Cast and Creative Team Announced for Chicago Premiere of PERFECT ARRANGEMENT

Cast and Creative Team Announced for Chicago Premiere of PERFECT ARRANGEMENT

Pictured: Lane Anthony Flores Full casting was announced today for Pride Films and Plays’ Chicago premiere of PERFECT ARRANGEMENT. Derek Van Barham directs Topher Payne’s 1950-set comedy in which two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. Inspired by a true...

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Pride Films and Plays Announces Remainder of 17/18 Season

Pride Films and Plays Announces Remainder of 17/18 Season

Pictured: Pride Arts Center. Photo courtesy of Pride Films and Plays. Pride Films and Plays has announced the remainder of the 17/18 season, their first full season in residence at the Pride Arts Center, which includes the previously announced THE NANCE. 17/18 will bring Chicago its first look at three...

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Cast and Creative Team Announced for THE NANCE

Cast and Creative Team Announced for THE NANCE

Pictured: (l-r) Vince Kracht and Royen Kent.  Pride Films and Plays has announced the cast and creative team for the Chicago Premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s THE NANCE. Directed by Artistic Associate John Nasca, who will also costume the show, the production features Vince Kracht (Chauncey Miles), Royen Kent (Ned), Patrick Rybarczyk (Efram), ...

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FOR THE LOVE OF Features Badass Women in the Roller Rink

FOR THE LOVE OF Features Badass Women in the Roller Rink

FOR THE LOVE OF (OR, THE ROLLER DERBY PLAY), presented by Pride Films and Plays, is a world premiere; it is a close look into one woman’s life and her “courage to reboot.”

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Cast and Creatives Announced for FOR THE LOVE OF (OR, THE ROLLER DERBY PLAY)

Cast and Creatives Announced for FOR THE LOVE OF (OR, THE ROLLER DERBY PLAY)

Pride Films and Plays’s has announced the cast and creative team for its world premiere FOR THE LOVE OF (OR, THE ROLLER DERBY PLAY) by Gina Femia, which will begin previews March 16 under the direction of Rachel Edwards Harvith.

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Hits and Misses in PRISCILLA

Hits and Misses in PRISCILLA

(l-r) Jordan Phelps, Honey West, and Luke Meierdiercks. Photo by Paul Goyette. Review: PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT at Pride Films and Plays By Bec Willett When the film THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT was produced in the early ‘90s, it became an iconic piece of Australian cinema....

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Casting for Pride Films and Plays’ PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT Announced

Casting for Pride Films and Plays’ PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT Announced

The trio of performers – two drag queens and a transgender woman – who traverse the Australian Outback in a beaten-up bus nicknamed “Priscilla” will be played by Honey West, Jordan Phelps and Luke Meierdiercks

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