Fight Evil!

Company Members Carolyn Defrin and Dennis Watkins spent over a year working with students from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois to develop an adaptation of Pinocchio. House staff and company members were busy up in Chicago opening All the Fame of Lofty Deeds, so the wonderful Pinocchio team and faculty members of Bradley hosted a special [...]

What’s so great about being a House subscriber? We asked Shaun Lavery to capture the feeling.

What was your first experience with the House?
Harry Houdini was my first experience with The House. It was magical, right? I went out after the show and got a House Theatre logo tattoo on the small of my lower [...]

For those of you that don’t know, this is Jon Langford.
OK. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t really know who he was, either.
I mean, I did… I had certainly heard of the Mekons and the Waco Brothers. I had heard of Bloodshot Records and heard him on This American Life (the episode about putting together [...]

We’re really excited to unveil the latest item in Swag: the All the Fame of Lofty Deeds Hatch Show Print poster!
Check out this video to learn a little bit more about Hatch Show Print, a Nashville-based letterpress shop that’s been making gig posters since 1879!

Here’s a sneak peek of OUR poster –

We did a limited [...]

What’s your favorite part of a House show?  Besides the, you know, performance?
That’s right: trading cards.  If you’re a member you get a free pack at every show.  If you’re not a member (and why not? — lock in lower ticket prices!), you can still buy a pack of trading cards at $1
But I have [...]

The House logo, crafted by our friends at Plural Design, was selected to be included in the Design Archive at The Society of Typographic Arts!  STA is a Chicago based design organization originally started in 1927. It was the Chicago branch of the AIGA until it left that organization to become the STA.
Each year they [...]

When and why did you become interested in writing for the stage?
The short answer is this: in high school I worked at the public library and used to shelve the theater section. I became fascinated with these slim volumes of plays and at first just liked the way the dialogue looked [...]

The music and artwork of Jon Langford, founder of the legendary punk rock band The Mekons and Bloodshot Records recording artist, was the inspiration for our latest production, All the Fame of Lofty Deeds (written by rock journalist Mark Guarino).  We recently sat down with Jon to ask him a few questions about music, his [...]