BREATH, BOOM To Conclude Eclipse Theatre's 2017 Kia Corthron Season

Eclipse Theatre Company, the only Midwest theatre company to feature one playwright in one season, will conclude their 2017 Kia Corthron Season this fall with a production of her 2000 play Breath, Boom, with Mignon McPherson Stewart directing.

In the play, Prix, the leader of a violent girls' gang, makes booms on the street and loves booms in the sky: fireworks. But her destructive workaday world is gradually turned upside down by actions of her mother and of her "sisters," and by confrontations with the consequences of her past. Breath, Boom was commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre in London, and Eclipse's cast and production team will be announced once confirmed.

Breath, Boom will run November 9 - December 10, 2017, and will conclude the 2017 Corthron Season, following the previously announced Force Continuum (April 13 - May 21, 2017) and Megastasis (July 13 - August 20, 2017).

Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL 6065., Some street parking; Wellington El stop (Brown). Pay and Display parking at Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church lots on Southport and on Oakdale. Disability accessible.

Public Opening: Tuesday, November 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m. (reception following), Previews Thursday-Saturday, November 9-11, at 7:30 p.m. Runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Closes Sunday, December 10, 2017. No show on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 23

Publish this number: 773-935-6875, Athenaeum Box Office (open noon to last curtain, Wednesday-Sunday). Online tickets at www.eclipsetheatre.com . $30 for all regular performances (half-price rush tickets available), $20 for previews; $10 for industry members at previews with headshot/card, $20 for each ticket in groups of ten or more, and for seniors (with ID), $20 for students (with ID)

FThe Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation, the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and Eclipse Theatre's many individual donors.

One playwright, one season, one illuminating journey. Eclipse Theatre Company, 312-8694870. info@eclipsetheatre.com, www.eclipsetheatre.comhttp://www.eclipsetheatre.com

To post a comment, you must register and login.