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Looking for the "real story" behind Dickens' A Christmas Carol? Then you'll want to experience Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, appearing on our Main Stage this holiday season.
 Performances are at 7.00pm on Sundays, Dec. 4, 11 and 18, and on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 1.00pm (as part of a lunch-theatre package with our neighbor, the Rx Cafe).
The show, written by Tom Mula and starring Patrick Able, tells the story of Jacob Marley's heroic and hilarious behind-the-scenes efforts to save old Scrooge's soul—and in the process, save his own.
Tickets for the Sunday shows are $25 for adults, $23 for students/seniors and $22 for groups of 10 or more. Tickets for the Dec. 7 lunch-theatre package are $36, and include lunch appetitizer, entree, dessert, non-alchoholic drink, tax and tip. |
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Please choose Dec. 7 lunch entree at checkout. |
| This cooperative event benefits Chicagoland Dog Rescue and Steel Beam Theatre |
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Coming in January:
Snow, and Other Funny Things |
SBT teens are bringing Second City to the suburbs again in January!
"The Second Suburb: Snow, and Other Funny Things" combines sketch comedy, improv, and music into one hysterical night.
We'll celebrate the Midwest winter forecast, sprinkling each scene with a bit of satire, silliness, and snow.
Shows are Jan. 17, 18 and 19 at 7.30pm on the Steel Beam mainstage.
Tickets are $7. If you have a child in the show, you can call the theatre to reserve up to two complimentary tickets.
The show is Written and Directed by Bonnie Gruesen, with music written and performed by Michael Gruesen. |
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Music by Harvey Schmidt
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
Steel Beam’s 11th season opens with The Fantasticks, billed as “the world’s longest-running musical," having run off-Broadway for 17,162 performances.
The story revolves around two fathers who use “psychology” to bring their children together. They invent a feud, build a wall and hire a bandit to “abduct” the girl, allowing the boy to save her. The clever ruse backfires, and the couple breaks-up, but are drawn to each other in the end, sadder, wiser and ready to love.
As the reprise to the show’s famous Try To Remember explains,”Deep in December, it's nice to remember: Without a hurt, the heart is hollow. Deep in December, our hearts should remember, and follow." |
Book, Music & Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse The entire family will love this musical version of Scrooge, adapted from the 1970 movie that won Academy Awards for Best Musical Score and Best Song ( Thank You Very Much).
The play and the movie were both written by Leslie Bricusse, a prolific composer, lyricist and playwright of such shows as Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Dr. Doolittle, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Victor/Victoria.
This upbeat version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol tells the age-old story that it is never too late to begin again.
Added shows Thursdays (Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22) at 7.30pm and Saturdays 3.00pm |
By Anthony Shaffer
With a graphic opening not for the faint of heart, Murderer takes its audience on a roller-coaster ride of shock, relief, confusion and disbelief.
By the author of Sleuth, this dark comedy features failed artist Norman Bartholomew, who is fascinated by famous murderers and likes to reenact past cases.
The Evening Standard's Milton Shulman said of it: “The plot leaves you breathless by the audacity of its hair-raising twists and turns.”
And a reviewer for the UK Theatre Web remarked, "Anthony Shaffer's Murderer is a lovely little thriller. An evening of wondering who done it, what they done and who is going to do what to whom next.“ |
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By Tennessee Williams
In what many believe to be Tennessee Williams' most personal play, The Glass Menagerie recounts the story of a woman, abandoned by her husband, whose sole reason to live is her children; a fragile, lonely sister with an obsession for collecting glass animals, and the dutiful brother who chafes at his meager and mundane existence.
The Glass Menagerie was Williams’ first successful play and from there he went on to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
The Glass Menagerie premiered in Chicago in 1944 and then moved to Broadway, where it won the New York Drama Circle Critics Award a year later. |
By Beth Henley
As the trailer for the movie version of this offbeat play puts it: “Meg just left one. Lenny never had one. Babe just shot one. The Magrath sisters sure have a way with men."
And who would blame them, with their father leaving, and their mother’s suicide!
Crimes of the Heart presents a quirky and comical look at a dysfunctional family and examines how the choices a person makes have lasting consequences. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and made into a major motion picture, Crimes of The Heart explores the unresolved tensions and emotions between three very different sisters who reunite at Lenny’s Mississippi home after little sister Babe shoots her Senator husband. |
By Ken Ludwig
Leading Ladies is a raucous, slapstick comedy by Ken Ludwig, author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo.
Jack and Leo, two down-on-their-luck actors, hear that a chronically ill, elderly dowager is trying to find two lost relatives next in line to receive the family fortune. The desperate actors devise a plan to pose as her nephews, only to find that the heirs are nieces!
Jack and Leo become “Maxine and Stephanie,” who then proceed to turn the household upside-down and forever change the life of naive Meg, the old lady’s real neice.
"Ken Ludwig gives the audience something powerful and potent," said The Village News, "laughter and a guiltless evening of Theatre-going."
Read about playwright Ken Ludwig online |
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Sept. 10 - Oct. 2, 2011
By Barbara Lennon
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Oct. 15 - Nov. 6, 2011
Musical
Book by William S. Kilborne, Jr. and Albert T. Viola
Music by Albert T. Viola
Lyrics: William S. Kilborne, Jr |
Nov. 19 - Dec. 18, 2011
Interactive Musical |
Jan. 15 - Feb. 6, 2012
By Phyllis McCallum |
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Feb. 18 - March 11, 2012
By Vera Morris |
March 31 - April 15, 2012
Musical
Book by Pat Rosenthal
Music by Jack Kocher
Lyrics by Helen Corns |
May 12 - June 3 , 2012
Adapted by Karen Boettcher-Tate |
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