Now’s your chance to get two doses of Lovecraft to start off your New Year!  WildClaw is bringing Witch House back with a reading featuring some amazing Chicago actors and directed by Paul Holmquist.  Get your tickets while you can!  $15 (plus $2) for the reading at 3pm and get a half price ticket for Innsmouth later that night!  that’s two shows for $30!  Plus a smarty pants discussion lead by Lovecraft expert and WildClaw associate Kenneth Hite!  Call the Athenaeum Box Office at 773-935-6875 or buy your ticket to the reading online: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/9870917 then use the code SUPERLOVE to get a $15 ticket to the January 4th performance of The Shadow Over Innsmouth!

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dreams in the Witch House

Adapted by Charley Sherman*

Directed by Paul Holmquist

Featuring:

“Lovecraft’s naturally daffy plot is treated with the utmost seriousness and menace by director Shade Murray and his cast and that’s why it works. Which is not to say that the play doesn’t have a great deal of humor. In fact it’s screamingly hilarious, particularly scenes involving the two Marsh siblings, Barnabus (Bob Kruse) and Millicent (Mary Jo Bolduc) who are clearly as bizarre as the rest of Innsmouth but make incredibly implausible attempts to seem normal.

It should be emphasized that the comedy here is NOT campy but rather fully integrated into the very well constructed atmosphere of tension and dread.”

“… this is a very satisfying piece of horror theatre.”

-Rory Leahy- Centerstage.com http://centerstagechicago.com/theatre/shows/15110.html#review

“It is a cerebral horror story and a fine introduction to the Lovecraft mythos.”

-Elizabeth Ocon- Terror from Beyond the Daves http://terrordaves.com/2013/12/19/review-wildclaw-theatre-presents-h-p-lovecrafts-the-shadow-over-innsmouth/

“Aly Renee Amidei’s makeup and mask design are stellar”

-Zack Freeman- New City http://newcitystage.com/2013/12/20/review-the-secret-over-innsmouthwildclaw-theatre/

“…The Shadow over Innsmouth is probably the best adaptation I’ve ever seen of a Lovecraft story to another format. It is definitely worth your money and your time.”

-http://dorchadas.livejournal.com/271033.html

WildClaw Theatre is thrilled and chilled to announce that this Monday, 2013′s coveted Bloody Axe went to Chelsea Paice, for her grotesque story of the WORST. COMMUTE. EVER: We Apologize for the Inconvenience!

Those blonde locks conceal a dark and twisted mind.

Susan, Jim and Derrick do not have TIME for the CTA’s shenanigans this morning, but that doesn’t stop them from being stopped for a medical emergency. Missy can’t do anything but “apologize for the inconvenience,” as tempers flare, time wastes, and our rapid transit system produces the worst headaches since Ventra took over. Performed by Justine Turner, John Ferrick, Anita Deely, Chris Rickett and Darren Stephens, and directed by Kevin Theis, the director so nice that he’s now won TWICE, Chelsea’s terror train offered us the opportunity for thrilling performances, shockingly squeamish sound effects, and some, shall we say, stirring visuals.

The Devil helped us do it.

The daemons of WildClaw are hard at work bringing our previous Deathscribes to the website for your aural pleasure. As always, we are immeasurably thrilled for the contributions of ALL of our playwrights, directors, actors, musical guests, sponsors and patrons for making Deathscribe 2013 a roaring, thundering, flarping success. Deathscribe is a celebration of scary stories, more importantly, Deathscribe is a celebration of YOUR scary stories. We cannot make this unique event happen without our audience, our brilliant, bold, beautifully twisted audience, and every year, we learn, grow, sprout, mutate, explode…well, we get even better, is where I was going with that, and that is thanks to you, our wonderful fans.

Mark your calendars for December 1st, 2014!

Submissions for Deathscribe 2014 will open in the spring, and while we’ve put away all of our things that go bump in the night for another year, WildClaw’s Dismember December is far from over. TONIGHT, we move into The Athenaeum Theatre to begin teching for our next production, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” adapted by Scott T. Barsotti, directed by Shade Murray. Join us as we explore this classic by American horror visionary H.P. Lovecraft, as Regina Olmstead learns the hard way that something fishy is going on in Innsmouth.

“The Shadow Over Innsmouth” previews on Thursday, December 12th and OPENS Friday, December 13th. Hope to see you there!

Next up for WildClaw, The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Running 12/13-1/26

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