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About Face Theatre advances LGBTQ+ equity through community building, education, and performance. All links + Tour booking link below 🏳️🌈🫶🏳️⚧️
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🚨TICKETS ON SALE NOW!🚨
Tickets for the Chicago premiere of the Pulitzer Prize winning musical A STRANGE LOOP by Michael R. Jackson are now on sale! Team you’re going to want to snag yours ASAP before they sell out!
Grab your tickets at
raventheatre.com/astrangeloop
or at the link in our bio!
SEE YOU THERE POOKIES! ✍🏾📝🎭
A STRANGE LOOP by Michael R. Jackson
Directed by Mikael Burke
A Co-Production with About Face Theatre and Raven Theatre
Running October 8 - November 8
Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 3pm
08 Sep 2026
OHHH SNAP! 👀👀👀
Raven Theatre and About Face Theatre are THRILLLLLED to announce the cast & production team of A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson!
You’re in for a treat with this group of people, y’all.
About A Strange Loop:
Usher is a Black, queer playwright who spends his days working as an usher on Broadway. He spends his nights struggling to write an original musical about a Black, queer playwright who spends his days working as an usher on Broadway. Lines blur, thoughts intrude, and soon he finds himself wrestling to break free from a very strange creative loop.
This blistering, groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize winning musical explores identity, race and sexuality through the lens of a young artist at war with a chorus of his own demons and inner voices on a journey towards understanding and self love.
TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 8TH
🧠✍🏾➿🔄‼️
26 Aug 2026
Dear patrons,
We’re sorry to inform you that tonight’s performance of A Strange Loop will be cancelled.
We are sending an email to folks with tickets for tonight with more information.
Staff will be on phones tonight from 5pm-9pm to handle ticketing questions and requests. Please feel free to call us at 773.338.2177. We are also available to answer emails at [email protected].
We appreciate your patience and understanding.
07 Nov 2026
Covers for Cover is a few weeks away, but you can start letting the good times role THIS SUNDAY at the Covers for Cover Open Mic!
This kickoff event is open to the public (21+) and will begin with a half hour set of R.E.M. covers at 2 by Shiny Happy People. Andrea Bunch hosts open mic from 2:30 to 5.
Suggested donation is $20 at the door. Join us at Jarvis Square Tavern for as much or as little of the afternoon as you can. All proceeds from the event benefit About Face Theatre!
1502 W Jarvis Ave
Photos: @tippingpointphotography
#chicagomusic #livemusicchicago #chicagotheatre #openmicchicago #musicforacause
05 Nov 2026
It’s understudy performance day! Please join us in saying break a leg to this phenomenal group of performers. Understudying is one of the most challenging jobs in the biz, and they are a major reason we are able to keep a show running consistently night after night. Shouting out our huge appreciation to these artists. We can’t wait for you to light up the Johnson Stage tonight at Raven! 💜🖤
Don’t have a ticket but want to come support? Per usual, the waitlist starts one hour before the performance (6:30pm tonight). We suspect it’ll be a long one tonight, so please arrive early if you are hoping to fill an empty seat!
#wonderstudy #understudyperformance #chicagotheatre #understudy #queertheatre
04 Nov 2026
Calling all music fans and AFT supporters! We are pleased to announce our partnership with COVERS FOR COVER this giving season! Mark your calendars for Sunday, December 6th at 2pm for an epic concert benefitting About Face Theatre.
Founded by Chicago musician Mia Park in 2005, Covers for Cover is an annual fundraiser celebrating its 21st year! Covers for Cover puts women and other marginalized genders in the spotlight, lifts up people across Chicago, and creates a joyful time doing good in our city together. Fans and artists cheer each other on all afternoon, and the room feels like one big celebration!
After years of sold out shows at Schuba’s, Covers for Cover moved to Lincoln Hall in 2021. Past beneficiaries include Brave Space Alliance, The Dreamcatcher Foundation, Girl Forward, Chicago Abortion Fund, Chicago Women’s Health Center and Chicago House.
AFT has been a recent contributor to this fabulous event, and we are thrilled to join this fantastic list of organizations as this year’s beneficiary!
In addition to December 6th’s concert, you are invited to attend (and perform!) at the Covers for Cover Kick Off & Open Mic on Sunday, November 8th from 2-5pm at Jarvis Square Tavern. This is a great opportunity to meet the organizers and learn more about the community behind this terrific Chicago event. $20 suggested donation at the door.
We are so excited to be collaborating with this fantastic network of musicians and community builders. Get your tickets for December 6th now at the link in bio!
30 Oct 2026
CASTING CALL! AFT is seeking additional submissions for the role of AVERY in our upcoming rolling world premiere of I never asked for a gofundme by Jayne Deely.
Scroll through for a description of the character and the play. Because a central part of the story is Avery’s recovery from top surgery, we are looking for transmasc and/or non-binary actors with that lived experience. Some Spanish proficiency is required.
Interested actors can email their headshot and resume to [email protected]. Any questions? Send them our way via the same email. *Please do not resubmit if you’ve already auditioned for this play via our EPA or virtual call.*
Contract details on the final slide. Please share this breakdown with anyone you think may be interested! #castingcall #newplay #queertheatre #transactor #nonbinaryartist
29 Oct 2026
Introducing the second cohort of the Trans History Project:
Ty Defoe (giizhig) [he/we/Ty] in residence at @nativevoices
Justice Jamal Jones [they/she] in residence at @aboutfacechi
Youri Kim [they/she] in residence at @bmorecenterstage
Nico Pang [they/he] in residence at @eastwestplayers
K.T. Peterson [she/he] in residence at @actorstheatre
"At a moment when trans and gender-nonconforming people are being targeted, erased, and forced to fight for the right to exist openly and safely, telling our stories is more than an act of preservation. It’s an act of resistance." - @mx.bosephine
These five extraordinary playwrights will receive $10,000 commissions and development support to create new work centering trans and gender-nonconforming histories, experiences, and futures.
Through the Trans History Project, Baltimore Center Stage is investing in the artists who are expanding whose stories get told, whose histories get remembered, and who gets to imagine the future of American theatre.
Our stories have always been here. We’re making sure they’re heard.
Learn more - LINK IN BIO
29 Oct 2026
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! About Face and Raven Theatres are pleased to announce the FINAL extension of A Strange Loop through December 13. Tickets are on sale now! Link in bio!
Don’t miss your chance to see this “wholly individual” “beautifully performed” “fantastic production” and “an ideal and terrific partnership”. We expect tickets to move fast, so we encourage you to act now and grab your seats to the hottest ticket in town!
Photos: Joe Mazza
#musicaltheatre #chicagotheatre #blackexcellence #hotticket #onsalenow
28 Oct 2026
Good morning, Instagram! Today, the AFT stories will be taken over by none other than @eddiejihad, star of our current production of A Strange Loop! Follow along to enjoy a day in the life, leading up to tonight’s Industry Night performance! #chicagotheatre #instagramtakeover #backstagepass
26 Oct 2026
The girls are gagging over A STRANGE LOOP!
The reviews are in and, in case you haven’t heard, we’ve got a hit! Now we know tickets have been hard to come by, so the teams at Raven and About Face Theatre have worked to add a select number of $25 RUSH TICKETS to each performance.
In order to maximize attendance for this highly sought after musical, we have added twelve “undesigned” seats to the house on each side of the proscenium. These seats will have a side view of the stage and may be able to see backstage. Because the staging, lighting, and sound design were not created with a side view in mind, these tickets reflect a discounted price. Rush tickets are sold IN PERSON ONLY, starting one hour before each performance.
If you haven’t been able to snag a ticket, please consider coming to Raven Theatre early (and as early in the run as you can!) to utilize our rush tickets or waitlist. We want as many people to see this “wholly individual” “fantastic production” as possible.
Eternal gratitude and congratulations to Artistic Associate @mklburke and the entire team of A STRANGE LOOP!
Photos: Joe Mazza
#musicaltheatre #chicagotheatre #ravereviews #coproduction
22 Oct 2026
Check out this fantastic conversation from our friends @remybumppo next Monday at @theaterwit. On the panel is our very own @itsdionneaddai!
A night of discovery, conversation, and envisioning, Explore the In Between excavates the history, heart, and value of midsized theatres in Chicago.
This one-night-only event, moderated by Mark Larson, Chicago theatre historian and author, and Matt Randle-Bent, Associate Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, brings together Chicago theatre voices from four storied companies: Remy Bumppo, A Red Orchid, Teatro Vista, and About Face to discuss how midsized theatres have shaped our city’s cultural ecosystem and what role might they play in what is to come.
Ticket sales benefit Remy Bumppo Theatre Company.
#chicagotheatre #nonprofitarts #theatrecommunity
20 Oct 2026
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