World Premiere - From Theater Oobleck's Mickle Maher, author of The Strangerer, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is and Song About Himself.

A mashup of Macbeth and The Three Little Pigs, IT IS MAGIC is a hilarious, sorrowful meditation on the deep, ancient evil that is the American community theater audition process.

$20 Suggested doation, more if you've got it, free if you're brook

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Set in the height of Chicago's street dancing and battle era of the 1980's. When juice-bars ruled the underage club-scene and DJ's created a movement. This house music immersive dancesical follows the northside dance crew the ALLSTARS and frenemies, the CULITOS and IMPORTED TASTE as they struggle, soar, and move through life making their own families and redefining for themselves gender norms within a community not yet ready for change.

Tix:$15 Previews (6/19-6/21), $35 (6/22-8/3). 

Box office: 312-767-8821; info@UrbanTheaterChicago.org

630pm - Join us for an evening celebrating the Guild's first 30 years, and looking forward to the next 30. Important voices from the Guild's past will introduce the Guild's 30 Writers to Watch in 2019 and beyond. See old friends & make some new ones. Enjoy music, hors d'oeuvres, an end of night raffle featuring unique artifacts from the Guild's archives, maybe even a surprise or two! A cash bar will be on offer.

Tix: $30 (Guild Fan); $90 (Guild Producer: 2 drink tokens; 6 raffle tickets)