The submission deadline for DrekFest 2019 is

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

All entries must be RECEIVED by the entry deadline.

Finalists will be chosen to compete for cash prizes

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 th , 2019

At The ComedySportz Theatre Chicago

929 W. Belmont in Chicago

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We are very excited to introduce our new Literary Manager Allison Diamond! She's got big plans for the Literary Department at Stage Left, and you can learn more about those plans and her by watching the video below! Welcome, Allison!

Our newest Board member is also an Emeritus Ensemble Member with a long history at SLT. Melissa Lindberg is currently an administrator at the University of Chicago. She worked on her first show with Stage Left in 1985. She was an original cast member of the Neo-Futuris...

Greetings! I’m Stephen Gawrit, a sound designer and composer for theater in the Chicagoland area. I’ve been a theatre artist for most of life, starting my professional training at the Chicago Academy for the Arts in 2000. I spent the early years of my career working pr...

I first encountered Insurrection: Holding History in the early 2000s as a first-year acting student in college. I was totally wrapped in the fantastic voyage that playwright Robert O’Hara had created. The play seemed to have a spirit, an energy, a vitality, and a break...

For the past few weeks I have been collaborating with some remarkable artists on Robert Schenkkan’s BUILDING THE WALL. This timely, incendiary new play has received a Rolling World Premiere across the U.S. including an Off-Broadway production as well as a five-month ru...

I am so pleased to officially announce, on behalf  of Stage Left, that the Athenaeum Theatre is our new home!  Though we called Theater Wit our place of residence for the last seven seasons, the opportunity to form a partnership with such a historic venue was too great...

Check out this video for more info from our co-ADs about our thrilling upcoming season!

When in the audience, I like it when plays put demands on me.  Questions left unanswered, sudden blackouts, genre switches, the feeling that breaking eye contact with a soliloquizing actor would somehow let them down. When the play’s purpose is worthwhile and its produ...

Check out our Co-Artistic Directors Jason A Fleece and Amy Szerlong talking about Season 36 on CAN-TV!