Tony Fitzpatrick Returns to the 16th Street Theatre in THIS TRAIN, 7/15-8/1

16th Street Theater announces the return of Tony Fitzpatrick in THIS TRAIN directed by Artistic Director Ann Filmer performing at Steppenwolf's Merle Reskin Garage Theatre July 15 - August 1, 2010. Fine artist, poet and storyteller Tony Fitzpatrick delves into the Hobo Alphabet for a musically-entertaining, visually-rich and never dull night of theater. With returning side-kick Stash: aka Stan Klein, mean-guitarist John Rice, and new guest vocalist Kat Eggleston.

Tony Fitzpatrick is an artist, poet and actor whose artwork can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.His recent exhibitions include solo shows in New York City's P.S.1 - MoMA and Pierogi Gallery in 2007 and in the Sidney Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center in 2008. In the same year his work was also shown at the First Biennial in New Orleans at Prospect One. In 2009 he has had one-person exhibitions in New York City at Dieu Donne, in New Orleans at Ammo Gallery, in Illinois at the Rockford College Museum, in Austin at Slugfest Gallery, and in Los Angeles at Billy Shire Gallery. In January of 2010 he will be exhibiting new work at Pierogi Gallery in New York City.His work has also appeared on album covers including The Neville Brothers' Yellow Moon and Steve Earle's El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now.Tony has made a living as a radio personality, construction worker, and as a film, stage and television actor. He has appeared in 15 major motion pictures including The Fugitive, Married to the Mob, Mad Dog and Glory and Philadelphia. Recently he appeared in The Promotion directed by Steven Conrad. In 1991, Tony earned the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in Prop Theater's production of Mass Murder. In the summer of 2003, Tony starred in Lookingglass Theatre's inaugural production of Race, an adaptation of a Studs Terkel novel directed by David Schwimmer. Tony has published seven books including three collections of art and poetry: The Hard Angels (1988), Dirty Boulevard (1998) and Bum Town (2001); a collection of etchings entitled Tony Fitzpatrick: Max and Gaby's Alphabet (2001) and three collections of drawing-collages entitled, The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 1 (2005), The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 2, The Dream City (2006), and The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, City of Monsters, City of Ghosts (2008).  Tony Fitzpatrick was born in Chicago in 1958 where he lives today with his wife and two children.

The design team for THIS TRAIN includes Lighting Designer Mac Vaughey (The Last Barbecue, S-E-X-OH!, Fires in the Mirror, Kita y Fernanda, MACHOS) and Projection Designer Kristin Reeves (The Scarlet Ibis, Fires in the Mirror) Stage manager is Jennifer Aparicio. THIS TRAIN, written and performed by Tony Fitzpatrick with musicians Kat Eggleston and John Rice and Stash: aka Stan Klein is directed by Ann Filmer

THIS TRAIN runs July 15 - August 1, 2010, Thursdays & Fridays @ 7:30 PM, Saturdays @ 5:00 & 8:30 PM, Sundays @ 7:00 PM

Steppenwolf's Merle Reskin Garage Theatre is located at 1624 N. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60614

$22 Tickets now on sale. vist www.steppenwolf.org or call (312) 335-1650,