Winter Pageant Redux
October November 15, 2008 through January 4th, 2009
Redmoon’s longest-running spectacle returned to delight families on the 2008 holiday season. Seven masked characters journeyed through beautiful landscapes representing the four seasons. Beginning with summer, traveling through fall and winter, and culminating with spring, each season had enchanting objects, puppets, choreography and song.
Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear
September 4 through Oct 19, 2008
“There’s nothing in the city’s mainstream-performance scene with which to compare it. Inducing the kind of double-takes reserved for Pixar movies – the actors and puppets against a black background resemble high-res animation – the bold, optically startling Dr. Egg… is the first Redmoon show I’ve seen that left me not satisfied but craving more…. Creatively, it’s a treat. Visually, it’s a new standard.” (Chris Piatt, Time Out Chicago)
Boneyard Prayer
March 15 through May 25, 2008
Redmoon explores struggle, sorrow, and salvation in this stunning, imaginative new Jeff-recommended production, called “a masterful work of art” by The Sun-Times, a “marvel” by The Chicago Tribune, and “deeply affecting” by The Chicago Reader!
Hunchback
Dates: November 29, 2007 – February 3, 2008
Redmoon’s 2007 season concludes with a remount of the company’s acclaimed Hunchback, an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame…
The Princess Club
September 1 – October 27, 2007
Created by Redmoon Artistic Director Jim Lasko with an ensemble of women performers, The Princess Club is a wildly physical and thought-provoking romp through classic fairy tales including Cinderella and Snow White.
Neighborhood Arts Programs Youth Spring Spectacles
May 17 – 26, 2007
Dramagirls and Redmoon School Partnership Program at Audubon School present their spring spectacles!
Once Upon a Time (Or the Secret Language of Birds)
February 3 – April 8, 2007
Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times as “an hour of blissful escapism,” Once Upon a Time tells a tale of friendship, villainy, dreams, and heroism that unfolds in an elaborately crafted toy theater. Set in a bleak 1920s American city, the story’s heroine is Emily, a lonely young girl who understands the language of birds.
Spectacle ‘06: Twilight Orchard
October 3 – 9, 2006
Spectacle ‘06: Twilight Orchard will present a number of interactive site-specific installations designed by local artists, fourteen-foot-tall moveable walls which will continually transform into different rooms with various characters inside, and “sound pods” traveling throughout the park…
The Balloon Man
July 22 – July 30, 2006
The Balloon Man mixes Redmoon spectacle, hard science, and geek rock in a show engineered for kids and adults alike. A roving team of scientists recruit a hapless children’s entertainer and an intrepid youngster named Beatrice to search for that rarest of species – the wild Picnob!
The Golden Truffle
April 5 – June 18, 2006
A musical spectacle extravaganza of colossal imagination, audiences will be treated to celebratory song, dazzling dance numbers, surreal service apparatus, frenetic live music, flashing paparazzi, and a four-course chocolate dessert by Chicago’s most luxurious chocolatier, Vosges Haut-Chocolat.
From Nothing
November 30 – December 23, 2005
From Nothing is a dreamscape, a place of awe and wonder, of play, created by artists from Chicago and beyond, whose talents range from dance to visual college, architecture, performance and design.
Loves Me… Loves Me Not.
September 15 – 25, 2005
Spectacle ‘05: Loves Me… Loves Me Not transformed the lagoon in Jackson Park into a water-bound village featuring five inventive water crafts, a thirty-foot long sunken house, and fourteen outrageous characters depicting life after a cataclysmic flood.
The Cabinet
March 3 – July 3, 2005
Inspired by the 1919 German Expressionist silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cabinet creates a wild, abstracted “cabinet of curiosities” in which five puppeteers manipulate and maneuver the characters and objects much as Caligari controls Cesare’s plight.
Winter Pageant
Annual Event for 13 years through 2004
Redmoon’s long-running annual spectacle celebrating the changing seasons and the coming of spring.
Spectacle ‘04: Sink. Sank. Sunk…
September 23 – 26, 2004
With Spectacle ‘04: Sink. Sank. Sunk… Redmoon Theater will use its unique blend of spectacular physical action and dazzling visuals to transform Chinatown’s Ping Tom Memorial Park into a place of celebration for thousands of audience members.
Cyrano
May 20 – June 27, 2004
Through puppets and surprising mechanics, vigorous physical performance, and the startling beauty of the play’s lyrical language, Court Theatre and Redmoon Theater tell the romantic, heartwarming and often funny story of the swordsman and poet, Cyrano de Bergerac.
All Hallows’ Eve
Every October 31st from 1995 – 2002
All Hallows’ Eve features shrines built by thousands of community members, rituals, art installations, pageantry, pyrotechnics, and a large-scale spectacle that culminated at the corner of Fullerton and Logan Boulevard.