MONTH 35 - WEEK 105
PILGRIMS,
Ensemble member Abby Pajakowski tries to take a long walk for the July 2024 edition of The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral. CLICK HERE to follow along.
The live stage show ABBY PAJ TRIES TO SURVIVE opens April 2025.
I wanna walk,
THE NEOS
2024-08-01 01:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostBest Friends,
Happy Monday! Please save the date for four Mondays from now... On August 19th we are going to be schmoozing and imbibing from 6-10pm at Long Room Chicago, where 20% of beverage sales will be donated to the Neos!
Come mix and mingle and raise a glass (or several) to experimental theater! We hope to see you there!
Cheers,
The Neos
2024-07-22 17:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostRockstars,
Our illustrious Board has generously donated 25 TICKETS for us to give away to our best friends... that's you! The first folks to email annie@neofuturists.org to claim these will receive a confirmation. You can invite a plus-one as well.
For one night only,
The Neos
2024-07-16 16:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostBest Friends,
Only 7 sleeps until the first night of the rest of your lives... we hope to see you next Thursday the 18th at HOT WAX! It's gonna be groovy and grimy and an undeniably good time, ft. live music from The Infinite Wrench, slices from Pizza Lobo, brews and bevs from Hopewell and Revolution, and many more surprises in store!
2024-07-11 17:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Happy July, Pats!
Our rock and roll fundraiser, HOT WAX, is 17 days away... use the code WAXYPATS for 10% off all ticket levels.
Beer, pizza, and unforgettable memories included.
See you there,
The Neos
MONTH 34 - WEEK 104
PROUDFOOTS,
Old-school. A short selection of Pride highlights from the bad times (the other bad times, you know, the previous bad times). New to the Patreon? This is what we were up to.
Remember to get tickets for 2024-07-01 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Blossoming Besties,
Join Neo-Alum Tif Harrison for her upcoming BUNDLE-DYED BANDANAS Workshop at The Neo-Futurarium! Celebrate Pride by learning the art of bundle dyeing using fresh and dried plants to make a one-of-a-kind bandana. Each participant will learn the basics of natural dyeing, including how to prep fabrics, examples of natural dyes, and how to extract color and bundle dyeing techniques. In this hands-on experience, each person will leave with a un...
2024-06-03 20:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostMONTH 33 - WEEK 103
GREY GARDENERS,
One sick show wasn't enough: Jasmine joined the cast of The Infinite Wrench while also performing in CULT SHOW. How will she do it? What will she write about? What leverage do the Obamas have over Kendrick Lamar, and why should you care?
Connor captured all these answers and more in this month's TIWGV documentary feature: YOU DON'T NEED TO UNDERS...
2024-05-31 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi Best Friendlies!
Happy Pride Month Eve! We have a special little treat for you... it's a BOGO code for 30 QUEER PLAYS IN 60 STRAIGHT MINUTES! The code is: JOJOSIWA.
If you've already purchased tix, let us know and we will hook you up with another for whichever date you're planning on coming or a future performance of TIW.
Can't wait to c u there. xoxo
Karmatically Yours,
The Neos
2024-05-31 18:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostMONTH 32 - WEEK 102
SONGBIRDS,
The cicadas are a-chirping and our throats are a-humming with the sounds of Spring. The pop girlies are dropping albums like wildfire and you can buy tickets for Pitchfork using a payment plan. All that to say… music is in full bloom.
We have a few tunes to offer to your earbuds. You may have heard them before in The Infinite Wrench, and here they are again fo...
2024-04-30 18:29:08 +0000 UTC View PostMONTH 31 - WEEK 101
SEEKERS,
After the timer goes off and the stage is mopped and we all say goodnight, does the theater get to rest, too? For decades, many have claimed that The Neo-Futurarium is haunted… that we aren’t the only ones who lurk through the Hall of Presidents and beneath the seats.
Do we turn on the ghost light to help them see in the dark? We want answers. Join Jo...
2024-03-31 17:15:38 +0000 UTC View PostMONTH 30 - WEEK 100
PITCHERS & CATCHERS,
Change. Transience. Transformation. These are just three of the words. The popular new line online is that we ought to enjoy the warm February days, even if they provoke a disturbing resonance that the so-called world is coming to an "end."
Beginnings and ends, dude, that's all ideological. Mere human projection. 2024-02-29 23:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
MONTH 29 - WEEK 99
FISHERS OF MEN,
Joanna embedded with SWITCHBOARD. She had her camera. Won't you join her (with Annie, Sivan, Spencer, and Anna) for an exclusive, extended behind-the-scenes look at America's favorite upcoming historical shipwreck personal storytelling live music puppet show? You're gonna love it.
SWITCHBOARD opens Friday. What was it like in the rehearsal room? 2024-01-31 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAMPAIGNIACS,
We found a box of VHS tapes under the seats. Archivist Lara Johnson presents some choice cuts for you, plus a couple of recent nostalgiacore/holidaywave hits AND our ATW documentary. Check out the YouTube playlist here.
MONTH 27 - WEEK 97
WEIGHTED BLANKETS,
Enjoy a small batch of six locally sourced, homemade plays created this month by Joanna Jamerson and KR Riiber.
MONTH 26 - WEEK 96
FLESHBAGS,
Happy Halloween. This month, curator and archivist Lara Johnson invites us to consider that DEATH SURROUNDS US ALL: plays from the Viral era (plus one throwback banger) in conversation with the biggest D there ever was. Featuring work from KR Riiber, Connor Shioshita Pickett, Jasmine Henri Jordan, Annie Share, Nick Hart, Leah Urzendowski, Kurt Chiang, and Brenda Arellano.
CLICK TO GET IN, LOSER...
2023-10-31 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMONTH 25 - WEEK 95
LONERS, DOTTIES, REBELS:
Greetings. This is your monthly installment of digital Neo-Futurism. This month, Ensemble Member Neil Bhandari plucks, sings and strums away the end of summer amidst a series of field recordings, found sounds and various digital ephemera on a new single-track, 12 minute audio-collage edition of The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral: Double Sided Tape.
Listen on Bandcamp: 2023-09-30 01:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Huge nerds,
This is your monthly installment of digital Neo-Futurism. This month, we investigate the joys of mathematics, spelling, the talent show and much more in these 11 works.
GET IN THE BUS -> THE INFINITE WRENCH GOES BACK TO SCH00L
P.S. Why not learn something with us this fall? Joanna teaches Neo-Songw...
2023-08-31 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPedagogues,
This is your monthly installment of digital Neo-Futurism: this month, Ida and Joanna use the power of the internet to make learning awesome. Our subject? Friendship.
Who is Joanna, really? And who is Ida? Let us all find out via this YouTube playlist —-> THE INFINITE WRENCH GOES "KAHOOTING"™
Premiumly,
Th...
2023-07-31 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This July & August, The Neo-Futurists invite you to four workshops in four weeks with four different Neo instructors. Each class offers a variety of tools to get past the walls we put up in our creative process; by the end, students will have new ways to create work more freely together. Take the individual classes for $60 each or bundle all four for $200 (a 25% discount)!
Light Buds,
It's Month 22! It's Week 92! It's June!
Thank you for selling out four consecutive live shows for Pride weekend. While we're congratulating ourselves, why not take a look at prideful & pride-ish digital plays of years past? Get cultural and/or horny with Abby Pajakowski, Annie Share, Alé Ramirez, Cat Huck, Jasmine Henri Jordan, Joanna Jamerson, Connor Shioshita Pickett, Neil Bhandari, KR Riiber, and Dan Kerr-Hobert and CLICK HERE...
2023-06-30 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Slip-n-slides,
It's time. Do you have your tickets to the Pride show yet? No???? Click here to snag a seat at the fiercest show of the year.
100% of proceeds go to Chicago's Youth Empowerment Performance Project (aka YEPP), where LGBTQI+ youth experiencing homeles...
2023-06-13 02:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostArboriculturists,
This is Month 21 & Week 91 of your monthly installment of digital Neo-Futurism!
🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋🌲🌳🌴🎄🎋
This month, Annie and Connor go for a long walk and take a picture of every tree along the way.
LFG (leafy fucking greens) —> 2023-05-31 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hazy Days,
This weekend we have a brand new workshop taught by none other than Neo-Futurist Alum Leah Urzendowski and Artistic Associate Anthony Courser, and we have a few spots left!
Saturday & Sunday May 20th - 21st
12:00-3:00pm
$120
As Patreon subscribers, you get $20 off, using the code included below! 2023-05-18 17:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Lovebirds,
Welcome to 💒 Month 20 & Week 90 💒 of your monthly installment of digital Neo-Futurism!
This month, to celebrate the recent nuptials of our very own Jasmine Henri Jordan (and Andy Slavin!) we bring you THE INFINITE WRENCH GETS MARRIED - an archived celebration of Jasmine, Andy, and queer love. This month features work by & featuring Jasmine ...
2023-05-01 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Springtime lovers,
Ensemble members Joanna Jamerson and Jasmine Henri Jordan are teaching our Spring session of Intro to Writing & Performing the Two Minute Play - and we've got some spots left!
Use code FRIENDLYSPRING for $25 off!
Details:
SATURDAYS, APRIL 29TH – JUNE 17TH
12:00PM – 3:00PM
CLASS SHOW: MONDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2:00PM
In this 8-week introductory class, students explore core Neo-Futurist tenets ...
2023-04-25 18:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Springtime lovers,
Did you hear?? Ensemble members Abby Pajakowski and Annie Share are teaching our Spring session of Intro to Writing & Performing the Two Minute Play - and we've got a few spots left!
Use code FRIENDLYSPRING for $25 off!
Details:
MONDAYS, APRIL 17TH – JUNE 12TH (NO CLASS ON MAY 8TH)
6:30PM – 9:30PM
CLASS SHOW: MONDAY, JUNE 12TH, 8:30PM
In this 8-week int...
2023-04-07 20:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Cat People,
Welcome to Month 19 & Week 89 of your monthly installment of digital Neo-Futurism!
This month, we bring you a special series of segments from the Jeff Nominated (despite our best efforts to be disqualified) Prime Time show WILDCATS by Ida Cuttler and Nick Hart.
In 1960, Lucille Ball took to the stage in her very first Broadway musical. Despite having been on television for over a d...
2023-03-28 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostShamrocks!
The French origin of the word "March" means "borderland or frontier." We hope you're enjoying your first steps across the bordering lands of Winter and Spring, and come to you today bearing *gifts*.
This month we have not one but TWO special one-off workshops taught by Neo-Futurist ensemble members: One Play Three Ways with Neil Bhandari and Dancing with Chaos with Nick Hart.
As Patreon subscribers, y...
2023-03-07 17:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Dearest Patr(e)ons of The Neo-Futurist Theater,
The rumors are true. We're selling out. But we don't want to do it comfortably or quietly. We want to do it in front of a live, paying* audience.
*((FOR YOU, the show is FREE.))
Join us for the Opening Week of THE NEO-FUTURISTS SELL OUT by clicking here to add your name to the door list on either Monday M...
2023-02-27 17:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post