever.

It begins the way every sleepover begins: boredom, gossip, contraband tequila, and an argument about Taylor Swift. It ends somewhere you will absolutely not see coming. Wildly funny and wonderfully unruly, Adolescent Salvation captures adolescence in all its contradictions — sloppy, raw, dangerous and deeply human.

Tim Venable's audacious new play "lurches, it burns, it contradicts itself — alive in ways most new plays are not" (Stage and Cinema). StageScene LA called it "one humdinger of a stunner." Another Theater Wit production guaranteed to spark conversation. Not to be missed!

Additional performances added!

Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission

An extraordinary encounter between Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath, two of the twentieth century’s most iconic artists, who transformed pain and rebellion into radical acts of creation. MUSES invites audiences into an intimate confrontation with two artists whose questions still feel dangerously contemporary. A haunting theatrical experience that reclaims Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath as deeply human voices.

Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission