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What would you do? Your best friend suggests a capable candidate for a potential business project. You invite the candidate to meet you at your home. After a brief meeting and the candidate’s departure, you realize your family heirloom watch, which had been sitting on your desk during the meeting, is gone. What would you do? Would you call your friend who recommended the candidate? Would you call the person who’d been in your home? Would you ask directly, “Do you have my watch”? Or, would you call the police? What if the roles were reversed? Would you feel unjustly accused? Would you worry about potential damage to your reputation? Would you want revenge? Hereby hangs the story of DEFAMATION, where this very dilemma leads to a riveting courtroom encounter between a Jewish North Shore businessman and an African American business woman that challenges our preconceived notions about race, class, religion, and even the law.

We’ve been promoting Defamation in anticipation of the shows premiere. Our staff has expanded our Evanston route two-fold and have also hit the surrounding towns quite hard.

Defamation runs until November 7 at the Unitarian Church of Evanston and Beth Emet The Free Synagogue. Please visit defamationtheplay.com for more information.

Bee is a young woman who believes she has the uncanny ability to see the future, and maybe even alter it. With the click of a television remote, we loop through time in this dark, funny world premiere about a woman bent on reinventing her own destiny, and possibly, the world.

We worked with Steppenwolf distributing posters and handbills throughout the city, including hand-to-hand distributions at a few outdoor events.  Be sure to check out this latest production before it ends.

A Parallelogram is at the Steppenwolf in the Downstairs Theatre through August 29th. Please visit www.steppenwolf.org for more information.

From Joe DiPietro, the author of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Broadway’s hit musical Memphis, comes the Chicago premiere of F*cking Men. The play examines ten gay men from all walks of life as they negotiate the before and after of lust, love, betrayal and the pursuit of sex and emotional connectivity. Funny, poignant, sometimes dramatic, always provocative and sexy, the show has been a runaway success in London and L.A. where it has been playing consistently for two years.

F*cking Men has now made it to the Theatre Building where it has been getting great reviews from local critics.  We worked with the Theatre Building distributing their promotional materials throughout the city for their latest production.  F*cking Men closes this month, so be sure you don’t miss it.

F*cking Men is at the Theatre Building through July 25th. Please visit www.theatrebuildingchicago.org for more information.

A Man’s Diary, is a true story of love, happiness, heartache and pain. A naked look at one man’s pursuit of love from the good to the bad to the psychotic. Written and directed by award winning platinum artist and producer Lil Louis, Based on the critically acclaimed book A Man’s Diary, the play bravely takes the audience on one man’s entire love journey from the most romantic, innocent and funniest moments, to the worst, most painful and embarrassing moments imaginable.

We were excited to be working to promote this production by one of the biggest names in house music.  A Man’s Diary was only here for one day, so keep an eye out for its next performance!

A Man’s Diary was at UIC Forum on May 22nd. Please visit www.amansdiaryplay.com for more information and future performances.

Master playwright Fugard and the actors of the original South African cast collaboratively wrote the story of a man who pretends to be dead in order to live. This searing exploration of identity and the political power of storytelling is presented in a new, intimate staging by Court Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson.

We last worked with Court Theatre on the critically acclaimed The Illusion, and now, we’re excited to be a part of their newest production.  Distribution is underway as we bring posters and handbills to key locations and venues throughout the city.  Be sure to catch Sizwe Banzi, and find out more about what the Court Theatre has to offer!

Sizwe Banzi is Dead is at the Court Thetare May 13th though June 13th. Please visit www.courttheatre.org for more information.

Jack Shore, a well-known television personality, is appearing for one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jack Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater. Backstage in his dressing room, Jack confronts his challenges as an actor and as a husband to his co-starring wife simultaneously, 75 years in the past, Jacob has problems of his own. Actors play their past and present roles in a dizzying display of life in the theater in this time-traveling farce.

Victory Gardens is always a pleasure to work with, and well be doing or best to cover the entire city with posters and handbills advertising this upcoming show. Jacob and Jack was written by James Sherman and directed by Dennis Zacek

Jacob and Jack is at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater May 14th through June 10th. Please visit www.victorygardens.org for more information.

What’s to be said about MDQ that we haven’t said before?  The runaway hit musical which is now on Broadway has a new cast and an extended run right here in Chicago! Come see the story of how Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley played at Sun Records’ storefront studio in Memphis for the first and only time.

We are working with our friends at Allied Live to launch another poster distribution in Chicago.  We’ve been promoting MDQ since it first began two years ago, and we couldn’t be happier with the shows success. With performances scheduled through September, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t see it!

Please visit www.apollochicago.com for more information.

A Red Orchid Theatre has been kicking out some great productions over the years, but, you might not be aware of the courses they offer for kids. With classes that teach basic and advanced audition techniques, it is a great launch pad for all young entertainers. Other courses include Story Stages, AROT Youth Ensemble, and Chicago Ensemble Theatre for Teens.

We’ll be distributing handbills at various kid and teen oriented locations throughout the city which list all that Red Orkids has to offer.  Be sure to pick one up, and find out how to enroll your kids today!

Please visit www.aredorchidtheatre.org for more information.

Avenue Q is the smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent, Tony-winning book and score. Entertainment Weekly has called Avenue Q “one of the funniest shows you’re ever likely to see!”

We’re very excited to see this critically acclaimed production make it’s way back to Chicago, and are working with Broadway in Chicago to promote the run. Avenue Q is only in town for six dates, so be sure to get your tickets right away!

Avenue Q is at Bank of America Theatre through May 4th-9th. Please visit www.broadwayinchicago.com for more information.

This gripping new play uncovers the human story at the heart of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Tensions build in the increasingly hostile South as a trio of emerging black leaders attempts to conquer their individual demons amid death threats from the Ku Klux Klan and wire taps by the FBI. Through personal and intimate stories inspired by the political upheavals of the era, The Good Negro examines the human frailties behind the historic headlines.

We are beginning to work to distribute posters advertising The Good Negro throughout the city of Chicago. Keep an eye out for our staff in action as they blanket the city with posters. Be sure to get your tickets now, and check out how to be a member of the Goodman Theater and take advantage of the amazing deals the theater has to offer.

The Good Negro is at Goodman Theatre in the Albert May 1st through June 6th. Please visit www.goodmantheatre.org for more information.